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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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