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Latest Linaro GCC Toolchain Release Supports Full Range of ARM Cortex-A Processors

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600

San Francisco - 9 February 2012 - Linaro^TM, the not-for-profit engineering organization consolidating and optimizing open source software for the ARM^® architecture, announced today the 2012.02 release of Linaro GCC 4.6 and Linaro GCC 4.5 which offers full support for the ARM Cortex^TM-A processors family including the Cortex-A5, Cortex-A7, Cortex-A8, Cortex-A9 and Cortex-A15. This new release helps Linaro continue to provide companies with a foundation on which they can rapidly build and deliver innovative, differentiated solutions.

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group finalized this release during open Linaro Connect sessions on Wednesday February 8th. Over 200 engineers from more than 40 companies attended a week of sessions, planning future work and discussing challenges facing the Linux community developing solutions on the ARM architecture.

Accompanying the release are complete notes, details of bug fixes and links to the source tarballs. Downloads are available from the Linaro GCC page on Launchpad.

Linaro GCC 4.6 2012.02 is the twelfth release in the 4.6 series. Based on the latest GCC 4.6.2+svn183786, it contains bug fixes and backports Cortex-A7 and Cortex-A15 support from the FSF (Free Software Foundation) trunk. In addition to the updates to 4.6.2+svn183786 and initial Cortex-A7 support, the most interesting changes in this release are the backporting of Cortex-A15 tuning improvements from upstream and improvements to 64-bit unsigned comparisons.

Linaro GCC 4.5 2012.02 is the eighteenth release in the 4.5 series. Based on the latest GCC 4.5.3+svn183785, it is a maintenance only release.

These toolchains are the latest downloads enabling Linaro members to develop advanced products and are part of its standard monthly release cycle. The Linaro Toolchain Working Group release occurs two weeks before Linaro's main release day which is scheduled for 16:00 UTC on Thursday February 23rd.

The releases include versions of Linaro's binary platform images, component sources, board support packages and infrastructure/validation tools to ensure that Linaro output can be consumed most easily by the ARM development community, product builders and enthusiasts.

Join us at Linaro Connect
Linaro Connect is held every three to four months to bring the Linux on ARM community together to work on the latest system-on-chip (SoC) developments, plan new engineering efforts and hold engineering hacking sessions. These events give the Linux community an opportunity to be a part of the Linaro team and help to define the ARM tools, Linux kernels and builds of key Linux distributions including Android and Ubuntu on member SoCs. Join us for the current event February 6-10th in San Francisco, California or the Q2 Linaro Connect May 28th - June 1st in Hong Kong. Learn more at connect.linaro.org

About Linaro
Linaro is a not-for-profit engineering organization working on consolidating and optimizing open source software for the ARM architecture, including the GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) toolchain, the Linux kernel, ARM power management, graphics and multimedia interfaces. Linaro's key value is in working on generic ARM technology that is common to all ARM SoC vendors. In this way engineering costs are shared, rather than each vendor having to implement core software technology themselves, which has historically resulted in fragmentation and overhead in maintaining code that cannot be upstreamed to the mainline Linux kernel and other open source projects. Linaro's output is used by its members, and by distributions including Android, Ubuntu and OEM/ODM customized versions of Linux. Linaro's goals are to deliver value to its members by enabling their engineering teams to focus on differentiation and product delivery, and to reduce time to market for OEM/ODMs delivering open source based products using ARM technology. For more information, please visit www.linaro.org

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Demo Friday at Linaro Connect Q1.12 to show latest Linux developments on ARM

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600

Linaro members, partners and community offer interactive demonstrations showcasing ARM-processor-based boards and Linaro builds of Android and Ubuntu

Cambridge, UK - 20 January 2012 - Linaro, a not-for-profit engineering organization consolidating and optimizing open source software for the ARM architecture, today announced Demo Friday, to be held at the Linaro Connect Q1.12 event. Demo Friday is a two-hour event that will showcase new and innovative ways Linaro members, partners and community are using Linaro Builds of Ubuntu and Android on ARM processor-based boards. Demo Friday will take place on Friday, February 10, 2012 from 4pm to 6pm in the Vernada Room of the Sofitel Hotel in Redwood City, California. Demo Friday is open to the public. This is an exciting and educational opportunity for everyone to get a hands on demonstration of what Linaro is enabling with ARM processor-based boards for Linux on ARM.

Previous demonstration events have included Kinnect-face robot recognizing human faces, Linaro Android Build Service, Automated Validation Infrastructure for Android system, Snowball board demo, Quick Start board demos and more. More about past events can be found on the Linaro wiki (https://wiki.linaro.org/Events/2011-05-LDS/Showcase).

All companies and engineers who are using Linaro on ARM processor-based boards are invited to participate in Demo Friday and highlight their work. All the demonstrations for Demo Friday have not yet been finalized and there are opportunities to add more to the line-up. Anyone interested in this opportunity to participate can email the details of their demonstration to: events@linaro.org. Demo Friday details can be found on the Linaro Connect Site (http://connect.linaro.org/events/linaro-connect-q1-12-demo-friday/).

Linaro Connect Q1.12 will be take place at the Sofitel Hotel in Redwood City, California on February 6 -10th and sponsorship opportunities are still available. More information about levels and benefits of Linaro Connect sponsorship can be found on the Linaro Connect site (http://connect.linaro.org/sponsorship/).

Join us for Linaro Connect Q1.12

Linaro Connect is held every three to four months to bring the Linux on ARM community together to learn about the latest SoC developments, plan the next development cycle and hack together. These events give the Linux community an opportunity to be a part of the Linaro team and help to define the ARM tools, Linux kernels and builds of key Linux distributions including Android and Ubuntu on member SoCs. Join us for our next event February 6-10th in San Francisco, CA. Learn more at http://connect.linaro.org

About Linaro

Linaro is a not-for-profit engineering organization working on consolidating and optimizing open source software for the ARM architecture, including the gcc toolchain, the Linux kernel, ARM power management, graphics and multimedia interfaces. Linaro's key value is in working on generic ARM technology that is common to all ARM SoC vendors. In this way engineering costs are shared, rather than each vendor having to implement core software technology themselves, which has resulted in fragmentation and overhead in maintaining code that cannot be upstreamed to the mainline Linux kernel and other open source projects. Linaro's output is used by its members, and by distributions including Android, Ubuntu and OEM/ODM customized versions of Linux. Linaro's goals are to deliver value to its members through enabling their engineering teams to focus on differentiation and product delivery, and to reduce time to market for OEM/ODMs delivering open source based products using ARM technology. For more information, please visit www.linaro.org

Accelerated builds of Android Ice Cream Sandwich now available on Linaro member boards

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Cambridge, UK - 21 December 2011 - Linaro, a not-for-profit engineering organization consolidating and optimizing open source software for the ARM architecture, today announced the availability of builds of Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) supporting accelerated graphics on two of its member's low cost development boards: the Samsung Origen and ST-Ericsson Snowball boards.

