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Monthly Archives: January 2012
The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period Jan. 18 to Jan. 25
Hello again. The 12.01 Release is out. The full story can be found here. The Android team is now working closely with the Landing teams to get hardware acceleration going on all fronts. Here is a summary of this weeks … Continue reading
Linaro 12.01 release
“Action is the foundational key to all success.” ~Pablo Picasso We are pleased to announce the release of Linaro 12.01. Linaro engineers worked tirelessly on this release to bring hardware accelerated video decoding that is fully supported on the Texas … Continue reading
Demo Friday at Linaro Connect Q1.12 to show the latest Linux developments on ARM
Linaro is excited to announce that we will once again be having our Demo Friday at Linaro Connect Q1.12 to show the latest Linux developments on ARM. Linaro members, partners and community offer interactive demonstrations showcasing ARM-processor-based boards and Linaro … Continue reading
The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period Jan. 11 to Jan. 18
Hello again. Next week is 12.01 Release Week and the Android Team is hard at work with their blueprints. The 4.6 toolchain has been released, and there are pre-releases of Android ICS already working on most boards. The bug list … Continue reading
Linaro GCC 4.6 and 4.5 2012.01 released
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2012.01 release of Linaro GCC 4.6 and Linaro GCC 4.5. No changes were made in Linaro GDB this month and, as such, no release has been made. Linaro GCC 2012.01 … Continue reading
Linaro QEMU 2012.01 released
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of Linaro QEMU 2012.01. Linaro QEMU 2012.01 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’s Emphasis on dma_buf in the 3.3 Linux Kernel
Jesse Barker, Graphics WG (Working Group) Tech Lead for Linaro shares with readers the importance and challenges in getting dma_buf inclusion for 3.3 Linux Kernel. Back in April, as we—a collective group of hardware vendors, software vendors, kernel developers and … Continue reading
FXI’s Cotton Candy at CES Leverages Open Source Tools from Linaro for Rapid Development
FXI‘s Cotton Candy at CES is proof of how Linaro can help a system vendor rapidly develop a product that is running the latest Android ICS and Ubuntu. FXI said in it’s announcement it leveraged the Linaro for ARM open software and … Continue reading
December CEO Report
Despite the impact of the very welcome holiday season Linaro achieved a new set of monthly deliverables described below. As we start a new year it’s worth reminding ourselves of the achievements of the last 12 months: In February we … Continue reading
The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period Dec. 28 to Jan. 03
Hello! This week’s excitement is that we are moving all Android integration and daily builds to Android version 4.0.3. This is going very well. We have found that there are far too many old bug reports that are no longer … Continue reading