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Qualcomm and Linaro Enable Latest Flagship Snapdragon Compute SoC image
Abel Vesa
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Qualcomm and Linaro Enable Latest Flagship Snapdragon Compute SoC
Thursday, January 4, 2024
Arm Debian Qualcomm Snapdragon

Running fully fledged Debian desktop (including GPU rendering) with patches on top of linux-next on the X Elite (X1E80100) platform even before it has been announced

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Rust device backends for every hypervisor image
Erik Schilling
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Rust device backends for every hypervisor
Thursday, December 14, 2023
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Linaro has been busy on developing independent virtio devices for a wide range of device classes. Much of this was enabled with the help of the rust-vmm ecosystem. This blog...

QEMU 8.2 and Linaro’s Maintainer Story image
Alex Bennée
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QEMU 8.2 and Linaro’s Maintainer Story
Monday, December 11, 2023
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We discuss the impact of Linaro’s leadership in QEMU maintenance, the upcoming 8.2 release and the latest Arm architectural features you can now experiment with inside QEMU’s system emulation.

V6.2-V6.6 Linux Kernel (one year) stats: A journey into the heart of Linaro’s success image
Linaro - Author
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V6.2-V6.6 Linux Kernel (one year) stats: A journey into the heart of Linaro’s success
Monday, November 20, 2023
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With V6.6 Linaro celebrates another year of contributions to the Linux Kernel. Through our engineers’ expertise and dedication, we explore the significant contributions they have made gaining valuable insights into...

Standardizing firmware updates in U-Boot image
Sughosh Ganu
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Standardizing firmware updates in U-Boot
Monday, October 30, 2023
3 mins read

Most of the embedded devices Operating Systems are rarely updated. Updating the firmware of these is even rarer. Let’s have a look at what Linaro and its members did to...

Upstream Linux support now available for the the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform image
Neil Armstrong
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Upstream Linux support now available for the the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform
Thursday, October 26, 2023
4 mins read

Effortless upstream Linux integration, powerful performance optimization, running AOSP with Mainline and last but not least continued collaboration

WindowsPerf Release 3.0.0 image
Przemyslaw Wirkus
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WindowsPerf Release 3.0.0
Monday, October 23, 2023
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We are happy to announce the latest WindowsPerf release version 3.0.0. This major release is a continuation of WindowsPerf development. It combines updates from release 2.5.1 and adds new features...

Tracking code size variations between LLVM releases image
Antoine Moynault
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Tracking code size variations between LLVM releases
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
12 mins read

In this blog post, we talk about tracking the size of LLVM generated code and look at the results on the latest releases.

UEFI HTTP and HTTPs Boot in U-Boot image
Maxim Uvarov
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UEFI HTTP and HTTPs Boot in U-Boot
Monday, October 16, 2023
5 mins read

UEFI HTTP boot simplifies the network boot process by allowing the firmware to retrieve operating system images and EFI executables directly from an HTTP server. This eliminates the need for...

Improvements to GCC’s code-gen for vector initialization on AArch64 image
Prathamesh Kulkarni
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Improvements to GCC’s code-gen for vector initialization on AArch64
Monday, October 9, 2023
13 mins read

The blog post is about Linaro TCWG's improvements to code-gen in GCC for NEON vector initialization on AArch64 target. The post details a few examples of the improvements, and the...