This blog introduces the thermal framework design and shows where the notification takes place to allow the userspace to be aware of the overall thermal profile of the system. In response to the lack of thermal communication between the kernel and the userspace, a solution based on the netlink has been implemented for Linux v5.9.
An ever-increasing number of embedded devices need fine grain control on their performance in order to limit the power consumption. There are three primary reasons for this: to increase the...
Recently, Linaro Developer Cloud has supported Kubernetes as a Service, and we have finally passed all the conformance tests from CNCF as the Certified Kubernetes - Hosted. The Linaro Developer...
The QEMU team in Linaro sits inside a group known as the Toolchain Working Group (TCWG). The rest of the team spend their time working with compilers and other code...
The June 2020 Engineering Highlights this month features the Linux Kernel 5.7 release statistics where Linaro and its engineers continue to rank in the top for multiple categories. We are...
In 2018 we discussed the first step for ARM into High Performance Computing (HPC). Since then, Linaro has been working to increase awareness of the successes within the High Performance...
Founded in 2010, Linaro will be celebrating its 10th Anniversary on the 18th June 2020. The technological world has evolved significantly throughout this time, but one thing remains consistent and...
Welcome to the May 2020 edition of the Linaro Engineering Highlights. This blog details all of the latest news and many of the developments that Linaro has been working on...
What problems has Linaro solved with tuxpub? At Linaro, we have previously hosted artifacts from Amazon S3 using a custom tool known as Linaro Licence Protection (LLP). LLP started life...
Homomorphic Encryption. Encryption is something that all of us are using whether we know it or not. Many of the things that you are doing on a daily basis requires...
A summary of the history of VirtIO and the areas Linaro is working on for the future.
Linaro has recently developed and open-sourced KissCache, a simple and stupid caching server built on the KISS principle: Keep It Simple Stupid. Unlike classical proxies like Squid that transparently intercept...
Welcome to the April 2020 edition of the Linaro Engineering Highlights. This roundup includes Linaro’s contributions to the Linux v5.6 Kernel LTP, PSA Level 1 Certification Showcase, Linaro Consumer Group...
Back in 2016, after an amazing six-month effort of collaboration between various groups in Linaro, HiSilicon, and Google, the HiKey board was the first 64bit ARM dev board that was...
Recently, the Dragonboard 845c (Qualcomm’s SDM845 based 96board) landed in AOSP. One of the best things about the Dragonboard 845c (SDM845 SoC to be precise) is that it is actively...
The scheduler has seen a lot of change over the past couple of years with the introduction of Per Entity Load Tracking (PELT); PELT provides more fine grained statistics per...
Over the last year, the Linaro Consumer Group (LCG) has been actively working with the Qualcomm Landing Team and the Google Android Systems Team to get the DragonBoard 845c added...
Earlier today, Trusted Firmware - the project hosted by Linaro Community Projects Division - announced that Renesas Electronics Corporation and NXP® Semiconductors N.V. have joined as new members. They join...
Greg Kroah Hartman once said, “Buses are hard and complex. It is hard to write a bus. But it turns out that there are one or two new buses every...
We were disappointed to have to cancel Linaro Connect Budapest 2020. We had lots of great technical sessions scheduled and as such, want to do all we can to repurpose...
