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diff --git a/Changelog-2010 b/Changelog-2010 deleted file mode 100644 index e70ec6888..000000000 --- a/Changelog-2010 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,804 +0,0 @@ -0.9.31 2 April 2010 - - Upgrade notices from previous versions. - o On x86_64 the format of /var/run/utmp changed compared to previous - versions. To retain compatibility with glibc we now define - __WORDSIZE_COMPAT32. If you are certain that you will never use - glibc nor run in i386 mode on your x86_64 installation, you can - remove this definition from wordsize.h. - Otherwise you have to delete /var/run/utmp on x86_64 hosts when - upgrading to 0.9.31 - o The SHARED_LIB_LOADER_PREFIX was renamed to a single path - component called MULTILIB_DIR and defaults to 'lib'. - -0.9.27 12 January 2005 - - This has been a long time in the making... Release highlights: - o New stdio implementation - o New optimized string functions - o Major improvements to the shared lib loader - o Shared libraries work properly on powerpc - o Debugging works on mips - o New architectures: frv, nios, nios2, bfin - o Linux 2.6.x kernel support - o Lots and lots of bug fixes - - This release is NOT binary compatible with uClibc 0.9.26 or any earlier - release, so be prepared to recompile your software if you are still using - an old version of uClibc. - - -Erik - - - -0.9.26 3 January 2004 - - This simply adds a fix for a pthread bug that was noticed a few hours - after the previous release. Otherwise identical to 0.9.25. - - This release remains binary compatible with uClibc 0.9.21-25 as long as - you take care to avoid any configuraton changes that will break things. - We _were_ planning to break binary compatibilty in this release, but - decided to hold those changes so we could push out a bugfix release. - - We _will_ break binary compatibilty in the upcoming 0.9.27 release to - implement a few things we have been postponing. That should hopefully be - the last ABI change before we freeze the ABI for the upcoming 1.0.x - stable uClibc series. - -Release highlights: - o A trivial fix for a pthread bug - o Nothing else - - -Erik - - - -0.9.25 3 January 2004 - -See Changelog.full for the complete list of who did what. - -Note: - This release remains binary compatible with uClibc 0.9.21-24 as long as - you take care to avoid any configuraton changes that will break things. - We _were_ planning to break binary compatibilty in this release, but - decided to hold those changes so we could push out a bugfix release. - - We _will_ break binary compatibilty in the upcoming 0.9.26 release to - implement a few things we have been postponing. That should hopefully be - the last ABI change before we freeze the ABI for the upcoming 1.0.x - stable uClibc series. - -Release highlights: - o Fixed a ton of problems found using the LTP and NIST test suites. - The few remaining test failures are obscure corner cases, such as - a few functions that fail (correctly) with incorrect errno values. - o Fixed a longstanding pthreads bug -- amoung other things, you no - longer need to explicitly add -lpthread for perl to work. - o Added some sh optimized string functions - o Added sh64 shared library support - o The default malloc implementation has been replaced, and will - now actually free memory when told to do so. - o Both popen() and exec*() now behave themselves per SuSv3 - o Better 2.6.x kernel header support - o Added support for Position Independent Executables (PIE) on x86 - o Lots of other minor cleanups - - -Erik - - - -0.9.24 15 December 2003 - -See Changelog.full for the complete list of who did what. - -Note: - This release remains binary compatible with uClibc 0.9.21-23 as - long as you take care to avoid any configuraton changes that will - break things. - - We currently plan to break binary compatibilty in the upcoming 0.9.25 to - implement a few things we have been postponing, which will hopefully be - the last change.... - -Release highlights: - o Fixed several silly configuration problems - o Added arm optimized string functions - o Lots of minor cleanups - - -Erik - - - - - -0.9.23 13 November 2003 - -See Changelog.full for the complete list of who did what. - -Note: - This release is binary compatible with uClibc 0.9.21 and 0.9.22 as - long as you take care to avoid any configuraton changes that will - break things. Enabling or disabling things like soft-float, - locale, wide wchar support, or changing cpu type are all good - examples of things that will break binary compatibility. - -Release highlights: - o Fixed several silly configuration problems that were - present in the 0.9.22 release. - o Fixed compilation problem with soft-float support on - several architectures. - o Lots of cleanup work on the powepc shared lib loader - thanks to Joakim Tjernlund. - o Updated the debian packaging for use in a standalone uClibc - system, rather than being a subordinate library under a - glibc based system. - - -Erik - - - - - -0.9.22 8 November 2003 - -See Changelog.full for the complete list of who