This should actually read as optional for compliance with the BSP Guide. I've already asked Scott to work on an explicit list of "required" vs "optional" items to conform with the guide to make this clearer.

The Intel silicon guys do this for their BSPs for a variety of reasons. I wouldn't necessarily expect anyone else to do this.

An updated Cedar Trail BSP for Edison has been released and is available at:

http://www.yoctoproject.org/download/bsp/intel%C2%AE-atom%E2%84%A2-processor-n2000-and-d2000-series-based-platform-cedar-trail-powervr-graphics

The 'Cedar Trail' platform consists of the Cedarview (Intel® Atom™
N2600, N2800 and D2700) processor, plus the Tiger Point (Intel® NM10
Express) Chipset.

This release enables the BSP to use the latest available kernel
patches for Intel's PowerVR graphics driver. The BSP image includes
time limited kernel images for testing purposes.

The images included in the BSP were built from:
meta-intel: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-intel/commit/?h=edison&id=8639a836d388812887ecd28bd4e7c6
poky: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?h=edison&id=0fbd6a161576b2cafa8583adde0ffb15347c884a

Source for the included images is available at:
http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.1/sources/

--
Elizabeth Flanagan
Yocto Project
Build and Release

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All,

The major release of yocto-1.2 "denzil" has been tagged, generated and is now
available for download. This release is available at:

http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.2/poky-denzil-7.0.tar.bz2
or
http://mirrors.kernel.org/yocto/yocto/yocto-1.1.1/poky-denzil-7.0.tar.bz2

Git tags gpg key information is available at:

http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x4C8AF84FCC12440F

Elizabeth Flanagan
Yocto Build and Release
<elizabeth.flanagan@...>

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denzil-7.0 Errata
- --------------------

Release Name: eclipse-poky-denzil-7.0
Branch: denzil
Tag: denzil-7.0
Hash: 1d05505e0653aa70f7e38239951b4e19ce0438e1
md5: 355a11e4e8df4ae9213769451c63fe05
Download Locations:
http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.2/eclipse-poky-denzil-7.0.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.kernel.org/yocto/yocto/yocto-1.2/eclipse-poky-denzil-7.0.tar.bz2

Release Name: meta-qt3-denzil-7.0
Branch: denzil
Tag: denzil-7.0
Hash: f8475d5c5935695d4d1dfff1d7be30f49e162094
md5: b57b5575c2f703e7bfa08eca72c43df4
Download Locations:
http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.2/meta-qt3-denzil-7.0.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.kernel.org/yocto/yocto/yocto-1.2/meta-qt3-denzil-7.0.tar.bz2

Release Name: poky-denzil-7.0
Branch: denzil
Tag: denzil-7.0
Hash: d20a24310eb43fed9a3f3e75752c9ad45a18cbe4
md5: dd6ce5bffadd8b8965191aca54b19b83
Download Locations:
http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.2/poky-denzil-7.0.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.kernel.org/yocto/yocto/yocto-1.2/poky-denzil-7.0.tar.bz2

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Features
- --------------------

- HOB redesigned with new user interface and work flow. HOB is a GUI based
tool for users to customize and build an embedded Linux image in a more
intuitive and easier way.
- Build appliance, which is a set of changes and enhancements to enable
users to build a virtual machine image running Linux built with the Yocto
Project. Within the Linux running on the virtual machine, users can
customize and build their own customized embedded Linux images.
- Error message handling improvement, making error message more efficient,
useful and accurate to users.
- New kernel update to Linux 3.2.11.
- Kernel usability scripts, BSP tools to make building BSP's easier.
- Package history data collection and analysis tools.
- Incremental image generation after customization of an existing image built
previously.
- Package history data collection and analysis tools.
- Implementation of the MSG (Magic Smoke Generator) which enables the on board
generation of "magic smoke" to enhance the longevity of embedded device
components.
- Enhancement to Bitbake commander Eclipse plugin, Disk space monitoring,
multilib improvement, etc.
- Improvements to FLOSS compliance tools which allow more granularity of
license definitions, the generation of image manifests/license manifests
and the implementation of source archiving functionality.

