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New Release: Yocto Rocko v1.2 for VAR-SOM-MX7 Modules

Wednesday, 01 Aug 2018

Release date: 03/07/2018

Variscite is pleased to inform about the Yocto Rocko v1.2 release for the VAR-SOM-MX7 modules, based on NXP iMX7 processors.
Modules: VAR-SOM-MX7 (including VAR-SOM-MX7 and VAR-SOM-MX7-5G). 
Release: rocko-fslc-4.9.11-mx7-v1.2.

Noteworthy updates:

  • sources/poky :
    • Upgraded to 2.4.3
  • sources/meta-freescale:
    • Upgraded to latest stable
  • sources/meta-browser:
    • chromium-x11: Update to 67.0.3396.87
  • sources/meta-qt5:
    • – Qt: upgrade to 5.9.6
  • sources/meta-variscite-fslc:
    • Bluetooth: Reworked Variscite BT startup script
    • QT5: update the environment according to backend and CPU features
    • variscite_scripts: Install the rootfs to eMMC faster
    • Move wayland and Qt5 to dynamic layers
    • wifi-firmware: reworked recipes
    • Qt5 demo image (fsl-image-qt5) rework
    • Video Player icon bug fix
  • U-Boot:
    • Backup silence status before calling mmc_init
  • Kernel :
    • Reworked dtsi audio routing
    • net: fec: Fix memory stomp in fec_enet_private (fix eth after resume from suspend)
    • Add dmic widget support

 

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