Linaro Releases

Linaro releases monthly Ubuntu based images for the Highbank platform.

About the Linaro Ubuntu Highbank Release

This release includes Linaro Ubuntu images, and boots on the Highbank server.

Where To Find More Information

More information on Linaro can be found on our website.

Fixed in this release

None listed.

Known issues

• LP: #1230403 cpuhotplug_07 fails on highbank node

Feedback and Support

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

• Bug reports should be filed in Launchpad against the individual packages that are affected. If a suitable package cannot be identified, feel free to assign them to Linaro Ubuntu project.
• Questions? ask Linaro.
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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

Download the image and flash the hard disk

DISK=/dev/sdX
URL=http://releases.linaro.org/13.10/ubuntu/highbank/highbank-raring_server_20131021-529.img.gz
curl $URL | gunzip | sudo dd bs=64k of=$DISK

Creating your own image

Get artifacts

wget http://releases.linaro.org/13.10/ubuntu/highbank/hwpack_linaro-highbank_20131021-529_armhf_supported.tar.gz
wget http://releases.linaro.org/13.10/ubuntu/highbank/linaro-raring-server-20130922-501.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/13.10/components/platform/linaro-image-tools/linaro-image-tools-2013.10.tar.gz

Create media

sudo linaro-media-create --mmc /dev/sdX --dev highbank --hwpack hwpack_linaro-highbank_20131021-529_armhf_supported.tar.gz --binary linaro-raring-server-20130922-501.tar.gz

Links

For more information on how to use this builds please see the LAVA documentation here.