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About Deepak Saxena

Deepak has been using Linux since 1993 and has over 10 years of experience working on the kernel in various roles. He started out with driver development and ARM board bring up at MontaVista and then maintainted their kernel along with a few ARM sub-architectures (IXP and IOP from Intel) in the community, helped drive product road maps, and built technical relationships with silicon vendors. He then worked at OLPC helping with maintaining their kernels, did some ARM board bring up consulting work. Prior to being involved with Linaro, Deepak was at Mentor Graphics where he worked on various low level aspects of the kernel, spent some time consulting with an automotive ODM on transitioning to Linux, and was involved with the GENIVI Alliance.

Kernel Working Group – A Linaro Connect Retrospective

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

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 →

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The Evolution of the Linaro Kernel

Posted on September 9, 2011 by

In the last few months Linaro has shifted from releasing a kernel every 6 months to releasing monthly kernel snapshots, which allow members and the broader ARM community to have access to an updated kernel in a more timely manner. … Continue reading →

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Enabling Device Tree support on ARM platforms

Posted on August 15, 2011 by

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 →

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