Just over a month ago, within a day of Google's release of the 4.0.1 ICS version of Android, Linaro showed videos of it running on the Texas Instruments (TI) PandaBoard and shortly after that on the Freescale i.MX53 Quick Start board, the Samsung Origen board and ST-Ericsson's Snowball board. The accelerated graphics support that has been made available today makes use of the ARM Mali-400 graphics processor used by two of these boards. This graphics processor is integrated with a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor: on the Samsung Origen board in Samsung's Exynos 4210 SoC, and on the ST-Ericsson Snowball board in ST-Ericsson's Nova^TM A9500 SoC. Users of these boards can view videos of these latest builds on Linaro's YouTube channel and download the accelerated builds for the Snowball and Origen boards on Linaro's releases.linaro.org website.

Developers are able to create optimized Linux-based devices with the support of Linaro. For example, Linaro uses the latest GCC 4.6 toolchain to build Android, enabling Linaro's Android to outperform standard Android builds in benchmarks and real-world tasks. The 4.6 toolchain allows developers to optimize for the latest SoCs like ST-Ericsson's Nova A9500 processor and Samsung's Exynos4210, which leads to an improved user experience. Furthermore, the toolchain gives early access to the performance improvements Linaro has been developing in the next release of GCC, as well as the many correctness fixes identified and provided through working with the Linaro community. As an example, the Linaro 4.6 toolchain includes features to allow software to manually or automatically parallelize compute tasks across the multiple cores in the chips.

Linaro operates openly, and these accelerated builds are the latest downloads enabling advanced product development on hardware from its member companies. Linaro's goal is to provide consolidated and optimized open source software building blocks that provide companies with a foundation on which they can rapidly build and deliver innovative, differentiated solutions.

Join us for Linaro Connect Q1.12

Linaro Connect is held every three to four months to bring the Linux on ARM community together to work on the latest system-on-chip (SoC) developments, plan new engineering efforts and hold engineering hacking sessions. These events give the Linux community an opportunity to be a part of the Linaro team and help to define the ARM tools, Linux kernels and builds of key Linux distributions including Android and Ubuntu on member SoCs. Join us for our next event February 6-10th in San Francisco, California. Learn more at connect.linaro.org

About Linaro

Linaro is a not-for-profit engineering organization working on consolidating and optimizing open source software for the ARM architecture, including the GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) toolchain, the Linux kernel, ARM power management, graphics and multimedia interfaces. Linaro's key value is in working on generic ARM technology that is common to all ARM SoC vendors. In this way engineering costs are shared, rather than each vendor having to implement core software technology themselves, which has historically resulted in fragmentation and overhead in maintaining code that cannot be upstreamed to the mainline Linux kernel and other open source projects. Linaro's output is used by its members, and by distributions including Android, Ubuntu and OEM/ODM customized versions of Linux. Linaro's goals are to deliver value to its members by enabling their engineering teams to focus on differentiation and product delivery, and to reduce time to market for OEM/ODMs delivering open source based products using ARM technology. For more information, please visit www.linaro.org

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ARM Linux Developers from over 25 Companies Collaborate at Linaro Connect Event in Cambridge, UK

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500

First Linaro Connect Event Enhances Device Tree Support to Accelerate Development of Linux on ARM

CAMBRIDGE, UK- August 23^rd, 2011- More than 150 Linux engineers gathered in Cambridge this month to collaborate on the development of Linux on ARM at the first quarterly Linaro^TM Connect event.

Linaro, the not-for-profit open source software engineering company founded by ARM, IBM, TI, Samsung, Freescale and ST-Ericsson is working on consolidation and optimization of Linux on ARM SoCs. Device Tree, a mechanism for describing hardware configuration for the Linux kernel, was among the many topics covered at the recent Linaro Connect event. Members of the ARM Linux community set out to simplify porting of the Linux kernel to the diverse platforms developed by ARM silicon vendors and ODMs. By the end of the weeklong event many patches had been produced that will be queued up for the Linux 3.2 release kernel tree including:

● Device drivers for Freescale iMX converted to use Device Tree-based discovery.

● Code developed to bridge between the Device Tree model and TI OMAP's HWMOD, used to describe complex power and clock domains.

● Initial support for Device Tree added to Samsung Exynos, Qualcomm MSM86 and Atmel AT91 boards, including a serial console described by the Device Tree.

● Initial skeleton work for Device Tree implemented for the ARM Versatile board.

"We have seen some pretty amazing output from the Linaro Connect," said Christian Reis, Vice President of Engineering at Linaro. "Not only around the Device Tree work, but also including major progress on the Continuous Memory Allocator, DMA mapping and buffer sharing frameworks in collaboration with the ARM kernel maintainers."

"Linaro has come a long way since a year ago when I first attended a Linaro event in Prague," said Paul McKenney, distinguished engineer at IBM Linux Technology Center and IBM representative on the Linaro Technical Steering Committee. "The question in 2010 was 'can Linaro become relevant?' The answer in 2011 is obvious as you look at the large number of Linaro patches upstream in a number of projects, the number of users of Linaro's tool chain, the number of attendees, including many developers who are not Linaro assignees, as well as the level of energy in the sessions."

Linaro Connect is a quarterly, week-long engineering event which brings together the Linaro engineering team, Linaro members, and others in the ARM Open Source community to work on the future of Linux on ARM. The events are a mixture of presentations, topic-based summits and software engineering sessions.

The first Linaro Connect was held from 1-5 August in Cambourne, UK. Over 150 engineers from more than 25 companies attended. "We have been delighted by the participation in Linaro Connect", said Stephen Doel, COO Linaro. "There is no other industry event that offers a deep focus on delivering Open Source engineering for Linux on ARM devices."

Looking forward, Linaro plans to co-locate many of the quarterly Linaro Connect events with other major industry conferences.

