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Protected: CoreSight, Perf and the OpenCSD Library

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On the Performance of ARM Virtualization

Abstract ARM servers are becoming increasingly common, making server technologies such as virtualization for ARM of growing importance. We present the first study(1) of ARM virtualization performance...

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Protected: Don’t waste power when idle

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Linaro 16.06 Release Available for Download

“The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts.  Seek simplicity and distrust it.” ~ Whitehead Linaro 16.06  release is now available for download.  See the detailed...

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A LAVA Landmark

At 18:23 UTC on July 5th, 2016, a landmark was reached in the LAVA Lab. Job number 1,000,000 was submitted by the kernel-ci bot to the main production instance. Three minutes later, at 18:26, the...

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Introducing devicetree.org

Device tree is a data structure for describing hardware, which allows for hardware in a data structure to be passed to the operating system at boot time. Created in April 2016, devicetree.org was set...

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LHG Sprint Report

First revision of Hisilicon 96Boards TV Platform board (codenamed Poplar). The LHG team held a very successful, action-packed sprint at the Huawei/Hisilicon facilities in Shenzhen, China on July 11-14....

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Linaro 16.07 Release Available for Download

“As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought.  Debugging had to be discovered.  I can remember the exact instant when I...

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OpenCSD – Operation and Use of the Library

This article will describe the programming and operation of the OpenCSD library in decoding CoreSight™ trace. Starting with a brief review of CoreSight technology and terminology, these elements will...

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VM System Specification V2 for ARM Processors

Christoffer Dall, Virtualization Tech Lead Version 2.0, Last Revised: April 4th, 2016 Download PDF The goal of this specification is to provide a set of guidelines for both guest Operating System (OS)...

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LAS16 Connect Registration is now open

We are pleased to announce that registration for Linaro Connect Las Vegas 2016 (LAS16) – has opened. With five months to go there is still plenty of planning to do but the key dates and locations are:...

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Linaro and Lemaker at OSCON to showcase HiKey

The HiKey Lemaker edition powered by Huawei Kirin620 SoC is now available with Ubuntu Core thanks to the collaboration of Canonical, Huawei and Lemaker. The enablement of Ubuntu Core makes this board...

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96Boards OpenHours week 2

The second week of our ongoing 96Boards OpenHours took place yesterday.  For those of you unfamiliar with our 96Boards OpenHours, it is a weekly session every Thursday at 4pm BST. We begin these...

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Linaro 16.05 Release Available for Download

“No amount of careful planning will ever replace dumb luck.” ~ Anonymous Linaro 16.05  release is now available for download.  See the detailed highlights of this release to get an overview of what...

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Las Vegas 2016 – here we come!

Having just about recovered from the jetlag, it’s time to report on my site visit to the JW Marriott in Las Vegas where we will hold the next Linaro Connect September 26-30th. With only four months to...

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First open source W3C EME solution provided on the 96Boards HiKey platform

Authors:  Mark Gregotski and Zoltan Kuscsik The Linaro Digital Home Group (LHG) is pleased to announce a reference build of W3C EME Clear Key on the 96Boards HiKey platform.  The build uses open source...

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HiSilicon creates Poplar, the first 96Boards TV Platform development board

HiSilicon Technologies announced the arrival of Poplar, the first Linaro 96Boards TV Platform development board (Press release:...

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System Trace Module (STM) and its usage

Introduction System Trace Module (STM) is a kind of trace source device, which can not only collect trace data from software sources, but also monitor hardware events. Any software program no matter...

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Firmware Summit at Linaro Connect LAS16

Next week at Linaro Connect LAS16 there will be a Firmware Summit on Tuesday September 27, 2016 from 10:10am-1:00pm (PST).  The purpose of this summit is to bring the key developers and maintainers...

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Microcontroller Software Summit at Linaro Connect LAS16

Next week at Linaro Connect LAS16 there will be a Microcontroller Software Summit on Wednesday September 28, 2016 from 10:10am-1:00pm (PST).  The summit looks to focus on few of the topics that the...

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Linaro 16.09 Release Available for Download

Linaro 16.09  release is now available for download.  See the detailed highlights of this release to get an overview of what has been accomplished by the Working Groups, Landing Teams and Platform...

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Monday at Linaro Connect LAS16

Linaro Connect began today in Las Vegas and welcomed over 425 attendees making it one of the largest Linaro Connect events.  Linaro Connect Las Vegas 2016 (LAS16) is a five-day event full of keynotes...

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Tuesday Highlights at Linaro Connect LAS16

Linaro Connect LAS16 continued on Tuesday with another great keynote by guest speaker, Sarah Sharp, who is the founder of Otter Tech.  Sarah kicked-off the day by giving a talk on “Corporate Open...

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Wednesday Linaro Connect LAS16 Re-cap

Wednesday at Linaro Connect  LAS16 began with a great key by Geoff Thorpe who heads up security within the Microcontroller group of NXP.  Geoff gave an overview of  Zephyr and talked about the what,...

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Thursday Linaro Connect LAS16 Re-cap

The Thursday keynote was given by Brian Richardson who is an an Intel technical evangelist and is a blogger for the Intel Software Evangelists project, a former writer for linux.com, and executive...

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A look back at LAS16

The Linaro Connect Las Vegas 2016 (LAS16) was one of the largest Connect events to date.  Linaro Connect Las Vegas 2016 (LAS16) was a five-day event full of keynotes by industry leaders, talks,...

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Suspend to Idle

Introduction The Linux kernel supports a variety of sleep states.  These states provide power savings by placing the various parts of the system into low power modes.  The four sleep states are suspend...

