Yocto 1.2 Features
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Potential Yocto Project 1.2 Features
Yocto Project 1.2 - Target release = April 2012
Yocto Project 1.2 Themes
The topics below are the themes that some members of the team have started brainstorming for Yocto Project v1.2. These will be improved with community input.
Yocto Project 1.2 Objectives
The objectives of the Yocto 1.2 release are to increase adoption of the Yocto Project.
Yocto Project 1.2 Theme List
The Yocto Project 1.2 Themes towards the Objectives listed above are:
- Improved usability of the build system for new experienced users, new novice users and existing users.
Process for Entering New Feature Requests
- Open a bug in the Yocto bugzilla setting the type of bug to be an "enhancement" request. The detail about the request should be included in the bugzilla report.
- Create a new entry in the appropriate feature table below (Poky, SDK, Hardware)
- Suggestion: start by copying an existing request as a template
- Give the feature a short, descriptive name
- Set the priority as appropriate (see the legend below)
- Set the Status to "Review"
- In the Source field, enter your name along with the origination of the request (e.g. OSV, OEM, Community) if applicable; provide as much detail here as you can
- In the Comments / Bugzilla field, provide any additional information for the request includind a link to a bugzilla entry
- Preview your Entry to make sure it looks ok and then save it
Legend
Priority: 1 = Must have, 2 = Nice to have but wouldn't block a release, 3 = Lower priority, desired, defined plan, 4 = Worthwhile ideas, no defined plan
Status: Accept = Engineering agreement to include in release, Review = Under Review for Inclusion in this release, Reject = Will not be included in this release
Sample Table
This is a sample table to show how to submit features.
| Feature Name | Priority | Status | Source | Comments / Bugzilla Links |
| Placeholder feature name | 1, 2, 3 or 4 | Review | Name | Comment + Link |
Usability
| Feature Name | Priority | Status | Source | Owner | Comments / Bugzilla Links |
| Build Appliance: Pre-configured VM Build image built by Yocto | 1 | Review | davest/tracey/RP | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1557 | |
| Hob improvements | 1 | Review | davest/tracey/RP | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1559 | |
| Hob v2 - Interface updates? | 1 | Review | davest/tracey/RP | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1588 | |
| Improve user experience under Windows | 1 | Review | davest/tracey/RP | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1586 | |
| Error Handling Improvements | 1 | Dev | Saul (Scott G) | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543 | |
| Firewall / Proxy handling in git | 2 | Review | davest/tracey/RP | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1585 |
Core/Bitbake
| Feature Name | Priority | Status | Source | Owner | Due | Comments / Bugzilla Links |
| Make BasicHash the default | 1 | Review | RP | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555 | ||
| Address git fetcher mirror issues | 2 | Review | RP | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1511 | ||
| Recipe specific configuration (e.g. Gstreamer) | 2 | Review | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=923 | ||
| Finish and enable PR server | 2 | Review | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1126 | ||
| Host intrusion prevention/Swabber | 2 | Review | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582 | ||
| Yocto OOPS-type messages | 2.5 | Review | LCS | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1562 | |
| Recipe-specific sysroot | 3 | Review | from 1.0 | Saul (Dongxiao) | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1560 |
| Handle old versions in WORKDIR | 3 | Review | from 1.0 | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1561 | |
| Ability to build SRPM | 3 | Accept | RP Notes | Jeff Polk/Mark | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591 |
| Binary package install class | 3 | Review | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1592 | ||
| Disk space monitoring | 3 | Review | RP and Robert | WR Distro Team (Robert) | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1589 |
| Ability to archive work dir | 3 | Review | LCS | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590 | |
| Support for remote layers | 3 | Review | Community | Paul | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1598 |
| Build Appliance: Pre-configured VM Build image (desktop Linux OS) | 4 | Review | LCS | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1558 |
QA Items
| Feature Name | Priority | Status | Source | Owner | Due | Comments / Bugzilla Links |
| Package History | 1 | Review | RP | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1565 | |
| Package History Analysis Tool | 1 | Review | RP | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1566 | |
| QA Tests: Add recipe for LSB Tests and automate test | 2 | Review | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567 | ||
| QA Tests: Add recipe for posix Tests and automate test | 2 | Review | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1568 | ||
| Open Source Test Cases | 2 | Review | QA | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1595 | |