did what. - -Note: - This release is binary compatible with the 0.9.21 release - if you take care to avoid any configuraton changes that - might break things for you (i.e. enabling or disabling things - like soft-float, locale, wide wchar support, or changing cpu - type are all good examples of binary incompatible config options). - -Release highlights: - o Added e1, microblaze, and sh64 architectures. - o Much improved soft-float support - o Rewrote the passwd and group handing functions - and implemented all SuSv3 required reentrant - versions. - o Reworked and updated the Config system. You now - get to select your target architecture with the - config system. - o Fixed pthreads for mmuless m68k systems - o Added some x86 optimized string functions. - o Lots and lots of bugs fixed. - - -Erik - - - - - -0.9.21 9 September 2003 - -See Changelog.full for the complete list of who did what. - -Note: - This release is not binary compatible with earlier releases. - Sorry about that. We have never promised to provide binary - compatibility until we hit version 1.0, and even then, if - you change your configuration. - -Release highlights: - o uClibc now has full ANSI/ISO C99 locale support (except - for wcsftime() and collating items in regex). - o Added support for using pre-generated locale data, making - it easy for mere mortals to use uClibc w/locale support. - o Lots of new tuning options added to trade size - for features, allowing for smaller static binaries. - o The "dlopen()'ing libraries that depend on libraries" - problem was fixed. - o A new scanf implementation. Well tested, but - brand new so watch for obscure bugs... - o Reworked and updated the Config system, adding several - nice new features which we now use. - o Lots and lots of sundry bug fixes and cleanups. - - -Erik - - - - - -0.9.20 30 June 2003 - -See Changelog.full for the complete list of who did what. - -Note: - This release remains binary compatible with 0.9.18 and 0.9.19. - - -Release highlights: - o Some ldd, profiling, and gcc wrapper updates - o Updated to support and compile with gcc 3.3 - o Several needed mips updates - o Building under cygwin should now work... - o Prevent non-PIC code getting into PIC libs - o Added mmap64 support - o mmu-less systems now get a 16k default thread stack size - which is much more sane than the old 2 MB default... - o Implemented syscall() for powerpc - o Optionally struct tm extension support - o Lots of other sundry little fixes and cleanups. - o Prevent buffer overflows in the passwd and group functions. - - -Erik - - - - - -0.9.19 3 March 2003 - -See Changelog.full for the complete list of who did what. - -Note: - This release remains binary compatible with 0.9.18 (except - for mips, but then mips was unusable in stock 0.9.18 anyways). - - -Release highlights: - Stefan Allius - o Some Makefile and warning fixes - David Airlie - o Fixed gcc wrapper handling of ctor/dtor stuff when used in - with and w/o the nostdinc and nostdlib options - Erik Andersen - o Fixed a number of system call kernel type/user type translation - problems that scrambled a handful of system calls. - o Fixup powerpc syscalls to eliminate warnings with gcc-3.2 - o Fixed several ioctl special cases for powerpc - o Checked in forgotten mips kernel_types.h changes - o Fixed mips shared library loader bug that caused segfaults - o Major update to the pthreads library. Should improve performance. - o Fixed uClibc's shared library loader so we can properly debug - applications using pthreads (must use gdb 5.3 or newer which - was compiled using uClibc). - o Made uClibc's ldd act just the glibc provided one (i.e. relying - on the shared lib loader to do the work) when it is possible to - doi so, and only rummage about the ELF headers when we have no - other choice (such as when using 'ldd' on cross compiled stuff). - Miles Bader - o header file updates for v850 architecture - o Fixed v850 crt0.S __uClibc_main argument stack space - Jeffrey Damick - o Fixed res_init() so it properly reloads /etc/resolv.conf - Vadim Lebedev - o Fixed ARM setjmp when floating point was disabled - David McCullough - o Removed debug (-g) when building crti.o and crtn.o, as - debug would mess up the build for SH4 and probably others. - o Fixed SH setjmp when floating point was enabled - - - -Erik - - - - - -0.9.18 12 February 2003 - -See Changelog.full for the complete list of who did what. - -Note: - - Once again, this release is _NOT_ binary compatible with earlier - releases. I _think this will be the last time (with the possible - exception of some future changes to our locale support...) - - -Release highlights: - Stefan Allius - o fixed a compile problem when large file support was disabled - o fixed dlib_pic.o to compile with proper flags - o fixed a shared lib loader compile warning - o Made adding libgcc functions to uClibc optional - Erik Andersen - o Fixed scandir64 to not free the wrong pieces of memory - which caused segfaults - o Fixed mismatches between kernel and libc dirent structures - o Fixed mismatches between the size of