Tiny Core Base > piCore Final Releases
piCore-6.0 released
bmarkus:
Team Tiny Core is pleased to announce the immediate availability of piCore-6.0:
http://tinycorelinux.net/6.x/armv6/releases/6.0/
The most important change is use of the official long term 3.12.y (3.12.36) kernel to offer more stable operation over experimental kernels and to get wider range of hardware supported, specially the audio devices.
fltk library has been updated to 1.3.3 to enable unicode. fltk-1.1 and 1.3 can be installed at the same time, and old apps using 1.1 will continue to work.
Size of SD card images reduced.
Boots in safe overclocking mode to shorten boot time by 20% with performance governor; switch to ondemand when startup finished.
Other changes:
* Core base synced to common 6.0 base
* Raspberry Pi firmware updated to January 19, 2015 version
* e2fsprogs updated to 1.42.12
* util-linux updated to 2.25.2
* BusyBox v1.20.2
* eglibc replaced with glibc, version 2.20
* kernel modules in base rearranged
* cmdline.txt simplified, dropped waitusb switch
* serial terminal started by default
* GCC updated to 4.9.2
* tcz repository updated
Images with preinstalled SSH for headless operation and with GUI also available.
Updating previous versions on Raspberry Pi without removing SD card
Download piCore-6.0-boot.tar.gz extract to a temporary folder and overwrite content of /mnt/mmcblk0p1 after mounting it. It will overwrite custom boot options. If you have customised cmdline.txt on config.txt in the old system, do it again. Do not reboot if using wireless remote connection, otherwise you will loose connection due to incompatible kernel modules!
Next download kernel module tcz's from the repo matching new kernel version and reboot. You must have a new, updated system working.
Please note, there may be kernel module extensions which are not yet available in the repo.
Before modifying mmcblk01 content, it is adviced to make backup to a persistent device.
For support visit http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/board,57.0.html
Paul_123:
I did the inplace upgrade, But that part looks good.
Gerrelt:
Hi Béla,
I am installing this right now.
Are you planning to add the mt7601 wifi adapter driver to this release to?
Greetings,
Gerrelt.
lykkedk:
Hi Bela'
Nice job :)...
When do you think, the kernel will freeze with this release?
Or is it 3.12.36, which will be used further on now?
I am asking, because i will build a bunch of special app. (Lirc etc.. Which uses some kernel modules)
I am just waiting for the kernel to settle :)
Regards / Jesper
bmarkus:
--- Quote from: Gerrelt on January 21, 2015, 02:22:49 PM ---
Are you planning to add the mt7601 wifi adapter driver to this release to?
--- End quote ---
Yes, next week
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