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ARM Landing Team Up and Running
The ARM Landing Team is now up and running. This small team consists of Jon Medhurst (Tixy) and Ryan Harkin. Tixy and Ryan met with their ARM colleagues in Cambridge recently and took delivery of A5 and A9 Versatile Express … Continue reading
Compiling with gcc -O3
Since its inception, the Toolchain Working Group’s focus has been on performance, particularly on improving the speed of compiled code. For each tool, we’ve decided to pick a theme per quarter and use this to focus the many, small improvements … Continue reading
11.09 Linaro Android Release Candidates are Available
We’ve all been hard at work creating the best Linaro Android release yet! Visit these links to tryout each build: Staging Panda https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/staging-panda-11.09-release/#build=1 Panda https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/panda-11.09-release/#build=4 Beagle https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/beagle-11.09-release/#build=4 Beagle xM https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/beagle-11.09-release/#build=4 Staging Snowball https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/staging-snowball-11.09-release/#build=1 Staging Origen https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/staging-origen-11.09-release/#build=2 Staging iMX53 https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/staging-imx53-11.09-release/#build=1 Here’s … Continue reading
The 11.09 Android Toolchain has been Benchmarked
Andy Doan has put together the Android benchmarks for the 11.09 toolchain. You can check it out here: https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/AndroidToolchainBenchmarking/2011-09 Older benchmarks can be found at: https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/AndroidToolchainBenchmarking Summary skia continues to show monthly improvments. cximage all toolchains score about the same. … Continue reading
Building a Linaro Android Build from Source
Building a Linaro Android build from scratch is a great way to learn more about Android and work more efficently with the Android team. I recently ran through these steps and produced a build that could be programmed on a … Continue reading
Linaro Android codebase migrated to Gerrit (location changed!)
At the end of last week, we started final stage of Linaro Android migration to Gerrit. If you keep an eye on our trees, that’s the first thing you should know about the migration: Linaro Android codebase now has a … Continue reading
Enabling Device Tree support on ARM platforms
Linaro hosted its first Connect event last week in Cambridge, UK; providing an opportunity for Linaro and community developers to gather and work on current tasks and plan for the future. The kernel working group used this time to work … Continue reading
July CEO Report
Last month I discussed how Linaro’s working groups deliver technology to kernel.org and other upstreams. Over time, open source distributions including Google’s Android utilize this work in their latest releases, benefiting Linaro’s ARM SoC members by accelerating their time to … Continue reading
June CEO Report
Linaro exists because our members understood that working together on common non-differentiating problems was far more cost effective than each working to solve those problems again and again. This month I describe how the”engine” of Linaro, our Working Groups and … Continue reading
Power Management of an ARM system
When we look at power management of an ARM system, cpuidle and cpufreq are the 1st power-saving functions that are used on the ARM core. The cpu hotpug is another one which has been introduced on ARM smp system but … Continue reading