Our Blog

GLIBC improvements and what to expect in future Linux distributions image

Adhemerval Zanella

GLIBC improvements and what to expect in future Linux distributions

Thursday, July 15, 2021

This blog covers the recent glibc improvements in an architecture specific way (with a special emphasis on aarch64) while also highlighting generic features to show developers and s...

Read

Linaro

Linaro Developers make an impact in Linux Kernel 5.13 release

Thursday, July 1, 2021

5 mins read

Earlier this week the 5.13 Linux Kernel was released. It featured Linaro yet again in the top twenty for both developers and employers. In this blog, we asked Linaro's kernel...

5.13 kernel Linaro linux kernel open source

Porting common Linux tools into Morello Architecture image

Linaro

Porting common Linux tools into Morello Architecture

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

3 mins read

Morello is a research program developed by Arm in collaboration with the University of Cambridge. Its aim is to develop and use a Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) architecture....

Arm CHERI Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions Morello Security cURL wget

Ensuring optimal performance through enhanced kernel testing image

Linaro

Ensuring optimal performance through enhanced kernel testing

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

4 mins read

Linaro created LKFT - Linaro’s Kernel Functional Test framework - to help improve the quality of the Linux kernel through functional testing on Arm hardware. While functional testing plays a...

LAVA LKFT Linaro Automation and Validation Architecture Linaro's Kernel Functional Test Framework Linux Kernel MMTests

Linaro

MCUboot becomes a Linaro Community Project

Thursday, June 17, 2021

1 min read

On Thursday 17 June the MCUboot Project joined the Linaro Community Projects Division, the division of Linaro managing open source community projects, including Trusted Firmware and OpenAMP. MCUboot is a...

Linaro Community Project Linux MCUboot Open Source Security Software

Arm Transfers CMSIS-Pack Technology to Linaro image

Francois Ozog

Arm Transfers CMSIS-Pack Technology to Linaro

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

2 mins read

To address the challenges facing software combability for IoT and embedded microcontroller devices, Arm is transferring [CMSIS-Pack technology](https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/embedded/cmsis/cmsis-packs) to the Linaro IoT and Embedded Group under a new project named...

Arm CMSIS Technology IoT and Embedded Open-CMSIS-Pack

Upstreaming support for Qualcomm PCie modems image

Loic Poulain

Upstreaming support for Qualcomm PCie modems

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

9 mins read

Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) is a form of wireless network that relies on telecommunication technologies such as 3G or 4G cellular networks for transferring data, specifically IP packets, and...

Linux kernel PCIe modem Qualcomm WWAN open source

Linaro releases LEDGE Reference Platform v0.2 image

Ilias Apalodimas

Linaro releases LEDGE Reference Platform v0.2

Thursday, May 20, 2021

3 mins read

In an effort to empower any organization to easily create a Linux distribution for vertical markets, focusing on the high level features of the operating system, Linaro has created the...

LEDGE Reference Platform Linux Kernel SystemReady U-Boot UEFI container runtime dependable boot

Highlights from Linaro Connect on Qualcomm technologies and open source software image

Nicolas Dechesne

Highlights from Linaro Connect on Qualcomm technologies and open source software

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

4 mins read

Linaro plays a key role in the Qualcomm ecosystem, employing several developers and maintainers of key Qualcomm subsystems and drivers. In this blog we list the sessions presented at the...

Dragonboard 820c Qualcomm Robotics RB3 Robotics RB5 Snapdragon dragonboard 410c linux open source software upstream

Alex Bennée

The many and varied uses of QEMU

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

8 mins read

QEMU is a versatile virtual machine monitor (VMM) and emulator that is used extensively by Linaro and it's members. While most people may be familiar with it's use in hardware...

BTI IoT MTE QEMU SBSA SVE SVE2 arm emulation linux

How to use LLDB to debug SVE enabled applications image

Omair Javaid

How to use LLDB to debug SVE enabled applications

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

8 mins read

In the past year Linaro completed development and upstreaming of SVE support in LLDB debugger which is now available in the LLVM 12.0 release. This means there is now complete...