"We're pleased to see Linaro Connect co-locating with the Embedded Linux Conference and the Android Builders Summit," said Jennifer Cloer, director of communications and community at The Linux Foundation. "The Linux on ARM community is an important one and we look forward to fruitful collaboration between Linaro and the broader community of embedded Linux developers who attend our conferences."

Linaro announced the dates of future Linaro Connect events:

● October 31 - November 4, 2011 in Orlando, Florida, co-located with the Ubuntu Developer Summit

● February 6 - 10, 2012 in San Francisco, California, co-located with Embedded Linux Conference and Android Builders Summit to be held the following week

● May 7 - 11, 2012, co-located with Ubuntu Developer Summit

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About Linaro
Linaro^TM is a Not-For-Profit software engineering company that works with the open source community to make it easier and faster to develop open source based devices. Linaro has the aim of investing new resources and aligning efforts from the industry to continuously improve and optimize open source software and tools on the ARM architecture with the goal of accelerating industry innovation.
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Linaro partners with Samsung ecosystem to deliver exciting new low cost board ‘Origen’ to Open Source developers

Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Linaro provides optimized base of software and tools for highest performance low cost ARM board 'Origen' using Samsung's dual-core ARM^®Cortex-A9 based Exynos 4210 chipset with high bandwidth DDR3 memory.

TAIPEI, TAIWAN - May 30, 2011 - Linaro welcomes the news that developers will be able to buy low cost, high performance 'Origen' development boards using Samsung's Exynos 4210 chipset, and run free open source software and tools that have been optimized by Linaro.

Software developers now have low cost access to the high performance Exynos mobile computing platform that packs features such as the latest multi-core Cortex-A9 CPU and multi-core Mali400 GPU, with 1GB of high end DDR3 memory. This board will be popular with developers of tablets, smartphones and other connected screens where leading edge performance, stunning graphics and the ability to drive HD displays is important. Linaro will provide source code downloads of Linaro Evaluation Builds of Android and Ubuntu from its website. The Linaro Evaluation Builds will be built with the latest stable Linux kernel and toolchain, and will deliver leading edge performance on a sub-$200 board. The provision of product quality software by Linaro will reduce time to market and ease the process of product creation using open source software and tools.

"The Origen board and Linaro's provision of software and tools makes it easier, faster and less expensive for developers and companies to develop high-end embedded Linux products," said George Grey, CEO Linaro. "Origen provides outstanding performance for tablets, smartphones and a wide range of embedded Linux products, and we are excited to be offering optimized open source components and builds of Android and Ubuntu for this development platform."

"The new low cost 'Origen' board and consolidated software packages from Linaro are expected to enable easy and quick development of mobile platforms incorporating scalability of rich-features on a cutting-edge Exynos 4210 application processor," said Dojun Rhee, vice president, System LSI Marketing, Samsung Electronics. "We are confident that our customers and the open source community will be able to develop their products in a timely manner through the innovative Exynos platform."

The 'Origen' integrates mobile platform orientated features such as interfaces for HDMI, SD card, WiFi, Bluetooth, Stereo audio, LCD, JTAG debug and Camera. To enable future upgrade options the Exynos processor is mounted on a small daughter board together with high bandwidth DDR3 memory. The 'Origen' board will be available through its manufacturer at www.insignal.co.kr

Linaro exists to enable the latest open source software on advanced ARM SoCs, and to help to accelerate innovation among software developers. The current wave of "always connected, always on" devices are increasingly turning to Linux and highly integrated SoCs to achieve the performance and battery life consumers demand. For more information on the company, access to software and tools, and information on the community and open engineering, visit www .linaro .org

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About Linaro

Linaro^TM is a Not-For-Profit software engineering company that works with the open source community to make it easier and faster to develop open source based devices. Linaro has the aim of investing new resources and aligning efforts from the industry to continuously improve and optimize open source software and tools on the ARM architecture with the goal of accelerating industry innovation.

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Linaro completes first year with demonstrations of Linaro Evaluation Builds for Android and Ubuntu and introduction of new partner program

Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Milestone highlights Linaro delivering on its promise to make it easier and quicker to develop open source products

CAMBRIDGE, UK- May 27, 2011- Linaro, a not-for-profit open source software engineering company, is marking its first anniversary with demonstrations of the latest open source software running on its members' hardware at Linaro Developer Summit (LDS) and Computex. The company also announced Linaro Partner Program, an initiative designed to help companies and organizations get involved with Linaro's engineering effort.

Linaro was launched at Computex in 2010 by ARM, IBM, Freescale, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and TI with the mission to create an open source engineering organization that provides aligned engineering and investment into open source projects to reduce fragmentation, increase optimization and make it easier for OEMs and ODMs to develop Linux-based products.

Key milestones:

In the first year, Linaro has built a team of more than 100 talented open source developers that have worked on the open source Linux platform on member chips and delivered code upstream that benefits all Linux-based distributions.
The latest tools, code and optimizations have been used to create Linaro Evaluation Builds for Android and Ubuntu, making it easier for device manufacturers to use Linaro's engineering.
To help device makers get to market more quickly, Linaro has focused on delivering product quality software and has created the Linaro Automated Validation Architecture (LAVA) platform which runs on a test farm of members' low-cost boards.

The demonstrations at LDS showcased the Android and Ubuntu Linaro Evaluation Builds for the first time and will be extended further at Computex to include new hardware that will be launched at the show. To follow Linaro's engineering progress, an up-to-date status report can be found at http ://status .linaro .org

"The demonstration of Android and Ubuntu Linaro Evaluation Builds and the development of the validation test farm are tangible proof points of the progress Linaro has made on delivering on its mission," said George Grey, Chief Executive Officer of Linaro. "We have delivered consolidation and performance features upstream, worked with our members on support for their latest SoCs, created optimized implementations of popular distributions and focused on the development and testing of product quality software for the benefit of our members."

Linaro Partner Program

Linaro also announced today the Linaro Partner Program, which is designed to enable companies and organizations to get involved with Linaro's engineering team. The Linaro Partner Program will enable ISVs, software service providers and device manufacturers the ability to embed engineers in Linaro and work together on projects of common interest. This alignment with Linaro will be beneficial to both sides, extending the engineering effort available to Linaro and enabling the sponsoring companies to work with a larger team and build profitable businesses around Linaro's roadmap.

