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Release Notes for CRUX-ARM 2.6

Introduction

This page discusses relevant features related to CRUX-ARM 2.6 and differences between toolchains and kernels released.

Toolchain

CRUX-ARM 2.6 includes glibc 2.10.1, gcc 4.4.2, binutils 2.19.1.
The toolchain is splited in two flavours depending on the target device:

• The mainline development is focused to ARM devices which has an armv4t chipset or above and EABI support.
• The other devices older than armv4t chipset are supported for a secondary toolchain without EABI support (noeabi).

Supported devices

• versatile: supports both released ABI.
• j72x: only supports the noeabi release.
• ipaq191x: only supports the noeabi release.
• omap850 (htc-prophet and htc-elf): supports both released ABI.
• wm8505: supports both released ABI.

Kernel

All kernels depend directly on devices developments, as there are some obsolete/stalled ones or in development (slow).
We try to group all those developments and test them on these devices.
These are the ones working in 2.6:

• versatile: linux-2.6.30.5
• j72x: linux-2.6.19
• ipaq191x: linux-2.6.16
• omap850: linux-2.6.25
• wm8505: linux-2.6.29

Important changes

There are two different releases based on the suported ABI.
We provide a set of core packages as a root file system in crux-arm-rootfs-2.6, ready to be deployed on the devices depending in how they manage the media.
There is more info in device's documentation. Here there are the options:

• crux-arm-rootfs-2.6.tar.bz2
• crux-arm-rootfs-2.6-noeabi.tar.bz2