Release Note of Ubuntu 15.10 (v1.0)

File name : ubuntu-15.10-mate-odroid-xu3-20160114.img

• Official US West Coast: http://odroid.in/ubuntu-15.10
• Official US East Coast: http://east.us.odroid.in/ubuntu-15.10 (Thanks to David Beauchamp @ ArchLinuxARM)
• Official EU Germany: http://de.eu.odroid.in/ubuntu-15.10
• Official Korea Mirror: http://dn.odroid.com/5422/ODROID-XU3/Ubuntu/

• Ubuntu 15.10
• Kernel 3.10.92
• Updated Mali Driver to r9p0 (OpenGL ES 3.1 works on X11)
• Improved SD card compatibility
• Auto-resizing the root file system partition in the first booting process
• WDT is added Watchdog on Linux/Ubuntu
• Enabled Quota Support
• Disabled RTC warning messages (spam on logs)
• Updated Kodi to 15.2
• Realtek 8812AU Drivers (incl. TP-Link Archer T4U)
• Add support for 32Mhz pixel clock on HDMI
• Better Docker/LXC support
• DVI/HDMI Mode control via boot.ini
• 800×480 resolution support via new boot.ini option
• Added a patch to reduce the OOM issue.
• You can now check CPU Throttling status running: cat /sys/devices/10060000.tmu/throttle

• Mali black-screen issue.
• This image is not compatible with new Orange eMMC module.
• Tons of issues undocumented.

Edit /etc/chromium-browser/default like this:

CHROMIUM_FLAGS=" --use-gl=egl --ignore-gpu-blacklist --disable-accelerated-2d-canvas --num-raster-threads=2"

You can see much smoother HTML rendering. Try this link to test the Webgl on the ODROID. Webgl demo

Tip: When you exit the full-screen mode, the screens goes just black from time to time.
Press “Ctrl-Alt-F2” and “Ctrl-Alt-F7” as a workaround.

Note
Preinstalled Chromium Ver-47 shows wrong video rendering when we play Youtube.
To fix the issue, you need to enable the EGL option as described in above.

The Kodi(xbmc) crashes when exit.

Workaround : Open a virtual terminal (ctrl-alt-F2) and kill it.

• killall -9 kodi.bin

And return to desktop (ctrl-alt-F7)

This issue has been fixed with the latest Kernel update.
Just run “sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade”

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

All source code used can be found here: https://github.com/mdrjr/5422_BSP

This guide is only for the NATIVE BUILD. Run it on the board.

For Kernel and DTB

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hardkernel/linux -b odroidxu3-3.10.y
$ cd linux
$ make odroidxu3_defconfig
$ make -j9
$ sudo make modules_install
$ sudo cp arch/arm/boot/zImage /media/boot
$ sudo cp arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5422-odroidxu3.dtb /media/boot

For RAMDISK (Optional)

sudo cp .config /boot/config-`make kernelrelease`
sudo update-initramfs -c -k `make kernelrelease`
sudo mkimage -A arm -O linux -T ramdisk -C none -a 0 -e 0 -n uInitrd -d /boot/initrd.img-`make kernelrelease` /boot/uInitrd-`make kernelrelease`
sudo cp /boot/uInitrd-`make kernelrelease` /media/boot/uInitrd