documentation/Reference-Platform/Extras/Highlights.md
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### Highlights for 16.06 release:
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###### 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
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###### 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
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###### 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