- --------------------
Known Issues
- --------------------

- Bug 2256 - kernel menuconfig confusion with sstate.

If you change the config during a build, bitbake may not detect the change
and will not rebuild the kernel. After changing the config, be sure to
force a kernel recompile:

$ bitbake virtual/kernel -c menuconfig

$ bitbake virtual/kernel -c compile -f; bitbake virtual/kernel

- Bug 1858 - Rootfs creation broken when using package_deb as primary
PACKAGE_CLASSES with non Debian-OS build system.

This is a known issue that rootfs creation is broken when using package_deb
as primary PACKAGE_CLASSES with non Debian-OS build system. The work around
is to use a Debian system to create the rootfs if you need to using
package_deb
as primary PACKAGE_CLASSES. But for package generation e.g. for
package feed,
etc. it works fine on both Debian-OS or non Debian-OS.

- Due to production processes, the Yocto Project documentation
extracted from the
Yocto Project 1.2 Release tarball is not as up-to-date as the documentation
cloned from the poky source Git repository and the Yocto Project's
Documentation
website. If you want the most up-to-date documentation for the
Yocto Project 1.2
Release, do one of the following:

* git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky
* Use the current set of documents from
http://www.yoctoproject.org/documentation

- --
Elizabeth Flanagan
Yocto Project
Build and Release

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Hello,

Our point release of yocto-1.1.1 edison has been tagged, generated and
is now available for download. This release is available at:

http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.1.1/poky-edison-6.0.1.tar.bz2
or
http://mirrors.kernel.org/yocto/yocto/yocto-1.1.1/poky-edison-6.0.1.tar.bz2

Additional tarballs for meta-qt3 and eclipse plugin are available at:

http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.1.1/meta-qt3-edison-6.0.1.tar.bz2
http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.1.1/eclipse-poky-edison-6.0.1.tar.bz2

with mirror locations at:

http://mirrors.kernel.org/yocto/yocto/yocto-1.1.1/meta-qt3-edison-6.0.1.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.kernel.org/yocto/yocto/yocto-1.1.1/eclipse-poky-edison-6.0.1.tar.bz2

Git tags gpg key information is available at:

http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x4C8AF84FCC12440F

If you notice, this release contains quite a number of upgrades. A
short list of these upgrades is at the end of this email. For a
complete patchset, please review the git log.

Elizabeth Flanagan

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edison-6.0.1 Errata
- --------------------

Release Name: poky-edison-6.0.1
Branch: edison
Tag: edison-6.0.1.release
Git rev: 0fbd6a161576b2cafa8583adde0ffb15347c884a
md5: 2f1695b6a11279a092bd22a38bc3a82e poky-edison-6.0.1.tar.bz2
Download Locations:
http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.1.1/poky-edison-6.0.1.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.kernel.org/yocto/yocto/yocto-1.1.1/poky-edison-6.0.1.tar.bz2

Release Name: eclipse-poky-edison-6.0.1
Branch: edison
Tag: edison-6.0.1.release
Git Rev: e33b9b6e8054bc7b778514b85a5d7505f91885ee
md5: dc3454c9109f1977b7a760164dfeb14c eclipse-poky-edison-6.0.1.tar.bz2
Download Locations:
http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.1.1/eclipse-poky-edison-6.0.1.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.kernel.org/yocto/yocto/yocto-1.1.1/eclipse-poky-edison-6.0.1.tar.bz2

Release Name: meta-qt3-edison-6.0.1
Branch: edison
Tag: edison-6.0.1.release
Git rev: 0c3153242344e5113a50002939d36a2b739cc497
md5: 10e6a640c8abaf546208128d4ff81fbe meta-qt3-edison-6.0.1.tar.bz2
Download Locations:
http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.1.1/meta-qt3-edison-6.0.1.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.kernel.org/yocto/yocto/yocto-1.1.1/meta-qt3-edison-6.0.1.tar.bz2

