“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working
together is success.“ ~ Henry Ford
The Linaro 12.08 release is now available!
The Linaro 12.08 release highlights the combined work of all the Linaro
Teams – Working Groups, Landing Teams and Platform Teams – who have
provided all the updates and new features that are integrated on top of
Android and Ubuntu during this development cycle. The 12.08 release is
another example of how Linaro succesfully--together with its members,
partners and community--continue to build the future of Linux on ARM.
12.08 was a very busy cycle for the Linaro Android platform team,
"During the cycle our number one goal was to create stable Jelly Bean
builds from AOSP for all of the platforms we support," said Zach
Pfeffer, Tech Lead for the Linaro Android Team. "Not only did the team
achieve this goal, but also continued to create a world class Android
benchmarking platform, made it easier for people to connect their Jelly
Bean based builds to the network by integrating the Ethernet
Configuration Manager and automated many of the tests in the AOSP
codebase," added Pfeffer. The Linaro Android team is already looking
toward the Linaro 12.09 development cycle and according to Pfeffer,
"We’re planning on getting each baseline working with Linaro’s
linux-linaro upstream tracking kernel, continuing to improve our
benchmarking infrastructure and maybe, just maybe having a very
preliminary 64-bit Android build (fingers crossed)".
The Developer Platform Team announced USB Host enablement is now
available in LAVA and that all packaged linux-linaro kernels are now
cross-compiled and boot tested via LAVA before they are uploaded to
Linaro Overlay PPA. Additionally, U-Boot-Linaro is now based on
the latest upstream release--v2012.07.
We encourage everybody to use the 12.08 release. The download links for
all images and components are available on our downloads page:
http://www.linaro.org/downloads/
See the detailed highlights of this release to get an overview of what
has been accomplished by the Working Groups, Landing Teams and Platform
Teams:
* Android
* Automated Methanol (http://gitorious.org/methanol) browser
benchmarking in Linaro Android.
* Automated over 100 Jelly Bean AOSP tests.
* Integrated the Ethernet Connection Manager into Linaro Jelly Bean
builds.
* Running Linaro Jelly Bean on Versatile Express, Versatile Express
RTSM, Samsung Origen, TI PandaBoard, ST Ericsson Snowball and
Galaxy Nexus.
* Released the Linaro Toolchain for Android, based on Linaro GCC
4.7-2012.08.
* Updated Linaro Android to R4.1.1-R4.
* Lowered native benchmark variance to 2% and JAVA benchmark variance
to 5% for AndeBench, Antutu, CaffeineMark, Geekbench2, GLBenchmark,
Linpack, Nbench, Quadrant and Vellamo.
* Created a TINY_ANDROID baseline.
* Developer Platform
* Linux Linaro is now tested and validated with CI, for all
the supported flavours from the Landing Teams.
* USB Host enablement testing is now available at LAVA, to help on USB
support validation.
* All packaged linux linaro kernels are cross compile tested and boot
tested via LAVA before uploading them to Launchpad.
* U-boot-Linaro is now based on the latest upstream release v2012.07.
* Infrastructure
* Filesystem images are provided for Android builds to facilitate
testing and streamlined deployment.
* Graphics and Multimedia
* GLMark2: display benchmark results log in the Android GUI.
* GLMark2: users can save and load benchmark lists from the Android
GUI.
* Power Management
* Add the concept of max_power and current_power to the scheduler to
tie in DVFS.
* Toolchain
* Fix partial-partial PRE since EEMBC bitmnp01 regressed significantly
at -O3. Patch upstreamed and backported to Linaro GCC 4.7-2012.08
* Validation
* Ubuntu FastModel's now executing bigLITTLE test suite in the lab.
* OpenEmbedded images are bootable in LAVA.
* WiFi antennas were added to the Snowball boards in the Validation
lab to enable WiFi testing.
The release details are linked from the “Details” column for each
released artifact on the release information:
http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1208/Release#Release_Information
Using the Android-based images
=======================
The Android-based images come in three parts: system, userdata and boot.
These need to be combined to form a complete Android install. For an
explanation of how to do this please see:
http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/ImageInstallation
If you are interested in getting the source and building these images
yourself please see the following pages:
http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/GetSourcehttp://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/BuildSource
Note: tilt-tracking build (LEB) doesn't contain accelerated SGX support
(only framebuffer video). For a full enablement support (graphics and
multimedia), please use OMAPZoom build from our Developers and Community
Builds section. In addition to those builds, a tilt-stable and an AOSP
based builds are provided.
Using the Ubuntu-based images
=======================
The Ubuntu-based images consist of two parts. The first part is a hardware
pack, which can be found under the hwpacks directory and contains hardware
specific packages (such as the kernel and bootloader). The second part is
the rootfs, which is combined with the hardware pack to create a complete
image. For more information on how to create an image please see:
http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/Ubuntu/ImageInstallation
Getting involved
============
More information on Linaro can be found on our websites:
* Homepage: http://www.linaro.org
* Wiki: http://wiki.linaro.org
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.linaro.org or irc.freenode.net
#linaro-android irc.linaro.org or irc.freenode.net
Known issues with this release
=====================
For any errata issues, please see:
http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1208/Release#Known_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
--
Fathi Boudra, on behalf of the Release Team
Linaro Release Manager | Validation Project Manager
Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
Hello all,
Linaro Image Tools 2012.08 is released.
Release notes:
* Enable board and bootloader selection.
* Add support for checking V3 metadata has fields in the right palce,
and only the expected fields.
* Add support for generic linux based images, like OpenEmbedded.
* linaro-hwpack-install: avoid failing in case depmod also fails.
Fixed bugs:
* #1029998 Fields in unexpected places in YAML configuration files
should produce an error
* #1039108 linaro-image-tools missing dependency on python-yaml
Please find a tarball download link under
https://launchpad.net/linaro-image-tools/+milestone/2012.08
Best Regards,
Stevan
