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About David Rusling

David is Linaro's Chief Technical Officer. David always enjoyed mathematics, but America's space program together with 'Star Trek' made him think that computers were really interesting and so he graduated in 1982 with a degree in Computer Science. The future turns out to have less flashing lights than he expected. At Digital Equipment Corporation he got involved in the port of Linux® to the Alpha processor. This gave him an abiding respect for the power of open source in general and Linux in particular. He worked on StrongARM before moving to ARM where he added tools experience. He's an ARM Fellow; which he says, "really means that I'm a techno-dweeb with a wide freedom to meddle."

big.LITTLE Technology – Two Usage Models

Posted on December 15, 2011 by David Rusling

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 →

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Kernel Upstreaming

Posted on June 9, 2011 by David Rusling

Recently, Linus Torvalds and senior kernel maintainers have been complaining that the consolidation within the ARM Linux code base is not happening quickly enough.   As an indication of the scale of this problem, each new kernel release sees about 70,000 new … Continue reading →

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Budapest LDS

Posted on May 17, 2011 by David Rusling

I’ve just got back from a busy week at the Linaro Developer Summit in Budapest.  At the last LDS we decided that we wanted to integrate the activities of the TSC (Technical Steering Committee) into the developer summit, rather than … Continue reading →

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Linaro and Distributions

Posted on October 26, 2010 by David Rusling

Linaro works in upstream open source projects, ensuring that the ARM architecture and embedded platforms are well supported.    Along the way, the ARM community is learning how to be more open and collaborative, both within the open source community and … Continue reading →

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Linaro deliverables

Posted on August 18, 2010 by David Rusling

Talking about the six monthly Linaro releases is, perhaps, a little misleading. It may create the impression that there are no Linaro deliverables between the six monthly release dates. The truth is that there are many deliverables from Linaro; a … Continue reading →

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Is Linaro a Distribution?

Posted on July 1, 2010 by David Rusling

As I talk to people about Linaro, I’m often asked if Linaro is a distribution.   This is, in some ways, an easy mistake to make as we talk about ‘releases’ and ‘test heads’.   Not only that, pretty much … Continue reading →

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The need for Linaro

Posted on June 2, 2010 by David Rusling

ARM® is not so well known outside of its partnership. Its business model is to collaborate with our partners, helping to create low power, embedded systems. ARM processors are in many devices that today we take for granted; from web … Continue reading →

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