" It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also
for what we do not do."
~Moliere
The Linaro 14.01 release is now available for download!
The first release of this year contains several improvements and
additions over the last 2013 release. Most significantly, various
components have gained support for the Arndale Octa board, which makes
big.LITTLE support available to a much wider audience, and Android has
now been fully migrated to 4.4.x with no regressions compared to 4.3.
As announced at Linaro Connect USA 2013 Linaro GCC is moving to a
pattern of quarterly stable releases, with engineering releases in the
intervening months. This is the first stable release, and contains no
known regressions compared to the 2013.12 release. The next release of
GCC 4.7 will be the 2014.04 stable release. There will be no engineering
releases of GCC 4.7 in 2013.02 or 2013.03
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) 3.10.28-2014.01 is released, based off
latest LTS 3.10.28 release
* included latest version of GTS patch set for big.LITTLE
* Android support (contributed from Google and Linaro)
* Linux Linaro 3.13-2014.01 is released:
* based on Linux 3.13 release
* gator version 5.17
* updated linaro-android-3.13-merge topic by John Stultz, the "Revert
"PM / Sleep: Require CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND to use wake_lock/wake_unlock"
patch included
* uprobes v4
* updated big-LITTLE-pmu topic from ARM LT
* updated basic Capri board support from Broadcom LT (clock framework
support added)
* Arndale Octa board support added by Samsung LT
* updated Versatile Express patches from ARM LT
* updated big endian topic
* vexpress64 support (FVP Base and Foundation models)
* config fragments changes:
* BeagleBone/BeagleBoneBlack config fragment created. Enabled are
USB host (and hence the onboard ethernet), USB gadgets (cdc ethernet and
mass storage)
* more config options enabled for libvirt support
* virtio mmio support enabled in vexpress.conf to get more storage
space available for rtsm
* Linaro Toolchain Binaries 2014.01 is released:
* included Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.01
* enhanced multilib support
* Linaro Android 14.01 is released:
* libjpeg-turbo refreshed on Android builds from the Graphics Working
Group
* Kernel CI loop for Android was streamlined for stability and faster
builds
* built with Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.01
* Linaro OpenEmbedded 2014.01 is released:
* updated LTP to 20140115 releases
* updated apica-tools to 20131218 release
* integrated OpenDataPlane
* merged external toolchain fixes contributed from Freescale
* integrated Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.01
* allowed native builds for OpenJDK 8
* upstreaming
* updated acpica-tools to the latest release
* updated LTP to the latest release
* added Aarch64 support to GRUB2
* added Aarch64 support to klibc
* Linaro Ubuntu 14.01 is released
* added packages to support Arndale Octa: arndale-octa-pre-boot,
linux-linaro-arndale-octa and u-boot-linaro-arndale-octa
* added idlestat package
* packages updated: edk2-uefi, flash-kernel, gator and sbsigntool
* Linux Linaro LNG 3.10.25-2014.01 is released
* based on Linux 3.10.25 kernel
* PREEMPT_RT patchset rt23
* Arndale support
* Linux Linaro LT HiSilicon 3.13-rc2-2014.01 is released
* supporting both K3V2 and S40V200
* K3V2 support includes: basic soc, smp, hotplug, clock, i2c, touch,
regulator, mmc. S40V200 support includes basic soc, smp, hotplug, clock
* integrated into the linux-linaro tree, and HiSilicon BSP code is
now available in linux-linaro monthly releases
* Linaro UEFI 2014.01 is released
* Rebased to Tianocore EDK2 SVN revision 14795
* the latest version of the EDK2 code contains support for aarch64
plaforms upstream in addition to the following topic branches:
* linaro-topic-a5
* linaro-topic-a9
* linaro-topic-arndale
* linaro-topic-bds
* linaro-topic-fvp
* linaro-topic-leg
* linaro-topic-misc
* linaro-topic-panda
* linaro-topic-pxeboot
* linaro-topic-tc1
* linaro-topic-tc2
* Linaro Image Tools 2014.01 is released
* Arndale Octa support
* Linaro Test Suites 2014.01 is released
* android: Added Ethernet Test for Linaro Android
* ubuntu: Added WiFi Test for Linux Linaro Ubuntu
* ltp: Improve parser & add tests
* netperf: Add parameters and default to eth0
* acpica-tools: Add acpica-tools test defination
* ubuntu: Added acpi-smoke-test
* acpica asl: Update source repository link
* ltp-realtime: Parse ltp-realtime results for LAVA measurements
* ubuntu: Added SD MMC Test for Linaro Ubuntu
* ubuntu: Added Gator Data Streaming Test for Linaro Ubuntu
* android: Added SD MMC Test for Linaro Android
* Fixed parse pattern in min_max_avg_parse.py
* mauve: move the tests instead of making a copy
* ubuntu: remove unnecessary clone operation
* oe: remove unnecessary clone operation
* hackbench: Running hackbench properly with timeout and removed
background dd
* ubuntu/ltp-network: add ltp network test
* netperf: set the result to skip, remove Sz in test name
* Linaro idlestat is released
* Idlestat is a tool which can show how long a CPU or cluster enters
idle state
* the infomation is obtained using traces from trace-cmd or ftrace tools
* Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.01 released, based off the latest GCC
4.8.3+svn206350 release
* enhanced multilib support
* Linaro GCC 4.7-2014.01 released, based off the latest GCC
4.7.4+svn206380 release
The release details are linked from the “Details” column for each
released artifact on the release information:
http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1401/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/GetSourcehttp://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/1401/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
