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Linaro Android Mini Summit to be held at LCE 12 in Copenhagen
As mentioned in early posts about LCE 12 Copenhagen, this Linaro Connect will host three mini-summits – tracks focused on a single strategic topic held on a single day from 8.30am until lunchtime. There will be an ARMv8 (64-bit) mini-summit … Continue reading
Linaro Android, ARMv8(64bit) and big.LITTLE Mini Summits to be Held at LCE 12 Copenhagen
Linaro Connect (LCE 12) will take place at the Bella Center in Copenhagen Denmark on 29 Oct to 2 Nov 2012. Registration for this event is now open and those who will be attending are encouraged to register earlier. In … Continue reading
Linaro Android JellyBean on Galaxy Nexus (GSM) – Accelerating Mobile Devices
Linaro Android 12.08 is not just the first Linaro Android release based on JellyBean (android-4.1.1_r4, to be more precise) – it also introduces support for JellyBean running on the Galaxy Nexus. We’ve brought back all the optimizations made for earlier … Continue reading
Trying Linaro Jellybean Android on Samsung’s Origen board
Overview This post takes you through trying a prebuilt build on a Samsung Origen and then reproducing that exact build. Try the Prebuilt Build Go to Jellybean Origen build 22 and go through the instructions on the page to try … Continue reading
Announce: Linaro Virtual Connect, 13-17 August 2012
Linaro divides its Roadmap into four yearly quarters punctuated by our Connect events, and this year our third quarter will be kicked off with a twist: instead of doing it physically at one location, we’ll instead be running a week … Continue reading
June 2012 CEO Report
Although Linaro is now only two years old and has already achieved substantial success, it seems like we have only just begun. Differentiation and innovation lie at the heart of the ARM ecosystem. The PC market was built on a … Continue reading
using DS-5 on Galaxy Nexus running AOSP 4.0.4
Last week during connect there was a lot of buzz about DS-5. After using it on Origen and Snowball for profiling android performance, I found DS-5 Streamline extremely useful for profiling apps and libraries in Android . I realized that … Continue reading
Can’t Miss Demos at Linaro Connect in Hong Kong Announced
With the Q2.12 Linaro Connect starting on Monday 28 May, the list of Demos available for the public see and participate in during the Demo Friday event on 1 June is now available. Demos include: Big.LITTLE in-kernel Switcher (Linaro) SIProp – Combat … Continue reading
Linaro Android toolchain nightly builds available
Those have been up and running for a while, but we never announced it, so it may well be news Nightly builds of the Linaro Android toolchain are now available at a constant URL. Builds of 3 branches are available: … Continue reading
Linaro Android running on Galaxy Nexus
No, I promise, it’s not a Last-day-of-April-Fools joke. Linaro Android, built with the Linaro toolchain (my test build was done with the gcc 4.7 based 2012.04 Android toolchain release), can run on a Galaxy Nexus phones (GSM version tested, CDMA … Continue reading