| Collect data at build time to increase accuracy of estimation (hob) | 2 | Review | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1316 | ||
| QA Tests: Add recipe for rt Tests and automate test | 3 | Review | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1569 | ||
| QA Test improvements - consider fedora/gentoo runtime security tools | 3 | Review | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1584 | ||
| Automate BSP Testing | 4 | Review | Tom | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1596 | |
| Test framework | 4 | Review | RP Notes | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1594 |
Core Meta Data
| Feature Name | Description | Priority | Status | Source | Owner | Due | Comments / Bugzilla Links |
| Investigate New UI | 3 | Review | Meta-data | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606 | ||
| selinux patch integration | 3 | Review | Meta-data | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1609 | ||
| build statistics reporting | 2 | Review | eflanagan/Jay7/ka6sox | Beth/Jay | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1612 | |
| Document multiple library versions co-existing | 3 | Review | Team | Saul (Dongxiao?) | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548 | |
| Embedded java environment or even JDK support | 3 | Review | Team | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1613 | ||
| gtk+ sato filechooser patch | 3 | Review | RP Notes | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1615 | ||
| Sanity checks on per recipe basis | 2 | Accept | RP Notes Bug#405 | Saul (Scott G) | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1616 | |
| Package Documentation Audit: All recipes build | 2 | Accept | Team | Scott G | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619 | |
| Parallel Locale Generation | 2 | Review | RP | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1554 | ||
| Clean up warning messages | 2 | Review | Saul | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1544 | ||
| Multilib: Enhance gcc recipe to support multilibs | 2 | RP | Ke | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1549 | ||
| Multilib: Complete recipe enablement | 2 | RP | Ke | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1563 | ||
| Multilib: Drop MULTILIB_IMAGE_INSTALL | 2 | RP | Ke | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1564 | ||
| Enhance TARGET_VENDOR field support | 3 | Review | RP | Ke | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1550 | |
| MeeGo GPLv2 Sync | 2 | Accept | RP Notes | Saul (Ke) | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1618 | |
| Finish Oracle/Sun Hotspot JDK/JRE support | 2 | Review | Tom | Tom | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1620 | |
| Running post installs at rootfs gen time | 2 | Review | RP Notes | Saul (Dexuan) | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621 | |
| Multi-lib - 6 | 1 | Review | RP | Ke | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1622 | |
| POSIX support | 2 | Review | Team | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1623 | ||
| License file cleanup | 2 | Beth | Beth | 1.2 | 1 week http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1547 | ||
| QEMU GL Enhancements | 2 | Meta-data | Saul (Edwin) | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1624 | ||
| Implement Factory reset | 4 | Review | Joshua | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1593 | ||
| Init | 2 | Review | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625 |
Other Layer Meta Data
| Feature Name | Description | Priority | Status | Source | Owner | Due | Comments / Bugzilla Links |
| x32 Enhancements | 2 | Review | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579 | |||
| BSPs or layers for a specific category of devices | 2 | Review | Dirk/Dave/Andy | TBD | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1626 | |
| Security layer | 4 | Review | Joshua | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1597 |
Infrastructure
| Feature Name | Description | Priority | Status | Source | Owner | Due | Comments / Bugzilla Links |
| autobuilder layer support | need detail | 2 | Beth | Beth | 1.2 | 2 weeks, http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1628 | |
| buildstats memory measurements | need detail | 2 | Beth | Beth | 1.2 | 1 week and half, http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1629 | |
| autobuilder clean sstate option | 2 | Beth | Beth | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1627 | ||
| Eval Patch management tools | 3 | Review | RP Notes | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1632 | ||
| Bugzilla to Wiki | 2.5 | Review | Darren | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1631 | ||
| Provide a click through license mechanism | 2 | Review | Tom | Tom | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1630 |
BSPs
| Feature Name | Description | Priority | Status | Source | Owner | Due | Comments / Bugzilla Links |
| AMT driver integration | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1633 | |||||
| Improve device management | Joshua/Darren | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1608 | ||||
