Jamie Bennett Speaks

Phew !

Hi,

The Linaro team is pleased to announce the release of Linaro 10.11.
10.11 is the first public release that brings together the huge amount
of engineering effort that has occurred within Linaro over the past 6
months. In addition to officially supporting the TI OMAP3 (Beagle
Board and Beagle Board XM) and ARM Versatile Express platforms, the
images have been tested and verified on a total of 7 different platforms
including TI OMAP4 Panda Board, IGEPv2, Freescale iMX51 and ST-E U8500.

The advances that have happened in this cycle are numerous but include a
completely rebuilt archive using GCC 4.4.4 and the latest ARM optimised
tool chain, the Linux kernel version 2.6.35, support for
cross-compiling, a new hardware pack way of building images, 3D
acceleration improvements, u-boot enhancements and initial device tree
support, a new QA tracking structure, the list goes on. For a full
break-down of what was scheduled for the 10.11 release please see:

http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1011/Blueprints

Thanks to everyone involved who made this happen. Here’s looking forward
to a sucessful 11.05 release.

To get Linaro 10.11
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The 10.11 release can be found at:

http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/headless/final/

and when combined with a hwpack from:

http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/hwpacks/final/

using the instructions from:

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

a installable image is produced.

For any errata issues please see:

http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1011/Final#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

The team has also produced 3 other non-supported images as part of a
community effort, they are:

* ALIP
* http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/alip/final/
* EFL based netbook
* http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/netbook/final/
* KDE based plasma handset
* http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/plasma/final/

These need to be combined with a hardware pack as above.

Next Steps
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Engineering effort has already started on the 11.05 cycle. For more
information on what Linaro will be doing this cycle please see:

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

Getting involved
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If you would like to help shape the Linux on ARM space and Linaro in
particular please take a look at:

http://wiki.linaro.org/GettingInvolved

About Linaro
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More information on Linaro in general and the 10.11 release can be found
at:

* Homepage: http://www.linaro.org
* Wiki: http://wiki.linaro.org
* 10.11: http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1011

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.freenode.net

Regards,
Jamie.
–
Linaro Release Manager

Just a quick one.

A couple of days ago I intercepted a package meant for Marcin Juszkiewicz on the promise I would give him it back in a weeks time at the Linaro@UDS event. This package contained a shiny new TI OMAP4-based Pandaboard. Now, the run up to a UDS event is always super busy but I managed to steal a few hours here and there and with some last minute late night debugging with Canonical kernel engineer Lee Jones (borked UART settings in the end for those interested) the Linaro images now work on the Pandaboard. Special kudos to the Canonical ARM team who did all the heavy lifting to enable the Pandaboard in Ubuntu.

And before you say “it didn’t happen without pictures”, here they are.

Expect some video demo’s and more pictures of the various Linaro flavours soon.

Hot on the heals of the Ubuntu Alpha-3 announcement, please all welcome Linaro Alpha-3.

Hi,

Well, it’s that time again, please all welcome Linaro Alpha 3 into the
world. This will be the final release before the beta version arrives
at the end of August and signals Linaro’s continued maturity towards
the final November image.

Highlights of this release include:

• A small Linaro headless image with basic OMAP3 beagle board support
  (reported working on other architectures with minimal changes).
• A new software archive rebuild with GCC 4.4.4, CodeSourcery
  enhancements and ARM-related improvements.
• Support for opengl ES development through MESA.
• GPS support via gypsy and geoclue.
• Netbook user interface capabilities with the latest EFL software
  stack.

More Information on this development release as well as download and
installation instructions can be found at:

http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1011/Alpha3

More information on Linaro in general and the 10.11 plans can be found
at:

• Homepage: http://www.linaro.org
• Wiki: http://wiki.linaro.org
• 10.11: http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1011

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.freenode.net

For any errata issues please see:

http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1011/Alpha3#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, please feel free to assign them to:

http://www.launchpad.net/linaro

Regards,
Jamie.
–
Linaro Release Manager

The original announcement can be found here.