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Odroid N2/N2+ 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.
  • Includes kernel 5.10.2 with chewitt panfrost patches and tobetter patches.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • Updated kernel from 5.7 to 5.8
  • Enabled audio support.
  • Added repository for easy software updates.
  • Improved uboot-odroid-n2plus to generate proper boot.ini if changing from 5.x kernel to 4.9.
  • Latest software updates.

Date - 05/08/2020

  • First release

Headless

Date - 30/12/2020

  • First release

XFCE

Date - 29/12/2020

  • Switched to panfrost mesa driver from mali binary driver.
  • Improved initial setup script to not require a system reboot, so the system doesn’t reboots anymore after reaching login manager.
  • Includes kernel 5.10.2 with chewitt panfrost patches and tobetter patches.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • Changed kernel name from linux-odroid-n2plus to linux-odroid-g12 in an effort to unify kernel builds for N2 and C4,
  • Improved uboot-odroid-n2plus to generate proper boot.ini if changing from 4.9 kernel to 5.x.
  • Added newer odroid-n2-libgl-fb package that can coexist with odroid-n2-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.
  • Dropped mainline kernel xfce image since that kernel can be installed from the repo.
  • Latest software updates.

Date - 20/08/2020

  • Added image with latest 4.9.230 kernel which has new overlay to always have fan running on N2+, and has updated wifi module driver.
  • Added odroid-alsa package to the 4.9.230 image.

Date - 05/08/2020

  • 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
  • Swapped kernel 4.9.10 with 5.7.10 for better rendering performance.

Date - 27/07/2020

  • Swapped mainline kernel with hardkernel 4.9.230 g12 branch.
  • Updated uboot to latest automatic travis build provided by hardkernel.
  • Enabled kernel 4.9.230 modules as in official ubuntu image.
  • Removed dkms-mali-bifrost since that driver is already built into kernel.
  • Removed dkms-8812au driver which is also built into kernel.
  • Modified odroid-n2-libgl-fb to not require dkms-mali-bifrost.
  • Added latest GL4ES from git.

Date - 19/05/2020

  • First release

Wayfire

Date - 24/02/2021

  • Updated kernel to 5.11.0 with patch for 1Ghz colckrate for gpu
  • Updated uboot and boot.ini file to support forcing an edid bin file for problematic displays that don’t properly boot with petitboot.
  • Overall package updates.

Date - 09/02/2021

  • Updated kernel package to 5.11 rc6 (linux-odroid-511)
  • Set cpupower governor to performance by default.
  • Added panfrost-performance systemd service that sets gpu governor to performance at startup.
  • Includes latest mesa-arm-git package with new bifrost scheduler by panfrost developers.
  • Overall software updates.

Date -31/12/2020

  • Includes kernel 5.10.2 with chewitt panfrost patches and tobetter patches.
  • Switched from mali drivers to mesa+panfrost.
  • 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.
  • Latest software updates.

Date - 05/08/2020

  • 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

Date - 03/08/2020

  • Swapped archlinux linux-aarch64 kernel with tobetter fork (5.7.10) which has support for n2+.
  • Updated uboot to latest automatic travis build provided by hardkernel.

Date - 27/05/2020

  • First release