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Release Note of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (v1.1)

Summary

Release Date	2016-02-25
Release Type	Production

File name : ubuntu64-16.04lts-mate-odroid-c2-20160225.img.xz

Note: Image 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

Enable I2C-1 and I2C-2
i2cdetect error fixed
Fixed trip points for the thermal driver
WiringPi Support
AUFS Support for Docker (Thanks Uli Middelberg)
Reduced HDMI driver prints
Removed several audio debug messages
Mix fixes on thermal driver
Swap Kernel panic is fixed
USB OTG support fixed
1 Wire support added
Hardware PWM added
USB Serial adapters support enabled

Userspace Update

Chromium is the armhf(32bit) version because there is no 64bit build.

Note: The first launching of Chromium browser may take up to several minutes due to some internal library linking processing.
After that it will launch immediately even you reboot/power-cycle the ODROID.

Tips

Edit “/home/odroid/.pam_environment” as follows to resolve the LOCALE errors:

    LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
    PAPERSIZE=a4
    LANGUAGE=en
    LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Note that you must log out and back in for the changes to take effect. (or reboot)

Known issues

No Kodi support
No Mali GPU X11 support. Mali GPU works only on the FBDEV at this moment
64bit Firefox is very unstable
Tons of issues not listed.

How to Upgrade

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

The default boot.ini in V1.1

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 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

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