[STLinux-announce] Update to the STLinux Distribution 2.0 (#7)

Mon Jun 12 22:16:21 BST 2006

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Folks

This is the seventh email detailing any recent updates available for
the STLinux Distribution.

We recommend that you use stmyum to download and install these
updates. For more information on configuring stmyum, please see:
   http://www.stlinux.com/docs/manual/install/yum.php

If this is the first time you have used stmyum since installing it
from the CD images, we recommend that you first use stmyum to upgrade
itself, before upgrading any target packages.

Alternatively the can be downloaded from our FTP servers as normal:

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>

The updates include:
Updated packages:

stlinux20-host-kernel-sh4-2.6.11.12_stm20-33.noarch.rpm
stlinux20-host-kernel-sh4_st220eval-2.6.11.12_stm20-33.noarch.rpm
stlinux20-host-kernel-sh4_stb7100mboard-2.6.11.12_stm20-33.noarch.rpm
stlinux20-host-kernel-sh4_stb7100ref-2.6.11.12_stm20-33.noarch.rpm
stlinux20-host-kernel-sh4_sti5528espresso-2.6.11.12_stm20-33.noarch.rpm
stlinux20-host-kernel-sh4_sti5528eval-2.6.11.12_stm20-33.noarch.rpm
stlinux20-host-kernel-sh4-2.6.11.12_stm20-33.src.rpm
stlinux20-host-kernel-sh4_st220eval-2.6.11.12_stm20-33.src.rpm
stlinux20-host-kernel-sh4_stb7100mboard-2.6.11.12_stm20-33.src.rpm
stlinux20-host-kernel-sh4_stb7100ref-2.6.11.12_stm20-33.src.rpm
stlinux20-host-kernel-sh4_sti5528espresso-2.6.11.12_stm20-33.src.rpm
stlinux20-host-kernel-sh4_sti5528eval-2.6.11.12_stm20-33.src.rpm
  - FDMA locking fixes
  - FDMA CPxM fix
  - I2C timeout handling improvement
  - SATA driver DMA transfer mode changes
  - Co-processor kernel command line fix (Bugzilla #637)
  - ALSA SPDIF improvements:
    + Pause bursts are now enabled and formatted by the SPDIF HW and sent
      during thew interim between a use pause and un-pause call
    + ALSA control added for setup of encoded mode type (ie stream type
      selection) and decode latency
    + ALSA control added for clock adjustment on all audio devices
      (PCM0/PCM1/SPDIF/I2S-CONV)
    + Revamp of PCM-SPDIF synchroniser to reduce complexity and add
      support for encoded latencies in 61937 mode
    + Add a config option to enable debugging for iec60958 & iec61937
      formatting & output
  - ALSA spinlock fix (Bugzilla #665)
  - KGDB enhancement to return stopped process status on CTRL-C
    (Bugzilla #145)
  - KGDB core update to version 2.4
  - STb7109 on-board Ethernet MAC driver improvements to transmit support
    and experimental NAPI support
  - Initial support for onboard Ethernet for stb7109eref board
  - Fix to allow kernel to compile when MTD is not selected (Bugzilla #666)

stlinux20-host-stgfb-0.1_20060607-15.noarch.rpm
stlinux20-host-stgfb-0.1_20060607-15.src.rpm
 Changes and bug fixes:
  - Fix resize filter setup in the blitter and restrict horizontal
    downscale to 2x to avoid a HW lockup and allow accelerated
    stretch blit to be re-instated in DirectFB.
  - Add additional control over alpha blending in the blitter to
    allow more DirectFB blend modes to be supported by the hardware.
  - Bugzilla#621: Fix a vertical positioning error in both NTSC
    and 576p, also change the horizontal viewport to start counting pixels
    from 1 rather than 0. The HW docs suggest this should be from 0, but
    the ST reference driver code and suggested HDMI settings in the STb7100
    datasheet indicate it should be 1.
  - For the moment PAL-M is unavailable via the Linux driver.
  - Bugzilla#626: Use different output voltage ranges for PAL and
    NTSC for the calculation of the DENC DAC scaling, it turns out there is
    a ~2% difference between the two standards. Use -1 for the Chroma/Luma
    delay in the DENC, this now matches validation settings and the ST
    reference drivers default for the V13 DENC.
  - Bugzilla#640, I2C configuration fix for STb7100 Ref board and
    -32 kernel.
  - A less embarrassing attempt at CMGS CRC generation for the DENC.
  - Update HD DAC filter coefficients to latest validation
    recommendations.
  - Add DENC chroma filter and update luma filter values to match
    validation test settings (note that this made no obvious visible
    difference to the display quality).
  - Update the SD progressive and HD component YPrPb output DAC
    scaling based on validation test settings.

 New Features
  - FB sysfs interface enabled and extended to include HDMI
    hotplug and CEA mode information
  - New Linux test program "hdmi-info" which shows how to wait
    for HDMI hotplug events and read the HDMI sysfs entries.

stlinux20-sh4-directfb-0.9.22_stcvs20060607-13.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-sh4-directfb-dev-0.9.22_stcvs20060607-13.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-target-directfb-0.9.22_stcvs20060607-13.src.rpm
 Bug fixes:
  - hardware surfaces no longer have large stride alignments,
    this works around a bug in the Evas library's direct access to
    to surface memory.
  - Re-instate stretch blit acceleration. Falls back to software
    for >32x vertical downscaling (HW limit) and >2x horizontal
    downscaling (HW bug).
  - Allow "colour alpha" and "alpha channel" blend modes to be
    used together and accelerated in certain blend mode combinations.
    This has been done to support a customer using the Evas library.

stlinux20-sh4-glibc-2.3.3-21.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-sh4-glibc-dev-2.3.3-21.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-sh4-glibc-doc-2.3.3-21.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-sh4-glibc-i18ndata-2.3.3-21.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-sh4-glibc-locales-2.3.3-21.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-sh4-glibc-nscd-2.3.3-21.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-sh4-glibc-prof-2.3.3-21.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-target-glibc-2.3.3-21.src.rpm
 - Fixed sem_timedwait return code in the case of a timeout (Bugzilla #625)
 - Fixed problem with sem_wait not decrementing counter (Bugzilla #628)

stlinux20-sh4-kernel-headers-2.6.11.2-14.noarch.rpm
stlinux20-target-kernel-headers-2.6.11.2-14.src.rpm
 - changes for bootsplash and updated stgfb package

stlinux20-sh4-popt-1.7-5.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-sh4-popt-dev-1.7-5.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-target-popt-1.7-5.src.rpm
 - Updated to upstream version 1.7

New packages

stlinux20-sh4-splashutils-1.1.9.10-1.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-target-splashutils-1.1.9.10-1.src.rpm
  - contains the user-space bootsplash support (see help pages on
    website for details on how to use it).

stlinux20-sh4-device-mapper-1.01.05-1.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-target-device-mapper-1.01.05-1.src.rpm
  - user-space support for the kernel device-mapper system

stlinux20-sh4-libgcrypt-1.2.2-1.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-sh4-libgpg-error-1.3-1.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-target-libgcrypt-1.2.2-1.src.rpm
stlinux20-target-libgpg-error-1.3-1.src.rpm
  - GNU cryptographic library

stlinux20-sh4-cryptsetup-1.0.3-1.sh4.rpm
stlinux20-target-cryptsetup-1.0.3-1.src.rpm
  - LUKS cryptographic filesystem support based on device-mapper
    and dm-crypt drivers
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