Buildroot Maintenance#

Our Buildroot fork comes with certain package tweaks and version bumps which are not available (yet) upstream.

New LTS Versions#

Minor#

This project is based on 2022.02 LTS, check Buildroot Tags to determine if a new LTS update is available.

# If not done already, add the upstream repository to the buildroot directory
git remote add upstream https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot.git

# Fetch tags and version history from upstream
git fetch upstream --tags

# Rebase to the new version number you looked up
git rebase 2022.02.X

# Create a new feature branch
git checkout -b 2022.02.X-satos

# Push it to our repository
git push --set-upstream origin 2022.02.X-satos

If done make sure to conduct a clean rebuild of the entire buildroot sources to make sure everything re-builds correctly.

Major#

If a new major LTS version is available, the package level adjustments outlined below need to be re-evaluated.

Changed upstream packages#

Gnuradio 3.9#

Support for 3.9.7.0 was added based off a past pull request to upstream buildroot.

gr-osmosdr#

Version bumped and config modified to support the HACKRF SDR.

python-numpy#

Uses the more recent https://numpy.org/devdocs/release/1.23.0-notes.html version to allow for better optimization and interopability with recent > 3.8 GnuRadio versions.

python-cython#

Version bumped to https://pypi.org/project/Cython/0.29.30/ to allow python-numpy to build.

hackrf#

Bumped to https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/hackrf/releases/tag/v2021.03.1 contains some bugfixes.

usbmount && udisks#

Legacy tweaks that are scheduled for removal once the situation surrounding the config USB stick is clear.

Regular maintenance tasks#

The following tasks need to be performed manually and are essential to the security of the project.

Raspberry PIs#

The RaspberryPi targets come with custom versions of kernels and firmware that are solely tracked inside the SATOS repository.