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About Jesse Barker

I arrived at ARM in 2010 after stints at ATI/AMD, Silicon Graphics, Digital, and a few smaller companies. Efforts for those enterprises ranged from development to design to leadership of technology as well as process and policy. I have touched just about every layer of the graphics stack on a number of platforms, and am excited to work with Linaro and see how Linaro can help shape the direction of the graphics stack on Linux moving forward.

A Case for Open-Source GPU Drivers

Posted on November 30, 2011 by

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 →

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Linaro at the launch of ARM’s new Cortex-A7 processor

Posted on October 25, 2011 by

I was in San Francisco for the launch of ARM’s new Cortex-A7 processor last week. ARM invited me along to talk about Linaro’s involvement in enabling big.LITTLE support in new devices. Jeff Chu from ARM talked with me about this … Continue reading →

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