uClibc's struct dirent - and struct dirent64 so that when _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 we - do not lose part of the filename - o Fixed getdents64.c so the build will not break when compiling - vs a 2.0.x Linux kernel when UCLIBC_HAS_LFS is enabled - o Create stub crti.o and crtn.o files when UCLIBC_CTOR_DTOR is disabled - o Fixed licenses for a few files that erroneously were listed as GPL - but were really LGPL after discussing with authors - o sigaction for x86 had an extra and unwanted sigaction syscall - o Fixed debugging of arm binaries by adding a .note.ABI-tag section - Miles Bader - o header file updates for v850 architecture - o Fixed v850 clone syscall - Christian Krause - o Fixed pthread_cond_timedwait to properly uses rt singals - when available - Christophe Massiot - o Added mips _flush_cache syscall - David McCullough - o Added m68k brk syscall - Marshall M. Midden - o Fixed pipe implementation for mips - - - -Erik - - - - - -0.9.17 25 January 2003 - -See Changelog.full for the complete list of who did what. - -Note: - - I have always reserved the right to make binary incompatible changes as - needed prior to the "1.0" release. This release is a good example of - that. A few bugs turned up that needed to be fixed and the only good way - to fix them was to change some fundamental data structure sizes. So I did - just that. As a result, this release is _NOT_ binary compatible with - earlier releases -- you will need to recompile your applications. - - -Release highlights: - Stefan Allius - o fixed a number of shared library loader bugs - o setjmp, longjmp, clone, and vfork cleanups for the SH architecture - o Don't build the config system with ncurses unless asked to - Tobias Anderberg - o cris architecture updates - Erik Andersen - o Changed 'struct stat' and 'struct stat64' so they use types that - are consistant with use elsewhere in the library. Without this, - subtle bugs would occur due to comparing signed and unsigned - types (for example, GNU tar wouldn't work) - o Fixed dlopen so it works with staticly linked apps - o Fixed sigaction on arm architecture so sa_restorer works properly - o Fixed sigaction on x86 architecture for (fixed debugging threads) - o Fixed a wide char related segfault in the regular expression code - o Powerpc pread and pwrite are now implemented correctly - o Powerpc syscall mechanism re-implemented - o Sparc architecture and syscall mechanism fixed up so things compile - o usershell reimplemented - o Fixed global destructors for staticly linked applications - o Added dynamic atexit support (needed for full C++ ctor/dtor support) - o The ldd utility now acts more like the GNU utility - o Added a stub libnsl library to make stupid configure scripts bahave - o Always build crt1.o as well as crt0.o to minimize the need to mess - with the compiler - o Rewrote powerpc crt0.S to properly handle ctors/dtors - o Removed unimplemented and legacy stuff from our header files to - make configure behave better - o Made the lib loader also support libs in /usr/X11R6/lib by default - o Config system updates - o networking function updates - o Large file support updates - o Lots of other little bug fixes and cleanups - Nick Fedchik - o Support ether_aton - Nathan Field - o Fixed pthread_mutex_lock and pthread_mutex_unlock so they - actually work as advertised on mips - o Fixed several nasty pthread bugs fixing debugging - Brett Hunt - o Fixed potential segfaults during 'make menuconfig' - Jay Kulpinski - o Fixed a subtle problem in the DNS resolver that prevented - uncompressed DNS lookup responses from working - David McCullough - o Fixed pclose error handling - David Meggy - o fixed the problem where arm binaries would crash on start - that Erik stupidly caused right before the last release. - Manuel Novoa III - o Major locale support update! - o Allow people to use pregenerated locale data instead of generating - approx 40Mb of glibc locales to get the 300+ locales currently - supported. - o locale dependent collation support - o Fixed locale support tools to work when cross-compiling - o Added the *wprintf functions - o Added the wcsto{inttype} functions - o Added iconv() and a mini iconv utility - o Added hsearch and hsearch_r - o Fixed a silly bug allowing wprintf %s to work correctly. - o Fixed fdopen when used with "a" (append). - o Fixed stdio file position handing to be sure fell() always - gives correct results - Luc Van Oostenryck - o Fixed a buffer overflow in getlogin_r - Yoshinori Sato - o Hitachi h8300 architecture update - Ronald Wahl - o Powerpc shared library relocation fixes - - -Erik - - - -0.9.16 8 November 2002 - -See Changelog.full for the complete list of who did what. - -Release highlights: - o CRIS architecture and shared library support from Tobias Anderberg - o New uClibc configuration system - o shared library global constructors and destructors initialization - ordering fixed by Stefan Allius - o More SuperH architecture fixes from Stefan Allius - o uClibc now compiles with newer versions of gcc (i.e. RedHat 8.0) - o