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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Linaro 11.10 Released
The Linaro Team is pleased to announce the release of Linaro 11.10, Linaro’s fifth release delivered on a monthly cadence. This release includes components delivered by all Linaro Teams: Working Groups, Landing Teams and Platform Teams. Again, the effort brings … Continue reading
Using App Markets with Linaro Android builds
Software distribution on modern smartphones tends to be centralised in markets. Just as iPhone has iTunes, Android has the Android Market, but also allows other markets such as F-Droid. The Android Market application is not Free Software, and is only … Continue reading
Compiler flags used to speed up Linaro Android 2011.10, and future optimizations
People trying out the latest Linaro Android builds may notice they’re faster than the older versions. One of the reasons for this is that we’re using a new set of compiler flags for this build. We’ve switched from a base … Continue reading
Linaro at the launch of ARM’s new Cortex-A7 processor
I was in San Francisco for the launch of ARM’s new Cortex-A7 processor last week. ARM invited me along to talk about Linaro’s involvement in enabling big.LITTLE support in new devices. Jeff Chu from ARM talked with me about this … Continue reading
The Second Android 11.10 Pre-Release is Out!
The second Android pre-release is done and has been tested. Overview Each build is based on Android 2.3.5 and has been compiled with Linaro’s 11.10 GCC 4.6 release, with -O3 and strict-aliasing turned on. Tracking builds are based on “Androidized” … Continue reading
Linaro Android Bot Review Achieves Deployment On Review.android.git.linaro.org
This week saw the first deployment of the Linaro Android Review Bot[1][2]. This further integrates our Gerrit[3] code review system[4] with our Jenkins[5] build system, and our LAVA[6] validation and test system. Changes approved by reviewers in Gerrit are now … Continue reading
ARM Landing Team Up and Running
The ARM Landing Team is now up and running. This small team consists of Jon Medhurst (Tixy) and Ryan Harkin. Tixy and Ryan met with their ARM colleagues in Cambridge recently and took delivery of A5 and A9 Versatile Express … Continue reading
Linaro GCC 4.6 and 4.5 2011.10 released
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2011.10 release of both Linaro GCC 4.6 and Linaro GCC 4.5. Linaro GCC 4.6 2011.10 is the eighth release in the 4.6 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.6.1+svn179483, it … Continue reading
Linaro QEMU 2011.10 released
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of Linaro QEMU 2011.10. Linaro QEMU 2011.10 is the latest monthly release of qemu-linaro. Based off upstream (trunk) QEMU, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes and enhancements. … Continue reading
Linaro GDB 7.3 2011.10 released
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of Linaro GDB 7.3. Linaro GDB 7.3 2011.10 is the third release in the 7.3 series. Based off the latest GDB 7.3, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug … Continue reading