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ARM aarch64 running a graphical stack

Wouldn’t it be great to have an Open Embedded linaro image with a graphical environment for aarch64? We thought so too. So in the Linaro Graphics Working Group we’ve been creating one. In our case we picked xfce as our environment. It’s reasonably lightweight, fairly simple, has reasonable package dependencies and already supported in OE. […]

Linux on ARM Track at LinuxTag 2013

The 19th Annual LinuxTag event kicked off today at the Berlin Exhibition Grounds in Berlin, Germany where event planners are expecting over 10,000 visitors from all over Germany and the UK. For Linaro though, it’s tomorrow, Thursday, 23 May that’s the big day … Continue reading →

Call for ALSA UCM profiles

When I bought Samsung ARM Chromebook few months ago I had no idea about UCM profiles and burnt speakers (left is dead, right is resting)… This was good lesson. I learnt more about how UseCase Manager works, took profiles from ChromeOS and added them into Ubuntu so other users will be a bit more safe [...]

pocl: ARM Chromebook: enable Khronos ICD Loader

.. so I assume some of you bravehearts would’ve tried the earlier post about getting pocl to work on an ARM chromebook. I mentioned there that initially, –disable-icd is a better option. In this post, I’ll outline how to get Khronos ICD Loader working with pocl (thanks to [1]) [Assumptions: my pocl directory is ~/code/pocl; and […]

pocl: ported on ARM Chromebook

pocl [1], is a portable Open CL implementation. During some fun-at-work last week, we [Tom and I] decided to play around with it a bit. We thought of using it over others, since it is a good community-driven project, and also because it was already running on another ARM platform (pandaboard). Since we had recently […]

Renato Golin on EuroLLVM, Linaro Toolchain Team and More

Linaro developers and engineers can be found at various events across the globe. This week we catch up with Renato Golin of the Linaro Toolchain Team who recently attended the 3rd Annual EuroLLVM event which took place in Paris, France … Continue reading →

State of Linaro layers for OpenEmbedded

As I will leave Linaro at the end of May I would like to write a summary of current state of Linaro layers for OpenEmbedded. At Linaro we have 3 layers: meta-aarch64 meta-linaro meta-linaro-toolchain First one is BSP kind. I know that it had some issues which affected each build which had it in BBLAYERS [...]

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“It’s all maddog’s fault,” proclaims David Rusling, Linaro CTO

I interviewed David Rusling and Jon ‘maddog’ Hall back in August of 2012 in the hopes that I could get another Linux publication to run this interview; however, that wasn’t to be. And with maddog now coming on board to … Continue reading →

Looks like it is time for me to say good bye again

Good things have one ugly part in common — they have to end one day… For me that day will be 31st May 2013 when contract between Canonical and Linaro will end. Those 3 years were great. I wrote a lot about it half year ago so those of you who are new – go [...]

Working with aarch64 disk images

Recently I started working with the software simulator for aarch64. Aarch64 is of course the 64 bit architecture. One thing I very much enjoy is the ability to modify the contents of the file system of the device under test from my stable workstation. When working with ARM SoC systems like an Arndale or a […]