Thanks to another heroic integration effort from Ola Jeppsson, we now have a much improved Parallella Linux Distribution based on Ubuntu 15.04. (Note the name change from “pubuntu” to “parabuntu”)
Here’s a selection of some of the pre-installed features:
- HDMI improvements (Thanks to Peter Saunderson and Ola Jeppsson)
- GDB Epiphany multicore support (Thanks to Pedro Alvez)
- EPYTHON parallel programming framework (Thanks to Nick Brown)
- OpenMP 4.0 Device Support (Thanks to University of Ioannina)
- OpenCL (Thanks to Brown Deer Technologies)
- PAL Epiphany backend (Thanks to Ola Jeppsson)
- Fallback support for FPGA only loads (Thanks to Ola Jeppsson)
- Epiphany multicore simulator support (Thanks to Ola Jeppsson)
- GCC 5.4 Epiphany Upgrade
- GDB 7.12 Epiphany Upgrade
- Update to ADI Linux 2016_R1 Linux kernel branch
The full release notes can be found HERE. To burn a new SD card, visit the usual page.
To get started, burn a card and try one of the many parallella community projects.
