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Release Note of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (v2.0)
Summary
Release Date | 2016-05-25 | |
Release Type | Update |
File name : ubuntu64-16.04lts-mate-odroid-c2-20160525.img.xz
Note: OS will reboot on the first boot for automatic rootfs resize
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/S905/Ubuntu
Kernel Updates
- Mali GPU driver r6p1 Update
- KVM Support (enabled via boot.ini) (Thanks to crashoverride)
- new CEC driver (Thanks to gdachs and Raybuntu)
- Linaro's patchs up to 3.14.65 with GDB issue fix (Thanks to mlinuxguy and crashoverride)
- fixed verbose UART driver
- better thermal control when GPU is active
- new IR Remote driver using LIRC
- Several PWM driver issue fixes
- Several I2C driver issue fixes
- GPIO IRQ via sysfs
- RTC Shield support
- Realtek 8812/8821 support
- ZRAM support
- Two USB webcam issue fixes.
Userspace Update
- X11 EGL acceleration
- Disabled composting on Mate
- 64-Bit Chromium with EGL Enabled
- Kodi 16.1 (Auto-framerate-switching [Adjust display refresh rate] works if HPD option is changed)
- CEC Support
- apt-fast installed
- Ubuntu updated to 16.04 final release
Known issues
- 64bit Firefox is very unstable (you need to try 32bit Firefox)
- Some 4K video files rendering on Kodi is not smooth on 4K/UHD monitor
- KODI audio Passthrough and Dynamic refresh rate are not implemented yet
- mySQL/KVM needs an editing of boot.ini file to change the system timer source to ARMv8 Architecture from the Meson. But the ARMv8 timer affects the VPU/GPU system accuracy.
- 32bit x11 Mali driver is not available. We need much longer time to investigate the complicated dependencies.
- NTP time syncing takes long time (sometimes around 1~2 minutes)
- Mouse cursor keeps blinking on Chromium due to GPU acceleration
- Tons of issues not listed.
How to update the kernel and system
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Black screen after running "sudo apt-get autoremove"
- If you do “sudo apt-get autoremove” , the essential video drivers can be removed accidentally.
In that case, run “sudo apt install xserver-xorg-video-mali mali-x11 kodi aml-libs” to recover it.
The default boot.ini in V2.0
- Available here: https://github.com/mdrjr/c2_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 odroidc2-v2015.01 $ cd u-boot $ make odroidc2_config $ make
Linux Kernel
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hardkernel/linux -b odroidc2-3.14.y $ cd linux $ git checkout jenkins-deb_s905_kernel-61 $ make odroidc2_defconfig $ make -j5 $ sudo make modules_install $ sudo cp arch/arm64/boot/Image /media/boot $ sudo cp arch/arm64/boot/dts/meson64_odroidc2.dtb /media/boot