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Reimagining Linaro Virtual Events

Thursday, November 18, 2021

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Paolo Valente

Automatic detection and reporting of performance regressions

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

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In this blog, Paolo Valente and Federico Gelmetti talk about the progress that has been made on extending Linaro Kernel Functional Test (LKFT) functionalities to include automatic detection and reporting...

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Omair Javaid

How to set up VS Code for LLVM development

Monday, November 8, 2021

6 mins read

In this blog, Senior Engineer Omair Javaid describes how to set up VS Code for LLDB/LLVM development on remote Linux and Windows machines. More importantly this how-to guide will help...

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Sumit Garg

New trust sources for Linux kernel keyrings

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

7 mins read

In this blog, Linaro Engineer Sumit Garg talks about how Linaro helped generalize the Trusted Keys sub-system in Linux. This has made it easier for kernel security developers to add...

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Vinod Koul

Let’s Boot the mainline Linux Kernel on Qualcomm devices

Thursday, October 28, 2021

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In this blog, Senior Engineer Vinod Koul from the Linaro Qualcomm Landing Team shares detailed instructions to get started with the mainline Linux kernel on arm64 Qualcomm Snapdragon based devices....

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Ebba Simpson

Windows on Arm and the possibilities of native development

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

3 mins read

A few weeks ago we hosted a panel at Linaro Virtual Connect Fall 2021 featuring Arm, Qualcomm and Microsoft where we discussed the current status of Windows on Arm and...

Arm LLVM Microsoft Qualcomm Snapdragon Windows Windows10 WoA

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Vicky Janicki

Latest support for Debian & OpenEmbedded releases for Qualcomm Robotics Platform (RB5) now available

Thursday, September 30, 2021

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A few weeks ago, Linaro released the latest support for Debian and OpenEmbedded releases for the following Qualcomm Snapdragon based 96Boards devices : the Dragonboard 410c, the Qualcomm Robotics platforms...

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Automotive, Hyperscalers, Testing on Arm and more - introducing Linaro Virtual Connect Fall 2021

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

2 mins read

Schedule for Linaro Virtual Connect Fall: September 8-10, 2021.

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Adhemerval Zanella

GLIBC improvements and what to expect in future Linux distributions

Thursday, July 15, 2021

10 mins read

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 system administrators what...

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Linaro Developers make an impact in Linux Kernel 5.13 release

Thursday, July 1, 2021

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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...

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Porting common Linux tools into Morello Architecture

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

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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....

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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...

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MCUboot becomes a Linaro Community Project

Thursday, June 17, 2021

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Ilias Apalodimas

Linaro releases LEDGE Reference Platform v0.2

Thursday, May 20, 2021

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Linaro Developers top 5.12 Kernel release

Thursday, April 29, 2021

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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...

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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...

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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...

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