A Week In AROS 2018

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Gennaio 2018 (riprendono i lavori su AROS)

- An intermittent crash while starting the X Windows graphics driver was fixed (neil)
- Fixed a crash in AHI prefs when there's no output available (hitchhikr)
- Fixed code corruption (corrupt taglists) caused by compiler optimisation quirks. This may have caused bugs in various places throughout AROS: it is known to have affected some DataTypes at least (neil)
- The French translations for system components were brought up to date (hitchhikr)
- Fixed a crash in the standard text editor that sometimes occurred while opening a file (hitchhikr)
- Fixed two visual glitches in Wanderer regarding the lasso and the headings in list mode (hitchhikr)
- More visual bugs fixed in Wanderer (hitchhikr)
- SAM440 build works again (balaton)
- Fixed MMU setup on SAM440 to avoid exceptions before TLB entries for handlers are set up (balaton)
- Fixed a potential crash in the USB HID driver (balaton)
- Fixed a memory corruption bug in IPrefs (balaton)
- Added a command line interface to FTManager (o1i)
- Give a more helpful error message when calling C:List on NIL: (polluks)
- Fixed GCC 6.3.0 cross-compiler for PPC (balaton)
- Fixed handling of queued requests in emacs.device PPC network driver (balaton)
- Fixed uninitialised memory in the emergency console (balaton)
- Fixed bugs in error handling in the Parthenope PPC bootloader's EXT2 and ISO9660 filesystem support

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Febbraio 2018

- Fixed/re-introduced i8259A legacy PIC support (neil)
- Bug fixes that allow ACPI support to be fully disabled when using the 'noacpi' boot option (neil)
- Allow PCI devices to be used again when ACPI is disabled (neil)
- Fixed a memory corruption bug when setting up IRQ routing table information for PCI (neil)
- Added a new boot option, 'noapic' (not to be confused with 'noacpi'), that disables modern APICs in favour of legacy i8259A PICs (e.g. in case APIC support doesn't work well on your PC). 'noapic' and 'noacpi' must be used together to have an effect (neil)
- Fixed a bug in APIC support that led to crashes during boot because the kernel's list of system call handlers was corrupted during IRQ initialisation. This fixes booting with ACPI disabled (neil)
- Allow kernel debug output to be captured by Sashimi, Bifteck etc. (neil)
- Fixed a problem with software interrupts that caused stuttering in HDAudio playback when ACPI was enabled (neil)
- Allow CPU to sleep again when no task is running and ACPI is disabled; avoids VMs stealing host CPU time for no reason and saves power when running natively (neil)

Note that none of these changes will be available in nightly builds for the moment because SourceForge is still broken.

[Seiya]

appena porteranno il supporto 3D su AROS via VMWare, milioni di utenti potranno provarlo con soddisfazione. Oggi solo chi ha una nVidia di un paio di generazioni fa, può godersi Gallium.
Molti software anche di progettazione CAD e disegno vettoriale su AROS usano Gallium. in Modalità Software richiede molta potenza che a mio avviso genera troppo calore e troppo consumo energetico lato CPU.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Marzo 2018

- ICU library V60.2 ported for future use with Odyssey (wawa)
- Implemented retrieval and usage of all PCI IRQ routing tables from ACPI (instead of just the one for the root bus). This solves the problem of some devices having incorrect IRQ numbers when ACPI is enabled (e.g. wired and wireless network interfaces on the Acer AspireOne A110 and A150 work again) (neil)
- Restored/enabled the manual shutdown screen (to be shown when programmatic power-off is not available), and made it work with palette-based graphics modes (neil

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Aprile 2018

- Fixed crashes under heavy interrupt load on pc-i386 (neil)
- Fixed 3D acceleration for nVidia and Intel graphics (neil)
- The HD Audio driver now ensures all amplifiers are unmuted. This allows the Analog Devices AD1984A codec to work (neil)
- Major update to C library maths functions: ported missing high precision floating-point and complex number functions from OpenLibm (based upon FreeBSD/OpenBSD) (NicJA)
- Updated other C library maths functions to current FreeBSD code to address compiler optimization issues (NicJA)
- Added FPU-optimised versions of C library maths functions for 32-bit and 64-bit x86 architectures (NicJA)
- New utility to allow dual analogue control gamepads to be used on Linux-hosted AROS, e.g. to play Tower57 (stegerg)
- HD Audio improvements: added device-specific settings for Analog Devices AD1981HD and AD1884 codecs (neil)
- Linux-hosted USB stability/efficiency improvements (dizzyofcrn)
- Fixed colour remapping in various demos (NicJA)
- Added support for FastATA extensions on Amiga hardware (NicJA)
- Added 6888x FPU and 68060 optimised versions of C library maths functions (NicJA)
- Upgraded the Boost C++ libraries to the latest version: fixes problems compiling some C++ code (falemagn)
- More Linux-hosted USB stability/efficiency improvements (dizzyofcrn)
- Updated ICU library (wawa)
- Fixed a bogus out-of-memory error shown by the Find program when scanning empty files (neil)
- The start and stop buttons in Find are now enabled and disabled dynamically, to help indicate whether a search is in progress (neil)
- Made InfPlane demo compile and run on all architectures (NicJA)
- Fix to exception flag handling in m68k C library maths (NicJA)

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Maggio 2018

- 8-bit VESA modes work again (neil)
- Corrected a GCC bug in handling of infinity in M68k floating point code (NicJA/twilen)
- Fixed USB keyboard on QEMU Sam460ex emulation (and possibly some real keyboards) (balaton)
- Updated binutils to 2.30 (older versions are still available) (NicJA)
- Updated GCC to 8.1.0 (ditto) (NicJA)
- Fixed potential buffer overruns in Wanderer (NicJA)
- Fixed truncation of UUIDs in uuid.library's UUID_Unparse() function (NicJA)
- Fixed potential buffer overrun in IPrefs's handling of printer preferences (NicJA/neil)
- C:Mount: fixed crash in low memory conditions (NicJA)
- NListtree: fixed potential data corruption in label generation (NicJA)
- Fixed potential buffer overruns in printer.device (NicJA/neil)
- cybergraphics.library: updated an M68k fix for ScalePixelArray() to work with GCC 8 (NicJA)
- Fixed crash in diskimage.device (NicJA)
- FryingPan now compiles for PowerPC (wawa)
- PCITool: fixed truncation of last digit of PCI driver's I/O Base (NicJA)
- Avoid truncation of the tape name in Calculator (NicJA)
- Fixed clearing of old alert values in M68k startup (NicJA)
- openurl.library: ensure temporary filenames are unique (NicJA)
- Fixed potential data corruption in Zune's string class (NicJA)
- Handle the MEMF_REVERSE memory allocation flag more correctly (neil)
- Fixed possible memory allocation corruption in low memory conditions (neil)

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Giugno 2018

- Updated curl to 7.60.0 (NicJA)
- Updated git to 2.17.1 (NicJA)
- Fixed crash when attempting to access Linux/Unix host directories that the user doesn't have permission to access (neil)
- Improved certificate handling for OpenSSL (NicJA)
- Fixed crash in the ALSA sound driver when libasound2 isn't installed on the host (neil)
- Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.0h (NicJA)

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