Hi,

In preparation for the release of Linaro 11.08 images on 2011-08-25, we have collected candidate submissions for our Linaro Evaluation Build (LEB), Developers and Community images.

All primary developement boards supported by Linaro Landing Teams have an Android LEB candidate image submitted and an Ubuntu LEB hwpack submitted. Note: Due to the early stage of the enablement, some images might not work.

We don't want to promise too much but there are exciting plans that will finally make these calls for candidates a real joy by prepopulating results with data we get from our LAVA testing.

For now as an intermediate step we moved our testing forms to something that allows us to request slighly more details while making filling out the questionaire far more comfortable than our previous QA Tracker solution.

Based on your feedback, the Release Team will review the quality of those candidate builds and award builds that deliver a decent user experience with the "official LEB" badge. Builds not quite ready yet will continue to be published as Developers and Community builds for the final release until enough progress has been made.

Note: Your feedback to this call for testing will provide the main source of data used by the Release Team to determine the user experience and hence is essential to this process.

Linaro Evaluation Build (LEB) =============================

Please help our initiative by testing this month Linaro Evaluation Build (LEB) candidates for Android and Ubuntu:

* i.MX53 Quick Start: Android: http://bit.ly/q4Lriu Ubuntu: http://bit.ly/nlRVIY

* Origen: Android: http://bit.ly/pOV6WB Ubuntu: http://bit.ly/nIGG44

* PandaBoard: Android: http://bit.ly/pFnQQh Ubuntu: http://bit.ly/prrver

* Snowball: Android: http://bit.ly/nBfAVc Ubuntu: (no submission)

Developers and Community Build ==============================

On top of our officially supported Linaro Evaluation Build candidate images from above, the Linaro Platform Team is proud to also provide additional images and additional board support bits that were prepared by Linaro developers and community for a more specific target audience.

Note that the Developers and Community bits are provided on a best-effort basis and in the hope that they can be useful. We release last reported known to be working images.

If you are interested in running Nano, ALIP or Developer image _or_ want to try our LEB on one of the board support packs maintained by our community, please help and test by following the download and installation instructions included in the questionaire linked from below your board:

* BeagleBoard-xM: http://bit.ly/qzZz9U

* EFIKA MX: http://bit.ly/ofl1M4

* IGEPv2: http://bit.ly/nE8B57

* i.MX51 Babbage: http://bit.ly/qIapvB

* i.MX53 Quick Start: http://bit.ly/qDo8ef

* Origen: http://bit.ly/qrK1nu

* Overo: http://bit.ly/q1qXUL

* PandaBoard: http://bit.ly/o3SjZJ

* Versatile Express: http://bit.ly/nHVkj6

Resources =========

Note: Wonder what to download? Instructions including download URLs are documented as part of the feedback form reachable through the URLs above.

Ubuntu: * Nano (think small): http://snapshots.linaro.org/11.05-daily/linaro-nano/20110823/1/images/tar/ * ALIP (Xfce desktop): http://snapshots.linaro.org/11.05-daily/linaro-alip/20110823/1/images/tar/ * Developer (text user interface + developer tools): http://snapshots.linaro.org/11.05-daily/linaro-developer/20110823/1/images/t... * Ubuntu: http://snapshots.linaro.org/11.05-daily/linaro-ubuntu-desktop/20110823/3/ima... * Hardware packs: http://snapshots.linaro.org/11.05-daily/linaro-hwpacks/%24%7BBOARD%7D/201108... * Installation Instructions: https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/Ubuntu/ImageInstallation

Android: * Android LEB for i.MX53 Quick Start: https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/leb-imx53/#5 * Android LEB for Origen: https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/leb-origen-11.08-rel... * Android LEB for PandaBoard: https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/leb-panda-11.08-rele... * Android LEB for Snowball: https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/leb-snowball-11.08-r... * Installation Instructions: https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/ImageInstallation

Known Issues ============

* ARM SMP scheduler performance bug (Ubuntu/PandaBoard) https://launchpad.net/bugs/709245

* Snowball will not boot with current version of startupfiles (Ubuntu/Snowball) https://launchpad.net/bugs/816530

* Pulseaudio consumes 100% of the cpu when trying to play a sound (Ubuntu/PandaBoard) https://launchpad.net/bugs/816638

* eth0 doesn't get a valid MAC address on startup (Ubuntu/i.MX51, i.MX53 LoCo) https://launchpad.net/bugs/817315

* fails to mount system and user partition interminttently (Android/Snowball) https://launchpad.net/bugs/823313

* linaro-media-create fails for snowball_emmc (Snowball) https://launchpad.net/bugs/829220

You can find the complete list of known issues for the 11.08 release at: https://launchpad.net/linaro-android/+milestone/11.08 https://launchpad.net/linaro-ubuntu/+milestone/11.08

When filling new bugs, please check if it's not yet reported. You can use: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-android/+bugs?orderby=-datecreated https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-ubuntu/+bugs?orderby=-datecreated