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Show Liu
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Accelerating libcamera Qcam format conversion using OpenGL shaders
Friday, November 6, 2020
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In this article, Show Liu takes a detailed look at accelerating Qcam so we have a more performant demo of libcamera on the platforms we care about. Read here!

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Joakim Bech
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Device Tree: Future Improvements
Friday, October 23, 2020
12 mins read

In this article, Joakim Bech gives an overview on what exactly Device Tree is and what it does as well as its future improvements. Read more here!

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Jon Burcham
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Linaro Engineering Highlights - September 2020
Monday, October 12, 2020
17 mins read

September's Engineering Highlights include a brief summary of our recent Virtual Connect 2020 (LVC20) event. There is also a synopsis of the Android Micro Conference at Linux Plumbers. Our blog...

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Jon Burcham
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LVC20 Wrap Up
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
17 mins read

Our latest Connect meeting in September was not quite what we had in mind at the beginning of the year. Yet, in these unusual times we have been able to...

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Omair Javaid
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Open On-Chip Debugger (OpenOCD) at Linaro
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
1 min read

In this article Omair Javaid takes a look at what an Open On-Chip Debugger (Open-OCD) is and how Linaro contributes to the OpenOCD Project. Read more here!

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Takahiro Akashi
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Enabling UEFI Secure Boot on U-Boot
Monday, September 28, 2020
12 mins read

In this article, Takahiro Akashi looks at how UEFI Secure Boot on U-Boot works and what it is designed to protect you against. Read about it here!

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Daniel Lezcano
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Force Idle When a CPU Is Overheating
Friday, September 18, 2020
13 mins read

In this article, Daniel Lezcano focuses on a new technique to cool down the CPUs to help avoid overheating. Click here to read about this new technique!

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Jon Burcham
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Linaro Engineering Highlights for August 2020
Monday, September 14, 2020
10 mins read

This blog covers the many developments the teams at Linaro have been working on during August including the initial TVM AI compiler performance numbers on ARM64, using energy model to...

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Linus Walleij - Author
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BFQ saved me from thrashing
Wednesday, September 2, 2020
2 mins read

In this article Linus Walleij looks at what causes thrashing and developments that help to mitigate this problem.

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Linaro Engineering Highlights - July 2020
Monday, August 17, 2020
5 mins read

The July 2020 Engineering Highlights feature the introduction of TuxMake, articles on a new certification for the Linaro Developer Cloud and the evolution of QEMU.