Release Note of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (v2.2)

File name : ubuntu64-16.04lts-mate-odroid-c2-20170106.img.xz

Note: OS will reboot on the first boot for automatic rootfs resize

• 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

• Better docker compatibility
• CVE-2016-8655 Fix
• USB traffic monitor(usbmon driver module) enabled
• Better stability
• Option to control UHS feature
• Improves USB device detection (http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=139&t=25079#p173356)
• Added HDMI 480×800 resolution
• Custom HDMI resolution support
• Support Mali GPU on 3.5“ LCD
• Dirty-COW Bug Fix
• Improves HDMI compatibility

• Improved Mali rendering performance (bug fix in fbturbo driver)

• 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.
• NTP time syncing takes long time (sometimes around 1~2 minutes)
• GPU acceleration should be enabled manually. Add below line into /etc/chromium-browser/default file.

• CHROMIUM_FLAGS=" --use-gl=egl --ignore-gpu-blacklist --disable-accelerated-2d-canvas --num-raster-threads=2"

• The root file system will be resized in the first booting process. OS will reboot automatically to complete the resizing process.
• 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 

• sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade 

• Available here: https://github.com/mdrjr/c2_bootini/blob/master/boot.ini

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.

$ git clone https://github.com/hardkernel/u-boot.git -b odroidc2-v2015.01
$ cd u-boot
$ make odroidc2_config
$ make

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hardkernel/linux -b odroidc2-3.14.y
$ cd linux
$ 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

Run “git checkout jenkins-deb_s905_kernel-102” command to use the same kernel tag before “make odroidc2_defconfig”.

• Enabling Adjust Display Refresh Rate
• Enabling HDMI passthrough