12.01 Release Summary

Linaro 12.01 Released!

Action is the foundational key to all success.~Pablo Picasso

We are pleased to announce the release of Linaro 12.01. Linaro engineers worked tirelessly on this release to bring hardware accelerated video decoding that is fully supported on the Texas Instruments PandaBoard to users. A set top box based image with the award-winning XBMC media center and enablement for Ubuntu TV are also featured.

Ricardo Salveti, team lead for the Developer Platform at Linaro, details these successful achievements in the following blog posts:

• Ubuntu TV fully accelerated on a PandaBoard with Ubuntu LEB
• Ubuntu TV UI at PandaBoard, and next steps
• Hardware video decode and XBMC support on a PandaBoard with Ubuntu LEB

Linaro 12.01 contains components delivered by all Linaro Teams --Working Groups, Landing Teams and Platform Teams-- and brings an abundance of exciting updates and new features which are integrated on top of Android and Ubuntu.

In addition to these highlights and improvements delivered by Linaro engineers, the following updates and features are also available:

• The Multimedia Working Group announces the completion of benchmarking work for Speex codec on Linaro Automated Validation Architecture (LAVA) and an updated version of libjpeg-turbo for Linaro Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), with ICS specific upstream optimizations backported. The team also notes that Android skia-bench numbers have been improved through further optimization of commonly used libjpeg-turbo code paths with results available here.
• The Toolchain Working Group now provides pre-built binary versions of Linaro GCC, Linaro GDB and binutils. These binary versions work under generic Linux and Windows and can be used by an end developer to cross-compile programs for either a Linaro Evaluation Build or a bare-metal target.
• ST-Ericsson Snowball updates for this release include graphics acceleration with the Mali 400 GPU on Linaro Ubuntu, supports in Linaro U-Boot, and runs test suite on Linaro Android with LAVA.

Full details of this release, including detailed release highlights and known issues, can be found on the release pages of our Wiki

Evaluation Builds

	Version	Release	Instructions	Download For	Details	Status
	4.0.3	12.01	View...	i.MX53* Origen PandaBoard Snowball		i.MX53 Origen PandaBoard Snowball
	Oneiric	12.01	View...	i.MX53* Origen* PandaBoard Snowball		i.MX53 Origen PandaBoard Snowball
				(*) preview build; not officially supported yet

Developers and Community Builds

Developers and community builds are not officially supported. However, we hope that they are useful and hence we publish a list of last-known-to-work images and hardware packs.

	Name	Version	Release	Instructions	Download for...
	Android Mainline	4.0.3	12.01		PandaBoard
	Android Staging	4.0.3	12.01		PandaBoard | Versatile Express
	Android Tracking	4.0.3	12.01		PandaBoard
	Nano	Oneiric	12.01		BeagleBoard, EFIKA MX, IGEPv2, i.MX51, i.MX53 LoCo, Origen, Overo, PandaBoard, Snowball, Versatile Express
	Developer	Oneiric	12.01		BeagleBoard, EFIKA MX, IGEPv2, i.MX51, i.MX53 LoCo, Origen, Overo, PandaBoard, Snowball, Versatile Express
	ARM Linux Internet Platform (ALIP)	Oneiric	12.01		BeagleBoard, EFIKA MX, IGEPv2, i.MX51, i.MX53 LoCo, Origen, Overo, PandaBoard, Snowball, Versatile Express
	Linaro TV - XBMC	Oneiric	12.01		PandaBoard
	Server	Oneiric	12.01		BeagleBoard, EFIKA MX, IGEPv2, i.MX51, i.MX53 LoCo, Origen, Overo, PandaBoard, Snowball, Versatile Express
	Ubuntu Desktop	Oneiric	12.01		BeagleBoard, EFIKA MX, IGEPv2, i.MX51, i.MX53 LoCo, Origen, Overo, PandaBoard, Snowball | Versatile Express