Silently a new 96board starts appearing: Cello
It seems to be produced by LeMaker and is based around the AMD A1100
SoC. That's the same as on the illusive Husky, actually both boards look
very similar with only minor differences in the placement of some
connectors.
The LeMaker product page has it up for preorder for 299$; with an
estimated shipping time frame of 2016Q2.
http://www.lenovator.com/product/103.html
This could mean the first "cheap" 64 bit ARM server board becoming
available. Also more power: A57 cores.
Though I'm sure hrw will still disapprove as it has SATA, but is a weird
non-industry-standard form factor.
Oh, and the obligatory question:
Will it be 96boards compliant and are we going to get to see the actual
compliance report?
Cheers
Thomas
I'm pleased to announce the 16.06 release for the Reference Software
Platform project!
This is the fourth release, and like its predecessors, it has seen
quite a few changes and improvements for both Consumer and Enterprise
platforms.
The Reference Software Platform has seen many substantial changes,
among other more subtle ones.
Below is a list of some of this release’s highlights:
Common to both Consumer and Enterprise Editions
==============================================
* Kernel
- Unified tree shared between the CE and EE builds
- 4.4.11-based, including some under-review topic branches to extend
the features and platform hardware support
- Device-Tree support for CE; ARM ACPI and PCIe support for Enterprise
- Added OP-TEE support (enabled on HiKey and Juno)
- Supports Reference HW platforms HiKey and Cello (Other Test
Platforms include: Dragonboard 410c, Hisilicon D02 and D03,
APM X-Gene, HP Proliant m400, AMD Overdrive, Qualcomm Q2432:ZB,
and Cavium ThunderX)
- Single kernel config for all platforms in
arch/arm64/configs/distro.config
- Single kernel binary (package) for all platforms
* Bootloader
- UEFI OpenPlatformPkg (upstream) now contains reference implementations
for Huawei D02/D03, AMD Overdrive and LeMaker Cello
- U-boot support in Dragonboard 410c images to allow easier handling of
images
Consumer Edition
================
* Reference hardware platform
- LeMaker Hikey
* Other supported test platforms
- Dragonboard 410c
* Overall CE Debian platform features, validated as part of the release
- UEFI with DT
- Upgrade to Debian 8.5 “Jessie”
- Upgrade to the unified 4.4.11 Linux Kernel
- Upgrade graphics components: Mesa 11.1.2 and XServer 1.17.3a
- Rootfs automatically resized during the first boot
* CE Debian RPB for HiKey:
- OP-TEE integrated by default
- UEFI updated to use the latest development trees based on Tianocore
and OpenPlatformPkg
* CE Debian build for DragonBoard 410c:
- U-boot chain-loaded from LK
* CE OE/Yocto RPB:
- First OpenEmbedded-based RPB, including several changes and
components merged from the LHG OE layers
- Dragonboard 410c and HiKey support
- HiKey features: OP-TEE and Mali support
- Dragonboard 410c features: GPU, WLAN, BT, audio, LS I/O, camera and
GPS support
Enterprise Edition
==================
* Reference hardware platform
- LeMaker Cello
* Other supported test platforms
- AMD Overdrive A0 and B0
- Hisilicon D02
- Hisilicon D03 (new)
- APM X-Gene Mustang
- HP ProLiant m400
- Qualcomm Q2432LZB (new)
- Cavium ThunderX (new)
* Overall platform features, validated as part of the release
- UEFI with ACPI
- KVM
- PCIe
* Firmware
- UEFI OpenPlatformPkg (upstream) now contains reference implementation
for Huawei D02/D03, AMD Overdrive and LeMaker Cello
* Network Installers
- Use the unified 4.4.11 kernel
- Debian upgrade to Debian 8.5 “Jessie”
- CentOS upgrade to CentOS 7.2 16.03
* Enterprise Components
- Docker 1.9.1
- OpenStack Liberty for Debian Jessie and CentOS
- ODPi 1.0.0 based Hadoop
- Spark 1.3.1
- OpenJDK 8
- QEMU 2.6
Known issues with this release
==============================
Install instructions, known issues, test reports and instructions to
build from source are all published on:
https://github.com/96boards/documentation/wiki/Reference-Platform-Home
For bugs related to the 96Boards platforms, please use the 96Boards
bug tracking system: https://bugs.96boards.org/
For bugs related to the Reference Software Platform release, but on
development boards that are not officially part of 96Boards
(e.g. AMD Overdrive and HiSilicon D02/D03), please use:
https://bugs.linaro.org
On behalf of the Reference Platform teams,
--
Fathi Boudra
Engineering Manager | Builds and Baselines, Release
Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
