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Odroid C4/HC4 Images Changes Log

Changes Log for the various disk images of this device.

GNOME

Date - 30/12/2020

  • Improved initial setup script to not require a system reboot, so the system doesn’t reboots anymore after reaching login manager.
  • Recent build of mesa-arm-git which seems to have fixed some rendering issues on supertuxkart and have better performance.
  • Default /boot/boot.ini now has the bootlabel set to “ArchLinux GNOME Lite” by the image generator.
  • Latest software updates.

Date - 21/12/2020

  • Switch to panfrost mesa driver from mali binary drivers.
  • Use 5.10 kernel with panfrost patches from tobetter linux branch in order to also properly support the hc4.
  • Includes recently build mesa from git with panfrost support and automated builds are automatically fetched from the pamac update manager.
  • Added hc4 enabled uboot-odroid-c4 package.
  • Use uuid on /boot/boot.ini and /etc/fstab instead of devices names to prevent possible boot issues.
  • Latest software updates.

Date - 23/10/2020

  • First release

XFCE

Date - 29/12/2020

  • Improved initial setup script to not require a system reboot, so the system doesn’t reboots anymore after reaching login manager.

Date - 29/12/2020

  • Updated kernel to 5.10.2
  • Fixed initial setup script to properly resize root partition on first boot.
  • Included recent build of mesa-arm-git which seems to have fixed some rendering issues on supertuxkart and have better performance.
  • Default /boot/boot.ini now has the bootlabel set to “ArchLinux XFCE” by the image generator.

Date - 21/12/2020

  • Switched to panfrost mesa driver from mali binary driver.
  • Use 5.10 kernel with panfrost patches from tobetter linux branch in order to also properly support the hc4.
  • Includes recently build mesa from git with panfrost support and automated builds are automatically fetched from the pamac update manager.
  • Added hc4 enabled uboot-odroid-c4 package.
  • Use uuid on /boot/boot.ini and /etc/fstab instead of devices names to prevent possible boot issues.

Date - 23/10/2020

  • Changed kernel name from linux-odroid-c4 to linux-odroid-g12 in an effort to unify kernel builds for N2 and C4,
  • Improved uboot-odroid-c4 to generate proper boot.ini if changing from 4.9 kernel to 5.x.
  • Added newer odroid-c4-libgl-fb package that can coexist with odroid-c4-libgl-wl package. Also both packages include a helper script (odroid-mali-wl, odroid-mali-fb) to run applications with that specific libMali version. Run odroid-mali-wl or odroid-mali-fb for usage instructions.
  • Updated odroid-gl4es package that includes tool that can be used to enable/disable it as to run applications with gl4es even if disabled, for usage run odroid-gl4es.
  • Latest software updates.

Date - 24/08/2020

  • Updated kernel to 4.9.230 kernel which has updated wifi module driver.
  • Set kernel timer frequency to 1000hz.
  • Enabled Automatic process group scheduling
  • Disabled NSA SELinux
  • Disabled integrity subsystem
  • Added odroid-alsa package.
  • Added automatic resizing of system partition, generation of locales and setup of /etc/fstab
  • Fixed booting from emmc module when sdcard is not present by properly setting up /etc/fstab
  • Updated odroid-gl4es and added shell script to easily disable/enable it (run odroid-gl4es for usage info).
  • Added realtime privileges to alarm user for pro-audio.

Date - 20/05/2020

  • First release

Wayfire

Date - 05/01/2021

  • Added updated mesa-arm-git package.
  • Dropped libva-mesa-driver (now included with mesa-arm-git).

Date - 31/12/2020

  • Added support for HC4
  • Includes kernel 5.10.2 with chewitt panfrost patches and tobetter patches.
  • Switched from mali drivers to mesa+panfrost.
  • Improved initial setup script to not require a system reboot, so the system doesn’t reboots anymore after reaching login manager.
  • Default /boot/boot.ini now has the bootlabel set to “ArchLinux Wayfire” by the image generator.
  • Use uuid on /boot/boot.ini and /etc/fstab instead of devices names to prevent possible boot issues.

Date - 03/06/2020

  • First release