Linaro Releases

The Linaro Platform team is pleased to announce the 2013.07 release of the Linaro Stable Kernel (LSK).

Interesting changes include:

• Based on 3.10.1 stable tree
• big.LITTLE support:
  • ARM MP patch set
  • IKS
• VExpress TC2 support
• Power efficient workqueue support
• Android v3.10 experimental patch set from AOSP

Fixed in this release

None listed.

Known issues

None listed.

Feedback and Support

Subscribe to the important Linaro mailing lists and join our IRC channels to stay on top of Linaro development.

• Linaro Kernel Development mailing list
• Linaro Kernel IRC channel on irc.freenode.net at #linaro-kernel

• Bug reports should be filed in Launchpad against Linaro Stable Kernel project.
• Questions? ask Linaro.
• Interested in commercial support? inquire at Linaro support

There are two methods to install linaro builds:

1. using pre-built image
2. creating your own image with linaro image tools

Using pre-built image

Insert SD card and note the assigned ‘/dev/sdX’ or ‘/dev/mmcblk0’

dmesg

Download the image and flash the SD card

SDCARD=/dev/sdX # sdcard found from dmesg above
URL=http://releases.linaro.org/13.07/ubuntu/lsk-vexpress/lsk-vexpress-raring_developer_20130723-408.img.gz
curl $URL | gunzip | sudo dd bs=64k of=$SDCARD

Note: Windows users may use the Image Writer for Windows.

Creating your own image

Get artifacts

wget http://releases.linaro.org/13.07/ubuntu/lsk-vexpress/hwpack_linaro-lsk-vexpress_20130723-408_armhf_supported.tar.gz
wget http://releases.linaro.org/13.07/ubuntu/lsk-vexpress/linaro-raring-developer-20130723-440.tar.gz

Get linaro image tools

• method 1: using binary package for Ubuntu (PPA)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linaro-maintainers/tools
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linaro-image-tools

• method 2: using source code

wget http://releases.linaro.org/13.07/components/platform/linaro-image-tools/linaro-image-tools-2013.07.tar.gz

Insert SD card and note the assigned ‘/dev/sdX’ or ‘/dev/mmcblk0’

dmesg

Create media

sudo linaro-media-create --mmc /dev/sdX --dev lsk-vexpress --hwpack hwpack_linaro-lsk-vexpress_20130723-408_armhf_supported.tar.gz --binary linaro-raring-developer-20130723-440.tar.gz

Links

For more information on how to use this builds please see the Linaro wiki here.