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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Power Management of an ARM system
When we look at power management of an ARM system, cpuidle and cpufreq are the 1st power-saving functions that are used on the ARM core. The cpu hotpug is another one which has been introduced on ARM smp system but … Continue reading
Kernel Upstreaming
Recently, Linus Torvalds and senior kernel maintainers have been complaining that the consolidation within the ARM Linux code base is not happening quickly enough. As an indication of the scale of this problem, each new kernel release sees about 70,000 new … Continue reading
Discussion with Thomas Gleixner, Arnd Bergmann, Grant Likely and Paul McKenney
At the Linaro Developer Summit in Budapest, I managed to catch four famous kernel developers and record an interesting discussion with them (together with restaurant noise in the background, unless these were echoes of the big kernel lock being torn … Continue reading
May CEO Report
Earlier this month we held our Developer Summit in Budapest, alongside the Ubuntu Developer Summit. This was our biggest event yet, with around 200 Linaro-affiliated attendees. Thank you to everyone who participated. One purpose of the summit is to take … Continue reading
LDS video: what is upstreaming?
I brought my HD camcorder at the Linaro Developer Summit in Budapest last month, and I managed to videotape an interesting talk from Lee Jones (ST-Ericsson Landing Team Lead). This talk was plenty of good advice, not only for Linaro … Continue reading