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Linaro Connect Q1.12 Full Video List Now Available

The Novacut crew had their cameras rolling at Linaro Connect Q1.12 which took place on 6-10 February at the Sofitel Hotel in Redwood City, CA. Below is the full list of videos from the Linaro Connect Q1.12 event.  Click on … Continue reading

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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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Dave Pigott and the LAVA Validation Team Head to the Cloud

Article contributed by Dave Pigott A while back, we–the LAVA Validation team– realised that our one little HP Quad core server with a paltry 32GB RAM and a mere 1TB of storage, was creaking at the seams trying to do … Continue reading

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Local LAVA testing of Android ICS

The Linaro Android team automatically test daily platform builds on our LAVA server[1], but what's less well known is that we can also run Android tests locally using lava-android-test[2]. I tried this out in order to debug a new benchmark … Continue reading

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LAVA@Home

I’m currently working on the flexible LAVA deployment blueprint. This blueprint is about untying our hands (both as developers and administrators) from having to provide Debian packages for our releases. This is especially important our major new dependency, celery, is not available … Continue reading

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Automated Validation with LAVA

LAVA is at the heart of the value Linaro brings:  its aims are improving automated testing of the open source components that are used in the major Linux-based software platforms, and increasing confidence in the quality of enablement for our members’ … Continue reading

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Linaro Android Bot Review Achieves Deployment On Review.android.git.linaro.org

This week saw the first deployment of the Linaro Android Review Bot[1][2]. This further integrates our Gerrit[3] code review system[4] with our Jenkins[5] build system, and our LAVA[6] validation and test system. Changes approved by reviewers in Gerrit are now … Continue reading

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First Android LEB available on Snowball

Another quarter has passed, another face-to-face summit is ongoing within Linaro and the team has once again impressive achievements to show! At ST-Ericsson we are particularly excited about the availability of the latest 3.0 Linux kernel on Snowball – fully … Continue reading

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LAVA Fundamentals

This blog post talks about the core topics that LAVA deals with, dives into the architecture of the stack as it exists today and provides some background rationale for the design choices we made. If you are not familiar with … Continue reading

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LAVA Introduction

Hi there. This is my first blog post for a long while and my very first post wearing my Linaro LAVA hat. Over the next several weeks I will introduce various topics related to LAVA, describe the overall architecture and … Continue reading

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