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Monthly Archives: December 2011
The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period Dec. 21 to Dec. 27
Season’s Greetings from Linaro! Well, for some it’s working season This week has been slow in the western hemisphere, but at Linaro there are always a crew at work. Here’s what has been acomplished last week: Key Points for wider … Continue reading
Linaro 11.12 Released
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” ~Aristotle Linaro is pleased to announce the release of Linaro 11.12, a continuance of Linaro releases delivered on a monthly cadence. The Linaro 11.12 release … Continue reading
The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period Dec. 14 to Dec. 20
As you may have already heard, some great things are coming out of Linaro this week. Hardware accellerated graphics in Linaro Evaluation Builds! Incredible. My awesome collegues in Linaro worked together with member companies and communities in a focused effort, … Continue reading
Linaro offers accelerated builds of Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich
In a press release earlier today, Linaro announced the availability of builds of Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) supporting accelerated graphics on two of its member’s low cost development boards: the Samsung Origen and ST-Ericsson Snowball boards. When asked about … Continue reading
November CEO Report
Looking Forward Until now, Linaro has principally been focused on short-term challenges and needs from our members. As some of the more pressing issues have been resolved we have started to look further into the future. With input from all … Continue reading
big.LITTLE Technology – Two Usage Models
ARM announced its big.LITTLE technology on 19th October and Linaro were invited to participate in both the London and San Francisco launches. It is interesting technology, with two clusters of Cortex ARMv7 architecture cores (Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A7) joined together via … Continue reading
The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period Dec. 06 to Dec. 13
It’s getting real close to the 11.12 release now. We are all putting in a little extra effort. Hardware acceleration will make a huge difference to our platform, and it is happening right now on two of our boards. The … Continue reading
Linaro GCC 4.6 & 4.5 2011.12 released
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2011.12 release of both Linaro GCC 4.6 and Linaro GCC 4.5. Linaro GCC 4.6 2011.12 is the tenth release in the 4.6 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.6.2+svn181866, it … Continue reading
Linaro Announces Community Contributor Process and Team
Today, Linaro announces the formation of the Linaro Community Contributor Process and Team. Linaro itself is now an organisation of around 120 engineers, but as we continue to grow the community around us is also growing fast. We’re grateful to … Continue reading
The Linaro Android Platform Team is busy as always.
Here’s what the Android Platform Team has been up to this week… Key Points The Linaro toolchain has been integrated into all Linaro Android 4.0 ICS builds. Still some optimizations to be forward-ported. Finished 11.12 planning 11.12 RC Pre-Release 2 … Continue reading