Linaro 14.01 Release with Linux Kernel 3.13 and Android 4.4.2

The first release of the year, Linaro 14.01, is now out with Linux Kernel 3.13 (baseline), Linux Kernel 3.10.28 (LSK), Android 4.4.2, and Ubuntu Linaro 14.01.

The most important part of this release is support for Arndale Octa, which makes big.LITTLE processing code available to a low cost platform. Android 4.4.x is now on par with Android 4.3 in terms of support. Linaro has also decided to provide quarterly stable released with GCC, and Linaro GCC 4.7-2014.01 is the first quarterly stable release with the next one planned with Linaro 14.04.

Here are the highlights of this release:

• Linaro Stable Kernel (LSK) 3.10.28-2014.01 with latest version of GTS patch set for big.LITTLE, and Android support
• Linux Linaro 3.13-2014.01:
  • 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 Landing Team (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, more config options enabled for libvirt support, virtio mmio support enabled in vexpress.conf.
• Linaro Toolchain Binaries 2014.01 including Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.01, with enhanced multilib support.
• Linaro Android 14.01
  • 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
  • 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 (Linux Test Project) to the latest release, added Aarch64 support to GRUB2, added Aarch64 support to klibc
• Linaro Ubuntu 14.01
  • 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 – PREEMPT_RT patchset rt23, Arndale support
• Linux Linaro LT HiSilicon 3.13-rc2-2014.01
  • Supports both K3V2 board and S40V200 FPGA board.
  • 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
  • Rebased to Tianocore EDK2 SVN revision 14795
  • the latest version of the EDK2 code contains support for aarch64 plaforms upstream.
• Linaro Image Tools 2014.01 – Arndale Octa support
• Linaro Test Suites 2014.01
  • 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 – Tool which can show how long a CPU or cluster enters idle state with information gathered using traces from trace-cmd or ftrace tools
• Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.01 with enhanced multilib support
• Linaro GCC 4.7-2014.01

Visit https://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1401/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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