CHANGES: add highlights for 2014.08 release

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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Peter Korsgaard 2014-08-08 23:28:02 +02:00
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Fixes all over the tree and new features.
Architecture: Powerpc64 BE/LE added, AVR32 deprecated.
Improved altivec / SPE /atomic instructions
handling. Additional PowerPC CPU variants added.
Defconfigs: Atmel SAMA5D3, Congatec QMX6, Lego ev3, TS-5x00,
qemu-system-xtensa, qemu-aarch64-virt added. A number of
tweaks to existing ones. lpc32xx defconfigs removed.
Toolchain: Microblaze support for internal musl toolchain.
Default to GCC 4.8 for internal toolchain, remove deprecated
4.3 and 4.6 versions.
External CodeSourcery / Linaro toolchain updates, option to
copy gconv libraries for external toolchains.
Infrastructure: graph-depends: misc fixes, transitive
dependencies are not drawn by default. Download handling is
now done using helper scripts. Integrity of downloads can now
be verified using sha* hashes. Subversion download now uses
peg revisions for robustness.
Legal-info: License info of local or overridden packages are
saved as well. Toolchain packages are also taken into account.
autotools: Static linking with libtool / v1.5 improvements.
Gettextize support, similar to autoreconf.
kconfig package infrastructure added.
Misc: Version selection for busybox dropped.
Updated/fixed packages: aespipe, aiccu, alsa-lib, alsa-utils,
alsamixergui, argus, armadillo, at, atftp, atk, avahi,
avrdude, axel, b43-firmware, b43-fwcutter, bandwidthd, bc,