linaro-dev November 2010

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by Jamie Bennett

Hi, The Linaro team is pleased to announce the release of Linaro 10.11. 10.11 is the first public release that brings together the huge amount of engineering effort that has occurred within Linaro over the past 6 months. In addition to officially supporting the TI OMAP3 (Beagle Board and Beagle Board XM) and ARM Versatile Express platforms, the images have been tested and verified on a total of 7 different platforms including TI OMAP4 Panda Board, IGEPv2, Freescale iMX51 and ST-E U8500. The advances that have happened in this cycle are numerous but include a completely rebuilt archive using GCC 4.4.4 and the latest ARM optimised tool chain, the Linux kernel version 2.6.35, support for cross-compiling, a new hardware pack way of building images, 3D acceleration improvements, u-boot enhancements and initial device tree support, a new QA tracking structure, the list goes on. For a full break-down of what was scheduled for the 10.11 release please see: http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1011/Blueprints Thanks to everyone involved who made this happen. Here's looking forward to a sucessful 11.05 release. To get Linaro 10.11 ------------------- The 10.11 release can be found at: http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/headless/final/ and when combined with a hwpack from: http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/hwpacks/final/ using the instructions from: http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/MilestoneBuilds a installable image is produced. For any errata issues please see: http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1011/Final#Issues Bug reports for this release should be filed in Launchpad against the individual packages that are affected, if a suitable package cannot be identified, feel free to assign them to: http://www.launchpad.net/linaro The team has also produced 3 other non-supported images as part of a community effort, they are: * ALIP * http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/alip/final/ * EFL based netbook * http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/netbook/final/ * KDE based plasma handset * http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/plasma/final/ These need to be combined with a hardware pack as above. Next Steps ---------- Engineering effort has already started on the 11.05 cycle. For more information on what Linaro will be doing this cycle please see: http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1105 Getting involved ---------------- If you would like to help shape the Linux on ARM space and Linaro in particular please take a look at: http://wiki.linaro.org/GettingInvolved About Linaro ------------ More information on Linaro in general and the 10.11 release can be found at: * Homepage: http://www.linaro.org * Wiki: http://wiki.linaro.org * 10.11: http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1011 Also subscribe to the important Linaro mailing lists and join our IRC channels to stay on top of Linaro developments: * Announcements: http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-announce * Development: http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev * IRC: #linaro on irc.freenode.net Regards, Jamie. -- Linaro Release Manager

13 years, 5 months

Re: Call for testing: Linaro 10.11 FINAL

by Paul Larson

The size correction in lmc happens at the end, so my best guess is that it's a qemu issue. Id put a bug in against that, and we should probably release note it as well. -Paul Larson On Nov 9, 2010 6:58 PM, "john stultz" <johnstul(a)us.ibm.com> wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 17:47 -0600, Paul Larson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:12 PM, john stultz ... Sure, if the bug below doesn't warrant removing it. > Further, after providing an omap3 hwpack to build the image, > the > re... Yep. bzr pulled today. I'm on rev 165. I've just gone back testing older images and hwpacks I've used in the past and am seeing the same issue there, so it does seem like its connected to the linaro-media-create scripts. Here's the command I'm using, just as listed on the wiki: #linaro-media-create --image_file beagle_sd.img --image_size 4G --swap_file 200 --dev beagle --binary linaro-images/linaro-m-headless-tar-20101108-2.tar.gz --hwpack linaro-images/hwpack_linaro-omap3_20101109-1_armel_supported.tar.gz Per our irc discussion, I tried reproducing this by omitting the "--image_size 4G" portion, and indeed it seems that worked and the resulting image boots fine. Similarly it works fine using 8G. Something just seems off using 4G. Looking at linaro-media-create to see if I can narrow anything down. thanks -john

