Linaro 15.03 Release with Linux 4.0 and Android 5.1

Linaro has just announced their 15.03 release with Linux 4.0-rc4 (baseline), Linux 3.10.72 and 3.14.36 (LSK), and Android 5.1.

The organization has worked on hardware platforms from members namely Qualcomm, ARM, HiSilicon, Samsung, and STMicro, including the recently announced 96Boards boards, and other ARMv8 platforms.

Highlights of the release:

• Linux Linaro 4.0-rc4-2015.03
  • updated linaro-android topic
  • added a few build/boot fixes for Arndale (llct-misc-fixes topic)
  • GATOR topic: version 5.20.1
  • updated integration-linaro-vexpress64 topic by ARM LT (FVP Base and Foundation models, and Juno support)
  • updated topic from Qualcomm LT (ifc6410 board support)
  • simple EEPROM framework (via Qualcomm LT’s topic)
  • updated topic from HiSilicon LT (Hi36xx, HiP04, and X5HD2 families support)
  • rebased “ILP32 patch set v3” onto 4.0-rc2

• Linaro builds of AOSP 15.03
  • updated all the baselines to AOSP 5.1
  • added commit based trigger feature to CI builds
• Linaro OpenEmbedded 2015.03
  • integrated Linaro GCC 4.9-2015.03
  • dismantled meta-aarch64 layer
  • created meta-ilp32 layer
  • cleaned out meta-bigendian layer
  • synced overlayed recipes with upstream
  • added full wget and rt-test on LAMP image as requested by QA team
  • update busybox xargs config as requested by QA team
  • integrated ODP 1.0
  • upstreaming:
    • sysprof: fix arm big-endian build
    • bitbake.conf: use http:// for GNU_MIRROR instead of ftp://
    • kexec-tools: fix build failure on aarch64_be architecture
    • busybox: update to 1.23.1 release
    • mozjs 17.0.0: fix aarch64 and 64k page builds, generic cleanups
• Linaro Ubuntu 15.03
  • added packages: ti-calibrator
  • updated packages: LSK 3.10.72/3.14.36 and linux-linaro 4.0-rc4 kernels
  • Added ILP32 support for ARM64 to Linaro engineering builds
  • Dismantled meta-aarch64 in favour of OE-core aarch64 support
  • CI bring up: luvOS (Linux UEFI Validation Operating System)
• KVM – support testing arm32 with arm64
• Added b2120stxh410 to linux-mainline and linux-arm-soc-for-next build jobs
• 96boards: enable Xorg by default in eMMC/SD debian build
• Added 2 new build slaves
• Migrated lt-qcom-ubuntu-images to docker based infrastructure
• Upgraded ARMv8 build slaves to 3.19 kernel
• Cleaned up LCR (Linaro Confectionery Release) information and instructions

Visit https://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1503/Release for a list of known issues, and further release details about the LEB, LMB (Linaro Member Builds), and community builds, as well as Android, Kernel, Graphics, Multimedia, Landing Team, Platform, Power management and Toolchain components.

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