2011R1 Linux development platform release for Blackfin

 

 

The 2011R1 Linux development platform for Blackfin is released today. This release includes 2011R1-RC3 Linux distribution, 2011R1-RC4 GNU toolchain and 2011R1-RC5 uboot. The executable images, source code and testing results are now open for download on the blackfin.uclinux.org web server.

 

 

High lights in this release:

 

  - Toolchain stays with 4.3. Bin utility updates to 2.21. newlib to 1.9.0.

  - Das u-boot updates to 2011.09. Linux kernel to 3.0.8.

  - Das u-boot POST hardware testing suites are enabled.

  - ADV7183b video-in driver and VS6624 camera driver are converted to kernel V4L2 framework.

  - ad1938/ad1836/ssm2603/ad73311/adau1361 ASOC drivers update to new ASOC framework in kernel 3.0.

  - USB video camera driver for NOMMU architecture update to 3.0 kernel.

  - Inter core communication protocol 1.0 and MCAPI 2.0 library are implemented in Linux on BF561 core A and in bare metal stub on BF561 core B. Sample MCAPI tasks and applications are included in the Linux distribution.

  - Busybox updates to 1.18.4.

  - ALSA library and utility update to 1.0.24.

 

 

For more details of new features and changes, please read the release notes at

http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=uclinux-dist:release-notes:2011r1

http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=toolchain:release-notes:2011r1

http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=bootloaders:u-boot:release-notes:2011r1

 

 

Find 2011R1-RC3 Linux distribution source code, bootable images and test results at

http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/uclinux-dist/frs

 

Find 2011R1-RC4 toolchain binaries, source code and test results at

http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/toolchain/frs

 

Find 2011R1-RC5 uboot source code, bootable images and test results at

http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/u-boot/frs

 

 

Any questions, please send email to respective mailing list or the Analog Devices EngineerZone Communities.

 

Linux and application issues:

uclinux-dist-devel-ZG0+EudsQA8dtHy/vicBwGD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org

http://ez.analog.com/community/dsp/open-source/linux-blackfin

 

Toolchain and debugging tool issues:

toolchain-devel-ZG0+EudsQA8dtHy/vicBwGD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org

http://ez.analog.com/community/dsp/open-source/gnu-toolchain-blackfin

 

Das u-boot issues:

u-boot-devel-ZG0+EudsQA8dtHy/vicBwGD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org

http://ez.analog.com/community/dsp/open-source/uboot-blackfin

 

 

 

You can also check out the source code.

svn co http://blackfin.uclinux.org/svn/toolchain/tags/2011R1-RC4 toolchain

 

svn co http://blackfin.uclinux.org/svn/uclinux-dist/tags/2011R1-RC3 uClinux-dist

 

git clone git://sources.blackfin.uclinux.org/git/linux-kernel

git checkout 2011R1-RC3

 

git clone git://sources.blackfin.uclinux.org/git/u-boot

git checkout 2011R1-RC5

 

 

 

We appreciate your bug report.

 

Thank you.

 

Sonic Zhang

 

(86-21)23208262

Engineering Manager

Open Platform Solution Team Shanghai

Analog Devices (Shanghai) Inc.