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Using the Arm Statistical Profiling Extension to detect false cache-line sharing image

Leo Yan

Using the Arm Statistical Profiling Extension to detect false cache-line sharing

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Arm Perf c2c tool Statistical Profiling cache-line sharing

This article talks about how to use perf c2c tool with Arm Neoverse CPUs.

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Setting up Tensorflow for Windows on Arm image

Everton Constantino

Setting up Tensorflow for Windows on Arm

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

4 mins read

In this blog, Everton Constantino talks about how to set up Tensorflow for Windows on Arm.

bazel machine learning tensor flow windows on arm

Linaro contributions to the 5.18 Linux Kernel Release image

Linaro - Author

Linaro contributions to the 5.18 Linux Kernel Release

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

3 mins read

In this blog we talk about Linaro's contributions to the Linux kernel 5.18 release.

5.18 release linux kernel open source upstreaming

MHI bus for Endpoint devices upstreamed to Linux Kernel image

Manivannan Sadhasivam

MHI bus for Endpoint devices upstreamed to Linux Kernel

Thursday, May 19, 2022

9 mins read

In this blog, Mani talks about how the Modem Host Interface (MHI) bus support for Endpoint devices has been upstreamed to the Linux kernel.

Linux kernel MHI Modem Host Interface Qualcomm Upstreaming

Linaro’s Rust based hypervisor-agnostic vhost-user I2C backend image

Viresh Kumar

Linaro’s Rust based hypervisor-agnostic vhost-user I2C backend

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

11 mins read

In this article, Viresh Kumar talks about the work Linaro is doing to develop hypervisor-agnostic abstract devices which enable all architectures.

Automotive Hypervisor ProjectStratos Rust Vhost Virtio

Linaro to present on Embedded AI and Virtualization At Embedded World 2022 image

Bill Fletcher

Linaro to present on Embedded AI and Virtualization At Embedded World 2022

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

2 mins read

In this blog Bill Fletcher talks about the two sessions Linaro will present at Embedded World 2022 on Confidential AI and Virtualization in Automotive.

Automotive Confidential AI Embedded AI Embedded World Hypervisor Virtualization

Debugging Memory Tagging with LLDB 13 image

David Spickett

Debugging Memory Tagging with LLDB 13

Thursday, April 21, 2022

14 mins read

In this blog David Spickett looks at Memory Tagging (MTE) and the debugging features Linaro has added to LLDB 13.

Debugging LLDB LLVM MTE Memory Tagging

Jens Wiklander

OP-TEE and the need for FF-A

Thursday, March 31, 2022

9 mins read

In this blog, we take a look at how OP-TEE and FF-A have evolved and why you need FF-A to enhance security.

Arm Firmware Framework for Arm A-Profile FF-A OP-TEE Security TEE Trusted Execution Environment Trusted Firmware Trustzone

Linaro contributions to the 5.17 Linux Kernel Release image

Linaro - Author

Linaro contributions to the 5.17 Linux Kernel Release

Saturday, March 12, 2022

5 mins read

In this blog we talk about Linaro's contributions to the 5.17 Linux Kernel Release.

5.17 linux kernel release Linux Kernel Open Source

Supporting Multiple Devices with the same AOSP Images image

Amit Pundir

Supporting Multiple Devices with the same AOSP Images

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

7 mins read

In this blog Amit Pundir and John Stultz discuss the benefits of having a framework for a shared vendor image which supports multiple devices.

AOSP Android DB845c Dragonboard GKI Google Qualcomm RB5 Robotics

Protecting Security Critical Firmware image

Sumit Garg

Protecting Security Critical Firmware

Thursday, March 3, 2022

8 mins read

This blog looks at the work Linaro has done to make it easier for silicon vendors to enable firmware encryption with minimal platform plumbing.

Encryption OP-TEE Open Portable Trusted Execution Environment Securekey Security TF-A Trusted Firmware

How to build flang on Windows on Arm image

Diana Picus

How to build flang on Windows on Arm

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

3 mins read

In this blog post we look at how to build flang on Windows on Arm.

