Yocto 1.1 Features

Potential Yocto 1.1 Features

Yocto 1.1 - Target release = October 2011

This page contains a list of Yocto 1.1 features. In early March, the Yocto Architect will issue an official call for Yocto 1.1 features. This list contains reprioritized items from 1.0 or features that came up as a result of discussions among Yocto engineers. If you have a feature you would like to see added, send an email to the Yocto Architect with a description of the feature, its impat on the source code, and whether you are willing to help write the code to implement the feature. The Yocto Architect will add this to the potential Yocto 1.1 Features list. The potential Yocto 1.1 Features list will be turned into the Yocto Features List as described in the Program Management Plan.

Process for Entering New Feature Requests

• 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
• Provide a one or two sentence brief description of the feature
• 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, such as 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, 3 = Optional

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	Description	Priority	Status	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Placeholder feature name	Placeholder description of the feature	1, 2, or 3	Review	name	Comment

Reprioritized from 1.0

Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
multi-lib	multi-lib support for 32-bit & 64-bit and capable of being installed at the same time	1	Accept	from 1.0	may come in a 1.0.1 release
Image Creator	finish the Image Creator to add features pushed out from 1.0	1	Accept	from 1.0
Recipe-specific sysroot		1	Accept	from 1.0
Tracing: perf trace scripting support		1	Accept	from 1.0
Tracing: tuna, oscilloscope recipes		1	Accept	from 1.0
Handle old versions in WORKDIR		1	Accept	from 1.0
BSP builds	Build BSPs as part of the nightly builds	1	Accept	from 1.0
Disk space reduction		1	Accept	from 1.0
Package config option enhancement		1	Accept	from 1.0
Continuous build performance improvement		1	Accept	from 1.0
Enhanced Performance	Also, environmental requirements/suggestions for expected performance	1	Accept	from 1.0

QA Items

Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
QA Framework Enhancements	Add test for unfs_qemu bootup in the sanity test framework and give Liping his patch (Jiajun) Help to define long-term flexible framework for SDK/meta-toolchain testing.. Under the test folder, we have different groups of test, such as sanity, SDK(tools), meta-toolchain. User could freely select which test cases they want to test. (Control granularity/level group? Or even a single case has a switch) (Jiajun) More test-projects into existing manual test part for meta-toolchain. We should help to find the two typical projects, one c and o C++. (Jiajun) Transform the meta-toolchain manual testing into the unified test-framework. (Liping) Prepare a workable environment for testing all those newly added features. (Liping) After sanity test framework is in the upstream, collect data when selecting different kinds of test components. (MeiLei)	??	Review	QA
Open Source Test Cases	Perform technical, legal, and QA steps necessary to move test cases into open source	??	Review	QA
Automated test infrastructure	Automate the test infrastructure	??	Review	QA

Meta-data

Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
Sprints for all of our bugs		??	Review	Meta-data
Upstream our patches		??	Review	Meta-data
New components?	3G, butterfs, …	??	Review	Meta-data
Replacement for video/audio players currently in Yocto	Codec…	??	Review	Meta-data
Investigation about replacement of reference UI instead of Sato (may be hard)	QT?	??	Review	Meta-data
Qemugl upstreaming	Opengl ES support	??	Review	Meta-data
Package reporting system enhancement		??	Review	Meta-data
pam patch integration	add PAM patches throughout the system switchable via the PAM feature	??	Review	Meta-data
selinux patch integration	add SE Linux patches in a similar way to PAM	??	Review	Meta-data
Finish LSB "distribution" work		??	Review	Meta-data
OE Comparison	Compare Yocto core set against integration work in OE and other distributions looking for bug fixes, (relevant) feature enhancements, and integration/policy hints.	??	Review	Meta-data

ADT

Feature Name	Description	Priority	Status	Source	Comments / Bugzilla Links
More test cases about toolchain in autobuilder		??	Review	ADT Team
Eclipse-native tools interface	not using oprofile-UI. More integrated with upstream	??	Review	ADT Team

Documentation

• Make changes defined in the package documentation audit from Yocto 1.0

Miscellaneous

• Fast boot time (2s?)
• Build Yocto behind firewall
• More user-friendly customizations
  • Develop more sample layers (oriented?)
• Framework to support multiple library versions co-existing (similar to recipe specific sysroot)
• Option level configurability
• Embedded java environment or even JDK support
• WR linux support
• automatically generate package repositories (and be able to "use them" -- to be defined) for both ipk and rpm/zypper combinations
• make minimal a unique thing, smaller, static, uclibc, etc.
• audit kernel configs for the various BSPS
• address POSIX failures found in 1.1