Update to the STLinux Distribution 2.0 (#1)

Tue Nov 8 11:02:43 GMT 2005

Folks

The first set of updates to the STLinux Distribution 2.0 are now available.
These can be downloaded from our FTP servers:

Inside the ST firewall:
  ftp://linux.bri.st.com/pub/stlinux/2.0/ST_Linux_2.0/RPM_Distribution/sh4-updates
and:
  ftp://linux.bri.st.com/pub/stlinux/2.0/ST_Linux_2.0/RPM_Distribution/st231-updates 

Customers and those outside the ST firewall:
  ftp://ftp.stlinux.com/pub/stlinux/2.0/ST_Linux_2.0/RPM_Distribution/sh4-updates
and:
  ftp://ftp.stlinux.com/pub/stlinux/2.0/ST_Linux_2.0/RPM_Distribution/st231-updates

After the required packages have been downloaded, they can be installed using the
command:
  rpm -Uhv <rpm_files>

In the future it will be possible to use stmyum to do this automatically,
unfortunatly this is not working at the moment.

The updates include:

stlinux20-cross-sh4-gdb-6.3-8.i386.rpm
stlinux20-sh4-gdb-6.3-6.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-sh4-gdbserver-6.3-6.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-cross-st231-gdb-6.1-8.i386.rpm
stlinux20-st231-gdb-6.1-6.st231.rpm
stlinux20-st231-gdbserver-6.1-6.st231.rpm

 - Update to allow debugging statically linked programs which use pthreads
 - Revert ABI sniffer patch to default to enabled (avoids some problems
   when a program uses a mix of code compiled with and without debug data).

stlinux20-host-eclipseplugins-1.0.0-2.noarch.rpm

 - Fix a documentation problem

stlinux20-host-kernel-sh4-2.6.11_stm20-25.noarch.rpm

 - Fixes to ALSA:
   1. Patch to add an explicit copy method (used when accessing the
      device RW_INTERLEAVED) in order to get the correct cache behaviour
      on ST devices.
   2. Change the pcm silence method to consistently use the frame_to_bytes
      helper function.
   3. A couple of fixes for 7100 cut 2.x.
 - Fixes for LIRC transmit on the STb7100
 - Fix for changed SATA Phy on STb7100 cut 2.x
 - Support for the SH style Real time clock
 - Basic support for the STb7109 (no Ethernet)
 - All direct building of kernels suitable for booting with uBoot from the
   kernel build system.

stlinux20-host-stgfb-0.1_20051104-8.noarch.rpm

 - Changes/Fixes
   -------------
   1. Changed simple interlaced->progressive upsampling to avoid flickering
      on the top line. 
   2. Alpha transparency is now used on video planes, previously it was ignored.
   3. YUV colourspace conversion is now used on all planes when displaying
      YUV content, 601 or 709 is picked from the buffer flags.
   4. Corrected presentation of interlaced 422R content on video planes.
   5. Corrected support for component YUV on 7100 HD outputs.
   6. Corrected vertical positioning of interlaced modes.
   7. Corrected vertical positioning of 625p display mode.
   8. Allow V4L2 buffers, allocated with field ordering FIELD_ANY, to use either
      FIELD_NONE or FIELD_INTERLACED when the buffer is queued; to indicate
      that it should be treated as progressive or interlaced.
   9. Made 7100 more resilient to losing VTG interrupts on a busy system.
   10. The display hardware could crash if a buffer's destination rectangle went
      significantly outside of the display mode's active video area; the plane
      viewports are now clipped to the active video area. Note: this doesn't
      effect the scaling based on the difference between a buffer's source and
      destination rectangles.
   11. Changed STb7100 SD clock timings; the framerate should now be correct
      relative to the CPU clock on all modes. Note: NTSC composite colour
      burst needs testing on US TVs.
   12. Completely rewritten blitter queue management for simplified and faster 
       code paths, particularly in the blitter interrupt handling.
   13. V4L2 presentation timestamp now used by driver for video planes.
       Note: this is still ignored for GDPs.
   14. V4L2 would refuse to queue a buffer that had not been mmap'ed; this was
       incorrect behaviour and has been fixed.

 - New Features
   ------------
   1. Pre-multiplied alpha surfaces now properly supported on GDPs, a new
      framebuffer IOCTL STMFBIO_SET_PREMULTIPLIED_ALPHA is available to change
      the plane behaviour, defined in <linux/stmfb.h>
   2. Support for bottom field first interlaced content in driver.
   3. Support bottom field first buffer field ordering in V4L2 with a new
      buffer flag V4L2_BUF_FLAG_BOTTOM_FIELD_FIRST, this is found in
      <linux/stmvout.h>
   4. Added component RGB or YUV selection for main output in framebuffer module
      arguments and selectable via an additional framebuffer IOCTL
      STMFBIO_SET_COMPONENT_VIDEO, defined in <linux/stmfb.h>
   5. Added new test/example stfbcontrol to set framebuffer transparency, alpha
      blend mode and component video output type.
   7. Support Cut2/3 STb7100 silicon, includes SD progressive modes on 
      component outputs.
   8. Support selection of 1080i at 50Hz (SMPTE295M) by the Linux framebuffer
      driver.

stlinux20-host-u-boot-1.1.2_st2.0-7.noarch.rpm

 - Add support for STb7100 reference board

stlinux20-sh4-KoboDeluxe-0.4pre10-1.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-sh4-Maelstrom-3.0.6-1.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-sh4-SDL-1.2.8-2.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-sh4-SDL-dev-1.2.8-2.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-sh4-SDL_image-1.2.4-1.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-sh4-SDL_image-dev-1.2.4-1.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-sh4-SDL_net-1.2.5-1.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-sh4-SDL_net-dev-1.2.5-1.sh4.rpm

 - First version of SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) library, and a couple
   of games to try it out.

stlinux20-sh4-eject-2.0.13-16.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-st231-eject-2.0.13-16.st231.rpm

 - New package. Eject a CD-ROM from the drive.

-- 
Stuart Menefy                                        stuart.menefy at st.com
STMicroelectronics Ltd                      ST Intranet: linux.bri.st.com
Bristol, UK                            Rest of the World: www.stlinux.com
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