“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
~ Henry Ford
After a week of Linaro Connect, jetlag and last minute bufixing, the Linaro
14.09 release is now available for download!
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:
* Linux Linaro 3.17-rc4-2014.09 is released:
* based on v3.17-rc4 release
* GATOR version 5.19
* updated topic from Qualcomm LT (ifc6410 board support)
* updated topic from HiSilicon LT
* updated Versatile Express ARM64 support (FVP Base and Foundation
models, Juno) from ARM LT.
* updated Versatile Express patches from ARM LT
* updated LLVM topic (follows the community llvmlinux-latest branch)
* Big endian support (the 2014.05 topic version rebased to 3.17 kernel)
* config fragments changes:
* added gcov config fragment
* disabled DRM_EXYNOS_IOMMU to work around boot failure on Arndale
* Linaro Toolchain Binaries 2014.09 is released:
* based on GCC 4.9 and updated to latest Linaro TCWG releases:
* Linaro GCC 4.9-2014.09
* Linaro binutils 2.24-2014.09
* Linaro GDB 7.8-2014.09
* This will be the last release done with cbuild1 and crosstool-ng. Next
releases will be done with cbuild2. Official support for very old host
environments will be dropped.
* Linaro builds of AOSP 14.09 is released:
* built with Linaro GCC 4.9-2014.09
* Linaro OpenEmbedded 2014.09 is released:
* integrated Linaro GCC 4.9-2014.09
* integrated Linaro binutils 2.24-2014.09
* integrated Linaro GDB 7.8-2014.09
* imported Linaro eglibc 2.19 into meta-linaro after OE-core switched to
glibc 2.20
* fixed shadow securetty for Qualcomm and STMicroelectronics SoCs
* upstreaming:
* fixed libpng on aarch64 (neon symbol)
* updated PM QA to 0.4.14
* updated libunwind to include aarch64 support
* Linaro Ubuntu 14.09 is released:
* added linux-tools (perf standalone, splitted from kernel build)
* updated packages: Juno firmware 0.8.1, LSK 3.10.55/3.14.19 and
linux-linaro 3.17-rc4 kernels.
* A gcov enabled build has been added
* Linaro builds of the Android NDK have been updated to current upstream
sources and current Linaro toolchain component releases.
* Standalone Android toolchain binary builds now use Linaro binutils for
improved armv8 support.
The release details are linked from the “Details” column for each
released artifact on the release information:
http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1409/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
Using the OpenEmbedded-based images
=======================
With the Linaro provided downloads and with ARM’s Fast Models virtual
platform, you can boot a virtual ARMv8 system and run 64-bit binaries.
For more information please see:
http://www.linaro.org/engineering/armv8
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/1409/Release#Known_Issues
Bug reports for this release should be filed in Bugzilla (
http://bugs.linaro.org) against the
individual packages or projects that are affected.
On behalf of the release team,
Koen Kooi
Builds and Baselines | Release Manager
Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