- --------------------
Features
- --------------------
- - PPC related fixes (kernel, udev, eglibc, etc)
- - Fixes for the useradd class and various related changes to ensure smooth use
- - Fixes for sstate generation and various related changes to enhance
sstate support including metadata changes to:
- increase the amount of reused sstate cache
- ensure the ADT installer regenerates in the deploy directory
- fix an uncommon bug to ensure that when the sstate cache for a
recipe is not reusable the recipe is correctly rebuilt.
- - Fetcher fixes including enhancing the git fetcher to cope with
rebased branches

- --------------------
Known Issues
- --------------------
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1983
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2015
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1721


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Hello,

We are pleased to announce the third milestone of the coming release
of Yocto 1.2. This milestone release is available at:

http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/milestones/yocto-1.2-m3/poky-edison-6.1.0-m3.tar.bz2
or
http://mirrors.kernel.org/yocto/yocto/milestones/yocto-1.2-m3/poky-edison-6.1.0-m3.tar.bz2

Additional tarballs for meta-qt3 and the eclipse plugin are available at:

http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/milestones/yocto-1.2-m3/meta-qt3-edison-6.1.0-m3.tar.bz2
http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/milestones/yocto-1.2-m3/eclipse-poky-edison-6.1.0-m3.tar.bz2

with mirror locations at:

http://mirrors.kernel.org/yocto/yocto/milestones/yocto-1.2-m3/meta-qt3-edison-6.1.0-m3.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.kernel.org/yocto/yocto/milestones/yocto-1.2-m3/eclipse-poky-edison-6.1.0-m3.tar.bz2

For information on 1.2 M3 test results see:

http://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_1.2_Milestone_Test_Report

Thank you everyone for all the hard work.

- ------------------
Elizabeth Flanagan
Yocto Project
Release Engineer

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edison-6.1.0-m3 Errata
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Release Name: poky-edison-6.1.0-m3
Branch: 1.2_M3
Tag: 1.2_M3.final
Hash: 320558f494c618f53e0c773db3ea0109476e8359
md5: 24a90ec80d90c7f6757d9be50c2efe47 poky-edison-6.1.0-m3.tar.bz2
Download Locations:
http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/milestones/yocto-1.2-m3/poky-edison-6.1.0-m3.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.kernel.org/yocto/yocto/milestones/yocto-1.2-m3/poky-edison-6.1.0-m3.tar.bz2

Release Name: eclipse-poky-edison-6.1.0-m3
Branch: 1.2_M3
Tag: 1.2_M3.final
Hash: 06652a1b3f7a82481b4a7f1fee279ce1c616013b
md5: eaa2d0e9a5554463b1d44b8b5f9d29e0 eclipse-poky-edison-6.1.0-m3.tar.bz2
Download Locations:
http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/milestones/yocto-1.2-m3/eclipse-poky-edison-6.1.0-m3.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.kernel.org/yocto/yocto/milestones/yocto-1.2-m3/eclipse-poky-edison-6.1.0-m3.tar.bz2

Release Name: meta-qt3-edison-6.1.0-m3
Branch: 1.2_M3
Tag: 1.2_M3.final
Hash: 7e283e296d589256bef1a5652b72f264aba72e1a
md5: 89d04eaf3aead8322c3b601190391f2d meta-qt3-edison-6.1.0-m3.tar.bz2
Download Locations:
http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/milestones/yocto-1.2-m3/meta-qt3-edison-6.1.0-m3.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.kernel.org/yocto/yocto/milestones/yocto-1.2-m3/meta-qt3-edison-6.1.0-m3.tar.bz2

- --------------------
Features
- --------------------
- - HOB2 with redesigned UI and workflow implementation
- - Build appliance features and stability.
- - Error handling improvement such as display a summary of warning
and error messages at the end of Bitbake command.
- - Oracle/Sun Hotspot JDK/JRE support.
- - POSIX support
- - Enhancement to the Eclipse plug-in for Bitbake commander