uClibc no longer requires perl to compile - o mips dlopen was fixed by Steven J. Hill - o pty and tty handling fixes - o Manuel Novoa added support for a new /etc/TZ file for globally - setting the system timezone. - o Manuel also fixed up a number of remaining wide char issues. - o Lots of other little bug fixes and cleanups - - -Erik - - - -0.9.15 27 August 2002 - -This is a minor bugfix release. - -See Changelog.full for the complete list of who did what. -Release highlights: - o Eliminated the HAS_LONG_LONG option. gcc always supports - long long, and the option never excluded all long long anyways. - o ctype.h no longer allows multiple argument evaluation in - compliance with ANSI/ISO C99 - o Obscure printf fixes -- one involving %o and one involving %f. - o Bugfixes for locking and reentrance in password/group functions - o Directly use kernel types for most items, eliminating needless - translation and fixing several bugs. - o Directly use kernel struct stat -- no more translating - o More superH (sh) architecture merging from Stefan Allius - o Errno values and strerror are now correct on alpha, sparc, and mips - o Fixed an obscure bug with fclose when custom streams are enabled. - o Lots of other little bug fixes and cleanups - - -Erik - - - -0.9.14 12 August 2002 - -This is a minor bugfix release. - -See Changelog.full for the complete list of who did what. -Release highlights: - o Fix a compile error when RPC and Pthread support - were both enabled. - o Eliminate duplicate define warnings in wstring.c. - o Fix potentially broken preprocessor comparisons. - o Erik was an idiot and broke thread locking in exit(), - atexit() and friends. Fix that. - o Fix the gcc wrapper to use crtbeginS.o and crtendS.o when - compiling PIC code (crtbegin.o and crtend.o) otherwise. - - -Erik - - - - -0.9.13 9 August 2002 - -Security Fixes - o There was an off-by-one buffer overflow in the group - handling code, fix thanks to Joseph Chiu. - o There was an integer overflow bug in calloc, per - http://online.securityfocus.com/bid/5398 - o There was an integer overflow bug in the xdr_array - RPC code, per http://online.securityfocus.com/bid/5356 - -See Changelog.full for the complete list of who did what. -Release highlights: - o Add full shared library support for Hitachi SuperH (sh) - thanks to Stefan Allius and Edie C. Dost - o Lots of reentrance cleanups (we should now be fully - reentrant when compiled with pthread support). - o Miles Bader implemented a new mmap based malloc which is much - smarter than the old "malloc-simple", and actually works, unlike - the old "malloc". This is now the default for mmu-less systems - and should greatly help reduce memory fragmentation and wastage. - o Reworked syscall handling for i386 and ARM, smaller and cleaner. - o Support for the syscall() function on i386 and ARM - o The uClibc g++ wrapper now automagically adds the proper include - search path and and libraries. - o Lots of shared library loader updates - o dlopen'd shred libraries not properly run destructors - when ctor/dtor support is enabled - o pread/pwrite/pread64/pwrite64 now all work as expected - o Lots and lots of other bug fixes and cleanups. - - -Erik - - - - -0.9.12 20 June 2002 - -See Changelog.full for the complete list of who did what. -Release highlights: - o Add full shared library support for mips (big and little - endian), thanks to a lot of hard work from Steven J. Hill - o i960 architecture support, thanks to Martin Proulx - o An initial alpha port (works, but needs some cleanup) - o Fixes shared library support for powerpc - o Fixes for mmu-less systems - o Much improved thread locking and reentrance. - o More gcc wrapper updates. XFree86 really does link - this time around. It still didn't last time. - o Libcrypt now passes conformance tests - o Nearly complete locale supporti thanks to a lot - of hard work by Manuel Novoa III. This stuff is - _way_ smaller than glibc's - o Completely new time handling functions also by Manuel - o Lots of other bug fixes and cleanups. - - -Erik - - - - -Erik Andersen: -0.9.11 10 April 2002 - -Release highlights: - o Lots of bug fixes - o Much better large file support - o Several gcc wrapper bug fixes, so things like iproute2 and - XFree86 should now link properly. - o Fixes a stdio thread locking bug that could cause random - deadlocks on s*printf calls when threading was enabled. - -Erik Andersen: - o Added a generic implementation of truncate64.c and ftruncate64.c - o Added missing creat64, glob64, mkstemp64, getrlimit64, setrlimit64 - o Removed internal erroneous use of __USE_FILE_OFFSET64 - o Made libpthread compile on sparc and powerpc - o Made libpthread soname and symlinks match the other libraries. - o Added finite() to the C89 math lib, since some math functions use it. - o Added missing function pointer to error.c (some apps wanted it) - o Fixed initfini build for arches where gcc tries to be sneaky - o Fixed m68k/bits/setjmp.h which I has broken in the last release. - o Fixed a buffer overflow in the dynamic library loader - o Fixed a stdio