Clang Flang LLVM Windows Windows on Arm

Securing a device with Trusted Substrate image

Ilias Apalodimas

Securing a device with Trusted Substrate

Thursday, February 24, 2022

11 mins read

In this article we talk about how to secure your embedded device with Trusted Substrate.

Embedded Security Trusted Substrate UEFI Uboot

How to set up Windows on Arm for LLVM development image

Diana Picus

How to set up Windows on Arm for LLVM development

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

10 mins read

In this blog, Diana Picus, David Spickett, Maxim Kuvyrkov and Omair Javaid from Linaro's Toolchain Working Group provide a step by step guide on how to set up Windows on...

LLVM Microsoft Visual Studio Windows Windows11 windowsonarm

How and why Linaro builds, boots and tests over a million Linux kernels per year image

Benjamin Copeland

How and why Linaro builds, boots and tests over a million Linux kernels per year

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

11 mins read

In 2021, Linaro addressed an increase in Linux kernel release candidates whilst also detecting and reporting more than double the amount of regressions, compared to the previous year. In this...

CI LKFT Linux kernel functional test Linux kernel quality Tuxsuite testing

Linaro contributes to the OpenStack community CI officially supporting openEuler image

Joyce Qi

Linaro contributes to the OpenStack community CI officially supporting openEuler

Thursday, January 20, 2022

5 mins read

At the end of 2021, openEuler entered the list of Openstack official CI test operation systems. In this blog, Linaro Engineers Kevin Zhao and Xinliang Liu talk about the work...

CI Huawei Linaro OpenStack open source openEuler

Linaro contributions to the Linux Kernel 5.16 Release image

Linaro - Author

Linaro contributions to the Linux Kernel 5.16 Release

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

5 mins read

The Linux kernel 5.16 was released last week. As always, Linaro featured in the list with several notable contributions from our highly skilled Kernel Engineers. In this blog, we asked...

5.16 kernel release Arm Linux kernel Qualcomm

How to emulate Trusted Platform module in QEMU with U-Boot image

Ilias Apalodimas

How to emulate Trusted Platform module in QEMU with U-Boot

Thursday, January 6, 2022

8 mins read

In this blog, Linaro Tech Lead Ilias Apalodimas provides a step by step guide to emulating Trusted Platform module in QEMU with U-Boot. Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) are microcontrollers designed...

Firmware QEMU TPM Trusted Platform Module UBoot

Recent developments in the Open-CMSIS-Pack Project image

Bill Fletcher

Recent developments in the Open-CMSIS-Pack Project

Thursday, December 9, 2021

1 min read

In June 2021, Arm transferred the CMSIS-Pack technology to Linaro under a new project named Open-CMSIS-Pack. The project is delivering a standard for software component packaging and related foundation tools...

CMSIS-pack IoT and Embedded Open-CMSIS-Pack microcontroller software

Integrating accelerated video decoding with v4l2 in AOSP image

John Stultz

Integrating accelerated video decoding with v4l2 in AOSP

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

8 mins read

Upstream enabled development boards are critical to the work Linaro does as they provide a platform to develop and validate new solutions, as well as allow us to demonstrate the...

AOSP Qualcomm Dragonboard 845c Qualcomm Robotics kit RB3 RB5 video decoding

Improving Audio Latency in Android image

Paolo Valente

Improving Audio Latency in Android

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

2 mins read

How do you save power on a power-constrained system while always being responsive? In this blog, Paolo Valente, Biagio Ferri and Davide Zini talk about the work they have done...

CPUs Synthmark audio latency performance power

Budget Fair Queueing (BFQ) Linux IO Scheduler Optimizations for Multi-Actuator SATA Hard Drives image

Paolo Valente

Budget Fair Queueing (BFQ) Linux IO Scheduler Optimizations for Multi-Actuator SATA Hard Drives

Thursday, December 2, 2021

7 mins read

In this blog, we cover the extra logic applied in BFQ I/O scheduler to support multi-actuator drives. Paving the way to exploiting potential multi-actuator drives.

BFQ Budget Fair Queueing I/OScheduler Linux IO Optimizations Multi-Actuator SATA HardDrives