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V6.2-V6.6 Linux Kernel (one year) stats: A journey into the heart of Linaro’s success image

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V6.2-V6.6 Linux Kernel (one year) stats: A journey into the heart of Linaro’s success

Monday, November 20, 2023

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With V6.6 Linaro celebrates another year of contributions to the Linux Kernel. Through our engineers’ expertise and dedication, we explore the significant contributions they have ma...

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Standardizing firmware updates in U-Boot image

Sughosh Ganu

Standardizing firmware updates in U-Boot

Monday, October 30, 2023

3 mins read

Most of the embedded devices Operating Systems are rarely updated. Updating the firmware of these is even rarer. Let’s have a look at what Linaro and its members did to...

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Upstream Linux support now available for the the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform image

Neil Armstrong

Upstream Linux support now available for the the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform

Thursday, October 26, 2023

4 mins read

Effortless upstream Linux integration, powerful performance optimization, running AOSP with Mainline and last but not least continued collaboration

Linux Kernel Qualcomm Snapdragon

Przemyslaw Wirkus

WindowsPerf Release 3.0.0

Monday, October 23, 2023

2 mins read

We are happy to announce the latest WindowsPerf release version 3.0.0. This major release is a continuation of WindowsPerf development. It combines updates from release 2.5.1 and adds new features...

Windows On Arm WindowsPerf

Tracking code size variations between LLVM releases image

Antoine Moynault

Tracking code size variations between LLVM releases

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

12 mins read

In this blog post, we talk about tracking the size of LLVM generated code and look at the results on the latest releases.

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UEFI HTTP and HTTPs Boot in U-Boot image

Maxim Uvarov

UEFI HTTP and HTTPs Boot in U-Boot

Monday, October 16, 2023

5 mins read

UEFI HTTP boot simplifies the network boot process by allowing the firmware to retrieve operating system images and EFI executables directly from an HTTP server. This eliminates the need for...

Bootloaders SystemReady U-Boot UEFI UEFI_HTTP embedded

Improvements to GCC’s code-gen for vector initialization on AArch64 image

Prathamesh Kulkarni

Improvements to GCC’s code-gen for vector initialization on AArch64

Monday, October 9, 2023

13 mins read

The blog post is about Linaro TCWG's improvements to code-gen in GCC for NEON vector initialization on AArch64 target. The post details a few examples of the improvements, and the...

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Linaro reference devboards boot Android 14 on the day of its release image

Amit Pundir

Linaro reference devboards boot Android 14 on the day of its release

Thursday, October 5, 2023

2 mins read

Android14 boots on Linaro reference devboards on the day of its release

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Introducing 1.0.0-beta release of WindowsPerf Visual Studio extension image

Nader Zouaoui

Introducing 1.0.0-beta release of WindowsPerf Visual Studio extension

Monday, October 2, 2023

6 mins read

Introducing WindowsPerf 1.0.0-beta Visual Studio extension: Explore the new sampling feature for optimized code performance. Dive deep into what's already there, tutorial steps, and upcoming features in this Linaro open-source...

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Ilias Apalodimas

UEFI SecureBoot in U-Boot

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

4 mins read

UEFI SecureBoot is a verification mechanism ensuring that code launched by a computer's firmware is cryptographically verified. It is designed to protect a system against malicious code being loaded and...

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