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Monthly Archives: November 2011
LAVA@Home
I’m currently working on the flexible LAVA deployment blueprint. This blueprint is about untying our hands (both as developers and administrators) from having to provide Debian packages for our releases. This is especially important our major new dependency, celery, is not available … Continue reading
A Case for Open-Source GPU Drivers
For some time after I signed on as the graphics working group tech lead at Linaro, upon meeting someone new, the first thing after “nice to meet you” was invariably, “When do we get free drivers?”. Ideologically, this seems like … Continue reading
Linaro 11.11 Released
The Linaro Team is pleased to announce the release of Linaro 11.11, another of Linaro’s releases delivered on a monthly cadence.This release includes components delivered by all Linaro Teams: Working Groups, Landing Teams and Platform Teams. Some outstanding effort has … Continue reading
Compiling the Snowball ICS Build from Scratch
What’s better than flashy videos of Snowball running ICS? Snowball Running ICS from http://android-build.linaro.org …or trying a prebuilt ICS out for yourself on Snowball? Instructions and Binaries Getting the source and compiling it yourself! mkdir bin export PATH=$PWD/bin:$PATH curl https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/googlesource/git-repo/repo … Continue reading
Installing F-Droid on Linaro builds
In a previous post, I wrote about using app markets with Linaro builds. One app market offering a selection of Free Software for Android is F-Droid[1]. Installation is fairly simple, but does require some configuration changes to get the most … Continue reading
Linaro QEMU 2011.11 released
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of Linaro QEMU 2011.11. Linaro QEMU 2011.11 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 GCC 4.6 2011.11 released
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2011.11 release of Linaro GCC 4.6. No changes were made in Linaro GCC 4.5 or Linaro GDB this month and, as such, no release has been made. Linaro GCC 4.6 … Continue reading
Kernel Working Group – A Linaro Connect Retrospective
Linaro’s Kernel Working Group had a productive week at Linaro Connect Q4.11 in Orlando, co-located with the Ubuntu Developer’s Summit. The primary theme of the week was Upstreaming, focusing on next steps to get new technologies upstream, assuring the quality … Continue reading
Automated Validation with LAVA
LAVA is at the heart of the value Linaro brings: its aims are improving automated testing of the open source components that are used in the major Linux-based software platforms, and increasing confidence in the quality of enablement for our members’ … Continue reading
First videos from Linaro Connect Q4.11
Linaro Connect Q4.11 was a great place to learn about Linaro projects and to contribute to them, as well as to build tighter ties with the Linaro engineers and community. For those who couldn’t participate to this event, here are … Continue reading