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- Reword the intro and add a solicitation for porting requests.
- Move "new features" to above "changes".
- List a bunch of additional new features.
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@ -3,27 +3,81 @@ What's New in Workload Automation
=================================
-------------
Version 3.0
Version 3.0.0
-------------
WA3 is a re-write of WA2 therefore please note that while backwards compatibility
has attempted to be maintained where possible, there maybe breaking
changes moving from WA2 to WA3.
WA3 is a more or less from-scratch re-write of WA2. We have attempted to
maintain configuration-level compatibility wherever possible (so WA2 agendas
*should* mostly work with WA3), however some breaks are likely and minor tweaks
may be needed.
- Changes:
- Configuration files ``config.py`` are now specified in YAML format in
``config.yaml``. WA3 has support for automatic conversion of the default
config file and will be performed upon first invocation of WA3.
- The "config" and "global" sections in an agenda are not interchangeable so can all be specified in a "config" section.
- "Results Processors" are now known as "Output Processors" and can now be ran offline.
- "Instrumentation" is now known as "Instruments" for more consistent naming.
- "Both "Output Processor" and "Instrument" configuration have been merged
into "Augmentations" (support for the old naming schemes have been
retained for backwards compatibility)
It terms of the API, WA3 is completely different, and WA2 extensions **will not
work** with WA3 -- they would need to be ported into WA3 plugins.
For more information on migrating from WA2 to WA3 please see the
:ref:`migration-guide`.
Not all of WA2 extensions have been ported for the initial 3.0.0 release. We
have ported the ones we believe to be most widely used and useful. The porting
work will continue, and more of WA2's extensions will be in the future releases,
however we do not intend to port absolutely everything, as some things we
believe to be no longer useful.
.. note:: If there a particular WA2 extension you would like to see in WA3 that
is not yet there, please let us know via the GitHub issues. (And, of
course, we always welcome pull requests, if you have the time to
do the port yourselves :-) ).
New Features
~~~~~~~~~~~~
- There is a new Output API which can be used to aid in post processing a
run's output. For more information please see :ref:`output_processing_api`.
- All "augmentations" can now be enabled on a per workload basis (in WA2 this
was available for instruments, but not result processors).
- More portable runtime parameter specification. Runtime parameters now support
generic aliases, so instead of specifying ``a73_frequency: 1805000`` in your
agenda, and then having to modify this for another target, it is now possible
to specify ``big_frequency: max``.
- ``-c`` option can now be used multiple times to specify several config files
for a single run, allowing for a more fine-grained configuration management.
- It is now possible to disable all previously configured augmentations from an
agenda using ``~~``.
- Offline output processing with ``wa process`` command. It is now possible to
run processors on previously collected WA results, without the need for a
target connection.
- A lot more metadata is collected as part of the run, including much more
detailed information about the target, and MD5 hashes of all resources used
during the run.
- Better ``show`` command. ``wa show`` command now utilizes ``pandoc`` and
``man`` to produce easier-to-browse documentation format, and has been
enhanced to include documentation on general settings, runtime parameters, and
plugin aliases.
- Better logging. The default ``stdout`` output is now more informative.
The verbose output is much more detailed. Nested indentation is used for
different phases of execution to make log output easier to parse visually.
- Full ``ChromeOS`` target support. Including support for the Android container
apps.
- Implemented on top of devlib_. WA3 plugins can make use of devlib's enhanced
target API (much richer and more robust than WA2's Device API).
- All-new documentation. The docs have been revamped to be more useful and
complete.
.. _devlib: https://github.com/ARM-software/devlib
Changes
~~~~~~~
- Configuration files ``config.py`` are now specified in YAML format in
``config.yaml``. WA3 has support for automatic conversion of the default
config file and will be performed upon first invocation of WA3.
- The "config" and "global" sections in an agenda are now interchangeable so can
all be specified in a "config" section.
- "Results Processors" are now known as "Output Processors" and can now be ran
offline.
- "Instrumentation" is now known as "Instruments" for more consistent naming.
- Both "Output Processor" and "Instrument" configuration have been merged into
"Augmentations" (support for the old naming schemes have been retained for
backwards compatibility)
- New features:
- There is a new Output API which can be used to aid in post processing a run's output. For more information please see :ref:`output_processing_api`.
- All "augmentations" can now be enabled on a per workload basis.
For more information on migrating from WA2 to WA3 please see the :ref:`migration-guide`.