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Ricardo Salveti de Araujo 30a7c9124b Update Highlights.md
2016-06-28 20:30:54 -03:00

1.9 KiB

Highlights for 16.06 release:


Consumer and Enterprise Edition:

Kernel

  • Unified tree shared between the CE and EE builds. Supports Hikey, Dragonboard410c, D02, D03, APM X-Gene, HP Proliant m400, LeMaker Cello, Q2432LZB and ThunderX.
  • 4.4.11 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 8.5 "Jessie"
  • Upgrade to the unified 4.4.11 Linux Kernel
  • SDCard installer and images

CE Debian RPB for HiKey:

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

CE Debian RPB for DragonBoard™ 410:

  • U-Boot is now integrated by default, allowing kernel package updates without reflashing the device

CE OE/Yocto RPB:

  • Included the unified 4.4.11 kernel
  • Weston, desktop and console images supported for both HiKey and Dragonboard410c

Enterprise Edition

Supported platforms:

  • AMD Overdrive A0 and B
  • D02
  • D03 (new)
  • APM X-Gene Mustang
  • HP ProLiant m400
  • LeMaker Cello (new)
  • Q2432LZB (new)
  • ThunderX (new)

Overall platform features, validated as part of the release:

  • UEFI with ACPI
  • KVM
  • PCIe

Firmware:

  • Updated UEFI/EDK2 for D02, D03, Cello and Overdrive
  • Support available via the upstream Tianocore and OpenPlatformPkg development trees

Network Installers:

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

Enterprise Components:

  • Docker 1.9.1
  • OpenStack Liberty for Debian Jessie
  • ODPi based Hadoop
  • Spark 1.6
  • OpenJDK 8 (Linaro 16.03)