"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself." ~ Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

The Linaro 14.03 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) 3.10.33-2014.03 is released, based off latest LTS 3.10.30 release * Refer to LTS 3.10.33 release for a list of changes in the latest LTS release. * big.LITTLE support * ARM MP patch set * IKS (ARMv7 only) * ARMv8 features * CPU frequency scaling * CPU topology * CPU suspend * 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 3.14-rc7-2014.03 is released * based on Linux 3.14-rc7 release * GATOR version 5.17 * Android topic (linaro-android-3.14-merge) updated to get the recent code from AOSP * uprobes v7 (new version) * updated big-LITTLE-pmu topic from ARM LT * updated basic Capri board support from Broadcom LT (bcm590xx pmu and regulator drivers, Kona PWM controller support, and bcm21664 board added) * updated big endian topic * updated Arndale_Octa/Arndale/Origen patches from Samsung LT: * proper fix for the data abort issue on Arndale-Octa added ("ARM: dts: Disable MDMA1 node for Arndale-octa board") * drivers/thermal/samsung/exynos_tmu* code cleaned up, TMU support for Exynos5420 SoCs added * updated Versatile Express patches from ARM LT * Versatile Express arm64 support (FVP Base and Foundation models) from ARM LT * updated K3V2 board support from HiSilicon LT * HiSilicon HiP0x Cortex A15 family / D01 Dev Board support added by HiSilicon LT * cortex-strings-arm64 topic (same as in 2014.02) * config fragments changes: * thermal config for arndale and arndale_octa enabled * Linaro Toolchain Binaries 2014.03 is released: * updated to latest Linaro TCWG releases * Linaro GCC 4.8-2013.03 * Linaro binutils 2.24-2014.03 * updated Android NDK to new upstream release r9d * Linaro Android 14.03 is released (CARD-789): * built with Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.03 * mmtest failures in LAVA have been fixed * Linaro OpenEmbedded 2014.03 is released: * integrated Linaro GCC 4.8-2013.03 * integrated Linaro binutils 2.24-2014.03 * added extra ACPI tools to images (CARD-1072) * switched recipes using git.linaro.org from git to http protocol * upstreaming * updated git to 1.9.0 * updated FWTS to 14.02.00 * Linaro Ubuntu 14.03 is released: * new package: xf86-video-freedreno 1.0.0 * updated packages: libdrm 2.4.52 and linux-linaro kernels * Initial HiSilicon D01 member build is delivered * Arndale Octa build based on LT kernel has been setup for SWG (CARD-1109) * Made good progress on integrating VPS build slaves into android-build.linaro.org (CARD-1218)

The release details are linked from the “Details” column for each released artifact on the release information: http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1403/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/1403/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