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Signed-off-by: Robert Wolff <robert.wolff@linaro.org>
2016-12-08 11:56:44 -08:00

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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)