"Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable."
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
The Linaro 14.08 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 3.16-2014.08 is released:
* based on v3.16 release
* GATOR version 5.19 (new version)
* updated topic from Qualcomm LT (ifc6410 board support)
* 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 3.16 kernel)
* config fragments changes:
* CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y added to linaro-base.conf. This is needed to get the debug package containing vmlinux to be built (vmlinux is required to run perf).
* Linaro Toolchain Binaries 2014.08 is released:
* based on GCC 4.9 and updated to latest Linaro TCWG releases:
* Linaro GCC 4.9-2014.08
* Linaro EGLIBC 2.19-2014.08
* Linaro binutils 2.24-2014.08
* Linaro GDB 7.8-2014.08
* Linaro Android 14.08 is released:
* built with Linaro GCC 4.9-2014.08
* Linaro OpenEmbedded 2014.08 is released:
* integrated Linaro GCC 4.9-2014.08
* integrated Linaro EGLIBC 2.19-2014.08
* integrated Linaro binutils 2.24-2014.08
* integrated Linaro GDB 7.8-2014.08
* added rt-app (contributed from Power Management WG)
* updated GATOR to 5.19
* updated LSK kernels
* fixed boot wrapper build
* updated QEMU to 2.1.0
* upstreaming:
* fixed kexec-tools
* fixed udev startup script to fix mysql launch failure
* updated PM QA to 0.4.12
* fixed PHP build
* fixed hugetlbfs
* Linaro Ubuntu 14.08 is released:
* added rt-app
* updated packages: GATOR 5.19, LSK 3.10.52/3.14.16 and linux-linaro 3.16 kernels.
* KVM ARMv8 Continuous Integration and Testing is completed
* Make debug symbols available for Versatile Express ALIP image
The release details are linked from the “Details” column for each
released artifact on the release information:
http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1408/Release#Release_Information
Using the Android-based images
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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
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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
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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:
* Wiki:
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
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For any errata issues, please see:
http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1408/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