The 11.08 release includes some commonly used pre-built images. This mean you can now download a single file and "dd" it to your SD card without having to use linaro-media-create.
The images just use the l-m-c defaults. ie, there's no pre-built image that uses BTRFS. The downloads are:
- Nano: http://releases.linaro.org/images/linaro-n/nano/11.08/
- ALIP: http://releases.linaro.org/images/linaro-n/alip/11.08/
- Ubuntu Desktop: http://releases.linaro.org/images/linaro-n/ubuntu-desktop/11.08/
Each link includes some brief instructions on what to do.
Need help understanding what to download for a given SoC? Take a look at the mapping we've put together here:
https://wiki.linaro.org/Boards
-andy
Hello,
On 08/26/2011 05:36 PM, Andy Doan wrote:
The 11.08 release includes some commonly used pre-built images. This mean you can now download a single file and "dd" it to your SD card without having to use linaro-media-create.
this is great.
The images just use the l-m-c defaults. ie, there's no pre-built image that uses BTRFS. The downloads are:
What kind of testing do the published images go through? Is there something like release candidates?
Jani
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Jani Monoses jani@ubuntu.com wrote:
Hello,
On 08/26/2011 05:36 PM, Andy Doan wrote:
The 11.08 release includes some commonly used pre-built images. This mean you can now download a single file and "dd" it to your SD card without having to use linaro-media-create.
this is great.
The images just use the l-m-c defaults. ie, there's no pre-built image that uses BTRFS. The downloads are:
Nano: http://releases.linaro.org/**images/linaro-n/nano/11.08/http://releases.linaro.org/images/linaro-n/nano/11.08/
ALIP: http://releases.linaro.org/**images/linaro-n/alip/11.08/http://releases.linaro.org/images/linaro-n/alip/11.08/
Ubuntu Desktop: http://releases.linaro.org/**images/linaro-n/ubuntu-**desktop/11.08/http://releases.linaro.org/images/linaro-n/ubuntu-desktop/11.08/
What kind of testing do the published images go through? Is there something like release candidates?
we are mostly investing into automatic testing. Thats why we brought up lava.
Nowadays, we have our images go through boot testing and we run a couple of benchmarks. More automation is planned and we are happy to have you help grow that test base.
If you are interested in general or in a particular test area let me know.
Anyway, before we release at the end of the month we have those images undergo some more manual testing. This is not super extensive, but besides checking that the general UI experience works, we go through a list of hardware features and note down if enablement of those is fine or missing.
A slightly outdated list of the features we check is here: https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/BoardSupportStatus/ComponentTes...
On 26 August 2011 15:36, Andy Doan andy.doan@linaro.org wrote:
The 11.08 release includes some commonly used pre-built images. This mean you can now download a single file and "dd" it to your SD card without having to use linaro-media-create.
The images just use the l-m-c defaults. ie, there's no pre-built image that uses BTRFS. The downloads are:
- Nano: http://releases.linaro.org/images/linaro-n/nano/11.08/
- ALIP: http://releases.linaro.org/images/linaro-n/alip/11.08/
- Ubuntu Desktop: http://releases.linaro.org/images/linaro-n/ubuntu-desktop/11.08/
In the name of killing two e-mails with one test, I've checked that the Ubuntu Desktop images for vexpress and overo work on Peter's latest qemu-linaro tree (rev 0597b3b8...).
It's got to be said that an ubuntu desktop image on an overo with 256mb RAM is pretty grim, the vexpress one is usable.
Can we have signed md5/sha's for these images please.
Dave
On 08/30/2011 10:04 AM, David Gilbert wrote:
On 26 August 2011 15:36, Andy Doan andy.doan@linaro.org wrote:
The 11.08 release includes some commonly used pre-built images. This mean you can now download a single file and "dd" it to your SD card without having to use linaro-media-create.
The images just use the l-m-c defaults. ie, there's no pre-built image that uses BTRFS. The downloads are:
- Nano:
http://releases.linaro.org/images/linaro-n/nano/11.08/
- ALIP:
http://releases.linaro.org/images/linaro-n/alip/11.08/
- Ubuntu Desktop:
http://releases.linaro.org/images/linaro-n/ubuntu-desktop/11.08/
In the name of killing two e-mails with one test, I've checked that the Ubuntu Desktop images for vexpress and overo work on Peter's latest qemu-linaro tree (rev 0597b3b8...).
It's got to be said that an ubuntu desktop image on an overo with 256mb RAM is pretty grim, the vexpress one is usable.
yep - I've found Ubuntu Desktop for Overo to be too sluggish for my taste. ALIP images work okay though.
Can we have signed md5/sha's for these images please.
Excellent suggestion. I'll do so shortly.
Dave
Is there an tutorial to install qemu in ubuntu and run some linaro image ?
I want to test it.
On 2 September 2011 05:35, Anca Emanuel anca.emanuel@gmail.com wrote:
Is there an tutorial to install qemu in ubuntu and run some linaro image ?
I want to test it.
I'm not aware of a tutorial;
You can grab the latest qemu-linaro release from:
https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro/+download
If you just want to test with running an image then I would configure with
./configure --target-list=arm-softmmu
The easiest image to test with is the Overo image; so if you grab the prebuilt image from:
http://releases.linaro.org/images/linaro-n/ubuntu-desktop/11.08/overo-ubuntu...
decompress it and then do something like:
./arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm -M overo -m 256 -serial telnet::4444,server -drive file=overo-ubuntu-desktop.img,if=sd,cache=writeback -device usb-kbd -device usb-mouse
Then in another terminal do a
telnet localhost 4444
That should get you the serial console; if you didn't have SDL then you'll have to connect using vnc:
vncviewer localhost:0
Note that the Overo is a bit low on RAM for the full desktop image, so it's a bit slow, but it's the easiest combination to get going.
Dave
On 09/01/2011 11:35 PM, Anca Emanuel wrote:
Is there an tutorial to install qemu in ubuntu and run some linaro image ?
I want to test it.
This page: http://www.linaro.org/getting-started/
has a screencast of "running linaro in 5 minutes under qemu". Here's the actual file:
http://people.linaro.org/~doanac/linaro-qemu-5min.ogv
There's also the wiki page which includes the steps done in the video:
https://wiki.linaro.org/Resources/HowTo/Qemu-5
-andy
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