13 years, 5 months

Call for testing: Linaro 10.11 FINAL

by Jamie Bennett

Hi, We are just one day away from the Linaro 10.11 release and with a bit of luck, a strong down-wind and lots of testing from the community we can release on time and in good shape. If you have the required hardware available *please* test the final image candidates which can be found as follows: Headless (console only) image: http://snapshots.linaro.org/10.11-daily/linaro-headless/20101108/2 ALIP image: http://snapshots.linaro.org/10.11-daily/linaro-alip/20101108/2/ EFL Netbook image: http://snapshots.linaro.org/10.11-daily/linaro-netbook-efl/20101108/2/ KDE Plasma image: http://snapshots.linaro.org/10.11-daily/linaro-handset-plasma/20101108/2 Please select the 20101109 hwpack for your board at: http://snapshots.linaro.org/10.11-daily/linaro-hwpacks/ To install the image please see: http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/DailyBuilds and report your results at: http://qatracker.linaro.org/ Failing any major last minute bugs this snapshot will become the final image tomorrow. Regards, Jamie.

13 years, 5 months

Weekly Release Meeting Cancelled

by Jamie Bennett

Hi, Due to the Linaro 10.11 final release happening tomorrow and blueprints still being ironed out, the next two weeks of release meetings have been cancelled. Normal release meetings will commence on 2010-11-25. This date is a US holiday but I expect our non-US friends to join us. Regards, Jamie. -- Linaro Release Manager

13 years, 5 months

re: Call for testing: Linaro 10.11 FINAL

by Jamie Bennett

Hi, It has been pointed out that due to a failure in the build system the following image link is wrong. > EFL Netbook image: > http://snapshots.linaro.org/10.11-daily/linaro-netbook-efl/20101108/2/ Please use the image at EFL Netbook image: http://snapshots.linaro.org/10.11-daily/linaro-netbook-efl/20101108/1/ For your testing. Regards, Jamie.

