Linaro Releases

The Linaro Networking Group (LNG) is pleased to announce the 2013.09 release of the Linaro Networking Kernel.

Interesting changes include:

• based on Linux 3.10.10 kernel
  • PREEMPT_RT patchset rt7
• Arndale support

The release is also available via tags in the LNG git repository:

git://git.linaro.org/kernel/linux-linaro-lng.git linux-lng-3.10.10-2013.09
git://git.linaro.org/kernel/linux-linaro-lng.git linux-lng-preempt-rt-3.10.10-2013.09

More information on Linaro Networking Group Kernels is available at http://wiki.linaro.org/LNG/Engineering/Foundational

Fixed in this release

• LP: #1215507 If CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is selected in RT 3.10 kernel, udhcpc process hangs while attempting to obtain IP address and boot sequence fails to complete

Known issues

• LP: #1215471 deadlock when CONFIG_KEYBOARD_GPIO is enabled with debug on
• LP: #1224324 Cannot get NO_HZ_FULL to work
• LP: #1224318 Preempt_rt kernel enters idle loop even when there are processes ready
• LP: #1218377 LTP-Realtime hangs on Arndale when the full suite is run
• LP: #1223028 LTP test suite does not call all the tests
• LP: #1223034 LTP test suite has failures with the “syscalls” tests
• LP: #1225658 LTP-Releatime test async_handler-c100 fails Max latency 1271310260 < 100

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