[Linaro] Release Meeting 2012-08-24

Fathi Boudra fathi.boudra at linaro.org
Fri Aug 24 06:51:07 UTC 2012


== What was done engineering wise? ==

 * Linaro Linux 3.6-2012.08 is released, based on 3.6-rc2:
   http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=kernel/linux-linaro-tracking.git
 * Linaro U-Boot 12.08 is released, re-based on upstream v2012.07:
   https://launchpad.net/u-boot-linaro/+milestone/12.08
 * Linaro Image Tools 2012.08 is released:
   https://launchpad.net/linaro-image-tools/+milestone/2012.08
 * GLMark2 2012.08 is released:
   https://launchpad.net/glmark2/+milestone/2012.08
 * Ubuntu packages updated:
   - glmark2 (2012.08-0ubuntu1)
   - powertop (2.1-0ubuntu1)
   - u-boot-linaro (2012.08.2-ubuntu1)
   - rt-tests (0.84-0ubuntu1)
   - aptitude (0.6.8-1ubuntu1)
   - qemu-linaro (1.1.50-2012.08-0ubuntu1)
 * OpenEmbedded based images for LAMP and SDK targets available:
   https://snapshots.linaro.org/openembedded/images/
   - Support ARMv7, work on-going to support ARMv8.
   - Goal is to provide 2 minimal targets that can be used by other
     distributions to bootstrap the new architecture.

== What's about to land that might impact the other teams ==

 * New PVR SGX driver, based on TI's DDK 1.9, with support for xf86-video-omap.

== Summary of bugs working on by team ==

 * xorg doesn't try to autoload the omap xorg driver at omapdrm enabled devices
   http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1040405
 * X11 crashes with seg fault when running QT5 based applications on a
Pandaboard with the SGX driver
   http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1015292
 * Please update glmark2 to 2012.08
   http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1039736
 * Please update rt-tests to 0.84
   http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1039352
 * FTBFS when building against latest mesa (9.0 based)
   http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1040895
 * [needs-packaging] libdri2
   http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1040611
 * linux-headers pkg for omap4 doesn't include omap_drv/drm headers
   http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1038846
 * support emulated systems w/ > 2G of memory
   http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1030588
 * enable flat device tree support
   http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1030594

== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items ==

 * For the PVR SGX driver support, we need to include libdri2 package [1]
   and push the updated driver [2][3].
   [1] http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1040611
   [2] http://people.linaro.org/~rsalveti/pvr/
   [3] http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=ubuntu/pvr-omap4.git



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