Linaro Releases

The LSK team is pleased to announce the 2014.06 release of the Linaro Stable Kernel (LSK).

Interesting changes include:

• Updates to:
  • kernel.org 3.10.44 stable tree
  • Android support (from Google and Linaro)
  • ASoC support for compressed audio
  • ARMv8 features and updates including:
    • PSCI CPUidle

Features

• Based on 3.10.44 stable tree
• big.LITTLE support:
  • ARM MP patch set
  • IKS (ARMv7 only)
• ARMv8 features:
  • Architected timer event
  • Big endian
  • CMA
  • CPU idle via PSCI
  • CPU frequency scaling
  • CPU topology
  • CPU suspend
  • KGDB
  • NEON
  • Non-coherent DMA
  • Perf
  • Tagged pointers
• Power efficient workqueue support
• Android v3.10 patch set from AOSP
• Interactive scheduler enhancements for big.LITTLE
• Big endian support
• Thermal framework DT support
• pinctrl group update support
• GATOR
• ARMv8 4xA57 4xA53 FVP support
• vexpress TC2 support

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

git://git.linaro.org/kernel/linux-linaro-stable.git lsk-14.06
git://git.linaro.org/kernel/linux-linaro-stable.git lsk-android-14.06

More information on Linaro Stable Kernel is available at http://wiki.linaro.org/LSK

Linaro Stable Kernel test plan

Fixed in this release

None listed.

Known issues

Due to ongoing work to remove assumptions in the testsuite for use in simulation the ARMv8 specific testing of HMP is limited in the current release.

Feedback and Support

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