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Release Note of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (v2.2)
Summary
Release Date | 2017-01-06 | |
Release Type | Update |
File name : ubuntu64-16.04lts-mate-odroid-c2-20170106.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
- Better docker compatibility
- CVE-2016-8655 Fix
- USB traffic monitor(usbmon driver module) enabled
- Better stability
- Option to control UHS feature
- Improves stability for USB Dongles
- Added HDMI 480×800 resolution
- Custom resolution support
- Support Mali GPU on 3.5“ LCD
- Dirty-COW Bug Fix
- Improves HDMI compatibility
Userspace Update
- Ubuntu updated to 16.04.1 LTS release
- Improved Mali rendering performance
Known issues
- 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“
How to update the kernel and system
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
The default boot.ini in V2.2
- 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 $ 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”.