Linaro 13.06 has been released with Linux Kernel 3.10-rc6 and Android 4.2.2. Linux Linaro Stable (LSK) preview is based on kernel 3.9.6.
There seems to have been a lot of activity for the LAVA and Builds and Integration teams, with LAVA support for new SoC such as Huawei K3V2 and Broadcom Capri from 2 companies which have recently joined Linaro as members, and well as continuous build for Linaro Stable Kernel. On the kernel side, more work has been done for multi-platform support (unified kernel), uprobes, eMMC power mamangement, and more.
Here are the highlights of this release:
- LAVA
- LAVA Core
- As part of the effort to improve the developer experience with LAVA, the different client tools were consolidated into a single package, which simplifies the process of updating the tools and makes it easier for the team to provide new features for LAVA users.
- LAVA now supports KVM devices, which can be used for providing x86 boxes for cross-building and other tasks where there is no need (or no possibility) or using actual ARM devices.
- Linaro LAVA users can now submit LAVA jobs targeting Calxeda EnergyCore nodes. The devices are available under the “highbank” device type.
- 5 Arndale Boards are now available in LAVA.
- Nexus 10, Huawei k3v2, and Broadcom Capri support has been added.
- UEFI booting supported on b.L fastmodels.
- Interactive boot commands supported on UEFI fastmodels.
- Image reports modified to add the ability to chart & visualize filter results
- LAVA Infrastructure:
- All Fastmodel server upgrades now controlled by Salt
- Releases.linaro.org & snapshots.linaro.org authenticate against Linaro OpenID/crowd.
- Lab Xen Virtual machines now backed up to NAS.
- LAVA Lab now monitored 24/7 with Nagios.
- LAVA production server upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
- LAVA Core
- Builds and Baselines
- CI loop for LSK (Linaro Stable Kernel) Android proof of concept kernel based on 3.9.6 kernel version has been setup that includes the b.L IKS and MP patches.
- Support for CI loop for kernel with Android filesystem has been added to android-build. CI loop has been setup to track the ARM LT integration tree.
- HiSilicon member build with complete CI loop has been setup and tracks the LT kernel tree.
- Several critical issues fixed
- LNG (Linaro Networking Group) kernel tress has been set up. It’s based on 3.8.13 with PREEMPT_RT patchset and Arndale enablement
- Linaro Toolchain Binaries 2013.05 released.
- Linux Linaro 3.10-rc6 2013.06 released
- interactive-gov-updates topic from Viresh Kumar (rebased version of the 13.05 topic)
- updated Versatile Express patches from ARM LT
- updated arndale/exynos patches from Samsung LT
- vexpress64 support (both RTSM and Foundation model)
- new omap-fixes-13.06 topic: USB host and the on-board ethernet are operational on Panda again
- config fragments changes
- Linaro Stable Kernel (preview) 3.9.6 2013.06 released
- generic vexpress TC2 support from ARM LT (no big.LITTLE MP, IKS, and arm64)
- MCPM patches for TC2
- big-LITTLE-MP-master-v16
- generic IKS support from Nicolas Pitre
- IKS TC2 patches
- core config fragments from linux-linaro 13.04 (linaro-base.conf, ubuntu-minimal.conf, big-LITTLE-MP.conf)
- perf tools: fix to make perf to build in 3.9 kernel
- builddeb tweaks to enable kernel cross build with deb-pkg, and to ensure that the DT blob is built and packed properly into the kernel image package.
- android for v3.9 plus Linaro fixes
- Linaro OpenEmbedded baseline updates:
- Switched to repo for clone(s)
- GCC updated to Linaro GCC 4.8 2013.06 release and also the default
- Kernel updated to linux-linaro 2013.06 release
- icedtea bumped to version 03b21-2.1.8
- External toolchain supported; see init-and-build.sh -h
- xvfb added to LAMP image
- LNG image added, based on YOCTO
- LEG JAVA image added
- Graphics
- xf86-video-armsoc extended for ST-Ericsson drm driver (Nova)
-
Kernel
- Port some of the simpler platforms to multiplatform support
- Integrator PCI DT pulled into ARM SoC tree
- u300 work pulled into the ARM SoC tree
- Nomadik clock DT pulled into ARM SoC tree
- Implement and upstream ARM 32 bit uprobes support
- Refactor OHCI controller code
- Create base patch for OHCI to allow loading backends as modules
- factor out OMAP, OMAP3, at91, SPEAr and s3c2410 backends
- Improve eMMC Power Management Support
- Storage EXT4 journal in enhanced area of eMMC
- Upstream “power: Add option to log time spent in suspend” patch from AOSP
- Android upstreaming: Ashmem
- Migrate Android Alarmtimer driver over to using the upstreamed Alarmtimers
- Port some of the simpler platforms to multiplatform support
- Power Management
- Full automation of b.L benchmarking
- cpu hotplug latency test should be integrated on to scheduler test suite to run on LAVA
- Linaro PM QA 0.4.2 2013.06 release – bug fix
- QA
- Successfully completed 13.06 release testing on Android, Ubuntu and OpenEmbedded builds. Test results and bug reports have been shared.
- Initial cleanup of bugs in Linaro launchpad projects was completed.
- Piglit test suite is now run on each Android build for Pandaboard
- Toolchain
- Linaro QEMU 1.5.0 2013.06 released, based off upstream (trunk) QEMU 1.5.0
- Linaro eglibc 2.17 2013.06 released with faster memcpy implementation for hardware with NEON or VFP support.
- Linaro newlib 2.0.0 2013.06 released with faster memcpy implementation for hardware with NEON or VFP support.
- Linaro binutils 2.23.2 2013.06 released
- Linaro GCC 4.7 and 4.8 2013.06 released
- LEG
Visit https://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1306/Release for a list of known issues and further release details about the LEB and community builds, Android, Kernel, Graphics, Multimedia, Landing Team, Platform, Power management and Toolchain (GCC / Qemu) components.
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