"A year ago, Linaro was formed to enhance open source innovation for the next wave of always-connected, always-on computing," said Chief Operations Officer Stephen Doel. "Today, as we turn 1 year old, we are pleased to share our major achievements as we announce Linaro's Partner Program that will continue to accelerate the depth of engagement from electronics companies and encourage continuous involvement from the wider community."

At launch, the Linaro Partner Program includes Thundersoft, Canonical, Mentor Graphics, Genesi and Collabora. Companies interested in aligning with Linaro and joining the Linaro Partner Program should contact the management team.

Linaro Founding Member Quotes

"Over the last year, Linaro has succeeded by helping make it easier and quicker to bring open source based devices to market," said James McNiven, vice president of Software Alliances of ARM. "Linaro has demonstrated the efficiencies that can be achieved by adopting a coordinated approach to open source and working closely with the ARM Partner community."

"Linaro in conjunction with its other partners of which IBM is one, has been building out a comprehensive ecosystem to enable developers to deliver next-generation software for the mobile segment," said Mark Ireland, vice president of IBM Semiconductor Products & Services and Linaro club director. "Advanced silicon process technology for low power system-on-a-chip designs and software are being used to create solutions optimized for the ARM architecture through the IBM Process Technology alliance."

"At TI, we strive to create innovative technologies that revolutionize the way people interact with each other and the outside world," said Ari Rauch, senior director of Software and System Engineering, OMAP Products, Wireless Business Unit at TI. "With this pursuit in mind, we are extremely proud to be a part of the Linaro team, and we congratulate the organization on this one-year milestone. We look forward to many more years to come, as we work together to unleash new successes in the Embedded Linux community via proven ARM-based architectures, including TI's OMAP^TM processors."

"Samsung has been putting much effort on delivering optimized software for ARM Linux-based developers as a member of Linaro since its launching in 2010," said Youngki Chung, vice president of Software Solution Development Team, System LSI Division at Samsung Electronics. "We are pleased with Linaro's achievements of consolidated software and environments and believe that our customers and the open source community will experience the benefits of acceleration in designing their products through the innovative Exynos platform."

"As a member, we are thrilled to see the great achievements of Linaro after just one year of operations," said Teppo Hemia, vice president and head of the Application Engine and Platform Business Unit of ST-Ericsson. "By working in a true open source way, Linaro has made impressive enhancements to the ARM Linux code base which will significantly reduce time to market and investment for OEMs and ODMs. ST-Ericsson is a strong supporter of this approach and has recently, together with partners, launched the Igloo Community and Snowball board as an open source development platform which will fully benefit from the work of Linaro."

"Linaro is delivering on the goal of quickening time to market for our i.MX processors," said Glen Burchers, consumer and industrial segment marketing director for Freescale Semiconductor. "Our customers now have confidence that the Linux mainline kernel is up to date with the latest Freescale code submissions."

Linaro Partner Quotes

"ThunderSoft is pleased to see many common system requirements being addressed in Linaro project. By joining the Linaro Partner Program, ThunderSoft is better armed to deliver the ARM-based software solution to our customers more solidly and more efficiently," said Duan ZhiQiang, chief technology officer of Thundersoft.

"Linaro is essential to the continued expansion of open source software on the ARM architecture. As a member of the Linaro Partner Program, we ensure it's quick and easy to develop and use the best open source technologies on ARM. We're pleased to be working with Linaro ensuring great products can be built using Linaro technologies in Ubuntu," said Steve George, vice president of Business Development at Canonical.

"Linaro is an innovative model for advancing open source technology on the ARM architecture," said Glenn Perry, general manager of the Mentor Graphics Embedded Software Division. "CodeSourcery, which Mentor Graphics acquired in November 2010, was chosen by Linaro at its inception to assist in developing the GNU toolchain. We look forward to expanding our relationship with Linaro as we pursue our goal of developing products that simplify and accelerate embedded Linux development."

"In its first year, Linaro has proven to be a dynamic and progressive organization. We are confident that Linaro will contribute significantly to the ARM ecosystem in the years to come and we look forward to being involved," said Raquel Velasco, chairman of Genesi.

"Linaro's focus on delivering improvements upstream perfectly complements Collabora's emphasis on the commercial benefits of effective open source participation," says Robert McQueen, chief technology officer and co-founder of Collabora. "We're really pleased to align our R&D investment with Linaro's goals and help them build on the progress they've made in the past year."

For more information on the company, access to software and tools, and information on the community and open engineering, visit www .linaro .org

Linaro Press Contacts

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Linaro MWC update

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Learn about the latest product development news including updates from the working groups, evaluation builds and the test and validation farm. Download update

Linaro Makes Snowball Shine

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Linaro provides optimized base of software and tools for new low cost board (Snowball) using ST-Ericsson's dual-core ARM® Cortex^TM- A9 based AP9500 chipset.

CAMBRIDGE, UK- February 15 2011- Linaro welcomes the news that the open source community will be able to buy low cost, high performance Snowball development boards using ST-Ericsson's AP9500 chipset and run free open source software and tools that have been optimized by Linaro.

Software developers now have greater access to the most advanced application processors that can provide the performance of a PC in the power footprint of mobile. The Snowball Software Development Kit and Product Development Kit significantly extends the choice for software developers who want to create great code and products on a platform that costs less than a netbook, but with greater performance and longer battery life. The Snowball development boards combine powerful dual core ARM Cortex-A9 and ARM Mali^TMGPU processors with open source software that has been optimized by Linaro.

Linaro exists to enable the latest open source software on the latest system on chips and help to accelerate innovation among software developers. The current wave of "alwaysâ€connected, alwaysâ€on" devices are increasingly turning to Linux and highly integrated SoCs to achieve the performance and battery life consumers demand.

"Developers will be able to come to the Linaro website and download the latest kernel, board support package and tools and know they are getting a great foundation to base their code or product on." said Stephen Doel, COO, Linaro. "Our evaluation builds and validation test farm will ensure that there is a quick way to utilise our engineering directly with the major software distributions on low cost boards such as the Snowball SDK and PDK."

For more information on the company, access to software and tools, and information on the community and open engineering, visit www.linaro.org

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Linaro Q1 2011 Update

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600

Learn about the latest developments and product plans. Download Q1 update

Software Leaders to Advise Linaro

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Canonical, GENIVI, HP, LiMo and MontaVista become Advisors to Linaro^TM

Following completion of its first major release in November, Linaro announces the expansion of its ecosystem to include Advisory Partners Canonical, GENIVI, HP, LiMo Foundation and MontaVista Software all of whom are involved in building complex Linux based software. The Advisors will help to guide the Linaro Technical Steering Committee (TSC) on critical industry needs, facilitating the alignment of requirements.

