After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. ~Nelson Mandela
The Linaro 13.12 release is now available for download!
To avoid clashing with the holidays in many parts of the world, this month's release - the last for 2013 - is a week early, but contains some key Linaro Android and Ubuntu baselines developments. * For Android, the ARMv8 LSK and Nexus7_2013-AOSP builds have been setup and Android can be now built using llvm-clang toolchain with the related patches submitted to upstream. * For Ubuntu, this release includes the Linaro Ubuntu baseline updated to Saucy Salamander (Ubuntu release 13.10) and the initial Ubuntu arm64 rootfs.
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:
* Linaro Stable Kernel 3.10.24-2013.12 released * Based on 3.10.24 stable tree * big.LITTLE support: * ARM MP patch set * IKS * ARMv8 features: * CPU frequency scaling * CPU topology * Power efficient workqueue support * Android v3.10 patch set from AOSP * Interactive scheduler enhancements for big.LITTLE * Gator * ARMv8 4xA57 4xA53 FVP support * Versatile Express TC2 support * Linux Linaro 3.13-rc3-2013.12 released * Based on linux-linaro-core-tracking tree, llct-20131213.0 tag: * Based on v3.13-rc3 * Gator version 5.16 (same version as in 13.10 release) * New linaro-android-3.13-merge topic by John Stultz * IKS topics removed, as the code has been accepted into the mainline * Uprobes updated to v4 * Updated big-LITTLE-pmu topic from ARM LT * Updated basic Capri board support from Broadcom LT (Kona PWM controller and backlight support added, bcm_defconfig updated) * Updated big endian topic * Updated topic to support K3V2 board from Hisilicon LT * Updated Versatile Express patches from ARM LT * VExpress64 support (FVP Base and Foundation models) * Config fragments changes: * Arndale config fragment updated for 3.13 kernel to get USB (and hence the ethernet) working again * CONFIG_IP[V6]_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE=m added to distribution.conf for libvirt/openstack * WiFi driver enabled in panda.conf. WiFi is now available on Panda 4460, but not on Panda 4430 * capri.conf created for the Broadcom Capri board * Linaro OpenEmbedded baseline updates * OpenDataPlane recipe added * Linaro Powerdebug recipe added * ACPICA updated to 20131115 * Initscript for Gator added * Linaro Ubuntu baseline updates * Upgraded baseline to Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) * Initial Ubuntu ARM64 rootfs is available * Linaro Android baseline updates * Upgraded baseline to Android 4.4r2 * Linaro UEFI 2013.12 released * Rebased to Tianocore EDK2 SVN revision 14795 * Linaro PM-QA 0.4.6-2013.12 released * cpuhotplug test: wait for udev manager to start * cpufreq test: for per-policy governor case, check different paths
The release details are linked from the “Details” column for each released artifact on the release information: http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1312/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/GetSource http://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/1312/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
On behalf of the release team,
Koen Kooi Builds and Baselines | Release Manager Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs