Commit ec37bbca authored by Peter Korsgaard's avatar Peter Korsgaard
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CHANGES: add highlights for 2014.08 release

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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,