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

Toolchain and debugging tool issues:
toolchain-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org
http://ez.analog.com/community/dsp/open-source/gnu-toolchain-blackfin

Das u-boot issues:
u-boot-devel@blackfin.uclinux.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



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