thread locking bug that could cause random - deadlocks on s*printf calls when threading was enabled. - o Implemented sqrtf(), needed for libstdc++ on arm -Miles Bader: - o Make clean fixes to not blindly wipe all symlinks - o Re-enabled clnt_perror() - o Re-implemented swab() -Dwayne Fontenot: - o Many updates to the uClibc Working Application List -Steven J. Hill: - o Many updates to the mips dynamic loader. Not yet working but - getting very close now. - o Fixed locking bug in getttyent() - o Support libpthread on mips -Richard June: - o Fixed several bugs in utmp code (pututline was only writing the - first sizeof-a-pointer bytes to the utmpfile). - o setutent() was only opening utmp readonly. -m4@brecis.COM: - o Fixed a silly typing problem with the getuid syscall. -Manuel Novoa III: - o Fixed stdio FILE read/write auto-transition bugs. - o Better stdio errno handling - o Changed setvbuf() to more closely match glibc's behavior - o Fixed getpass() to not echo passwords to the console - o Fixed locale ISblank flag. - o Fixed an arg promotion handling bug in _do_one_spec for %c reported - by Ilguiz Latypov. -Kensuke Otake: - o Implemented swab() -Yoshinori Sato: - o Fixed h8300 architecture support for pthreads and changes to - the include files -David Schleef: - o Made powerpc assembly code PIC-compatible - o Removed powerpc R_PPC_REL24 handling, since it was deceptively useless. -John Traill: - o Several types on powerpc, such as dev_t, are different than on other - architectures. John spotted this, which fixed a _ton_ of problems since - anything calling stat() was previously broken. -Jim Treadway: - o Eliminated use of alarm() from the DNS resolver by converting - it to use select instead (much cleaner). - - - - - - - - -0.9.10 21 March 2002 - -Major new features: - o pthreads support (derived from glibc 2.1.3's linuxthreads library) - by Stefan Soucek and Erik Andersen - o pthreads support for MMU-less systems, by Stefan Soucek - o Complete rewrite of all stdio functions for standards compliance, - small size, pthreads support, wide/narrow stream support, large - file support, unbuffered support, etc, etc by Manuel Novoa III - o gcc wrapper reworked by Erik Andersen. Now operated correctly in - all known cases, and now wraps g++ as well for C++ support. - o constructor/destructor support, for C++ by Erik Andersen. - o Eliminated duplicate include/bits header files, by Erik Andersen. - Now all common include/bits headers are grouped together. - - -Erik Andersen: - o Lots of changes and improvements to the shared library loader - o Cleaned up a piles of bugs - o Fixed a segfault when scandir was called on empty directories. - o Several syscalls added: pread/pwrite - o Makefile/build system cleanups - o Sighandling fixes - o pthreads support (with Stefan Soucek) - o Added ldexp to the C89 math library, per POSIX - o fclose() EINTR handling is now correct per IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 - o Support isblank() - o Reworked libcrypt to avoid leaking private symbols into the namespace - o Added strtof(), strtold(), updwtmp(), strptime() - o Fix ldso build for older arm cross compilers -Miles Bader: - o atexit cleanups - o fixed gcc wrapper handling of -M* options - o Fixed truncate64/ftruncate64 to restrict them to 64-bit systems, - since we can't be sure that the _syscall macros can cope with 64 - bit args on 32 bit arches. - o Large File support on the v850 - o Fixed v850 headers after Erik messed them up - o Eliminate include/features.h namespace pollution -M. R. Brown: - o Fixed pthread support for SH, and fixed SH vfork as well - o Fixed SH headers after Erik messed them up -Geoffrey Espin: - o Mips architecture cleanups. Now works perfectly - with busybox, vi, ash, etc... - o Merged in the random number support (rand, srand, etc) from glibc. -Thomas Fritzsche: - o Fixes DNS resolver bug from 0.9.9 -Steven J. Hill: - o Fixed build to support both mips and mipsel - o Beginnings of a mips ldso port -Andrew Ip: - o Support for gnu error() functions -David McCullough: - o Coldfire platform updates: clone, setjmp - o Fixed simple malloc to work on systems with an MMU -Manuel Novoa III: - o Rewrote all stdio functions for standards compliance, small size, - pthreads support, wide/narrow stream support, large file support, - unbuffered support, etc, etc, etc. - o Rewrote the various string to int functions to be smaller, more - standards compilant, and reduce dependance on libgcc.a. -Yoshinori Sato: - o ptrace for the Hitachi h8300 fix -David Schleef: - o Debian packaging updates - o Check for proper 16-byte aliged stack pointer on powerpc -Stefan Soucek: - o pthreads support for MMU-less systems - o pthreads support (with Erik Andersen) -Brian Stafford: - o Rewrote strcasecmp() per SUSv2. -Bart Visscher: - o Added missing IPV6 support and reentrant networking function - additions so iptables now runs with IPV6 support. - - - - - - -0.9.9 February 4, 2002 - -Erik Andersen: - o A bunch of doc updates. Major update to the working - apps list. - o Added a configurator script (extra/Configs/uClibc_config_fix.pl) - which can simplify configuring uClibc. - o Fixed setjmp/longjmp on x86,arm,powerpc,mips,and sparc. - Hitting ^C in ash kills client apps now, not ash. - o Reworked signal handling code so it now passes POSIX - conformance tests. - o Fixed sleep and usleep to work correctly when - interrupted by signals. - o Made getopt behave the same when staticly linking - as when dynamicly linking. It was using different - implementations depending on how apps were linked. - o Added missing inttypes.h header file - o Eliminate all C++ style comments from header files - o Support statvfs and statfs - o Support getmntent_r - o Scandir and scandir64 were calling malloc without - checking for ENOMEM - o Fixed stpcpy function declaration - o Many large file support improvements. - o Fixed fcntl to work when DOLFS is enabled - o Fixed termios code to do the Right Thing(tm) - o Allow regex to be excluded at compile time - o Implemented mempcpy - o Build ldd and readelf for the target system and for the - host system - o Fix several cases where get-needed-libgcc-objects.sh - could fail, breaking the shared uClibc library. - o Include all shared library loader objects into a - single C file, thereby reducing its size further. - o Reworked the shared library linking process to be more - flexible so that gcc and ld can more easily be built to - target uClibc library. - o Better error checking in the Makefiles. Be more pedantic - about tar, chmod, etc to avoid system dependent failures. - o We can now autodetect the target architecture - o Hide references to wchar_t so GNU autoconf - configure scripts won't get confused and try to - enable wide char support. - o Fixed stdio.h so apps can use varargs.h if they want to. - o Added brk/sbrk support for ARM, powerpc, mips, and sparc - and set them to default to the much faster brk using malloc - o Added missing syscalls: get_kernel_syms, fcntl64, - fdatasync, sched_setparam, sched_getparam, - sched_setscheduler, sched_getscheduler, - sched_get_priority_max, sched_get_priority_min, - sched_rr_get_interval, sigaltstack, sendfile, - pivot_root, sigsuspend, setfsuid, and setfsgid - o Force DOPIC be true when HAVE_SHARED is true. - o Fixed hstrerror() - o Implemented gethostent(), sethostent(), and endhostent() - o Added arch specific support so that sparc and mips actually - compile and work -Miles Bader: - o Fixes for the v850 architecture: crt0, setjmp, - arch autodetection, etc. - o Fixed `make install' to not build ldso stuff on - non-shared-library systems. -Michael E Brown: - o Allow the gcc wrapper to support setting DEVEL_PREFIX - and BUILD_DIR at runtime (no more need to recompile). -M. R. Brown and Erik Andersen: - o Fixed the SH port so it now works. Tested and shown - working on an SH4 Dreamcast system. -Kim Heino: - o Made 'make clean' remove generated bits/syscall.h -David McCullough: - o SH architecture updates. Added brk, sbrk, - o Fixed simple malloc to work on systems with an MMU - o Taught getutent to return NULL if utmp doesn't exist. - o Added insque/remque support - o Fixed DNS resolver version number so apps won't get - confused and use the wrong API. - o Added Config selectable shadow password support -Yoshinori Sato - o Contributed support for the Hitach H8/300H architecture -Cédric Schieli: - o Add support for inet_netof, inet_lnaof, inet_makeaddr - and hstrerror. -David Schleef: - o Added libstrip, a nifty script to automagically - strip unneeded content from the uClibc shared - libraries. -Martin Sieper - o Added getw() and putw() - o Added missing header files -- lastlog.h, sgtty.h, - netipx/ipx.h, sys/perm.h -Stefan Soucek: - o Add rcmd support, i.e. rsh, rlogin, etc. - o Fix rcmd to avoid alloca, which is dangerous - on mmu-less systems -spudmonkey@racsa.co.cr: - o Eliminate a buffer overflow in the shared library loader -Brian Stafford: - o Enable support for Unix98 PTYs, and add option - to disable old style PTYs. - - diff --git a/DEDICATION.mjn3 b/DEDICATION.mjn3 deleted file mode 100644 index bc26bc845..000000000 --- a/DEDICATION.mjn3 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ - -All of my uClibc and busybox work is dedicated to Toni, my love who -passed away on Feb. 12, 2003. - -I would ask that anyone benefiting from this work, especially those -using it in commercial products, consider making a donation in her -memory to our local non-profit hospice organization that did so much -for us in her last few months. - - In memory of Toni W. Hagan - - Hospice of Acadiana, Inc. - 2600 Johnston St., Suite 200 - Lafayette, LA 70503-3240 - - Phone (337) 232-1234 or 1-800-738-2226 - Fax (337) 232-1297 - - http://www.hospiceacadiana.com/ - - -Manuel Novoa III diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS deleted file mode 100644 index d7c0ff967..000000000 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,152 +0,0 @@ -Arch Maintainers List - -Note: For the hard of thinking, this list is meant to remain in alphabetical -order. If you could add yourselves to it in alphabetical order that would be -so much easier [Ed]. - -P: Person -E: Person's email address -W: Web-page with status/info -S: Status, one of the following: - - Supported: Someone is actually paid to look after this. - Maintained: Someone actually looks after it. - Patches: It has a maintainer but they don't have time to do - much other than throw the odd patch in. See below ... - Unmaintained: No current maintainer [but maybe you could take the - role as you write your new code]. - Obsolete: Old code. Something tagged obsolete generally means - it has been replaced by a better system and you - should be using that. