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Release Note of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (v2.3)


Summary

Release Date 2017-02-28
Release Type Update

File name : ubuntu64-16.04lts-mate-odroid-c2-20170228.img.xz

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

New updates

Kernel Updates

  • Several Amlogic Patches to improve VPU (video decoding)
  • GPIO Wakeup Feature
  • GPIO Mem support

Userspace Update

  • Kodi to 17.0
  • libcec to 4.0
  • Ubuntu to 16.04.2

Known issues and tips

  • 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 

Reverting to Kodi 16.1

  • If Kodi 17 isn't working fine for you, you can revert to 16.1 with the following steps.
  • wget deb.odroid.in/old_kodi_c2/old_kodi.tar
    tar xf old_kodi.tar
    sudo dpkg -i *.deb

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 V2.3

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”.

Kodi Tips

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