The team at Linaro with focus on 96boards are working to make it upstream friendly, better Quality Assurance, Validation, making the software more stable.
Category: Linaro Connect
Karen Sandler, Software Freedom Conservancy
Posted by – December 11, 2015
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect
Karen Sandler Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy offers an inside look of the state of compliance from the perspective of the Software Freedom Conservancy, a nonprofit charitable organization that is the most active in the field. In her keynote Karen gives an overview of where things are with compliance initiatives and insight into the ideological movement behind copyleft.
Martin Stadtler, Director of Linaro Enterprise Group
Posted by – December 11, 2015
Working on the Boot Architecture (ACPI, UEFI), members from AMD, Qualcomm, Cavium, Alibaba, all engineers working together to make all the software boot for ARM Servers, leading projects around Open Stack, Big Data, going up the stack, finding things to optimize, such as virtualization, to have Server parity on ARM vs x86.
AMD Huskyboard 96boards Enterprise Edition explained by Jon Masters of Red Hat
Posted by – November 16, 2015
Jon Masters, Chief ARM Architect at Red Hat, talks about the AMD Huskyboard, the first 96boards Enterprise Edition, with an open specification for running a lot of the enterprise software including the software from Red Hat.
Qualcomm Open Source on Dragonboard 410c
Posted by – November 11, 2015
Qualcomm talks about their Open Source Software Strategy, getting upstream support in the Linux Kernel for the Qualcomm based Development Boards like the Dragonboard 410c. Supporting Linux, Android, supporting Freedreno the Open Source GPU driver for Qualcomm processors, working towards support of OpenCL and more.
96Boards IoT Starter Kit with UART and Arduino-compatible Sensors Platform
Posted by – October 20, 2015
Grant Likely of Linaro introduces the http://96Boards.org IoT Starter Kit with retail price aimed at around $45 which includes the 96Boards UART also available at http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/96Boards-UART-p-2525.html and the Arduino-compatible 96Boards Sensors adapter board.
Open Source GPU driver Freedreno
Posted by – October 18, 2015
Bernhard Rosenkränzer on the Android team at Linaro and Rob Clark of Red Hat who works on the open source GPU driver called Freedreno for Qualcomm’s ARM processors Adreno GPU. This open source GPU driver enables better open source software such as for example all kinds of Linux for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 powered Dragonboard 410c which I have filmed here: http://138.2.152.197/?s=410c
CERN CMS tests 64bit ARM Servers for worldwide grid scientific computing
Posted by – October 16, 2015
David Abdurachmanov of Fermilab works in Geneva at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, testing all the latest different 64bit ARM Server platforms to measure when they may be recommended to be used by up to hundreds of computing centers around the world, potentially deployed to hundreds of thousands of servers to crunch large amounts of scientific data worldwide. The GRID of Computing resources analyses scientific data for experiments in high energy physics, to find proof that the Higgs Boson exists, at the core of understanding how the world is made. These scientific server grids must be built at optimal cost to consume the least amount of power as more and more scientific experiments require to analyse more and more data. CERN is where the Web was born, it might also be where the ARM Server will get kickstarted. As computing centers around the world have the requirement to use the least amount of power. David Abdurachmanov is eager to test and potentially to implement mass production ready ARM 64bit Server hardware.
You can also watch David Abdurachmanov’s keynote at Linaro Connect here:
In 2007, I filmed some videos at CERN LHC which you can see here: My 2007 CERN LHC Atlas tour
My 2007 CERN Grid computing video
MantaroBot TeleMe Telepresence Robot
Posted by – October 7, 2015
Wookey is testing out the MantaroBot TeleMe, he’s in the UK talking remotely to the people at the Linaro Connect in San Francisco. I filmed Wookey talking about Debian on ARMv8 64bit in my previous video.
