RPi2 image of Second Snappy Ubuntu Core 15.04 stable release now available!

[Ricardo Salveti de Araujo]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> I'm happy to announce that the new Image for the Raspberry Pi 2 [1] is
> now available for download and it has some exciting changes you surely
> want. If you use the former image, please re-flash. From this version on
> upgrading the ubuntu-core rootfs snap will be possible !
>
> The image is based on the 15.04/stable image #4.
>
> The changes in detail:
>
> - The image has been ported to our new u-boot handling which now finally
> makes ubuntu-core rootfs updates (and rollback) possible. Note that
> neither the kernel nor the oem part can be updated on not fully
> supported images (i.e. not using the mainline kernel). This should still
> be a massive improvement for everyone using the Pi image though.
>
> - The u-boot build now comes from the denx.de mainline git tree
>
> - The kernel was updated to the 3.19.1-12-generic-bcm2709 build from
> Paolo Pisati [2].
>
> - Instead of shipping a deliberately invalid dummy ssh key
> in /home/ubuntu/.ssh/authorized_keys we now ship an empty file instead.
>
> - I2C has been enabled by default in this build based on the huge
> community interest in it.
>
> - Its is currently possible to use overlay dtb's with this image via a
> hack (there is a overlays.tgz tarball in /boot/uboot that you need to
> extract inside that dir, then you can define the desired overlay in
> config.txt as documented on the RPi2 page [3])
>
> - Generally the settings from config.txt are respected and used as
> described upstream [3], just edit it in /boot/uboot/ and reboot.

Great, those are some major changes we were all waiting for a while :-)

Thanks for getting this out!

Cheers,
-- 
Ricardo Salveti de Araujo