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Video: thermal management – automatic cpu frequency control with hot coffee and cold water
Linaro Connect Q3.11, Cambridge, UK, August 2011 In this video, the Linaro Power Management Working Group (Steve Jahnke and Vincent Guittot) demonstrate their Linux framework to keep the temperature of an ARM cpu under control by automatically reducing cpu frequency. … Continue reading
Discussion with Thomas Gleixner, Arnd Bergmann, Grant Likely and Paul McKenney
At the Linaro Developer Summit in Budapest, I managed to catch four famous kernel developers and record an interesting discussion with them (together with restaurant noise in the background, unless these were echoes of the big kernel lock being torn … Continue reading
Genesi donates 55 ARM netbooks to Linaro developers
At the Linaro Developer Summit a few weeks ago in Orlando, Genesi, a US company producing ARM computers, donated 55 Efika MX ARM netbooks to Linaro developers. This is almost a $20,000 market value (Genesi also donated ~10 smarttops, so … Continue reading
Linaro and Distributions
Linaro works in upstream open source projects, ensuring that the ARM architecture and embedded platforms are well supported. Along the way, the ARM community is learning how to be more open and collaborative, both within the open source community and … Continue reading
Is Linaro a Distribution?
As I talk to people about Linaro, I’m often asked if Linaro is a distribution. This is, in some ways, an easy mistake to make as we talk about ‘releases’ and ‘test heads’. Not only that, pretty much … Continue reading
Towards Linaro 10.11
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction”. – Albert Einstein A little history Perhaps a little known fact is … Continue reading
The need for Linaro
ARM® is not so well known outside of its partnership. Its business model is to collaborate with our partners, helping to create low power, embedded systems. ARM processors are in many devices that today we take for granted; from web … Continue reading