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Author Archives: Tony Mansson

About Tony Mansson

Software Architect at ST-Ericsson for 11 years. Worked as a trainer. Now in Linux Software Assets dept. Project Manager and Integration Engineer in the Linaro Android Platform Team.

The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period March 14 to March 20.

Hello Linaro fans. How is your board coping with the load when run in different use cases? Would you like to see graphs of the resource usage? This is entirely possible with the ARM DS-5 Eclipse plugin. Android developers can … Continue reading

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The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period March 7 to March 13.

Hello Linaro fans. Something big is happening in Linaro. And something LITTLE too. Behind the cute moniker “big.LITTLE” hides a chip architecture that may improve the user experience of mobile devices dramatically. Up to now the device manufacturers have had … Continue reading

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The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period Feb. 17 to Feb. 23

Hello Linaro fans. The 12.02 cycle contained both Linaro Connect and The two Linux Foundation conferences ABS and ELC. All three events were held in the same hotel in Redwood City just south of San Francisco. The Connect conference is … Continue reading

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The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period Feb. 02 to Feb. 16

Wow! Talk about having everything at the same place! Redwood City has for the past two weeks harbored a unique concentration of Linux and Android Professionals (I almost wrote “geeks” ) At Connect we planned the next quarter of Linaro work while on … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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