Linux Utils Roadmap

CMEM History and Roadmap

This article is intended to help provide some guidance for Linux Utils users to help them understand previous and future releases of Linux Utils, as well as indicate where/when significant features are introduced and what compatibility breaks occur.

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The latest Linux Utils API Reference Guide is available online as well as in each product (see links in the Release Notes).

Note that in 2008, the CMEM productization changed to include similar Linux utilities, in addition to CMEM. CMEM is now delivered as a component of the Linux Utils product. To minimize confusion, the Linux Utils product versioning built on the existing CMEM versioning.

There are some gaps, which will be filled in later. (But don't be shy about editing this. If you can fill in details, things to watch out for in a given release(!), etc, please do!)

Linux Utils Release Details

Release	Date	New Features	Compatibility Breaks	Patch Releases
4.00	July, 2013	CMA-support, autotools build	Only CMEM provided	4.00.01.08 4.00.02.11
... TBD
2.26	Nov, 2010	2.6.36 kernel (and 2.6.37 in 2.26.01.02 patch)		2.26.01.02
2.25	October, 2009	See Release Notes	Change to ioctl command ids	2.25.01.06 2.25.02.08 2.25.03.09 2.25.04.10 2.25.05.11
2.24	May, 2009	See Release Notes		2.24.01 2.24.02 2.24.03 2.24.04.05
2.23.01	April, 2009	2.6.28+ kernel validation Better cleanup of resources during app exit
2.22	January, 2009	Minor fixes, build cleanup		2.22.01 - more build cleanup
2.21	November, 2008	User mode lib BSD licensed Added 2.6.18 and 2.6.26 kernel validation Added VICP and IRQ APIs
2.20	August, 2008	Multiple block support Changed branding to Linux Utils, and added SDMA and EDMA support to the product distribution
2.10	March, 2008	CMEM_getBlock() allowOverlap
2.00	October, 2007	Cachable buffers and related APIs Heap allocation Released under GPL/LGPL 2		2.00.01 - allowOverlap
... TBD
1.00	March, 2006	Initial release included in CE 1.00 Static pool allocation