Linaro 13.07 Release With Linux Kernel 3.10.1 and Android 4.2.2

• LAVA
  
  • LAVA Core
    • VExpress A9 test images no longer use the master image’s boot loader
    • Support added for interactive bootloader commands.
    • Support for OpenID / Crowd added for LAVA.
    • LAVA Master images updated on images.validation.linaro.org
    • LAVA Multi-node – Multi-Node support has an initial implementation which can support communication between nodes under test via the use of a GroupDispatcher.
  • LAVA Lab Capabilities – LMP (LAVA Multi-purpose Probe) prototypes built and integration efforts into LAVA have begun. Focus will be integrating and stress testing the SDMUX LMP and then adding support for the other boards.

•  Builds and Baselines
  
  • Linaro Stable Kernel (preview) 3.10.1 2013.07 released
    • Based on 3.10.1 stable tree
    • big.LITTLE support: ARM MP patch set, IKS
    • VExpress TC2 support
    • Power efficient workqueue support
    • Android v3.10 experimental patch set from AOSP
  • Linux Linaro 3.10.1 2013.07 released
    • updated Versatile Express patches from ARM LT
    • arndale/exynos patches from Samsung LT (rebased version of the 13.06 topic)
    • a patch to enable perf in Android by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer (same as in 13.05)
    • vexpress64 support (both RTSM and Foundation model)
    • omap-fixes-13.06 topic: to make USB host and the on-board ethernet operational on Panda (same as in 13.06 release)
    • config fragments changes arndale.conf and distribution.conf. Added xen.conf
  • Linaro OpenEmbedded baseline updates:
    • Added PAM to DISTRO_FEATURES
    • Set libjpeg-turbo as the preferred provider for jpeg
    • Updated to Linaro GCC 4.8-2013.07 release
    • Switched builds to use Linaro versions of binutils and eglibc (2.17)
  • Linaro Android baseline updates:
    • Arndale build updated with display support on HDMI using software graphics stack
    • pm-qa, mmtest, cachecoherency, gatortest and imetest migrated to lava-test-shell
    • Android builds updated to build with Linaro GCC 4.8 2013.07 release
  • Linaro Toolchain Binaries 2013.07 released. It includes latest Linaro GCC 4.8 2013.07-1 and Linaro Eglibc 2.17-2013.07-2 releases.

• Kernel
  
  • Convert Moxart to GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
  • Storage EXT4 journal in enhanced area of eMMC – Club journal and metadata together in enhanced area

• Power Management
  
  • Linaro Powerdebug 2013.07 released with support for multiple key code for ENTER key, and Clocks modifications (Allow child clock to be seen)

• QA
  
  • Successfully completed 13.07 release testing on Android (linux-linaro and LSK), Ubuntu and OpenEmbedded builds. Test results and bug reports have been shared.
  • Manual UEFI testing was performed on Versatile Express A9 board.
  • Initial setup for KVM testing is in place

• Toolchain
  
  • Linaro GCC 4.8 2013.07 released with address sanitizer support for ARM, new -mrestrict-it option, backport of support for further AArch64 and ARMv8 AArch32 instructions.
  • Linaro GCC 4.7 2013.07 released.
  • Linaro eglibc 2.17 2013.07 released – Optimized string functions for AArch64: memcmp, memset, memcpy, memmove, bzero, strcmp, strlen, strnlen, strncmp.

• Graphics
  
  • CMA-ION patches reviewed and merged in Android Kernel.
  • CMA-ION activity Closed.

Visit https://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1307/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.