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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Linaro 11.08 Released
The Linaro Team is pleased to announce the release of Linaro 11.08. 11.08 is the Linaro’s third release delivered on the new monthly cadence. Once again, this release includes components delivered by all Working Groups, Landing Teams and Platform Teams, … Continue reading
Community Feedback
The Engineering Resources team is trying to solicit feedback from the community. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for you to get your job done. With that in mind, we’d like to check in with you … Continue reading
Linaro Android codebase migrated to Gerrit (location changed!)
At the end of last week, we started final stage of Linaro Android migration to Gerrit. If you keep an eye on our trees, that’s the first thing you should know about the migration: Linaro Android codebase now has a … Continue reading
First Android LEB available on Snowball
Another quarter has passed, another face-to-face summit is ongoing within Linaro and the team has once again impressive achievements to show! At ST-Ericsson we are particularly excited about the availability of the latest 3.0 Linux kernel on Snowball – fully … Continue reading
Enabling Device Tree support on ARM platforms
Linaro hosted its first Connect event last week in Cambridge, UK; providing an opportunity for Linaro and community developers to gather and work on current tasks and plan for the future. The kernel working group used this time to work … Continue reading
July CEO Report
Last month I discussed how Linaro’s working groups deliver technology to kernel.org and other upstreams. Over time, open source distributions including Google’s Android utilize this work in their latest releases, benefiting Linaro’s ARM SoC members by accelerating their time to … Continue reading
LAVA Fundamentals
This blog post talks about the core topics that LAVA deals with, dives into the architecture of the stack as it exists today and provides some background rationale for the design choices we made. If you are not familiar with … Continue reading
Linaro Connect video – Android vs. Linaro Android
Linaro Connect – Cambridge, UK, August 2011. Zach Pfeffer, Linaro Android Tech Lead, demonstrates two Panda boards running Android. On the right, there’s Google’s Android, built with the gcc 4.4 toolchain provided by Google, and the Pandroid kernel. On the … Continue reading
Linaro Connect: kernel hackers share git tips
Cambridge, UK, August 2011. Linux kernel hackers Arnd Bergmann, Nicolas Pitre, Grant Likely, Linus Walleij, Deepak Saxeena, Amit Kucheria, David Brown, Jon Masters, Nicolas Ferre, Jon Medhurst (Tixy), John Rigby and others share their best tips for advanced git usage. … Continue reading
LAVA Introduction
Hi there. This is my first blog post for a long while and my very first post wearing my Linaro LAVA hat. Over the next several weeks I will introduce various topics related to LAVA, describe the overall architecture and … Continue reading