AArcg64 Debugging HPC Kernel LLDB LLVM Linux SVE

Linaro

Linaro Developers top 5.12 Kernel release

Thursday, April 29, 2021

6 mins read

The 5.12 Kernel was released this week and saw several of Linaro's engineers in the top list of contributors for changed lines and changesets. Linaro also featured in the lists...

5.12 kernel release Linux kernel arm linux open source software

Reducing code size with LLVM Machine Outliner on 32-bit Arm targets image

Yvan Roux

Reducing code size with LLVM Machine Outliner on 32-bit Arm targets

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

9 mins read

Machine Outliner helps reduce compile time and improve performance by allowing you to replace a chunk of consecutive statements with a call to a new function containing those statements. In...

Arm software Code optimization LLVM Machine Outliner

The shift towards HPC AI and why it is needed image

Paul Isaac's

The shift towards HPC AI and why it is needed

Thursday, March 18, 2021

3 mins read

In this blog, Linaro Director Paul Isaac's talks about the shift from traditional data centers, the need for scaling and intelligent decision making and how Linaro is addressing these needs...

AI Arm HPC artificial intelligence data center open source

Optimizing TensorFlow Convolution Performance on Aarch64 image

Everton Constantino

Optimizing TensorFlow Convolution Performance on Aarch64

Thursday, March 11, 2021

5 mins read

In this blog, Linaro engineer Everton Constantino talks about how Linaro improved TensorFlow convolution performance on Aarch64. Using an experimental branch, Tensorflow is able to achieve up to 7% better...

Aarch64 ai eigen machine learning mlperf tensorflow

Upstream camera support for Qualcomm platforms image

Robert Foss

Upstream camera support for Qualcomm platforms

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

5 mins read

Since 2017 Linaro has worked with Qualcomm to enable camera support on their platforms. In this blog, Linaro engineer Robert Foss talks about how the Open Source CAMSS driver (with...

CAMMS Qualcomm Titan camera support dragonboard 410c libcamera linux kernel open source

Linaro Engineering Highlights - January 2021 image

Jon Burcham

Linaro Engineering Highlights - January 2021

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

4 mins read

January highlight's include a blog from Georgi Djakov on Saving Power & Improving Performance With Dynamic Interconnect Scaling, an article on creating Portable and Reproducible Kernel Builds with TuxMake, plus...

Engineering Highlights LLVM Open Source Security Foundation TuxMake

Linaro Engineering Highlights - December 2020 image

Jon Burcham

Linaro Engineering Highlights - December 2020

Friday, January 8, 2021

45 mins read

This edition of the monthly Engineering Highlights is feature packed with several updates, together with a roundup on the year of some of the key projects.

AI IoT LCG LKFT Linaro Linux Zephyr

Protected UEFI Variables With U-Boot image

Ilias Apalodimas

Protected UEFI Variables With U-Boot

Monday, January 4, 2021

7 mins read

Critical system variables, like the UEFI ones, must be protected against a variety of attacks. On Arm servers and desktops, which typically run EDK2, dedicated flashes are used. Those would...

Arm Bootloaders Security U-Boot UEFI

History Of The Interconnect Framework image

Georgi Djakov

History Of The Interconnect Framework

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

7 mins read

The Interconnect API is a framework for configuring the on-chip interconnects in the system. The framework tunes the system for the best power and performance while taking into account the...

BUS scaling Power & Performance

A Year In The Life Of The STG Group image

Ryan Arnold

A Year In The Life Of The STG Group

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

13 mins read

In this article we look at the work from just one of Linaro's many engineering teams - System Technologies Group (STG). This group have been very busy as usual, introducing...

STG Tuxsuite

Linaro Engineering Highlights - November 2020 image

Jon Burcham

Linaro Engineering Highlights - November 2020

Monday, December 14, 2020

9 mins read

The November highlights are full of the latest updates and news from Linaro. Topics include; LITE updates, MCUboot & a new Linaro Community Project, Security and Zephyr updates. Plus, future...

Device Tree Engineering Highlights Kernel Working Group Ledge Lite