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - -ALPHA -S: Unmaintained - - -ARM -N: Erik Andersen -E: andersen@codepoet.org -W: http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ -S: Maintained - - -AVR32 -N: Hans-Christian Egtvedt -E: hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com -N: Haavard Skinnemoen -E: haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com -W: http://avr32linux.org/ -S: Maintained - - -BFIN -N: Mike Frysinger -E: vapier.adi@gmail.com -W: http://blackfin.uclinux.org/ -S: Maintained - - -CRIS -P: Ricard Wanderlof -M: ricard.wanderlof@axis.com -W: http://developer.axis.com -S: Maintained - - -E1 -S: Unmaintained - - -FRV -S: Unmaintained - - -H8300 -S: Unmaintained - - -HPPA -S: Unmaintained - - -IA64 -S: Unmaintained - - -I386 -N: Erik Andersen -E: andersen@codepoet.org -S: Maintained - - -I960 -S: Unmaintained - - -M68K -S: Unmaintained - - -MICROBLAZE -S: Unmaintained - - -MIPS -N: Erik Andersen -E: andersen@codepoet.org -W: http://www.linux-mips.org -S: Maintained - - -NIOS and NIOS2 -S: Unmaintained - - -POWERPC -N: Joakim Tjernlund -E: joakim.tjernlund@lumentis.se -W: http://penguinppc.org/ -S: Maintained - - -SH and SH64 -P: Paul Mundt -E: lethal@linux-sh.org -W: http://www.linux-sh.org -S: Maintained - - -SH4 (NPTL/TLS) -P: Carmelo Amoroso -E: carmelo.amoroso@st.com -W: http://www.stlinux.com -S: Supported - - -SPARC -P: Austin Foxley -E: austinf@cetoncorp.com -S: Maintained - -VAX -P: Jan-Benedict Glaw -E: jbglaw@lug-owl.de (personal), linux-vax@pergamentum.com (mailing list) -W: http://linux-vax.sourceforge.net/ -S: Maintained - -V850 -S: Unmaintained - - -X86_64 -S: Unmaintained - - -XTENSA -P: Chris Zankel -E: chris@zankel.net -W: http://linux-xtensa.org/ -S: Maintained - @@ -1,188 +0,0 @@ -TODO list for every uClibc release: -------------------------------------------------- - *) Test cris, i386, mips, mipsel, sh, x86_64, arm, armeb, and powerpc - with the latest LTP testsuite. Fix any regressions and post LTP - testsuite results for each architecture on uclibc.org. - *) Audit header files. Remove prototypes for all functions that - are not supported -- especially needed for the libm headers. - *) Audit header files. When options are disabled, also disable - them in the include files as well by checking for the proper - define from include/bits/uClibc_config.h (pulled in from features.h) - -TODO list for the uClibc 1.0.0 release: -------------------------------------------------- - *) NPTL - support arches: (o todo; + done) - o alpha - + arm - o avr32 - o bfin - o cris - o e1 - o frv - o h8300 - o hppa - + i386 - o i960 - o ia64 - o m68k - o microblaze - + mips - o nios - o nios2 - + powerpc - + sh - + sh64 - o sparc - o v850 - o vax - o x86_64 - o xtensa - o ... - *) Go through SUSv4 - TOC: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/xrat/contents.html - shell (busybox): http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/xrat/V4_xcu_chap01.html#tag_22_01_01 - interface: - http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/xrat/V4_xbd_chap13.html#tag_21_13_02 - http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/xrat/V4_xsh_chap01.html#tag_23_01_01 - *) glob / fnmatch tests fail - *) regex should pass AT&T conformance tests - *) Finish hiding uClibc internal symbols from our exported namespace - *) Add system for generating minimal system call asm wrappers that abuse - the C ABI to minimize amount of register/stack manipulation - *) Explicity add some sortof CONFIG_LINUX_2_2_ABI, CONFIG_LINUX_2_4_ABI - and CONFIG_LINUX_2_6_ABI type options, rather than having the abi - depend on the selected set of kernel headers. This will likely also - require that we provide a set of kernel headers (probably a derivitive - of Mazur's linux-libc-headers) that can supplies the 2.2, 2.4, and 2.6 - kernel abi. - *) Documentation updates: - *) Write a uClibc HOWTO document - *) Update README document - *) Update INSTALL document - *) Update docs/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt document - and fully document all differences between the feature - set of uClibc and glibc. - *) Update docs/uClibc_vs_SuSv3.txt document - *) Update docs/threads.txt document - *) Write man pages for ldd and ldconfig utility binaries - *) Implement some mechanism (perhaps encoded in the .so name, - perhaps using an abi tag magically embedded into each object) - for flagging config options that break the ABI. Options - such as