The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of Linaro QEMU 2011.03-1.
Linaro QEMU 2011.03-1 is the second release of qemu-linaro. Based off upstream (trunk) qemu, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes and enhancements.
This release includes a model of the ARM Versatile Express platform. This is still experimental but may be of use to people who want a model supporting up to 1GB of RAM with graphics and networking. Instructions for getting started with it are on the wiki: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuVersatileExpress
Other interesting changes include: - The OMAP emulation bug which was causing hangs if Linux tried to enable a swapfile is fixed - The OMAP UART model has been improved; this fixes the problem where kernels using the new omap-hsuart serial drivers stopped serial output halfway through boot. - As usual, various minor correctness fixes and other upstream changes
Known issues: - The beagle and beaglexm models do not support USB, so there is no keyboard, mouse or networking (#708703)
The only change over the shortlived 2011.03-0 is that the last minute bug #731093 has been fixed (versatilepb models would crash on startup.)
The source tarball is available at: https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro/+milestone/2011.03-1
Binary builds of this qemu-linaro release are being prepared and will be available shortly for users of Ubuntu. When ready, Natty packages of qemu-linaro 2011.03-1 will be in the Ubuntu archive. Packages for users of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 10.10 will be in the linaro-maintainers tools ppa:
https://launchpad.net/~linaro-maintainers/+archive/tools/
More information on Linaro QEMU is available at: https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro
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