Linaro Releases

The Linaro Platform team is pleased to announce the 2014.05 release of the Linux Linaro.

based on linux-linaro-core-tracking tree, llct-20140515.0 tag:
- based on v3.15-rc5
- new Android topic (linaro-android-3.15-experimental) uses the resent AOSP code base
- gator version 5.18 (same version as in 2014.04)
- uprobes topic removed – all the patches accepted into the mainline
- updated big-LITTLE-pmu topic from ARM LT
- updated basic Capri board support from Broadcom LT (SMP support enabled for bcm21664 and bcm28155, mmc updates, more bcm590xx regulators enabled)
- cortex-strings-arm64 topic (same as in 2014.02)
updated vexpress64 support (FVP Base and Foundation models, Juno (ethernet, USB)) from ARM LT
updated Versatile Express patches from ARM LT
updated Arndale_Octa/Arndale/Origen patches from Samsung LT
more HiP0x Cortex A15 family updates from HiSilicon LT. All the CPU cores enabled
new ftrace_audit topic from the Kernel WG (ftrace, audit and seccomp patches)
the big endian topic updated for 3.15
updated llvm topic. The “spinlock” commit is reverted to let armv8 kernel to compile
config fragments changes:
- uprobes: CONFIG_NAMESPACES and CONFIG_USER_NS enabled (for systemtap)
- arndale_octa: Enable Generic Phy support
- arndale: Enable IOMMU/USB3/Generic Phy
- vexpress: updated for 3.15 kernel (CONFIG_ARM_BIG_LITTLE_CPUFREQ enabled)
- THUMB2 disabled for arndale, arndale_octa, and origen to work around arch/arm/mach-exynos/sleep.S compilation error

LP: #1128761 WiFi is unavailable on TI Panda 4430 with Linux Linaro ubuntu image
LP: #1274057 Kernel Panic shows on Linux Linaro ubuntu TI Panda image.

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