UCLIBC_HAS_SOFT_FLOAT, UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS, UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE, - and perhaps others (finalize list) produce a lib with a differing - ABI. Make it so apps cannot use an ABI mis-matched uClibc. - This is most easily done using symbol versioning... - *) Implement the long double versions of math funcs on interrested - arches using wrappers on top of the double versions (size / precision - trade off where size clearly wins). - *) Make all small objects (>~50 bytes) into either inlines or - into a static library - *) Cleanup / rewrite sysconf.c. It should get some information - from ldso (such as HZ). Other stuff it currently just makes - up, which is obviously wrong. Also bits/uClibc_clk_tck.h - needs to be updated at the same time to get proper HZ values. - *) poll emulation using select() for old 2.0.x uClinux kernels - in libc/sysdeps/linux/common/poll.c fails some python self-tests. - Of course, modern systems using the actuall poll() syscall work fine. - *) Cleanup/scrub all the Makefile copyright junk - *) Fix dlopen, for both static and dynamic cases, and make it - fully comply with SuSv3 - *) check if sched_getcpu is only pulled in where it should be - *) remove HANDLE_OLDER_RLIMIT, NEW_GETRLIMIT (conditionalize on - ugetrlimit, it seems, else use the modern variant) - *) simplify exec*() in the light of execvpe (perhaps single internal - impl); USE_GNU for execvpe (and other GNU extensions, see psm). - - -TODO list for AFTER the uClibc 1.0.0 release: -------------------------------------------------- - *) Add support for 64bit time (to deal withhttp://2038bug.com/): - date -s 011903142038 sets epoch to roll over in a few seconds (2^31) - *) Add support for Linux 2.6.x fast vsyscalls - *) Enable pristine source tree builds - *) Fix regex so it isn't so stinking big - *) Fix glob so it isn't so stinking big - *) run 'nm -D --size-sort -t d libuClibc-0.9.26.so' and work on the - biggest things (i.e. stuff at the end of the list) to make - them smaller. - *) Fix dlopen/dlsym/dlclose locking to more fine grained or use RCU - <more wishlist items here> - - -Arch specific TODO: -------------------------------------------------- - alpha: - ldso is not implemented - arm: - update crt1 code again for nommu (http://bugs.uclibc.org/view.php?id=538) - recruit jbowler and integrate thumb support - frv: - needs to be updated for the new ldso changes and unification of the - uClibc_main funcs (__uClibc_start_main doesnt exist anymore) - hppa: - errno.c test segfaults causes segfault in clone.S (seems to be in glibc too) - i386: - add support for fast system calls - ia64: - ldso is not implemented - m68k: - ldso lazy relocation doesnt work - sh64: - ldso is reasonably broken, presently requiring additional - coaxing/threatening. - sparc: - need a sigaction.c since common one doesnt work (signal tests) - ldso needs to be updated since it's totally broken atm - vax: - pthread support, linktime warning support (implies GAS patches), - general touchups, testing, ldso. - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -Manuel's todo: - - 1) Little things that need fixing: - ---------------------------------- - a) Fix bug in *printf: outdigit precison bug - b) Check that gnu/bsd extension members tm_gmtoff and tm_zone in struct tm - are respected where they should be. - c) Implement the obstack printf funcs for glibc compat. - d) Implement glibc 'a' flag for scanf string conversions. - e) Allow use of the older non-table-based ctype functions when using - stub locale support. (smaller) - f) __drand48_iterate should be void - g) alphasort vs. versionsort. The former seems to be SVID, the latter GNU - i.e. reverse to what we currently do. The latter is unimplemented. - h) ponder removal/configs to turn off: __xpg_*, bsd_signal, dysize, - getw/putw, utimes, - - 2) Additional str{f|p}time issues. - ---------------------------------- - a) Spacing issue wrt strptime. - b) Support locale specific alternate digits. (data is in place) - c) Support locale era in year designations. (data is in place) - d) Deal with mb format string issues in strftime. - e) Implement wcsftime. - - 3) Other locale issues (my implementation): - ------------------------------------------- - a) Do a little more clean up of ctype and wctype. - b) Rework of the locale data organization to make using locales reasonable - when staticly linking. (mmap) - c) Rewrite the locale data generation tools to process the text specifications - rather than relying on glibc. - d) Adapt regex lib to use my collation data and add the necessary collating - item tables to support SUSv3 required features. - e) transliteration of unsupported wchars in 8-bit locales (like glibc). - f) Support ISO/IEC 14652 draft locale extensions (LC_PAPER, etc). - g) Implement strfrom. - h) Shift-state codeset locale support? - - 4) Misc: - -------- - a) Port uClibc to other OSs (including elks), or even bare metal (libgloss). - b) Write a space-efficient gettext substitute, to avoid storing large amounts - of redundant data. - - |