“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
The Linaro 14.02 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:
* Linaro Stable Kernel (LSK) 3.10.30-2014.02 is released * based off latest LTS 3.10.30 release * updated to latest version of GTS patch set for big.LITTLE * updated Android support (from Google and Linaro)
* Linux Linaro 3.14-rc3-2014.02 is released: * based on Linux 3.14-rc3 release * gator version 5.17 (same as in 2014.01) * new version of the Android topic (linaro-android-3.14-merge) by John Stultz * uprobes v5 (new version) * new cortex-strings-arm64 topic (optimized memcpy, memmove, memset, memcmp, strcmp, and strlen functions) * updated big-LITTLE-pmu topic from ARM LT * updated basic Capri board support from Broadcom LT (updates to gpio driver and clock framework support) * updated big endian topic * updated Arndale_Octa/Arndale/Origen patches from Samsung LT * updated Versatile Express patches from ARM LT * vexpress64 support (FVP Base and Foundation models) from ARM LT * updated K3V2 board support from HiSilicon LT * config fragments changes: * configs: add config fragments for uprobes/kprobe * android.conf: enable CONFIG_SYNC and family, add ION configs * lt-arndale.conf and lt-arndale-octa.conf introduced to hold the options specific for linux-linaro tree
* Linaro Toolchain Binaries 2014.02 is released: * toolchain builds now include a Fortran compiler * updated to Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.02 release * updated Newlib to 2.1, featuring various optimizations and better aarch64 support
* Linaro Android 14.02 is released: * built with Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.02 * updated to the 4.4.2_r2 upstream version * memory handling functions from cortex-strings have been merged into Bionic, leading to significant speedups * updated pm-qa to 0.4.7 * improved CTS and methanol test results * Linaro Android tree can now be built with gcc 4.9 without modifications * numerous patches have been upstreamed
* Linaro OpenEmbedded 2014.02 is released: * updated OpenDataPlane to track git * added LNG x86 machines * merged toolchain fixes, contributed by Khem Raj * integrated 2014.02 toolchain * added extra tools to images (build-essential, git, xz) to enable more test suites at runtime * enabled GRUB2 for aarch64 * included EFI/ACPI related tools for LEG * upstreaming * added mongodb recipe (CARD-1101) * fixed curl and git SSL issues * submitted git 1.9.0 recipe * update LTP recipe
* Linaro Ubuntu 14.02 is released * added startup-nsh package, contains startup script used to boot with UEFI * updated packages: u-boot-linaro-arndale-octa (support HDMI audio and network boot), idlestat
* Linux Linaro LNG 3.10.27-2014.02 is released * based off Linux 3.10.27 kernel * updated to PREEMPT_RT patchset rt25
* Linux Linaro LT HiSilicon 3.14-rc1-2014.02 is released * based off Linux 3.14-rc1 kernel * included support for K3V2
* Linaro UEFI 2014.02 is released (source only)
* Linaro Image Tools 2014.02 is released * added Arndale Octa support for Android builds
* Linaro Test Suites 2014.02 is released * Openembedded SDK tests modifications * jtreg: updates to blacklist * ACPI: updated maintainers and removed ABAT * ubuntu/exec-latency.yaml: Add new test * Add openembedded smoke tests * pmqa: run sanity file before starting tests * is-cpu-isolated: Print exact isolation time instead of STRESS_DURATION * is-cpu-isolated: Check again if stress is already completed or not * KVM: added parsing hackbench measurements * aapits: Update git repo link * is-cpu-isolated: Increase stress duration to analyze interruptions * Add lshw test * netperf-client: fix set local_ip to the correct ip * netperf-server: if netserver started pass else start it * OE/netperf: adding mac mapping table for the LNG-lab * common/scripts/netperf-client: tee to view output * network-test-basic: Add support for different interface
* Linaro PM QA 0.4.7-2014.02 released * cpuhotplug: skip hotplug check for cpu0 * added common function to check the userid * test feature supported before running suite
* Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.02 released, based off the latest GCC 4.8.3+svn207411 release * ARM-v8 crypto intrinsics support * new vectorizer cost model
* Linaro Newlib 2.1.0-2014.02 released, based off the latest upstream newlib release * resynced with upstream newlib trunk * added specs file for ARM validation model * provided ftruncate() and truncate() stubs for ARM and AArch64
The release details are linked from the “Details” column for each released artifact on the release information: http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1401/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/1402/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