Hi,

The Linaro team is pleased to announce the availability of the 11.05 Beta-2 images. These are still early developer images but we encourage all with supported hardware to use and test them by downloading from:

http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-n/

Highlights of this release include:

* This milestone includes a first release of the Linaro Android evaluation images for Beagle XM and Panda. * Efforts from the Android team include: * Generic AOSP builds with Linaro components. * The Linaro Android 2.6.38 kernel. * Toolchain packages based on Linaro toolchain release of March. Initial benchmarks for this toolchain can be found at https://wiki.linaro.org/JimHuang/Sandbox/LinaroToolchainAndroidBenchmarking * An Android platform code branch for direct evaluation of the Linaro toolchain. * Initial low hanging fruit optimisations; integrated and upstreamed to AOSP (16 patch sets currently). * Mouse support for developer convenience on the Panda image. * The 0xBenchmark package comes pre-integrated into the builds for benchmarking and demos. * Four images based on Ubuntu 11.04 including ubuntu-desktop, nano, developer and ALIP. * linaro-image-tools support for installing Android images on an SDcard * Support for 11 different developer boards including the newly added Freescale iMX53 LoCo board.

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:

https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/InstallImages

If you are interested in getting the source and building these images yourself please see the following pages:

https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/GetSource https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/BuildSource

Using the Ubuntu-based images =============================

The Ubuntu-based images consist of two parts. A hardware pack which can be found under the ./hwpacks directory which contains hardware specific packages such as the kernel and bootloader. The second part is the roofs which is combined with the hardware pack to create a complete image. For information on how to create an image please see:

http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/MilestoneBuilds

Comparisons ===========

A comparison of packages from the ubuntu-desktop beta and beta2 images can be found at:

http://people.linaro.org/~jamiebennett/comparisons/comparisons-linaro-11.05-...

Getting involved ================

More information on Linaro in general and the 11.05 plans can be found at:

* Homepage: http://www.linaro.org * Wiki: http://wiki.linaro.org * 11.05: http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1105

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

Issues with this release ========================

For any errata issues please see:

http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1105/Beta2#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

Regards, Jamie. -- Linaro Release Manager | Platform Project Manager