EZchip Tilera TILE-Mx 100-core 64bit ARM Cortex-A53 processor for high-performance Networking
Posted by – October 5, 2015
Ezchip is preparing a 100 core ARM Cortex-A53 Processor, optimized for high-performance networking, 200-Gigabit throughput, hardware accelerators, Mesh cores interconnectivity for massive bandwidth, low latency and linear scalability. Barry Spinney, Network Architect at Ezchip talks about the 100-core ARM processor and shows a hardware-optimized ODP implementation running on the Tilera TILE-Gx 36-core processor with PCI-Express, Multiple memory controllers, hardware assist, hardware scheduler, crypto-engines, hardware traffic manager with many new hardware acceleration parts to be implemented in the 100-core ARM SoC. You can read more about it here: http://www.tilera.com/News/PressRelease/?ezchip=97
Linaro IoT & Embedded Group (LITE), open-source on “small” devices, ARM Cortex-A and Cortex-M
Posted by – October 1, 2015
Linaro’s newest focus group is being formed to work to improve open source software for the Internet of Things and Embedded devices, small devices with small memory, small power sources running embedded UI. Linaro CTO David Rusling talks about the role Linaro can work on to help optimize the software platforms for the Internet of Things and for Embedded. You can also see LITE being announced at the Linaro Connect opening keynote
ARM increases investment into Linaro: Ian Ferguson of ARM and David Rusling of Linaro
Posted by – September 26, 2015
Ian Ferguson ARM VP of WorldWide Marketing and Strategic Alliances discuss with David Rusling Linaro CTO about the status and roadmap for the ARM Server, what ARM is doing with Linaro, what Linaro member companies are doing with Linaro, to grow and ecosystem around ARM devices, ARM announced that they will double their engineering investment into Linaro.
Arrow launches $75 Qualcomm Dragonboard 410c 96boards Quad-core 64bit ARM Cortex-A53
Posted by – September 23, 2015
Arrow Electronics is about to launch the mass production of this 64bit Qualcomm Dragonboard 410c development board, based on the Linaro Consumer Edition specification, featuring the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 at 1.2GHz with Adreno 306 GPU, to run Android 5.1, Ubuntu 15.4 and Windows 10. You can read more about Dragonboard 410c and order it at http://partners.arrow.com/campaigns-na/qualcomm/dragonboard-410c/
$75 LeMaker HiKey 64bit with HiSilicon Kirin 620 Octa-core ARM Cortex-A53
Posted by – September 23, 2015
Category: Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, Freescale, Actions, HiSilicon, Linaro Connect, Android, Ubuntu
LeMaker releases their $75 LeMaker HiKey development board, it’s powered by the HiSilicon Kirin 620 Octa-core ARM Cortex-A53 64bit CPU at up to 1.2GHz and high performance Mali 450MP4 GPU. It also has 1GBLPDDR3 DRAM (800MHz) and 8GB eMMC storage on board. The price is $75 for the 1GB RAM version and $99 for 2GB RAM.
The LeMaker HiKey board follows the Linaro LCG 96boards design specification, with the standardized expansion buses for peripheral I/O, display and cameras in the 96boards ecosystem, we have many add-ons to work on HiKey. LeMaker, as one of the LCG members will contribute more resources and technical support to 96boards community.
This video also features LeMaker Guitar on Actions S500 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9, LeMaker Banana Pro on Allwinner A20 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 and LeMaker Piano on Freescale i.MX6Quad and Dual Quad-core and Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9.
Khronos Group President Neil Trevett Talks Vulkan at Linaro Connect
Posted by – September 22, 2015
The Khronos Group is the consortium focused on the creation of open standard, royalty-free application programming interfaces (APIs) for authoring and accelerated playback of dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices. Khronos members may contribute to the development of Khronos API specifications, vote at various stages before public deployment, and accelerate delivery of their platforms and applications through early access to specification drafts and conformance tests.
Linaro Connect San Francisco 2015 starts today!
Posted by – September 21, 2015
Category: Linaro Connect
Check back for many videos that I will post of the latest developments at Linaro Connect San Francisco 2015!
Texas Instruments BeagleBoard-X15
Posted by – September 21, 2015
Texas Instruments shows BeagleBoard-X15 for the performance Linux-hacker-focused line. It has dual-core ARM Cortex-A15, dual-core ARM Cortex-M4, dual-core C66x DSP and dual-core SGX544 GPU.
Augustin Benito Bethencourt, Linaro Core Development Director
Posted by – September 17, 2015
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect
Talks about what the Linaro Core Team is doing.
Linaro intern on Outreach Program for Women (OPW) solving the year 2038 problem
Posted by – September 17, 2015
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect
Y2038 bug might crash 32bit systems in the year 2038, so patches are being submitted to solve it.
Radxa Rock2 RK3288 development board
Posted by – March 26, 2015
This is the Radxa Rock2 on Rockchip RK3288 quad-core ARM Cortex-A17, still being optimized for release at http://radxa.com/Rock2 it’s configured as a SoM (System on Module) board with a choice of two base boards with more or less connectors and with that SoM module swappable. Tyler Baker of the Linaro LAVA team talks about the connectors and how Linaro is integrating this into http://kernelci.org which you can hear about at http://138.2.152.197/2015/02/28/kernelci-org-upstream-kernel-validation-project/
