As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't
as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be
discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large
part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in
my own programs.
-- Maurice Wilkes, designer of EDSAC, on programming, 1949
The Linaro 16.07 release is now available for download!
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 Debian-based images
=======================
The Debian-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
=====================
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
I'm pleased to announce the 16.06 release for the Reference Software
Platform project!
This is the fourth release, and like its predecessors, it has seen
quite a few changes and improvements for both Consumer and Enterprise
platforms.
The Reference Software Platform has seen many substantial changes,
among other more subtle ones.
Below is a list of some of this release’s highlights:
Common to both Consumer and Enterprise Editions
==============================================
* Kernel
- Unified tree shared between the CE and EE builds
- 4.4.11-based, including some under-review topic branches to extend
the features and platform hardware support
- Device-Tree support for CE; ARM ACPI and PCIe support for Enterprise
- Added OP-TEE support (enabled on HiKey and Juno)
- Supports Reference HW platforms HiKey and Cello (Other Test
Platforms include: Dragonboard 410c, Hisilicon D02 and D03,
APM X-Gene, HP Proliant m400, AMD Overdrive, Qualcomm Q2432:ZB,
and Cavium ThunderX)
- Single kernel config for all platforms in
arch/arm64/configs/distro.config
- Single kernel binary (package) for all platforms
* Bootloader
- UEFI OpenPlatformPkg (upstream) now contains reference implementations
for Huawei D02/D03, AMD Overdrive and LeMaker Cello
- U-boot support in Dragonboard 410c images to allow easier handling of
images
Consumer Edition
================
* Reference hardware platform
- LeMaker Hikey
* Other supported test platforms
- Dragonboard 410c
* Overall CE Debian platform features, validated as part of the release
- UEFI with DT
- Upgrade to Debian 8.5 “Jessie”
- Upgrade to the unified 4.4.11 Linux Kernel
- Upgrade graphics components: Mesa 11.1.2 and XServer 1.17.3a
- Rootfs automatically resized during the first boot
* CE Debian RPB for HiKey:
- OP-TEE integrated by default
- UEFI updated to use the latest development trees based on Tianocore
and OpenPlatformPkg
* CE Debian build for DragonBoard 410c:
- U-boot chain-loaded from LK
* CE OE/Yocto RPB:
- First OpenEmbedded-based RPB, including several changes and
components merged from the LHG OE layers
- Dragonboard 410c and HiKey support
- HiKey features: OP-TEE and Mali support
- Dragonboard 410c features: GPU, WLAN, BT, audio, LS I/O, camera and
GPS support
Enterprise Edition
==================
* Reference hardware platform
- LeMaker Cello
* Other supported test platforms
- AMD Overdrive A0 and B0
- Hisilicon D02
- Hisilicon D03 (new)
- APM X-Gene Mustang
- HP ProLiant m400
- Qualcomm Q2432LZB (new)
- Cavium ThunderX (new)
* Overall platform features, validated as part of the release
- UEFI with ACPI
- KVM
- PCIe
* Firmware
- UEFI OpenPlatformPkg (upstream) now contains reference implementation
for Huawei D02/D03, AMD Overdrive and LeMaker Cello
* Network Installers
- Use the unified 4.4.11 kernel
- Debian upgrade to Debian 8.5 “Jessie”
- CentOS upgrade to CentOS 7.2 16.03
* Enterprise Components
- Docker 1.9.1
- OpenStack Liberty for Debian Jessie and CentOS
- ODPi 1.0.0 based Hadoop
- Spark 1.3.1
- OpenJDK 8
- QEMU 2.6
Known issues with this release
==============================
Install instructions, known issues, test reports and instructions to
build from source are all published on:
https://github.com/96boards/documentation/wiki/Reference-Platform-Home
For bugs related to the 96Boards platforms, please use the 96Boards
bug tracking system: https://bugs.96boards.org/
For bugs related to the Reference Software Platform release, but on
development boards that are not officially part of 96Boards
(e.g. AMD Overdrive and HiSilicon D02/D03), please use:
https://bugs.linaro.org
On behalf of the Reference Platform teams,
--
Fathi Boudra
Engineering Manager | Builds and Baselines, Release
Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex
facts. Seek simplicity and distrust it.
-- Whitehead.
The Linaro 16.06 release is now available for download!
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 Debian-based images
=======================
The Debian-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
=====================
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
