Released 2013-11-18 http://www.open-mpi.org/software/hwloc/v1.8/downloads/hwloc-1.8.tar.bz2 Reproducible: Always v1.8 is a major new release series. It adds PCI discovery on Linux without dependencies on external libs, a new API to manipulate differences between very similar topologies, multiple improvements to command-line tools, and more. * New components + Add the "linuxpci" component that always works on Linux even when libpciaccess and libpci aren't available (and even with a modified file-system root). By default the old "pci" component runs first because "linuxpci" lacks device names (obj->name is always NULL). * API + Add the topology difference API in hwloc/diff.h for manipulating many similar topologies. + Add hwloc_topology_dup() for duplicating an entire topology. + hwloc.h and hwloc/helper.h have been reorganized to clarify the documentation sections. The actual inline code has moved out of hwloc.h into the new hwloc/inlines.h. + Deprecated functions are now in hwloc/deprecated.h, and not in the official documentation anymore. * Tools + Add hwloc-diff and hwloc-patch tools together with the new diff API. + Add hwloc-compress-dir to (de)compress an entire directory of XML files using hwloc-diff and hwloc-patch. + Object colors in the graphical output of lstopo may be changed by adding a "lstopoStyle" info attribute. See CUSTOM COLORS in the lstopo(1) manpage for details. Thanks to Jirka Hladky for discussing the idea. + hwloc-gather-topology may now gather I/O-related files on Linux when --io is given. Only the linuxpci component supports discovering I/O objects from these extended tarballs. + hwloc-annotate now supports --ri to remove/replace info attributes with a given name. + hwloc-info supports "root" and "all" special locations for dumping information about the root object. + lstopo now supports --append-legend to append custom lines of text to the legend in the graphical output. Thanks to Jirka Hladky for discussing the idea. + hwloc-calc and friends have a more robust parsing of locations given on the command-line and they report useful error messages about it. + Add --whole-system to hwloc-bind, hwloc-calc, hwloc-distances and hwloc-distrib, and add --restrict to hwloc-bind for uniformity among tools. * Misc + Calling hwloc_topology_load() or hwloc_topology_set_*() on an already loaded topology now returns an error (deprecated since release 1.6.1). + Fix the initialisation of cpusets and nodesets in Group objects added when inserting PCI hostbridges. + Never merge Group objects that were added explicitly by the user with hwloc_custom_insert_group_object_by_parent(). + Add a sanity check during dynamic plugin loading to prevent some crashes when hwloc is dynamically loaded by another plugin mechanisms. + Add --with-hwloc-plugins-path to specify the install/load directories of plugins. + Add the MICSerialNumber info attribute to the root object when running hwloc inside a Xeon Phi to match the same attribute in the MIC OS device when running in the host. Changes since v1.8rc1 only consists in minor documentation updates, test improvements and warning fixes.
*hwloc-1.8.1 (16 Feb 2014) 16 Feb 2014; Sébastien Fabbro <bicatali@gentoo.org> +hwloc-1.8.1.ebuild, metadata.xml: Version bump. Fixes bug #499618 by <teidakankan@gmail.com>