Linaro exists to accelerate innovation among software developers working on the most advanced semiconductor System-on-Chip (SoC) designs. The current wave of "alwaysconnected, alwaysâ€on" devices is increasingly turning to Linux and highly integrated SoCs to achieve the performance and battery life consumers demand.

The availability of a stable, optimized software base and tools make it easier and quicker to develop high performance consumer devices. Manufacturers will benefit from an improved product development cycle, spending less time on low level, nondifferentiating software and more time on product innovation and delivering exceptional user experiences.

"Having HP, Canonical, GENIVI, LiMo Foundation and MontaVista Software as advisors to our Technical Steering Committee will help us to make the best decisions on resource deployment, for the benefit of both our members and the open source community." said George Grey, CEO, Linaro. "We will continue to build extensive relationships with the electronics industry and open source communities to ensure our engineering is responsive to industry needs and is widely deployed."

"We believe that Linaro is a critical strategic partner for accelerating the ARM software and silicon ecosystem," said Steve Manser, senior vice president, Product Development, Palm Global Business Unit, Personal Systems Group, HP. "Through collaboration and convergence on common Linux foundational components and tools, HP looks to accelerate our innovative webOS platform with the latest ARM-based SoC designs. webOS will play a prominent role in HP's future, and we see Linaro and the ARM ecosystem as key allies for building that future."

"Shortening development time, getting products to market quickly and reducing development costs for embedded Linux based products are key goals for both Linaro and GENIVI," said Graham Smethurst, President of GENIVI. "As an advisor to Linaro we can provide aligned automotive industry input for IVI solutions, helping Linaro shape the engineering efforts applied to its optimized foundation of open source tools and software."

"LiMo's vision is to deliver a vibrant ecosystem of commercial products and servicesthat are enabled through an independent and competitive Linux based mobile software platform developed in close collaboration with key stakeholders in the mobile industry," said Morgan Gillis, Executive Director of LiMo Foundation. "We are delighted to join Linaro's TSC as an Advisor Partner and look forward to collaborating with Linaro in shaping up the next generation Linux ecosystem that will deliver a rich and connected user experience to consumers across a diverse range of devices."

"As a long time supporter of embedded Linux for ARM processors, MontaVista is delighted to be collaborating with other industry leaders as a Linaro Advisor", said Dan Cauchy, vice president of marketing and business development, MontaVista Software. "Our goal is to help drive rapid innovation of Linux components and tools within Linaro, commercialize the results, and make them available as part of MontaVista Linux for the benefit of our customers, device manufacturers and the ARM ecosystem."

"As an Advisor Partner we look forward to shaping the next generation of Ubuntu devices with the Linaro ecosystem. Canonical's customers will be able to engage with us to focus on the user experience in the knowledge that the solution is based on shared and standard components" says Jane Silber, CEO at Canonical, "We look forward to working with Linaro to rapidly accelerate the time-to-market for devices, ensuring that users and partners can quickly take advantage of hardware improvements."

For more information on the company, access to software and tools, and information on the community and open engineering, visit www.linaro.org

Linaro Press Contacts

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Candice Huang
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chuang@racepointgroup.com

About Linaro
Linaro^TM is a Not-For-Profit (NFP) software engineering company that works with the open source community to make it easier and faster to develop open source based devices. Linaro has the aim of investing new resources and aligning efforts from the industry to continuously improve and optimize open source software and tools on the ARM architecture with the goal of accelerating industry innovation. Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries.

View the Linaro 10.11 release webinar

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600

View the Linaro 10.11 release and beyond webinar that took place at Techcon.

Overview:
This talk outlined the progress made by Linaro, a new not for profit organisation that drives forward innovation and aligned investment in open source software and tools. It described Linaro's current engineering activity, how it works with the open source community, the 10.11 release, and looks forward to the next six month engineering cycle. The reason for doing a mixture of upstream development in key areas such as Linux kernel, tools and graphics as well as a regular validated release are discussed. The relevance to distribution owners, OEMs, silicon partners and open source community developers is covered.

This presentation is relevant to:

Operators considering their open source strategies
OEM's/ODM's implementing Linux based products
Silicon partners looking to have tier#1 Linux support
Open source developers wanting to get involved

Webinar registrants will learn:

How Linaro is relevant to Linux based open source projects and product development
Progress at Linaro since the launch at Computex
What you can take advantage of in the 10.11 release and plans for 11.05
How silicon partners can use Linaro to improve their Linux support
How to join the Linaro community and get involved

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Linaro gains momentum and demonstrates progress accelerating open source development

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Linaro completes 10.11 release on time and showcases its engineering on multiple ARM Cortex-A9 chips running multiple software distributions

Linaro (announced at Computex by ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments) completes its first engineering cycle (10.11) on the 10^th November with a demonstration of tools and software improved by Linaro being used on the latest Cortex-A9 based chips.
Linaro is building on this momentum and expanding the number of Working Groups to five, covering: Graphics, Multimedia, Power Management, Tools and Kernel.
Linaro's engineering team has grown from 20 to 70 open source developers with new talent added every month.
To strengthen Linaro's governance, TI joins ARM on the board along with IBM in representation of all Club Members.
Linaro's members will be demonstrating multiple software distributions built with Linaro software and tools on multiple dual core Cortex-A9 System on Chip (SoC) products at ARM Techcon (Santa Clara, CA) on the 10^th November.
Linaro has delivered on its first goal of investing directly in open source projects, consolidating, restructuring and tuning code to run optimally on ARM based System on Chip (SoC) solutions from multiple partners in a clean and consistent way.
All Linaro software - whether development tools or Linux based projects - is open source, on its way upstream and easily available from the website.
Linaro has created an effective, collaborative and open engineering organisation by bringing talent together from all over the world to fix industry wide problems such as low-level software fragmentation and under-investment in open source projects.
Linaro has worked on the latest releases of tools, kernel and middleware enabling optimized software for the new range of high performance Cortex-A9 based chips that are entering the market.
The focus of Linaro is to reduce the cycle time required to develop Linux based products that fully utilise the latest SoC solutions.

