documentation/Reference-Platform/Platforms/Enterprise/ReleaseNotes.md

16.12 Release Notes - Enterprise Reference Platform

Reference Platform Kernel

• 4.9 based, including under-review topic branches to extend hardware platform support
• Unified tree, used by both the CentOS and Debian Reference Platforms
• ACPI and PCIe support
• Single kernel config and binary (package) for all hardware platforms

UEFI

• Tianocore EDK II and OpenPlatformPkg containing reference implementations for Huawei D03/D05, AMD Overdrive and LeMaker Cello

Debian

• Network Installer based on Debian 8.6 "Jessie"
• Unified Reference Platform Kernel based on 4.9

CentOS

• Network Installer based on CentOS 7.2 16.03
• Unified Reference Platform Kernel based on 4.9

Enterprise Components

• Docker 1.10.3
• OpenStack Mitaka
• Ceph 10.2.3
• Spark 2.0
• OpenJDK 8
• QEMU 2.7

Supported Hardware Platforms

• AMD Overdrive
• HiSilicon D03
• HiSilicon D05
• APM X-Gene Mustang
• HP Proliant m400
• Qualcomm Q2432
• Cavium Thunder X

Known Issues

CentOS:

• Using Docker with XFS and Overlay Storage Driver:
  • Note that XFS file systems must be created with the -n ftype=1 option enabled for use as an overlay. With the rootfs and any file systems created during system installation, set the --mkfsoptions=-n ftype=1 parameters in the Anaconda kickstart. When creating a new file system after the installation, run the # mkfs -t xfs -n ftype=1 /PATH/TO/DEVICE command. To determine whether an existing file system is eligible for use as an overlay, run the # xfs_info /PATH/TO/DEVICE | grep ftype command to see if the ftype=1 option is enabled.
  • https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.2_Release_Notes/technology-preview-file_systems.html
• Installation via USB fails - https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2655

QDF2432:

• No support for on-board ethernet (emac) - https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2603

D03:

• Only 16 cores enabled (instead of 32) - https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2635
• Fails to install/boot Debian/CentOS with the default boot argument - https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2661
• Earlycon not working (no console output) - https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2699

HP-m400 Moonshot:

• Boot medium is not updated after network installer - https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2703

Cavium (ThunderX)

• UEFI boot entry not created after Debian installer finished - https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2736

The SDI (OpenStack) components are released with the following known bugs:

• 2549 "Ethernet hotplug fails on 16.06" - this is a known bug that hasn't been fixed for this release.
• 2805 "dhcp lease is not freed after instance deleted" - this was a regression on the kernel that is being fixed. A new validated kernel will land next week with this fix in it.
• 2819 "Volume hot plug not working in 16.12" - This is a known issue with this release that hasn't been fixed.