Hi,
The Linaro team is pleased to announce the release of Linaro 10.11. 10.11 is the first public release that brings together the huge amount of engineering effort that has occurred within Linaro over the past 6 months. In addition to officially supporting the TI OMAP3 (Beagle Board and Beagle Board XM) and ARM Versatile Express platforms, the images have been tested and verified on a total of 7 different platforms including TI OMAP4 Panda Board, IGEPv2, Freescale iMX51 and ST-E U8500.
The advances that have happened in this cycle are numerous but include a completely rebuilt archive using GCC 4.4.4 and the latest ARM optimised tool chain, the Linux kernel version 2.6.35, support for cross-compiling, a new hardware pack way of building images, 3D acceleration improvements, u-boot enhancements and initial device tree support, a new QA tracking structure, the list goes on. For a full break-down of what was scheduled for the 10.11 release please see:
http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1011/Blueprints
Thanks to everyone involved who made this happen. Here's looking forward to a sucessful 11.05 release.
To get Linaro 10.11 -------------------
The 10.11 release can be found at:
http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/headless/final/
and when combined with a hwpack from:
http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/hwpacks/final/
using the instructions from:
http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/MilestoneBuilds
a installable image is produced.
For any errata issues please see:
http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1011/Final#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
The team has also produced 3 other non-supported images as part of a community effort, they are:
* ALIP * http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/alip/final/ * EFL based netbook * http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/netbook/final/ * KDE based plasma handset * http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/plasma/final/
These need to be combined with a hardware pack as above.
Next Steps ----------
Engineering effort has already started on the 11.05 cycle. For more information on what Linaro will be doing this cycle please see:
http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1105
Getting involved ----------------
If you would like to help shape the Linux on ARM space and Linaro in particular please take a look at:
http://wiki.linaro.org/GettingInvolved
About Linaro ------------
More information on Linaro in general and the 10.11 release can be found at:
* Homepage: http://www.linaro.org * Wiki: http://wiki.linaro.org * 10.11: http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1011
Also subscribe to the important Linaro mailing lists and join our IRC channels to stay on top of Linaro developments:
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Regards, Jamie. -- Linaro Release Manager