13 years, 5 months

nano-headless

by Tom Gall

I've put a little time into generating a hyper small footprint linaro headless image. From UDS the two sizes to try and fit into as I understand are 64M and 128M installed. So with that in mind, via live helper I created a headless image where none of the recommended packages were installed. This brings the installed size of the root fs down to 165Meg installed (excluding hwpacks) With a little script-foo which I've created to be part of the live-helper build I can get the rootfs installed size down to 82,240,000. This is without turning to the usual things to slim things down like busybox as well as without going through /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/lib /lib and pulling out specific function that isn't needed. What I have done is gone after the low hanging fruit. That is i18n locales, documentation, zoneinfo, charmaps and some X11 & firefox things that obviously aren't needed since those things aren't installed in headless anyway. All of that gets us down to `125Meg. To get the next approx 40Meg I have to take out /var/lib/dpkg and /var/lib/apt. This could make a certain amount of sense for a demo system running on out NAND flash. This is somewhat problematic however in so much if you want to use linaro-media-create with hwpacks, well you need apt to work and that comes with the as mentioned 40 Meg price tag. Anyway this seemed to be a good Friday night over a beverage type of hack to gain a little data just to see the effort required. All in all I do think this is a reasonable approach to get to a "nano" sized system that would fit into flash. To get that last mile tho, I think we'd need to turn to busybox, audit the libs and binaries, adjust the kernel build such that modules are kept to a minimum and only function actually needed is built in the kernel as well as working out the last bit of install via something linaro-media-create-like so that one could at least get things onto an SD card without too much hackery for test yet not gain the full 123 meg noted below. Raw Data: -------------- du of the 82 Meg system, hwpack not yet installed 4 ./proc 4 ./home 4 ./sys 9784 ./lib 3364 ./sbin 4 ./selinux 12 ./dev 4 ./srv 12 ./root 928 ./var 4 ./tmp 3688 ./bin 61456 ./usr 4 ./opt 2260 ./etc 4 ./mnt 4 ./boot 4 ./media 82240 du of the 125 Meg system (without /var/lib/apt and /var/lib/dpkg chopped out) hwpack not installed yet 4 ./proc 4 ./home 4 ./sys 9784 ./lib 3364 ./sbin 4 ./selinux 12 ./dev 4 ./srv 12 ./root 44064 ./var 4 ./tmp 3688 ./bin 61456 ./usr 4 ./opt 2260 ./etc 4 ./mnt 4 ./boot 4 ./media 125376 . du of installed system (based on the 125Meg image) after hwpack installed and system is booted 4 ./home 4 ./opt 4 ./srv 4 ./mnt 65312 ./usr <--- grew by 4 Meg 3764 ./bin 3444 ./sbin 16 ./root 4 ./tmp 75816 ./var <-- var is ~31 Meg larger after hwpack install!! 4 ./selinux 0 ./sys 4 ./media 2276 ./etc 86524 ./lib <-- lib after hwpack install is ~79 Meg larger!! 10400 ./boot <-- grew by 10 Meg 188 ./dev 16 ./lost+found 0 ./proc 248484 . <-- grew by ~123Meg For those interested in following in my footsteps, my live helper maverick config is located in here: lp:~tom-gall/linaro/live-helper.config.maverick.headless-nano du of original 165 Meg headless image without recommended packages. 4 ./proc 4 ./home 4 ./sys 852 ./lib/udev 4 ./lib/firmware 508 ./lib/security 148 ./lib/plymouth 200 ./lib/terminfo 40 ./lib/init 4 ./lib/modules 16 ./lib/lsb 9784 ./lib 3364 ./sbin 4 ./selinux 4 ./dev/pts 4 ./dev/shm 12 ./dev 4 ./srv 12 ./root 16 ./var/spool 4 ./var/lock 4 ./var/mail 12 ./var/log 43392 ./var/lib 4 ./var/run 4 ./var/tmp 4 ./var/opt 4 ./var/backups 612 ./var/cache 4 ./var/local 44064 ./var 4 ./tmp 3688 ./bin 34604 ./usr/lib 1580 ./usr/sbin 54756 ./usr/share 4 ./usr/games 4 ./usr/src 10260 ./usr/bin 40 ./usr/include 56 ./usr/local 101308 ./usr 4 ./opt 20 ./etc/udev 64 ./etc/pam.d 8 ./etc/rc5.d 8 ./etc/cron.monthly 36 ./etc/cron.daily 8 ./etc/rc4.d 4 ./etc/profile.d 8 ./etc/rsyslog.d 144 ./etc/console-setup 16 ./etc/skel 68 ./etc/initramfs-tools 8 ./etc/cron.hourly 28 ./etc/modprobe.d 56 ./etc/apt 48 ./etc/security 48 ./etc/default 20 ./etc/apparmor.d 8 ./etc/rc3.d 12 ./etc/kbd 8 ./etc/X11 664 ./etc/ssl 8 ./etc/insserv 4 ./etc/insserv.conf.d 8 ./etc/cron.d 16 ./etc/bash_completion.d 8 ./etc/alternatives 24 ./etc/sysctl.d 32 ./etc/dhcp3 12 ./etc/ld.so.conf.d 28 ./etc/iproute2 12 ./etc/apparmor 8 ./etc/terminfo 16 ./etc/update-motd.d 24 ./etc/dpkg 8 ./etc/rcS.d 4 ./etc/lsb-base 12 ./etc/firefox 8 ./etc/sudoers.d 172 ./etc/init 4 ./etc/opt 8 ./etc/ca-certificates 8 ./etc/rc1.d 36 ./etc/network 8 ./etc/python 8 ./etc/linaro 8 ./etc/rc6.d 8 ./etc/ldap 16 ./etc/logrotate.d 16 ./etc/logcheck 20 ./etc/kernel 8 ./etc/depmod.d 108 ./etc/init.d 8 ./etc/rc0.d 12 ./etc/vim 8 ./etc/rc2.d 8 ./etc/python2.6 12 ./etc/dbus-1 8 ./etc/cron.weekly 2280 ./etc 4 ./mnt 4 ./boot 4 ./media 165248 . Regards, Tom

