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Robert Wolff 21899c0462 Organize top RPB folder 
Move many files around into Extras folder to organize
top folder. Should optimize workflow.

Signed-off-by: Robert Wolff <robert.wolff@linaro.org>
2016-09-23 00:27:36 -07:00

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Highlights for 16.06 release:

Consumer and Enterprise Edition:

Kernel

  • Unified tree shared between the CE and EE builds.
  • 4.4.11-based, including some under-review topic branches to extend the features and platform hardware support.
  • Device-Tree support for CE; ARM ACPI and PCIe support for Enterprise.
  • Added OP-TEE support
    • Enabled on HiKey and Juno-r1
  • Supports Reference HW platforms HiKey and Cello
    • Other Test Platforms include: Dragonboard 410c, Hisilicon D02 and D03, APM X-Gene, HP Proliant m400, AMD Overdrive, Qualcomm QDF2432 Server Development Platform, and Cavium ThunderX.
  • Single kernel config for all platforms in arch/arm64/configs/distro.config
  • Single kernel binary (package) for all platforms

Bootloader

  • UEFI OpenPlatformPkg (upstream) now contains reference implementations for Huawei D02/D03, AMD Overdrive and LeMaker Cello
  • U-boot support in DB410c images to allow easier handling of images
Consumer Edition:

Reference hardware platform:

  • LeMaker Hikey

Other supported test platforms:

  • Dragonboard 410c

Overall CE Debian platform features, validated as part of the release:

  • UEFI with DT
  • Upgrade to Debian 8.5 "Jessie"
  • Upgrade to the unified 4.4.11 Linux Kernel
  • Upgrade graphics components: Mesa 11.1.2 and XServer 1.17.3a
  • Rootfs automatically resized during the first boot

CE Debian RPB for HiKey:

  • OP-TEE integrated by default
  • UEFI updated to use the latest development trees based on Tianocore
    • OpenPlatformPkg

CE Debian build for DragonBoard™ 410c:

  • U-boot chain-loaded from LK

CE OE/Yocto RPB:

  • First OpenEmbedded-based RPB, including several changes and components merged from the LHG OE layers
  • Dragonboard 410c and HiKey support
  • HiKey features:
    • OP-TEE initial support
    • Mali support for HiKey
  • Dragonboard 410c features:
    • GPU, WLAN, BT, audio, LS I/O, camera and GPS
Enterprise Edition

Reference hardware platform:

  • LeMaker Cello

Other supported test platforms:

  • AMD Overdrive A0 and B0
  • Hisilicon D02
  • Hisilicon D03 (new)
  • APM X-Gene Mustang
  • HP ProLiant m400
  • Qualcomm QDF2432 Server Development Platform (new)
  • Cavium ThunderX (new)

Overall platform features, validated as part of the release:

  • UEFI with ACPI
  • KVM
  • PCIe

Firmware:

  • UEFI OpenPlatformPkg (upstream) now contains reference implementation for Huawei D02/D03, AMD Overdrive and LeMaker Cello

Network Installers:

  • Debian:
    • Upgrade to Debian 8.5 "Jessie"
    • Use the unified 4.4.11 kernel
  • CentOS
    • Based on CentOS 7.2 16.03
    • Use the unified 4.4.11 kernel

Enterprise Components:

  • Docker 1.9.1
  • OpenStack Liberty for Debian Jessie and CentOS
  • ODPi 1.0.0 based Hadoop
  • Spark 1.3.1
  • OpenJDK 8
  • QEMU 2.6