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Linaro GCC 4.6 and 4.5 2012.01 released

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2012.01 release of Linaro GCC 4.6 and Linaro GCC 4.5. No changes were made in Linaro GDB this month and, as such, no release has been made. Linaro GCC 2012.01 … Continue reading

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Linaro QEMU 2012.01 released

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of Linaro QEMU 2012.01. Linaro QEMU 2012.01 is the latest monthly release of qemu-linaro. Based off upstream (trunk) QEMU, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes and enhancements. … Continue reading

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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

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FXI’s Cotton Candy at CES Leverages Open Source Tools from Linaro for Rapid Development

FXI‘s Cotton Candy at CES is proof of how Linaro can help a system vendor rapidly develop a product that is running the latest Android ICS and Ubuntu. FXI said in it’s announcement it leveraged the Linaro for ARM open software and … Continue reading

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The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period Dec. 28 to Jan. 03

Hello! This week’s excitement is that we are moving all Android integration and daily builds to Android version 4.0.3. This is going very well. We have found that there are far too many old bug reports that are no longer … Continue reading

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The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period Dec. 21 to Dec. 27

Season’s Greetings from Linaro! Well, for some it’s working season This week has been slow in the western hemisphere, but at Linaro there are always a crew at work. Here’s what has been acomplished last week: Key Points for wider … Continue reading

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The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period Dec. 14 to Dec. 20

As you may have already heard, some great things are coming out of Linaro this week. Hardware accellerated graphics in Linaro Evaluation Builds! Incredible. My awesome collegues in Linaro worked together with member companies and communities in a focused effort, … Continue reading

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The Linaro Android Platform Team, Period Dec. 06 to Dec. 13

It’s getting real close to the 11.12 release now. We are all putting in a little extra effort. Hardware acceleration will make a huge difference to our platform, and it is happening right now on two of our boards. The … Continue reading

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Linaro GCC 4.6 & 4.5 2011.12 released

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2011.12 release of both Linaro GCC 4.6 and Linaro GCC 4.5. Linaro GCC 4.6 2011.12 is the tenth release in the 4.6 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.6.2+svn181866, it … Continue reading

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Installing F-Droid on Linaro builds

In a previous post, I wrote about using app markets with Linaro builds. One app market offering a selection of Free Software for Android is F-Droid[1]. Installation is fairly simple, but does require some configuration changes to get the most … Continue reading

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