13 years, 5 months

Pull request for OMAP3/4 fixes

by Anand Gadiyar

Hi all, The following patches are a bunch of OMAP-related fixes. In summary these patches: - allow omap3_defconfig and omap_4430sdp_defconfig to build and boot - get MMC (somewhat) working on Panda board - fix a bug that caused all 3630s to be reported as ES1.2 (highly unlikely that these are available in the wild) Except for Catalin's patch, all of them were cherry-picked from mainline. I hope I'm not too late to get these merged. - Anand The following changes since commit c121be8626744d7dc81ed7b37e1f744fd2db8a78: Nicolas Pitre (1): Revert "Revert "Versatile Express: add support for local timers on CA9X4 daughterboard"" are available in the git repository at: git://dev.omapzoom.org/pub/scm/anand/linux-omap-usb.git omap-fixes-for-linaro Anand Gadiyar (1): USB: musb: Kill board specific pinmux from driver file Benoit Cousson (1): omap4 hsmmc: Fix the init if CONFIG_MMC_OMAP_HS is not set Catalin Marinas (1): ARM: Do not enable SWP emulation if CPU_V6 && CPU_V7 David Anders (1): omap4: pandaboard: Fix the init if CONFIG_MMC_OMAP_HS is not set Madhusudhan Chikkature (1): OMAP4 ES2: HSMMC soft reset change Menon, Nishanth (1): omap4: pandaboard: fix up mmc card detect logic Nishanth Menon (1): omap3: id: fix 3630 rev detection Tony Lindgren (2): omap: Use CONFIG_SMP for test_for_ipi and test_for_ltirq omap: Fix sev instruction usage for multi-omap kishore kadiyala (1): mfd: Adding twl6030 mmc card detect support for MMC1 arch/arm/mach-omap2/Makefile | 1 + arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-4430sdp.c | 15 ++++- arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-omap4panda.c | 24 +++++++- arch/arm/mach-omap2/hsmmc.c | 3 + arch/arm/mach-omap2/id.c | 2 +- arch/arm/mach-omap2/include/mach/entry-macro.S | 6 +- arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap-smp.c | 3 +- arch/arm/mm/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/arm/plat-omap/include/plat/mmc.h | 1 + arch/arm/plat-omap/include/plat/smp.h | 7 -- drivers/mfd/twl6030-irq.c | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/mmc/host/omap_hsmmc.c | 15 ++++- drivers/usb/musb/omap2430.c | 6 -- include/linux/i2c/twl.h | 31 ++++++++++ 14 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

13 years, 5 months

Notes & Actions: Linaro User Platform Weekly Status Meeting 11/03

by Tom Gall

Greetings, Enclosed you'll find a link to the agenda, notes and actions from the Linaro User Platforms Weekly Status meeting dated November 3rd held in #linaro-meeting on irc.freenode.net at 13:00 UTC. https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/UserPlatforms/WeeklyStatus/2010-11-03 Status Summary: - new starter Jian Li on multimedia - prototype for video playback of 720p mpeg-4 and 30 fps file finished for ux500 based on linaro netbook-launcher-efl - multimedia and graphics WG discussions and planning at UDS - ELC Europe talk by BenjiG (Benjamin Gaignard) on "Android using GStreamer": http://elinux.org/images/a/a4/Android_and_Gstreamer.ppt Regards, Tom (tgall_foo) User Platforms Team "We want great men who, when fortune frowns will not be discouraged." - Colonel Henry Knox w) tom.gall att linaro.org w) tom_gall att vnet.ibm.com h) tom_gall att mac.com

13 years, 5 months

Kernel Consolidation WG minutes

by Matt Waddel

Here is the link to today's Kernel Consolidation Working Group weekly call: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/KernelConsolidation/Meetings/2010-11-… Please feel free to make any corrections or additions if I missed anything. Cheers, Matt

13 years, 5 months

Notes & Actions: Linaro Multimedia Working Group - Nov 02, 2010

by Alexandros Frantzis

Hi, notes and actions from our Tuesday multimedia cross-vendor call are available on the wiki: + https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Middleware/Multimedia/Notes/2010-11-02 Details about when and where of this meeting can be found here: + https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/Middleware/Multimedia#Weekly%20Public… Thanks, -- - Alexandros

13 years, 5 months

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