"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled." ~ Horace, Epistles
The Linaro 15.10 release is now available for download!
There are some exciting changes this cycle! The ubuntu images now have 64-bit counterparts available and LCR has 'M' builds available, for Juno it's an engineering preview but for the other platforms it's a regular release. For OpenEmbedded the aarch64 kernel moved from 3.10 to 3.18 and has a few more systemd related options enabled. The images themselves have also switched to systemd for init and networking. This has led to a number of regressions, but last minute fixes allow the images to boot into a shell and execute LAVA tests.
While technically not part of a release, it does warrant an extra mention:
Old releases have been archived.
From https://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-release/2015-October/000472.html:
"As part of BB-149 old releases have been moved to http://releases.linaro.org/archive/. 'Old' meaning 2011, 2012 and 2013.
The first reports of things breaking are tricking in, OpenWRT apparently uses binutils-linaro 13.05 and Fathi mentioned that various LAVA health checks are failing now. If you encounter such an issue, add the 'archive/' bit to the URL, e.g.
sed -i -e s:org/13:org/archive/13:g \ -e s:org/12:org/archive/12:g \ -e s:org/11:org/archive/11:g <your text files>
We of course recommend trying out more recent releases for current projects, but if you can't upgrade the archive is there to stay."
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/1510/Release#Known_Issues
Bug reports for this release should be filed in Bugzilla (http://bugs.linaro.org) against the individual packages or projects that are affected.
On behalf of the release team,
Koen Kooi Builds and Baselines | Release Manager Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs