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authorRyan Harkin <ryan.harkin@linaro.org>2014-06-26 06:54:46 +0100
committerRyan Harkin <ryan.harkin@linaro.org>2014-06-26 06:54:46 +0100
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14.06: add major update from Steve Bannister
Signed-off-by: Ryan Harkin <ryan.harkin@linaro.org>
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-h2. License
-The use of Juno software is subject to the terms of the Juno "End User License Agreement":https://releases.linaro.org/14.06/openembedded/juno-lsk/#tabs-5.
+h2. About the Linaro Android Release for ARMv8-A
+
+The Linaro Android release is based on a snapshot of the Android AOSP master taken on the 1st June. The build contains multi-arch support allowing full use of the 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture and supporting both 64-bit and 32-bit applications. Java-only applications will run as 64-bit in the supplied configuration. The release uses Linaro Stable Kernel version 3.10 and is integrated with ARM Mali drivers for 3D graphics acceleration. The sources are built using Linaro GCC version 4.9.
+
+The ARMv8-A reference software stack combined with the ARM Development Platform (ADP) provides the ARM ecosystem with a foundation to accelerate 64-bit Android availability on silicon. The availability of this port is the culmination of a broad architecture enablement program carried out by Linaro, ARM and the ARM partnership. ARM partners will now have access to a 64-bit AOSP file system, together with a broad range of supporting material including the ARMv8-A FVP models, open source toolchain from Linaro and supporting documentation.
+
+It should be noted that this is an early software preview and not all 3rd party applications will run correctly at this time. Performance is limited due to the ART runtime running in interpreted mode, more recent versions of the AOSP tree have now enabled this and next month's build will feature better performance and wider compatibility as the baseport matures.
+
+The Android AOSP software provided in this release is thoroughly tested with CTS version 4.4 and the CTS results are shared with members. The BIONIC component is validated with Android BIONIC tests. Android Monkey tests were run for stress testing. Multi-arch support has been validated using examples provided in Android NDK.
+
+The Linaro Android releases for Juno appear monthly. Sources are also made available so you can build your own images (see the "Building from Source tab":https://releases.linaro.org/14.06/android/images/armv8-juice-juno-lsk/#tabs-3). 
h2. About Juno
@@ -9,95 +18,107 @@ Juno is the first 64-bit development platform from ARM, featuring a dual Cortex-
This board is lead-free (it does not contain Pb).
h2. About the Linaro Stable Kernel (LSK)
-The Linaro Stable Kernel (LSK) is produced, validated and released by Linaro and is based on the linux stable kernel tree. The LSK focuses on quality and stability and is therefore a great foundation for product development. It also includes backports of commonly desired features, provided they meet the quality requirements, and also any bug fixes.
+The Linaro Stable Kernel (LSK) is produced, validated and released by Linaro and is based on the Linux stable kernel tree. The LSK focuses on quality and stability and is therefore a great foundation for product development. It also includes backports of commonly desired features, provided they meet the quality requirements, and also any bug fixes.
-LSK releases appear monthly. Sources are also made available so you can build your own images (see the "'Building from Source'":https://releases.linaro.org/14.06/openembedded/vexpress-lsk/#tabs-3 tab).
+LSK releases appear monthly. Sources are also made available so you can build your own images (see the "'Building from Source'":https://releases.linaro.org/14.06/android/images/armv8-android-juno-lsk/#tabs-3 tab).
+
+
+h2. License
+
+The use of Juno software is subject to the terms of the Juno "End User License Agreement":https://releases.linaro.org/14.06/android/images/armv8-android-juno-lsk/#tabs-5.
h2. Support
-Please send any support enquiries to "juno-support@arm.com":mailto:juno-support@arm.com?subject=Juno%20support%20request Linaro Member engineers will receive higher priority support for Juno by sending support requests to "support@linaro.org":mailto:support@linaro.org?subject=Juno%20support%20request or visiting "http://support.linaro.org":http://support.linaro.org.
+Please send any support enquiries to "juno-support@arm.com":mailto:juno-support@arm.com?subject=Juno%20support%20request Linaro Member engineers may receive priority support for Juno by sending support requests to "support@linaro.org":mailto:support@linaro.org?subject=Juno%20support%20request or visiting "http://support.linaro.org":http://support.linaro.org.
+
+h2. Functionality Listed by Software Component
-h2. Functionality in this release
+h3. AOSP Filesystem
-The current release supports the following:
+* Snapshot of the AOSP Master at 1st of June 2014
+* ART Runtime enabled as default and booting in 64-bit primary mode
+* GPU support. The driver itself is believed performant but issues with HDLCD driver impact on-screen performance
+* HDLCD is fully supported, but is currently only single-buffered leading to visual artefacts
+
+h3. Linux Kernel
-* Full cold boot support to Linux shell or Android homescreen
-* Multicore support in Linux, all six CPUs enabled.
-* Experimental big.LITTLE MP support. The code is functional but has not been tuned and there are no performance guarantees.
+* Support for the ARM Juno Development Platform
+* Limited set of peripherals present on the Juno development board: on-chip USB, non-secure UART, HDMI output, keyboard and mouse functionality over PS/2 connector, ethernet support is provided via on-board SMSC ethernet chip.
* Full USB driver support in Linux, for access to mass storage and input devices.
-* There is no GPU support for Linux in this release.
-* GPU support in Android, functional but *not performant*. The performance issues will be addressed in the next release.
-* HDLCD is fully supported, but is not performant on Android. This will be addressed in the next release.
-* Thermal protection is enabled. If the SoC reaches 85C it will shut down. Linux will receive a warning at 75C.
-* Stable operating points are enabled for nominal (Cortex-A57 800MHz, Cortex-A53 700MHz, Mali T624 600MHz) and overdrive (Cortex-A57 1100MHz, Cortex-A53 850MHz).
-* DVFS is supported in the SCP firmware and the Linux CPUFreq driver.
-* The Linux CPUIdle driver is included, but is disabled by default. The latency table has not been tuned and when CPUIdle is enabled, performance suffers accordingly. This will be addressed in the next release.
-* Android patches and defconfig have been merged to unify the Linux and Android kernels.
-* There is no PCIe support in this release.
+* big.LITTLE MP support for all 6 cores.
+* Unified kernel and kernel config for Android and Linux. 
+* DVFS stable operating points are enabled for nominal (Cortex-A57 800MHz, Cortex-A53 700MHz, Mali T624 600MHz) and overdrive (Cortex-A57 1100MHz, Cortex-A53 850MHz).
+
+h3. UEFI
+
+* Booting an Operating System from NOR Flash or USB mass storage
+* Support for Ethernet and PXE boot
-h3. Functionality listed by software component
+h3. AP Trusted Firmware
-h4. SCP Firmware
+* Send the SCP firmware to SCP
+* Initialize the Trusted World before transitioning into Normal World.
+* Service CPU hotplug requests coming from Normal World
+* PSCI implementation
+
+h3. SCP Firmware
* System configuration
* DDR initialization
* Basic power state management
* SCPI commands (Ready, Set/Get Clocks, Set/Get CPU power states)
-* Thermal protection (shutdown at 85C)
+* Thermal protection (shutdown at 85C, Linux will receive a warning at 75C)
* DVFS support
-h4. AP Trusted Firmware
+h2. Known Limitations Listed by Software Component
-* Send the SCP firmware to SCP
-* Initialize the Trusted World before transitioning into Normal World.
-* Service CPU hotplug requests coming from Normal World
-
-h4. UEFI
-
-* Booting an Operating System from NOR Flash or USB mass storage
-* Support for Ethernet and PXE boot
+h3. AOSP Filesystem
-h4. Linux Kernel
+* The ART code at the time of branching from master did not have compilation or optmization enabled. As a result performance will be limited for Java code
+* The Juno baseport integration with AOSP is at an early stage and not all applications using the NDK will work at this time.
+* HDLCD issues include a lack of double buffering meaning tearing can be seen
+* HDLCD compatibility with monitors is variable at this time
-* Enable Juno Compute Subsystem comprised of a dual A57 core cluster and a quad A53 core cluster.
-* Enable a limited set of peripherals present on the Juno development board: on-chip USB, non-secure UART, HDMI output, keyboard and mouse functionality over PS/2 connector, Ethernet support via on-board SMSC ethernet chip.
-* Experimental big.LITTLE support
-* Unified kernel and kernel config for Android and Linux. 
+h3. Linux Kernel
-h3. Limitations listed by software component
+* The big.LITTLE support is functional but has not yet been tuned for efficiency and performance.
-h4. SCP Firmware
+h3. UEFI
-* A number of SCPI commands are not yet implemented or are incomplete.
+* No display controller support
+* No USB OHCI support. Only EHCI is supported
-h4. AP Trusted Firmware
+h3. AP Trusted Firmware
* Does not support changing the primary core using SCC General Purpose Register 1.
* Does not support bringing up secondary cores using PSCI CPU_ON when they have been enabled at boot time by SCP using SCC General Purpose Register 1.
* Does not support Secure-EL1 Payload (i.e. BL3-2)
* Does not support CPU suspend
-h4. UEFI
+h3. SCP Firmware
-* No PCI Express support included
-* No display controller support
-* No USB OHCI support. Only EHCI is supported
+* A number of SCPI commands are not yet implemented or are incomplete.
-h4. Linux Kernel
+h2. Android AOSP Patch Summary
-* No PCI Express support included
-* No support for MALI graphics other than in Android releases
-* big.LITTLE support is experimental and there are no guarantees of performance. This support is disabled by default and must be "enabled":http://community.arm.com/docs/DOC-8664#biglittleenable before it can be used.
+The following list of patches developed by ARM and Linaro engineering teams were applied to Android AOSP dated June 1st 2014 to get Android booting to UI on the ARMv8-A Juno development platform. These patches can be found on Linaro's Android Git repositories. Some of these patches have been submitted to AOSP and are being tracked for acceptance.
+
+* "build boot files and generate tarballs":https://android.git.linaro.org/gitweb/platform/build.git/commit/6a33bdf27388be96ed49b7eea4ee3f1ca90700e8
+* "set default runtime and zygote property in device config files":https://android.git.linaro.org/gitweb/platform/build.git/commit/2f9ad5ea5eb6ce50d17a600f1df3403bb1e7c60d
+* "Increase timeouts":https://android.git.linaro.org/gitweb/platform/frameworks/base.git/commit/4776a5761247eca5750f52757d85bb060570b126
+* "Fix resolution issues for Juno.":https://android.git.linaro.org/gitweb/platform/frameworks/native.git/commit/ffa8b0c201615095f6783bc763b0bab9dbea9e33
+* "AArch64: force SurfaceFlinger to use last egl config":https://android.git.linaro.org/gitweb/platform/frameworks/native.git/commit/bba5860061cb0119ec8d08da766a3c58b51f9fe4
+* "Don't use memset to clear the framebuffer on arm64":https://android.git.linaro.org/gitweb/platform/hardware/libhardware.git/commit/d3080813c4284cd9a700bdc86bf3ee7807b8ceb4
+* "Increase timeouts for slow platforms":https://android.git.linaro.org/gitweb/platform/libcore.git/commit/c2ae1bd6b1879071a4ca0f0b3507f695759ebab9
+* "Don't write to the tty in init to avoid the cursor":https://android.git.linaro.org/gitweb/platform/system/core.git/commit/3e1977b8f719cc4e652902d7cd2331893d74ac6d
+* "Quick and dirty utility to sync the system clock on Juno":https://android.git.linaro.org/gitweb/platform/system/core.git/commit/60d4dfae50a65980b34f28639b468aa8bddea271
+* "bionic libc test: make it can be compiled for 64 bit":https://android.git.linaro.org/gitweb/platform/system/extras.git/commit/fcfff0a2c6e95e9e8e0643b4a4e495be60b1189c
h2. Known Issues
@@ -113,24 +134,3 @@ h3. Issues on OpenEmbedded images
* "LP:1081162":https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-oe/+bug/1081162 No arm64 support in klibc
* "LP:1235239":https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-oe/+bug/1235239 level 1 translation fault when extracting bzipped tarball
-h3. Issues on all Android images
-
-* "ARM-135":https://cards.linaro.org/browse/ARM-135 Juno: Android fails to boot when board has a date in the future
-* "Bug 54":https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54 DNS lookup doesn't work
-* "Bug 45":https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45 CTS errors - Unable to resolve host "loca" : No address associated with hostname
-* "Bug 12":https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12 Intermittent HDMI failures on 14.06 RC
-
-h3. Issues on Android for ARMv8 images
-
-* "Bug 51":https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51 Two tests from command-bionic_libc_tests fail on LAVA
-* "Bug 23":https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23 backtrace_test reports failures on 64/64 build
-* "Bug 11":https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11 Browser crashes on Juno in 14.06 RC
-* "Bug 10":https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10 settings crashed when running monkey
-* ARM JSW-749 Linux [Juno-Beta-rc3] With cpuidle enabled kernels android 64 bit fs shows performance degradation
-* ARM JSW-748 Linux [Juno-Beta-rc1] Screen blanking is seen at a regular frequency of one in 10 sec
-
-h3. Issues on Juice images
-
-* "Bug 22":https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22 Caffeinemark crashes
-* "Bug 21":https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21 browser crash when closing a tab
-