- --------------------
Known Issues
- --------------------
- - Bug 2066 - Glxgears failed in qemuarm/qemuppc/qemumips.
- - Bug 1898-[beagleboard C4] X server cannot startup with 3.0 kernel.
- - Bug 1906 -[QEMU] loses focus in qemux86-64 terminal When I press
key [CTRL+L]
- - Bug 1912-[beagleboard C4] Segmentation fault when reboot the
system with 3.0 kernel
- - Bug 1917-[non-GPLv3] image fails to boot up with no root filesystem found
- - Bug 1918-[x32] insane.bbclass reports error for x32 kernel
- - Bug 1899-[multilib] do_rootfs failed for lib-connman-gnome with ipk
- - Bug 1903-[HOB] do_rootfs failed with dummy-image against a clean working dir
- - Bug 1910-[HOB] git recipes not shown in package view due to
inconsistent package name
- - Bug 1911-[HOB] non-GPLv3 build not work


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This week we released the v1.1 release of the Yocto Project with a host of new features. Please read the blog post at http://www.yoctoproject.org/blogs/davest/2011/meet-edison-yocto-project-v1.1-release for some commentary on the release.

My personal and profound thanks to the 72 people unique individuals who contributed to this release and the organizations who continue to support the work and use the Yocto Project for their own devices, projects and products.

Dave

Reposting Elizabeth's announcement of the 4.0.1 point release of Laverne.

We are pleased to announce some new resources on the Yocto Project.

When you build a custom Linux distribution for your device using the Yocto Project, you can also build an Application Development Toolkit (ADT) which corresponds to that distribution. The toolkit also comes with an Eclipse IDE plug-in.

Sometimes it helps to have a little demo of how the ADT works to get you started

Jessica Zhang, the ADT maintainer did a five minute demo screen cast of how to get the Eclipse plug-in working. You can view this video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZlOu-gLsh0 and there is a link in the Resources section of the Yocto Project website (http://www.yoctoproject.org/resources) along with other useful resources. Thanks Jessica for contributing this!

We also made some enhancements to our "Getting Started" page, to make a couple of things clearer:

* We now have a "contact us" link to send mail to the project organizers without using the public list.

* We also added a bunch of ideas on this page of how to contribute to the project. We hope you find it useful.

You can find this on http://www.yoctoproject.org/getting-started

Thank you again for your contributions to the project. Code is of course always really welcome as a contribution, and we also welcome informational pieces like Jessica's video.

The Yocto Project is pleased to announce some enhancements to our planning documents to add visibility and transparency. In general, we are using the Planning page on the project wiki to collaborate on details.

https://wiki.pokylinux.org/wiki/Planning


1. Yocto Project Roadmap - we added a high-level roadmap document which gives a bullet-level list of features which are planned for future releases. In particular, the 1.0 release (planned for April) has frozen content, and is listed in some detail here.

https://wiki.pokylinux.org/wiki/Yocto_Project_Roadmap


2. Yocto Project 1.0 Schedule - Our normal methodology for development includes managing progress through this page. We did this throughout the 0.9 development cycle and are doing it today for 1.0. By monitoring this page and the git master you should be able to see when functionality comes online and any comments about it.

https://wiki.pokylinux.org/wiki/Yocto_1.0_Schedule


3. Yocto Features - we collect requested features through a number of methods - bugzilla is a prime method, but we also try to solicit feature requests at many opportunities. This file is where we collect requests. Then the maintainers work with the architect to prioritize and size the features, again using this file. Usually this process occurs during the last milestone of the previous release, about four weeks before the release date.

https://wiki.pokylinux.org/wiki/Yocto_Features


4. Development methodology - We talked about a number of things we wanted to do in a really good open source project when we first started working together. Then as time went on and we got some experience, we honed this methodology to something which seems to be working well for the project. Now as a public project, we want to open this up and improve on it. There are a few notes here just so you can decode the Schedule file. More information will come as we factor it in.

https://wiki.pokylinux.org/wiki/Development_Methodology


COMING SOON: We have a couple of demo videos for how to use the Yocto Project Eclipse plug-in. Will post these over to YouTube and post links on yoctoproject.org, hopefully this week.