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p. The LSK team is pleased to announce the 2014.12 release of the Linaro Stable Kernel (LSK).

h4. Interesting changes include:

* Initial release of the v3.14 based LSK based on
** kernel.org "3.14.26 stable tree":https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.14.26
* Updates to:
** kernel.org "3.10.62 stable tree":https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.10.62
** Android support (from Google and Linaro)
** ARMv8 fixes and performance enhancements
** Support for CLK_DIVIDER_ROUND_CLOSEST
** DWC3 link power management (v3.14 only)
** Device tree bindings for generic power domains

h4. Features

* Based on "3.10.62 stable tree":https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.10.62 and "3.14.26 stable tree":https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.14.26
* big.LITTLE support:
** ARM MP patch set (v3.10 only)
** IKS (ARMv7 only)
* ARMv8 features:
** Architected timer event
** Big endian
** CMA
** CPU idle via PSCI
** CPU frequency scaling
** CPU topology
** CPU suspend
** KGDB
** NEON
** Non-coherent DMA
** Perf
** Tagged pointers
** UEFI
* Power efficient workqueue support
* Android v3.10 patch set from AOSP
* Interactive scheduler enhancements for big.LITTLE
* Big endian support
* Thermal framework DT support
* pinctrl group update support
* Support for CLK_DIVIDER_ROUND_CLOSEST
* DWC3 link power management (v3.14 only)
* Device tree bindings for generic power domains
* GATOR
* KVM
* ARMv8 4xA57 4xA53 FVP support
* vexpress TC2 support

<p>The release is also available via tags in the LSK git repository:

bc. git://git.linaro.org/kernel/linux-linaro-stable.git lsk-v3.10-14.09
git://git.linaro.org/kernel/linux-linaro-stable.git lsk-v3.10-android-14.09
bc. git://git.linaro.org/kernel/linux-linaro-stable.git lsk-v3.10-preview-14.09
git://git.linaro.org/kernel/linux-linaro-stable.git lsk-v3.10-android-preview-14.09

More information on Linaro Stable Kernel is available at "http://wiki.linaro.org/LSK":http://wiki.linaro.org/LSK</p>

p. "Linaro Stable Kernel test plan":https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/document/d/1smBonzNHsqLCxvEyol_xCEG0VsFOJ6f0rgSd1DfKG6k

h4. Fixed in this release

h4. Known issues

* Due to ongoing work to remove assumptions in the testsuite for use in simulation the ARMv8 specific testing of HMP is limited in the current release.
* Android Lollipop does not work on v3.14 ARMv8, a fix will be provided in 15.01

h4. Feedback and Support

Subscribe to the important Linaro mailing lists and join our IRC channels to stay on top of Linaro development.

** Linaro Kernel Development "mailing list":http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-kernel
** Linaro Kernel IRC channel on irc.freenode.net at @#linaro-kernel@

* Bug reports should be filed in Launchpad against "Linaro Stable Kernel project":http://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-stable-kernel/+filebug.
* Questions? "ask Linaro":http://ask.linaro.org/.
* Interested in commercial support? inquire at "Linaro support":mailto:support@linaro.org