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Linaro Connect video – Android vs. Linaro Android

Linaro Connect – Cambridge, UK, August 2011. Zach Pfeffer, Linaro Android Tech Lead, demonstrates two Panda boards running Android. On the right, there’s Google’s Android, built with the gcc 4.4 toolchain provided by Google, and the Pandroid kernel. On the … Continue reading

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Linaro Connect videos: achievements, Q&A with management and announcements

Cambridge, UK, Aug. 5 2011 At the end of Linaro Connect Q3.11, the various working groups share what they achieved during this very intense week. Here are a just a few selected bits: Validation platform (LAVA): i.MX53 support, implementation plans … Continue reading

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Using ARM low cost boards for displays

During the Linaro Connect Q3.11 event in Cambridge, UK, I was asked to put together a system to display the schedule/conference info and IRC discussions on screens throughout the venue. For the hardware portion of this project I bought thick … Continue reading

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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

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Linaro 11.06 release features Unity 3D port for ARM

The Linaro Team is pleased to announce the release of Linaro 11.06. 11.06 is the Linaro’s first release delivered on the new monthly cadence. Since we started focusing on monthly component releases, activity in the engineering teams has been channeled … Continue reading

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Video: Linaro Android Build Service on Panda board

Linaro has just opened a new service to generate Android images built with the Linaro kernel, and with Linaro optimizations (binaries built with optimized ARM toolchains, optimized C library…). All users need to do is go to https://android-build.linaro.org/. They can … Continue reading

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Linaro 11.11 public plan reviews

Now that the 11.05 release is out, and after the Linaro Developer Summit in Budapest, Linaro would like to invite the ARM Linux community to join reviews of its plans for the upcoming engineering cycle. The reviews are available through … Continue reading

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Linaro 11.05 released

The Linaro Team is pleased to announce the release of Linaro 11.05. 11.05 is the second public release that brings together the huge amount of engineering effort that has occurred within Linaro over the past 6 months. This is the … Continue reading

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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

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