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An Easy Way to Update Android Kernel Related Files Without Getting the sdcard Out
Do you feel it’s difficult or complicated to update kernel related files for a running Android device? Do you feel that it’s boring to get the sdcard out when you just want to update some kernel files when the Android … Continue reading
Linaro’s Emphasis on dma_buf in the 3.3 Linux Kernel
Jesse Barker, Graphics WG (Working Group) Tech Lead for Linaro shares with readers the importance and challenges in getting dma_buf inclusion for 3.3 Linux Kernel. Back in April, as we—a collective group of hardware vendors, software vendors, kernel developers and … Continue reading
Kernel Working Group – A Linaro Connect Retrospective
Linaro’s Kernel Working Group had a productive week at Linaro Connect Q4.11 in Orlando, co-located with the Ubuntu Developer’s Summit. The primary theme of the week was Upstreaming, focusing on next steps to get new technologies upstream, assuring the quality … Continue reading
September CEO Report
Differentiation and a Single ARM Linux Kernel This note was inspired by our current roadmap discussions within Linaro. A view was offered that a single ARM binary kernel wasn’t that important in the embedded world. This led to thinking more … Continue reading
Linaro Connect: kernel hackers share git tips
Cambridge, UK, August 2011. Linux kernel hackers Arnd Bergmann, Nicolas Pitre, Grant Likely, Linus Walleij, Deepak Saxeena, Amit Kucheria, David Brown, Jon Masters, Nicolas Ferre, Jon Medhurst (Tixy), John Rigby and others share their best tips for advanced git usage. … Continue reading
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
LDS video: what is upstreaming?
I brought my HD camcorder at the Linaro Developer Summit in Budapest last month, and I managed to videotape an interesting talk from Lee Jones (ST-Ericsson Landing Team Lead). This talk was plenty of good advice, not only for Linaro … 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