CAMBRIDGE, UK - NOVEMBER 10 2010 - Linaro showcases progress and momentum for its collaborative embedded Linux organisation at ARM Techcon in Santa Clara. In a demonstration that shows Linaro delivering on its mission to make open source development easier, quicker and more optimized, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and TI will be showcasing multiple open source distributions, running on multiple SoCs using code or tools that have been enhanced by Linaro.

"Linaro can help change the embedded open source world for the better by reducing non-value-add fragmentation and creating a place where the ARM partnership can collaborate to advance open source," said Leonard Tsai, vice president of Compal Innovation Design & Technology. "Everyone will be winners with a diverse range of great connected products that perform better, take less power and are quicker to market."

Linaro delivers on launch promises
At the June Computex launch of Linaro, it was stated that Linaro would be building a team of approximately 100 expert software developers. As of the 10^th of November, six months after launch, Linaro has ramped its engineering to over 70 developers and continues to add new talent every month. These open source developers have been working on two key areas: improving development tools and consolidating Linux kernel SoC support for the latest ARM Cortex-A9 and Cortex-A8 based chips. In accordance with its open engineering principles, all Working Groups and platform engineering has been done in the open and is available for inspection on the developer wiki. The output of this work enables a consolidation of the best Linux on ARM and the best open source development tools for ARMv7A to be available to everyone. Linaro has added Community resources to its website for those that want to get involved or align engineering without the strategic commitment of Core or Club membership: www .linaro .org /community.

Linaro gains momentum
The rapid increase in open source developers working for Linaro has enabled an expansion of Working Groups for the second engineering cycle (11.05). The addition of three new Working Groups will make it easier to create stunning products with advanced multimedia, graphics and exceptional battery life. To strengthen Linaro's governance, TI joins ARM on the board along with IBM in representation of all Club Members. The new board have recently selected George Grey as CEO to add further experience to Linaro's executive team. Linaro announces today that it is creating a new Advisory group for software distribution owners, so that they have a formal channel to discuss their needs and wants with the TSC who set the Linaro engineering requirements.

Linaro demonstrates easier, quicker and more optimized open source
In a significant demonstration at Techcon on 10^th of November, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and TI will showcase 3 different software distributions on 3 different Cortex-A9 based SoCs using software or tools that have been enhanced by Linaro's developers.

"These demonstrations show the latest ARM based SoCs running multiple distributions and built with software or tools that have benefited from Linaro's aligned engineering," said George Grey, CEO of Linaro. "By providing the best open source tools and software and helping to enable them on the most advanced Cortex-A9 chips, we are helping to unify and accelerate open source development."

In the second cycle Linaro will build on this momentum by:

Investing in more open source projects relating to graphics, multimedia and power management
Expanding the number of SoCs which support this software and support for leading edge cores
Announcing distribution owners as Advisors to Linaro
Announcing a new member of the TSC

Companies interested in joining this collaborative venture are invited to discuss membership with the Linaro executive team. For more information on the company or to download software and tools, visit www .linaro .org.

Background
The biggest trend enabling advanced connected, consumer electronics devices is open source software. Connected devices such as smartphones, mobile computing, DTV, STB and infotainment devices are built in their billions every year and are increasingly turning to Linux. Developing embedded devices based on Linux and the many open source projects that make up a typical open source software platform has been challenging for OEMs and ODMs. A mixture of software fragmentation and under investment in open source projects has slowed down the development. Linaro was created to provide a focal point for embedded Linux developers, reducing low level fragmentation and providing aligned investment in open source projects to accelerate open source development for consumer devices.

Industry quotes
"The Linux Foundation welcomes the increase in upstream investment that Linaro has made on behalf of the ARM community," said Jim Zemlin, executive director of Linux Foundation. "The collaborative engineering work Linaro is doing in the Linux kernel will help accelerate innovation in open source."

"LiMo Foundation commends the fast pace of progress within Linaro and the sustained expansion of its engineering team which is realising reference implementations from multiple silicon vendors," said Morgan Gillis, executive director of LiMo Foundation. "We will continue to align with Linaro's activities through active participation with a view to produce further efficiencies for companies commercialising on the LiMo Platform."

"Linaro has ramped up its collaborative engineering organisation and is already delivering on its mission to make it easier and quicker to develop optimized open source devices," said Mike Muller, CTO of ARM. "This is the best place for the ARM partnership to work together to deliver the best Linux and open source on the latest Cortex-A class processors."

"Freescale is committed to simplifying the investment our customers make to bring an i.MX based product to market, and Linaro is a key part of this task," said Bernd Lienhard, vice president and general manager of Freescale's Multimedia Applications Division. "We are committed to Linaro's support for Android and other Linux distributions."

"IBM is pleased to see that the resources and open source expertise committed by partners to the Linaro organization are already yielding results," said Mark Ireland, vice president of semiconductor products and services at IBM. "Open source based product development will be easier and quicker for OEMs and ODMs as a result of Linaro's aligned engineering and efforts to reduce low-level fragmentation."

"During the first six months of operations, our engineers have been participating in several Linaro Working Groups and we already see multiple benefits from the initiative," said Enrica Filippi, head of software ecosystem and strategy at ST-Ericsson. "We have gotten access to a network of highly-skilled developers from the open source communities, together with high-quality software patches and tools, enabling our code to move faster upstream and into the Linux kernel source. Linaro is helping both OEMs and semiconductor companies to shorten the development time of Linux devices based on ARM CPUs."

"TI is thrilled to work hand-in-hand with the Linaro community to accelerate open source initiatives, and to align on the importance of reducing software fragmentation across the industry," said Ari Rauch, senior director of software and system engineering, OMAP^TM products and wireless business unit at TI. "We believe that open source Linux - married with high-performance ARM®-based architectures like TI's OMAP 4 processors - will fuel outstanding possibilities for the next-generation of connected devices."

"As a long time supporter of embedded Linux for ARM processors, MontaVista is excited to be working with Linaro as a commercialization partner," said Jim Ready, CTO of MontaVista Software. "Our goal is to integrate Linaro's open source projects into MontaVista Linux in order to provide commercial support and services for the ARM ecosystem and device manufacturers."

Linaro Press Contacts

Racepoint Group - Europe
Kersti Klami
Tel: +44(0)7891 796 473
kersti .klami @racepointgroup .com

Racepoint Group - U.S.
Leslie Clavin
Tel: +1 (415)694-6717
lclavin @racepointgroup .com

Candice Huang
Tel: +1 (415) 694-6703
chuang @racepointgroup .com

Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries.

