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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
- KVM Support (enabled via boot.ini)
- Mali r6p1 Update
- new CEC driver
- Linaro's patchs up to 3.14.65
- fixed verbose UART driver
- better thermal control when GPU is in use
- new IR Remote driver using LIRC
- Several PWM fixes
- Several i2c fixes
- gpio irq via sysfs
- RTC Shield support
- Realtek 8812/8821 support
- zram support
Userspace Update
- X11 EGL acceleration
- Disabled composting on Mate
- 64-Bit Chromium with EGL Enabled
- Kodi 16.2
- CEC Support
Known issues
- 64bit Firefox is very unstable
- 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
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