Linaro 12.05

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

~Walter Elliott

We are pleased to announce the release of Linaro 12.05.

Updates, new feature implementations, new ways to use the member boards are all the short races in which we persevere in our efforts to support, design, and build the future of Linux on ARM.

Linaro release 12.05 comes on the cusp of Linaro Connect in Hong Kong where over 200 ARM developers, engineers, and more have descended on the Gold Coast hotel to present, discuss and develop features, infrastructure and optimizations for the Linux kernel, Android, Ubuntu.

During this Q2.12 Linaro Connect the spotlight is on the following technologies:

• ARM big.LITTLE implementation
• Multicore power management and scheduling
• SoC BSP maintainance, cost reduction and upstreaming
• A15 Virtualization
• SoC Unified Memory Management
• ARM for the Enterprise: Servers and Beyond

Linaro engineers will "show off" demos which touch on the sessions and support developed not only during this and past cycles, but refined as part of the Q2.12 Linaro Connect and will highlight this work as part of the Demo Friday event.

As part of the Linaro Connect Q2.12 event Linaro also took risks with new free technologies now being offered as part of the Google+--Hangouts on Air.  All public sessions were live streamed to remote participants. Our Android team even has this technology running on Samsung's Origen board. The amazing story is that less than 6 months ago using Google + Hangouts wasn't possible on an ARM platform with an open source distribution.

See the detailed highlights of this release to get an overview of what has been accomplished by the Working Groups, Landing Teams and Platform Teams. The release details are linked from the “Details” column for each released artifact on the release information:

http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1205/Release#Release_Information