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Linaro 16.10 Release Available for Download

“The first rule of all intelligent tinkering is to keep all the parts.”  — Aldo Leopold, quoted in Donald Wurster’s “Nature’s Economy” Linaro 16.10  release is now available for download.  See the...

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Open source continuous integration (CI) for Zephyr at ELC

Cloud-based continuous integration /klaʊd beɪst kənˈtɪnjʊəs ɪntɪˈɡreɪʃ(ə)n/ a software development practice that pretty much nobody would associate with microcontrollers … I found myself last month...

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TEE Development With No Hardware – Is That Possible?

It is a well-known fact that it has been hard to get started with TEE development for a couple of reasons. For example, it has been hard to get access to the software because in the past TEE software...

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Linaro 16.11 Release Available for Download

“What we wish, that we readily believe.”  — Demosthenes Linaro 16.11  release is now available for download.  See the detailed highlights of this release to get an overview of what has been...

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Linaro Connect Budapest (BUD17) Registration has launched!

We are pleased to announce that registration for Linaro Connect Budapest (BUD17) has opened!  Linaro Connect has become the event to attend if you are interested in Linux development and related...

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Linaro 16.12 Release Available for Download

“I retain the right to change my mind, as always. Le Linus e mobile.”  — Linus Torvalds Linaro 16.12  release is now available for download.  See the detailed highlights of this release to get an...

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Kprobes Event Tracing on ARMv8

Introduction Kprobes is a kernel feature that allows instrumenting the kernel by setting arbitrary breakpoints that call out to developer-supplied routines before and after the breakpointed...

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Ensuring Bootable ARM VM Images

A while back, during Linaro Connect 2013, Riku Voipio (Linaro) asked a simple but important question: “When you guys are done building hypervisors that work on ARM, how do we actually make sure that a...

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Linaro #1 contributor to the Linux kernel 4.9 release

Linaro has been a long-standing top 5 company contributor to Linux kernel development. With the release of Linux kernel 4.9, Linaro has for the first time made the top position, measured by number of...

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16.12 release for Linaro Enterprise Reference Platform is now available

The Linaro Enterprise Group (LEG) is pleased to announce the 16.12 release for the Linaro Enterprise Reference Platform. To find out more, visit platforms.linaro.org or click here to download the...

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Accelerated AES for the ARM64 Linux kernel

The ARMv8 architecture extends the AArch64 and AArch32 instruction sets with dedicated instructions for AES encryption, SHA-1 and SHA-256 cryptographic hashing, and 64×64 to 128 polynomial...

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LHG Releases First Sample Android “AOSP TV” build on HiKey

Authors:  Khasim Syed Mohammed and Mark Gregotski The Linaro Digital Home Group (LHG) has released an initial implementation of Android “AOSP TV” for the 96Boards HiKey platform.  This build is just...

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Linaro Connect Budapest 2017 – Week in Review

The Linaro Connect Budapest 2017 (BUD17) marked the 21st Linaro Connect since 2010.   Linaro Connect Budapest was a five-day event with over 400 attendees and was packed full of keynotes by industry...

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So, let’s talk USB hubs.

Back when Linaro and LAVA Lab started, there was very little need for USB device support connected to our LAVA dispatcher servers. However, as time went on, more and more devices started coming to us...

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What’s new in QEMU 2.9

QEMU is an interesting multi-faceted open source project. It is a standard component for the Linux virtualisation stack, used by both the KVM and Xen hypervisors for device emulation. Thanks to its...

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EdgeX Foundry Integration with Linaro’s Zephyr-based IoT demonstration system

“The creation of a standard, secure, open, and architecture- and vendor-neutral gateway framework is a critical component of IoT based solutions. Hosted by The Linux Foundation, EdgeX Foundry’s...

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Day 1 at the OSPM Summit Pisa, Italy

The first summit on power management and scheduling disciplines in the Linux kernel was held at Scuola Superiore S. Anna in Pisa Italy on Monday 3 April and Tuesday 4 April 2017.  The event was...

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Day 2 at the OSPM Summit Pisa, Italy

The first summit on power management and scheduling disciplines in the Linux kernel was held at Scuola Superiore S. Anna in Pisa Italy on Monday 3 April and Tuesday 4 April 2017.  The event was...

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The Linaro Digital Home Group celebrates three years

By Mark Gregotski, Director of the Linaro Digital Home Group (LHG) The Linaro Digital Home Group (LHG) is celebrating its third year anniversary! Officially launched in May 2014 with eight founding...

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LHG updates W3C EME solution for 96Boards HiKey platform

Authors: Mark Gregotski and Peter Griffin The Linaro Digital Home Group (LHG) is pleased to announce an updated reference build of W3C EME Clear Key on the 96Boards HiKey platform. The build uses open...

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The 17.08 release for the Linaro Enterprise Reference Platform is now available

The Linaro Enterprise Group (LEG) is pleased to announce the 17.08 release for the Linaro Enterprise Reference Platform. To find out more, visit platforms.linaro.org or click here to download the...

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Linaro Connect SFO17 kicks off with new 96Boards products, members and...

The 22nd Linaro Connect began on Monday 25 September with the keynote given by Linaro CEO George Grey. As usual, Grey packed the opening hour with an update on new Linaro members, key engineering...

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Linaro Connect SFO17 day one summary and day two begins with new ARM...

Linaro CEO George Grey, in looking forward to day two of Linaro Connect SFO17, said “Linaro Connect is once again the place to be if you are involved in open source on ARM – from IoT to Digital Home,...

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