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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
Android Multimedia on Origen, 12.03
Multimedia HW Acceleration from Origen In 12.03 release, Origen has a fully enabled Multimedia components with HW acceleration, this includes: 3D HW, Multimedia Video Playback and HDMI for Graphics and Video. This gives an invigorating user experience. The kernel version … Continue reading
Linaro Android Highlights 3/28 – 4/3
Linaro Android now at 4.0.4 Released Android 5.0 Completed big.LITTLE system tests Fixed WiFi bug on Origen See all the highlights at: https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/Meetings/2012-04-04
Android Now Easier Than Ever To Build From Scratch
Building products from source is always hard, and Android can be one of the worst. We get a lot of questions at Linaro about how to reproduce our builds. This month the Android team spent some time helping make this … Continue reading
Linaro Android 12.03 Preview Release Candidate 1
The first Linaro Android 12.03 preview releases have been completed. All of these boot and do generally useful things. Enjoy! For the moment, get howto information for each build by looking at its tip build. To find the tip build, … Continue reading
Linaro GCC 4.5 and Linaro GCC 4.6 2012.02 released
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2012.02 release of Linaro GCC 4.6 and Linaro GCC 4.5. Linaro GCC 4.6 2012.02 is the twelfth release in the 4.6 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.6.2+svn183786, it contains … Continue reading
December CEO Report
Despite the impact of the very welcome holiday season Linaro achieved a new set of monthly deliverables described below. As we start a new year it’s worth reminding ourselves of the achievements of the last 12 months: In February we … Continue reading
Linaro 11.11 Released
The Linaro Team is pleased to announce the release of Linaro 11.11, another of Linaro’s releases delivered on a monthly cadence.This release includes components delivered by all Linaro Teams: Working Groups, Landing Teams and Platform Teams. Some outstanding effort has … Continue reading
Compiling the Snowball ICS Build from Scratch
What’s better than flashy videos of Snowball running ICS? Snowball Running ICS from http://android-build.linaro.org …or trying a prebuilt ICS out for yourself on Snowball? Instructions and Binaries Getting the source and compiling it yourself! mkdir bin export PATH=$PWD/bin:$PATH curl https://dl-ssl.google.com/dl/googlesource/git-repo/repo … Continue reading
Linaro Connect – Celebration night
We’ve been having another great week at Linaro Connect Q4.11 here in Orlando, with some major work progressed and important decisions reached. But I just want to spend a few paragraphs talking about our Linaro Celebration Evening. On Wednesday, we … Continue reading