Linaro names George Grey as CEO

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Linaro, at its inaugural developer conference, announced that its board of directors has named George Grey as the company's chief executive officer. Grey's 27-year career has included a number of software and hardware high-tech companies in Europe and the U.S. Prior to this role, he was founder and CEO of Mobicious, a mobile content start-up, and president and COO of SavaJe, a Java-based smart phone operating system.

Linaro was created to be an independent company to address the challenges associated with accelerating open source software (OSS) on systems on chip. (SoC). It was launched by its founding companies - ARM, IBM, Freescale, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments - at Computex in June, with an interim executive leadership team provided by ARM. Acting Executive Director Tom Lantzsch will resign from his role immediately and become an advisor to the company, while Ben Cade will remain as an executive director, sharing the office with Grey, until year end.

Linaro is meeting all of its operational goals since formation. In less than five months, Linaro has grown quickly from 10 engineers to 70, and is on track toward its goal of 100 employees by year end. The first product release will occur on time, and it will be announced on Nov. 10 at ARM TechCon in Santa Clara, Calif., supported by presentations, partner demonstrations and a webinar. Currently Linaro is hosting its first weeklong Developer Summit in Orlando, Fla.

"We are ecstatic to have been able to recruit someone of George's talent," said Tom Lantzsch, departing executive director of Linaro. "He has a wealth of experience managing software companies that will be critical for Linaro's next phase of success. I am returning to ARM knowing Linaro is in competent hands."

"The board were unanimous in their selection of George, based on his track record of leading and growing technology companies, his hands-on approach to leadership and personal qualities that align with the organization's ethos," said Ben Cade, executive director, Linaro. "I am looking forward to working beside George during this transition period to ensure the fantastic progress we have made continues."

"Linaro is already contributing to improving tools, aligning SoC support, consolidating the ARM ecosystem around a common base and working directly in upstream projects," said Grey. "I look forward to working with Linaro's members, management, engineering team, and partners to accelerate this further and to deliver on our mission."

Linaro will be presenting on the accomplishments of the first engineering cycle and plans for the second at the following conferences: Embedded Linux Conference Europe (ELCE), Cambridge UK; LPC, Cambridge, Mass.; ARM Techcon, Santa Clara, Calif.; and the ARM Asia Technical conferences. For more information on the company, access to software and tools, information on the community and open engineering, visit www.linaro.org.

Linaro Press Contacts

Racepoint Group - Europe
Kersti Klami
Tel: +44(0)7891 796 473
kersti.klami@racepointgroup.com

Racepoint Group - U.S.
Candice Huang
Tel: +1 (415) 694-6703
chuang@racepointgroup.com

www.linaro.org

Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries.

Linaro Board minutes September 2010

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500

See the latest meeting minutes of the Linaro board meeting. Download the PDF

Linaro Q3 update

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Learn about the latest developments and product plans. Download the update.

Linaro: Making Open Source Development Easier and Faster

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Learn how Linaro is continuing to make Open Source development easier and faster. Download the latest update.

ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments Form New Company to Speed the Rollout of Linux-Based Devices

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500

Linaro unites industry leaders to foster innovation in the Linux® community through a common foundation of tools and software

ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments have created the not-for-profit company, Linaro, committed to providing new resources and industry alignment for open source software developers using Linux on the world’s most sophisticated semiconductor System-on-Chips (SoCs).
Linaro will invest resources in open source projects that can then be used by Linux-based distributions such as Android, LiMo, MeeGo, Ubuntu and webOS.
Linaro will provide a stable and optimized base for distributions and developers by creating new releases of optimized tools, kernel and middleware software validated for a wide range of SoCs, every six months.
Linaro's base of software and tools will be applicable to a wide range of markets, helping reduce time-to-market for products such as smart phones, tablets, digital televisions, automotive entertainment and enterprise equipment.
Linaro's first software and tools release is due out in November 2010, and will provide optimizations for the latest range of ARM® Cortex™-A family of processors.

TAIPEI, TAIWAN - June 3 2010 -ARM, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), today announced the formation of Linaro, a not-for-profit open source software engineering company dedicated to enhancing open source innovation for the next wave of always-connected, always-on computing. Linaro's work will help developers and manufacturers provide consumers with more choice, more responsive devices and more diverse applications on Linux-based systems.

Linaro aligns the expertise of industry-leading electronics companies to accelerate innovation among Linux developers on the most advanced semiconductor SoCs (System-on-Chip). The current wave of "always-connected, always-on" devices requires complex SoCs to achieve the performance and low power consumers demand. Linaro was formed to increase investment in open source, address the challenges in developing products for sophisticated consumer markets and provide the support of a broad array of semiconductor products from multiple companies. By providing the common foundations of tools and software for other distributions and stacks to build upon, Linaro enables greater operational efficiency for the electronics industry.

Background

Traditionally, the Linux and open-source software communities focused on solving the software problems of enterprise and computing markets with a limited choice of processor platforms. The open source community is transitioning to create advanced Web-centric consumer devices using high profile open source based distributions and a wide range of high-performance, low-power ARM®-based SoCs. Linaro will make it easier and quicker to develop advanced products with these high profile distributions by creating software commonality across semiconductor SoCs, from multiple companies.

Consumer Benefits

In addition to providing a focal point for open source software developers, consumers will benefit by the formation of Linaro. Linaro's outputs will accelerate the abundance of new consumer products that use Linux-based distributions such as Android, LiMo, MeeGo, Ubuntu and webOS in conjunction with advanced semiconductor SoCs to provide the new features consumers desire at the lowest possible power consumption.

"The dramatic growth of open source software development can now be seen in internet-based, always-connected mobile and consumer products," said Tom Lantzsch, executive officer, Linaro. "Linaro will help accelerate this trend further by increasing investment on key open source projects and providing industry alignment with the community to deliver the best Linux-based products for the benefit of the consumer."

Linaro Software and Tools

Linaro will work with the growing number of Linux distributions to create regular releases of optimized tools and foundation software that can be used widely by the industry, increasing compatibility across semiconductors from multiple suppliers. As a result, Linaro's resources and open source solutions will allow device manufacturers to speed up development time, improve performance and reduce engineering time spent on non-differentiating, low-level software. Linux distributions, open source and proprietary software projects will benefit from Linaro's investment, with more stable code becoming widely available as a common base for innovation.

