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author | Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com> | 2016-10-05 10:00:38 +0200 |
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committer | Max Krummenacher <max.krummenacher@toradex.com> | 2016-11-21 15:41:02 +0100 |
commit | e3d3e8602a5951cda12548b9ccbcb651cbe6b3f6 (patch) | |
tree | f4b100120f3533677605cf78b5145ef66ed81c3a /release-notes/Colibri_iMX6_LinuxReleaseNotesV2.x.txt | |
parent | bc692472e86eb646f0f5a78e9dd4fdc70356c50e (diff) |
updated release notes
Signed-off-by: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com>
Acked-by: Max Krummenacher <max.krummenacher@toradex.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'release-notes/Colibri_iMX6_LinuxReleaseNotesV2.x.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | release-notes/Colibri_iMX6_LinuxReleaseNotesV2.x.txt | 44 |
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/release-notes/Colibri_iMX6_LinuxReleaseNotesV2.x.txt b/release-notes/Colibri_iMX6_LinuxReleaseNotesV2.x.txt index 343fbc2..d33a3ad 100644 --- a/release-notes/Colibri_iMX6_LinuxReleaseNotesV2.x.txt +++ b/release-notes/Colibri_iMX6_LinuxReleaseNotesV2.x.txt @@ -16,6 +16,45 @@ Licensing: - customer required to obtain proper re-distribution license ******************************************************************************** +Linux Image V2.6.1 Beta 1 (September 29, 2016) + +- U-Boot boot loader: + - backport patches needed if compiling with GCC 6 + - add fdt_fixup environment variable as a hook to modify device tree +- Linux kernel: + - backport patches needed if compiling with GCC 6 + - add support for RS-485 (#19323) +- Linux user-space: + - deploy GPIOConfig V1.4 which corrects 'SODIMM Pin'/'EvalLoc' columns for + pads DI0_PIN15, NANDF_D4, NANDF_D6 and SD1_CLK + - improve fw_printenv/setenv concerning /etc/fw_env.config +- OpenEmbedded build system: + - split meta-toradex into BSP layers meta-toradex-bsp-common and + meta-toradex-nxp as well as the software layer meta-toradex-demos + - rename the parent directory from stuff to layers + - mv from build/out*/deploy to deploy + - rename TMPDIR from out to tmp + - deploy qt5 tools into the sdk as part of optional angstrom-qt5-x11-image.bb + +- sources git.toradex.com tag Colibri_iMX6_LinuxImageV2.6.1Beta1_20160929 + - repository linux-toradex branch toradex_imx_3.14.52_1.1.0_ga + - repository u-boot-toradex branch 2015.04-toradex + +Known Issues: +- some USB Thumb drives don't work well in U-Boot +- connecting an analogue mic to the on module codec resets the codec, so that + neither headphone out nor mic in works anymore. Workaround: Have mic + connected before boot or change the output source between DAC/LineIn +- on first boot the resizing process adversely affects system performance for + the first few minutes until completed +- Display resolution can be set for some output configurations, set the U-Boot + environment variable vidargs accordingly. +- X uses only the fb0 device +- Ethernet aka TFTP update requires manual splitting of the root.ext3 file + which can be taken care of by the -c argument of our update.sh script. +- License texts do not get deployed to the root file system. + +******************************************************************************** Linux Image V2.6 (August 26, 2016) - none, this version is identical to the previous beta version V2.6 Beta 2 @@ -364,6 +403,7 @@ Working on latest image: - eMMC ext3 - serial console debug UARTA - UARTB, UARTC + - optional RS485 - I2C via /dev/i2c-X - 4-bit MMC/SD card mmc1 - framebuffer console @@ -406,8 +446,6 @@ Not working or not tested: - USB device/host switching - Linux kernel - IrDA - - RS-422 - - optional RS485 - Linux user-space - Gstreamer encoding (not tested) - Display: @@ -419,4 +457,4 @@ Not working or not tested: Flashing instruction have been moved to the Toradex developer article: http://developer.toradex.com/knowledge-base/flashing-linux-on-imx6-modules -Toradex, August 26, 2016 +Toradex, October 5, 2016 |