| BSP update/intro | 2 | Dev | Bruce/Richard/team | Bruce | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1634 | |
| Drop Grub for Syslinux | 2 | Review | Darren | Darren | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1635 | |
| Upgrade to EFI | 2 | Review | Darren | Darren | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1636 | |
| BSP/kernel wrappers/wizards | 2 | Review | tomz | tomz | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1637 | |
| replace qemuppc | Bruce | 1.2 | Come from bug 414 |
ADT / Tools and Support
| Feature Name | Description | Priority | Status | Source | Owner | Due | Comments / Bugzilla Links |
| Enhance the deploy part in remote debug | 2 | Review | Lianhao | Jessica | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1600 | |
| Secure login | 2 | Review | ADT Team | Jessica | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1601 | |
| Linux tools upstream integration | 2 | Review | ADT Team | Jessica | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1602 | |
| Add recipe supporting autoconf-nativesdk and automake-nativesdk | 2 | Review | Lianhao | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1603 | ||
| Eclipse BSP/Kernel Plugin | 2 | Review | Darren | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1610 | ||
| enhance the bitbake commander eclipse plugin | 2 | Review | Dongxiao/Lianhao | TBD | TBD | http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1611 | |
| Tracing: tuna, oscilloscope recipes | This might be more useful with the increased importance of RT | 3 | Review | from 1.0 | 1.2 | Yocto 1.2 | |
| Tracing/profiling HOWTOs | Create a document or extend the current Yocto tracing wiki page to explain in detail how to use all the tracing tools in Yocto. It should detail not only how to use each tool individually, but also how to use them in conjunction with each other, highlighting situations in which each is most useful. There should also be some extensive worked examples of real-life use-cases and how they could be investigated using the Yocto tracing/profiling tools. | 2 | Accept | Tom | Tom | 1.2 | Yocto 1.2, from 1.1 |
| Profiling: Valgrind tools in Eclipse | 2 | Accept | Dave/JZ | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1580 | ||
| Tracing: Systemtap usability in Yocto | 2 | Accept | Tom | Tom | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1551 | |
| Tracing: create separate recipe for perf | 2 | Review | Tom | Tom | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1552 | |
| Tracing: perf trace scripting support | 2 | Dev (50%) | from 1.0 | Tom | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1553 | |
| 'perf scripts' integration | 2 | Dev | Tom | Jessica/Tom | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1617 |
Documentation
| Feature Name | Description | Priority | Status | Source | Owner | Due | Comments / Bugzilla Links |
| Various Demo Videos | The idea here is to create screen-capture type tutorials similar to what exists for the ADT Eclipse Plug-in. However, we want to contract out some help for professional voice-over talent to be used with the images. These don\'t have to be limited to screen-capture material but could include well-done PPT decks - similar to how other business units in Intel create various training modules. For 1.1 it would be good to capture the script for the existing ADT Eclipse Plug-in module and have it voiced over. Also, for 1.1 it would be good to create a similar module for the Image Creator application. | 2 | Not Started | From ADT module and scratch | ScottR | 1.2 | Q3 at the earliest |
Kernel
| Feature Name | Description | Priority | Status | Source | Owner | Due | Comments / Bugzilla Links |
| Minimal Image unique | make minimal image smaller | 3 | Accept | Team | WR Distro Team | 1.2 | Yocto 1.2, from 1.1 |
| Kernel Tools | Implement plan for kernel tools | 2 | Dev (20%) | Bruce/Mark | Bruce | 1.2 | Yocto 1.2, from 1.1 |
| use cases | BSP config streamlining, building the kernel standalone, yoctoization, meta data sharing | 1 | Accept | Bruce | Bruce | 1.2 | Yocto 1.2, from 1.1 |
| kernel bloat - development | target = boot a minimal image in < 8M - development complete | 1 | Dev | Darren | Darren | 1.2 | Yocto 1.2, from 1.1, continuation needed? |
| Fast boot time | 2 second boot time target | 1 | Dev | Team | Darren | 1.2 | Yocto 1.2, from 1.1, continuation needed? |
| Upstream config fragments | Work with John Stultz to upstream a Linux kernel config fragment manager and rework the yocto-kernel-tools to use it. This will simplify our tooling and increase our usage/test base. | 1 | Review | Darren | 1.2 | ||
| Real-time process-executed timers | Timers currently run at the priority of the softirq that processes them and they are accounted to whichever task was preempted for them to run. This negatively impacts determinism and accounting accuracy. | 2 | Review | Darren | 1.2 | ||
| Define Kernel policy | We need to clearly document kernel policy and make the config fragments reflect it. This will facilitate a more modular approach to building BSP kernel configs, as well as make it clear what can be expected to be supported when running a "linux-yocto kernel". | 1 | Review | Darren | 1.2 | ||
| Target module build | 2 | Review | RP Notes | Darren | 1.2 | http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1614 |