To further its mission, Linaro aims to unite the open source engineering resources within its member firms with the broad open source community. Linaro engineers, leveraging their extensive embedded knowledge, will contribute to a wide range of open source projects covering areas such as tools, kernel, graphics and boot code. Linaro intends to work in partnership with the Linux Foundation to align on core operating principles.

The company's first release is planned for November 2010 and will provide performance optimizations for SoCs based on the ARM Cortex^TM-A processor family.

In addition to ARM and IBM, four of the world's leading application processor companies, Freescale, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments, will align open source engineering efforts within Linaro.

Linaro is a growing organization with additional partners expected to join, thus expanding the range of expertise that is brought to the open source community. Companies interested in joining are invited to discuss membership with Linaro executives. For more information on the company and future access to software and tools, visit www.linaro.org

Founding Member quotes

"ARM and our partners have a long history of working with, and supporting, open source software development for complex SoCs based on the ARM architecture," said Warren East, ARM CEO. "As a founding member of Linaro, we are working together with the broader open source community to accelerate innovation for the next generation of computing, focusing on delivering a rich connected experience across the diversity of devices in our daily lives."

"Freescale is taking a leadership position in shaping the future of consumer electronics by enabling entirely new categories of smart mobile devices," said Lisa Su, senior vice president and general manager of Freescale's Networking and Multimedia Group. "Linaro represents an important step forward in developing the ecosystem for these smart mobile devices through dramatically speeding and simplifying software development cycles and leveraging the power and strength of the open source community."

"IBM believes that leadership with Linux solutions begins with effective collaboration in the community, and IBM's ten year history of working with the Linux community has resulted in a strong, mutually beneficial relationship," said Daniel Frye, vice president, open systems development, IBM. "IBM's ongoing collaboration has contributed to the widespread adoption of Linux throughout the data center. We are strong proponents of working with partners such as ARM to further our commitment, ensuring Embedded Linux is the leading platform for innovation in the mobile and consumer electronics markets."

"Samsung is an industry leader in high performance, low power application processors for mobile handset and other consumer devices. We fully appreciate the significance of having an optimized Linux software foundation and tools for our ARM CPU core base products, to support our customers' needs with high quality solutions," said Yiwan Wong, vice president, System LSI marketing, Samsung Electronics. "We are pleased to join Linaro as a foundation member and work together with ARM to serve the interests of our customers."

"Open source has become an engine for innovation in the smart phone and consumer electronics market," said Teppo Hemia, vice president, 3G Multimedia Platforms Business Unit of ST-Ericsson." Being an active contributor in the open source community, we are excited to be one of the founding members of Linaro and expect our combined efforts to accelerate the development of Linux-based devices."

"Linaro is intently focused on delivering critical open source components to enable developers building on ARM-based processors. An important element of that delivery is a more complete, higher quality development toolset that increases performance. In our leadership role, TI will support Linaro's efforts by leveraging our open source expertise-evidenced by our participation in Linux kernel enhancement submissions and our support of popular industry development boards," said Remi El-Ouazzane, vice president and general manager, OMAP Platform Business Unit, TI.

Industry quotes

"The existence of Linaro will significantly simplify the process of making Linux-based consumer devices available to market," said Jane Silber, CEO of Canonical. "By standardising many of the core software components, companies can focus on creating great user experiences on embedded devices through to smart phones. Canonical is delighted to participate in what will be a significant driver of the success of Linux on ARM, in the consumer electronics market."

"We welcome the launch of Linaro as a new industry organisation with similar values and a complementary focus to LiMo Foundation," said Morgan Gillis, executive director of LiMo Foundation. "We look forward to working collaboratively with Linaro to deliver greater efficiency within the mobile Linux value system."

"The Linux Foundation is happy to see ARM and Linaro increase their investment in Linux," said Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation. "We are supportive of any investment that contributes to the mainline kernel and the many upstream open source projects that make up Linux based operating systems today."

Linaro Press Contacts

Racepoint Group - Europe
Kersti Klami
Tel: +44(0)7891 796 473
kersti.klami@racepointgroup.com

Racepoint Group – U.S.
Leslie Clavin
Tel: +1 (415)694-6717
lclavin@racepointgroup.com

Candice Huang
Tel: +1 (415) 694-6703
chuang@racepointgroup.com

About Linaro

Linaro™ is a Not-For-Profit (NFP) software engineering company that works with the open source community to make it easier and faster to develop open source based devices. Linaro has the aim of investing new resources and aligning efforts from the industry to continuously improve and optimize open source software and tools on the ARM architecture with the goal of accelerating industry innovation.

www.linaro.org

Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries.

Watch the announcement of Linaro at Computex

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500

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First Linaro Connect Event Enhances Device Tree Support to Accelerate Development of Linux on ARM

Linaro partners with Samsung ecosystem to deliver exciting new low cost board ‘Origen’ to Open Source developers

Linaro provides optimized base of software and tools for highest performance low cost ARM board 'Origen' using Samsung's dual-core ARM® Cortex-A9 based Exynos 4210 chipset with high bandwidth DDR3 memory.

Linaro completes first year with demonstrations of Linaro Evaluation Builds for Android and Ubuntu and introduction of new partner program

Milestone highlights Linaro delivering on its promise to make it easier and quicker to develop open source products

Linaro MWC update

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Linaro provides optimized base of software and tools for new low cost board (Snowball) using ST-Ericsson's dual-core ARM® CortexTM- A9 based AP9500 chipset.

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Canonical, GENIVI, HP, LiMo and MontaVista become Advisors to LinaroTM

View the Linaro 10.11 release webinar

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Linaro names George Grey as CEO

Linaro Board minutes September 2010

Linaro Q3 update

Linaro: Making Open Source Development Easier and Faster

ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments Form New Company to Speed the Rollout of Linux-Based Devices

Linaro unites industry leaders to foster innovation in the Linux® community through a common foundation of tools and software

Founding Member quotes

Industry quotes

Linaro Press Contacts

About Linaro

Watch the announcement of Linaro at Computex

Linaro provides optimized base of software and tools for highest performance low cost ARM board 'Origen' using Samsung's dual-core ARM^®Cortex-A9 based Exynos 4210 chipset with high bandwidth DDR3 memory.

Linaro provides optimized base of software and tools for new low cost board (Snowball) using ST-Ericsson's dual-core ARM® Cortex^TM- A9 based AP9500 chipset.

Canonical, GENIVI, HP, LiMo and MontaVista become Advisors to Linaro^TM