From bb5f8c2398fabbd6569d8cb7702b62bc1372e1fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Wolff Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 23:08:41 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update Highlights.md Added highlights landing page from wiki. Signed-off-by: Robert Wolff --- Reference-Platform/Highlights.md | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 86 insertions(+) diff --git a/Reference-Platform/Highlights.md b/Reference-Platform/Highlights.md index 8b13789..a7e8f79 100644 --- a/Reference-Platform/Highlights.md +++ b/Reference-Platform/Highlights.md @@ -1 +1,87 @@ +### Highlights for 16.03 release: +*** + +###### Consumer and Enterprise Edition: +#### Kernel +- Unified tree shared between the CE and EE builds. Supports Hikey, Dragonboard, D02, APM X-Gene, HP Proliant m400 and AMD Overdrive. +- 4.4.0 based, including under-review topic branches to extend the hardware support for the platforms available. +- Device-Tree support for CE; ARM ACPI and PCIe support for Enterprise. +- Single kernel config for all platforms in arch/arm64/configs/distro.config +- Single kernel binary (package) for all platforms + +*** + +###### Consumer Edition: + +#### CE Debian RPB (common): +- Upgrade to Debian 8.3 "Jessie" +- Upgrade to the unified 4.4.0 Linux Kernel +- Upgrade graphics components: Mesa 11.1.2 and Xserver 1.17.3 +- Rootfs automatically resized during the first boot + +#### CE Debian RPB for DragonBoard™ 410: +- Freedreno X11 video driver included by default (1.4.0) +- Analog audio playback and record support +- Upgrade Qualcomm Firmware Package to 1.2 + +#### CE Debian RPB for HiKey (CircuitCo & LeMaker): +- Default Grub 2 boot configuration updated, now supporting kernel package upgrades +- xserver-xorg-video-armsoc now included by default (still using software rendering, Mali integration expected as part of the next release)
 + +#### CE AOSP RPB (common): +- AOSP Android Marshmallow 6.0 (android-6.0.1_r16)
 + +#### CE AOSP RPB for DragonBoard™ 410: +- Initial build, available as Developer Preview (not suitable for end users). +- Mesa and Freedreno support +- Kernel 4.4.0 
 + +#### CE AOSP RPB for HiKey (CircuitCo & LeMaker): +- AOSP Android Marshmallow 6.0 (android-6.0.1_r16) +- 4.1 based kernel
 + +#### CE OE/Yocto RPB: +- Included the unified 4.4.0 kernel +- meta-backports created, to contain backported recipes used by the reference platform + +*** + +###### Enterprise Edition + +#### Supported platforms: + +- AMD Overdrive A0 (new) and B0 +- D02 +- APM X-Gene Mustang (new) +- HP ProLiant m400 (new)
 + +#### Overall platform features, validated as part of the release: + +- UEFI with ACPI +- KVM +- PCIe
 + +#### Firmware: + +- Updated UEFI/EDK2 for D02, including support for PCIe and SAS
 + +#### Network Installers: + +- Debian: + - Upgrade to Debian 8.3 "Jessie" + - Using the unified 4.4.0 kernel +- CentOS (Now officially supported): + - Based on CentOS 7.2 15.11 + - Using the consolidated 4.4 kernel + +#### Enterprise Components: + +- Docker 1.9.1 +- OpenStack Liberty for Debian Jessie + - CentOS to be supported as part of the next cycle +- ODPi based Hadoop +- Spark 1.6 +- OpenJDK 8 (Linaro 16.03) + +***