Linaro Releases

Linaro releases monthly Ubuntu based images for the PandaBoard platform.

About the Linaro Ubuntu PandaBoard Release

This release includes Linaro Ubuntu images, and boots on the PandaBoard board.

Where To Find More Information

More information on Linaro can be found on our website.

Fixed in this release

• LP: #1269550 No any Cache and Instruction data in DS-5 Streamline on TI Panda 4460

Known issues

• LP: #1310890 “BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/1/0/0xffff0000” on TI Panda ubuntu image.
• LP: #1274057 Kernel Panic shows on Linux Linaro ubuntu TI Panda image.
• LP: #862002 Inconsistent lock state
• LP: #1310888 MAC address on TI Panda 4430 & 4460 is randomly changing after every reboot.
• LP: #1128761 WiFi is unavailable on TI Panda 4430 with Linux Linaro ubuntu image.
• LP: #1310799 DS-5 gator version mismatch on Linux Linaro ubuntu image.
• LP: #1311988 TI Panda 4430 and 4460 is unstable on Linux Linaro ubuntu images.
• LP: #1164329 WiFi is unavailable on TI Panda 4460 with Linux Linaro ubuntu image.

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.
• 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/14.04/ubuntu/panda/panda-saucy_developer_20140417-630.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/14.04/ubuntu/panda/hwpack_linaro-panda_20140410-652_armhf_supported.tar.gz
wget http://releases.linaro.org/14.04/ubuntu/panda/linaro-saucy-developer-20140410-652.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/14.02/components/platform/linaro-image-tools/linaro-image-tools-2014.02.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 panda --hwpack hwpack_linaro-panda_20140417-630_armhf_supported.tar.gz --binary linaro-saucy-developer-20140410-652.tar.gz

Links

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