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Release Note of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (v2.1)
Summary
Release Date | 2017-02-20 | |
Release Type | Update |
File name : ubuntu-16.04.2-mate-odroid-c1-20170220.img
New updates
- Official US West Coast: http://odroid.in/ubuntu_16.04lts/
- Official US East Coast: http://east.us.odroid.in/ubuntu_16.04lts (Thanks to David Beauchamp @ ArchLinuxARM)
- Official EU Germany: http://de.eu.odroid.in/ubuntu_16.04lts
- Official Korea Mirror: http://dn.odroid.com/S805/Ubuntu
Kernel Updates
- New gpiomem driver for rootless GPIO access
- Add 480×800 resolution support
- CPU Over clock option up to 1.8Ghz
- Fixed LXC support
- Updated USB Network Drivers
- Updated Mali to r6p2
Userspace Update
- Kodi updated to 17 (Special thanks to Oversun in our community forum)
- Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
- Updated Mali to r6p2
- Updated Chromium to 55
- Performance governor by default
How to improve the performance
- Try 1.7Ghz or 1.8Ghz Overclock How to Overclock ODROID-C1
- Check the CPU governor.
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
If it is not “performance”, try
echo 'GOVERNOR="performance"' | sudo tee /etc/default/cpufrequtils
and reboot.
Known issues & notes
- EXT2/4 file system can not be accessible on U-boot.
- The root file system will be resized in the first booting process. OS will reboot automatically to complete the resizing process.
- Kodi requires to be manually started for HDMI Passthrough work.
AE_SINK=ALSA kodi
- To enable Auto-login, edit /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/60-lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf file like this.
[Seat:*] greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter autologin-user=odroid
- Tons of issues not listed.
Reverting to Kodi 16.1
- If Kodi 17 isn't working fine for you, you can revert to 16.1 with the following steps.
sudo apt-get remove kodi kodi-bin kodi-data wget deb.odroid.in/old_kodi_c1/old_kodi.tar tar xf old_kodi.tar sudo dpkg -i *.deb
LIRC Support
How to Upgrade. Don't forget dist-upgrade
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt install linux-image-c1
The default boot.ini in V2.1
- Available here: https://github.com/mdrjr/c1_bootini/blob/master/boot.ini
How to checkout
The current version only provide Linux kernel and U-boot source code. Here are the instructions to checkout the source code and build. For more detail information, please visit U-boot and Kernel.
This guide is only for the NATIVE BUILD.
U-boot
$ git clone https://github.com/hardkernel/u-boot.git -b odroidc-v2011.03 $ cd u-boot $ make odroidc_config $ make
Linux Kernel
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hardkernel/linux -b odroidc-3.10.y $ cd linux $ make odroidc_defconfig $ make uImage modules $ make dtbs $ sudo make modules_install $ sudo cp arch/arm/boot/uImage /media/boot $ sudo cp arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b_odroidc.dtb /media/boot