On 04/17/2018 12:25 AM, Kurt Kiefer via USRP-users wrote: > The last release of the BSP and firmware for e3xx devices is either back at > fido, which was over two years ago, or jethro a year ago (though it's still > listed as "beta" on files.ettus.com). This age makes it increasingly > difficult to find compatible tooling without performing complicated manual > builds of software on the host and device, we miss out on features only > present in newer kernels, and miss out on updates to various packages that > would be included in an up-to-date Yocto build.
Wearing my OpenEmbedded hat, here is the release schedule for the meta data used to build the Linux distro: https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Releases Releases are only supported by the Yocto Project for about 18 months. Beyond that is up to interested in members of the community to provide support. Support means, bug fixes, security fixes, and general house cleaning. (Note you typically need to use a container to build Jethro due to host tool version issues) You can check if there is active work by checking the commit log: https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/commits/jethro Which suggests no major players are providing support. This lack of support post shipment is not a unique problem to Ettus, it is industry wide. The only way to change this is complain loudly to the people that matter, so don't beat up engineering teams :) Sales and marketing need to know that long term product support matters. As I mentioned in my GRCon lightening talk, getting patches upstream and working against recent software (be it kernels or OpenEmbedded metadata) leaves more time for people to do interesting SDR work, and less time doing the software vendors job for them. Philip > > Moving forward, does Ettus Research plan to keep the BSP updated for these > radios? > > Kurt > _______________________________________________ > USRP-users mailing list > USRP-users@lists.ettus.com > http://lists.ettus.com/mailman/listinfo/usrp-users_lists.ettus.com > _______________________________________________ USRP-users mailing list USRP-users@lists.ettus.com http://lists.ettus.com/mailman/listinfo/usrp-users_lists.ettus.com
