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Collabora contributions to Linux kernel 4.1

August 24, 2015 by Javier Martinez Canillas | Blog

Kernel.org Collabora contributions

Event: LPC 2015

August 14, 2015 by Guy Lunardi | News and Events

Seattle, USA - from 19/08/2015 to 21/08/2015: The Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) is a developer conference for those working on the “plumbing” of Linux.

Event: DebConf 2015

August 14, 2015 by Guy Lunardi | News and Events

Heidelberg, Germany - from 15/08/2015 to 22/08/2015: The 16th annual Debian developers meeting.

Event: GStreamer Hackfest 2015

August 14, 2015 by Guy Lunardi | News and Events

Montpellier, France - from 14/08/2015 to 16/08/2015: GStreamer developers are meeting up to work on the project.

Alex's work experience at Collabora

August 06, 2015 by Alex Shtyrov | Blog

A student intership experience at Collabora

Why polkit (or, how to mount a disk on modern Linux)

June 08, 2015 by Simon McVittie | Blog

Why udisks2 and polkit are the way they are

Checking D-Bus API stability

June 02, 2015 by Philip Withnall | Blog

D-Bus API features

Collabora contributions to Linux kernel 4.0

May 11, 2015 by Javier Martinez Canillas | Blog

Collabora upstream work on Linux kernel

Lucid sleep in the free desktop

May 01, 2015 by Tomeu Vizoso | Blog

Describes ability of performing work while the machine is in a low power state such as suspend.

Tracking the reference count of a GstMiniObject using gdb

April 13, 2015 by Guillaume Desmottes | Blog

Debugging GStreamer

Blink started supporting font-size-adjust css property

March 26, 2015 by ChangSeok Oh | Blog

Blink font-size-adjust via CSS properties

JPEG-XR support on blink

March 21, 2015 by ChangSeok Oh | Blog

JPEG-XR support on browsing technologies

An overview of the Panfrost driver

March 13, 2019 by Robert Foss | Blog

During the past few months significant progress has been made on the Open Source Arm Mali GPU driver front, culminating in the Panfrost driver targeting Mali T and G-series of GPUs being available now.

Quick hack: Raspberry Pi meets Linux kernel mainline

March 12, 2019 by Helen Koike | Blog

With just a few simple steps, you can compile and boot a Raspberry Pi using the Linux kernel mainline source code. Here's how.

News from the Debian Cloud Team

March 05, 2019 by Lucas Kanashiro | Blog

Since the last Debian release, a number of changes have been made in the Debian Cloud Team, both on the technical & organisational level within the community. Here's a look at what's in store for Buster!

Panfrost update: A new kernel driver

March 04, 2019 by Tomeu Vizoso | Blog

Following two months of work to develop a new kernel driver for Midgard and Bifrost GPUs, the kernel side of Panfrost is now in a form close to be acceptable in the mainline Linux kernel.

Modern USB gadget on Linux & how to integrate it with systemd (Part 1)

February 18, 2019 by Andrzej Pietrasiewicz | Blog

A look at how to implement USB gadget devices on Linux machines which have the necessary UDC hardware, automate the manual configfs process via declarative gadget "schemes", and use systemd for gadget composition at boot time.

FOSDEM 2019 - Recorded presentations (videos)

February 15, 2019 by Mark Filion | Blog

From the latest on Open Source projects Zink (OpenGL on Vulkan) and VirGL (virtual 3D GPU for QEMU), to a state of the union on GStreamer embedded, and a look at how the KernelCI project is getting a second breath, Collaborans presented in five devrooms.

A Panfrost milestone

January 07, 2019 by Tomeu Vizoso | Blog

Panfrost, a project that delivers an open source implementation of a driver for the newest versions of the Mali family of GPUs, now includes support for running Wayland compositors and zero-copy GPU-accelerated clients.

A dream come true: Android is finally using DRM/KMS

December 17, 2018 by Gustavo Padovan | Blog

Released a few months ago, the Google Pixel 3 is the first Android phone running with the mainline graphics stack. A feat that was deemed impossible 10 years ago is now a reality thanks to a lot of hard work from the entire community.

Convincing your manager that upstreaming is in their best interest

November 28, 2018 by Martyn Welch | Blog

In an ideal world, everyone would implicitly understand that it just makes good business sense to upstream some of the modifications made when creating your Linux powered devices. Unfortunately, this is a long way from being common knowledge.

Metrics for test suite comprehensiveness

November 23, 2018 by Alexandros Frantzis | Blog

How can we measure the comprehensiveness of a test suite? Code coverage is the standard metric used in the industry and makes intuitive sense. However, it can often present some difficulties for large scale surveys.

Gaining eBPF vision: A new way to trace Linux filesystem disk requests

November 21, 2018 by Gabriel Krisman Bertazi | Blog

A real-world use case of eBPF tracing to understand file access patterns in the Linux kernel and optimize large applications.

Quick hack: Speed up your GitLab CI

November 06, 2018 by Xavier Claessens | Blog

Did you know you could register your own PC, or a spare laptop collecting dust in a drawer, to get instant CI going on GitLab? Not only will you get faster CI, but you'll also reduce the queue on the shared runner for others!

Zink brings conformant OpenGL on Imagination GPUs

July 06, 2023 by Erik Faye-Lund | News & Events

Today, Imagination Technologies announced they are now using Zink for full OpenGL 4.6 support. This is the first time we've seen a hardware vendor trust Zink enough to completely side-step a native OpenGL driver and use it in a shipping product.

Kernel 6.4: More work on MediaTek, Rockchip, and power supply

July 05, 2023 by Rogerio Alves Cardoso | News & Events

Released last week, Linux kernel 6.4 brings new features such as support for Intel LAM, user events for tracing, and the ability for the machine keyrings used for Machine Owner Keys to store only CA-enforced keys.

NVK update: Enabling new extensions, conformance status & more

June 26, 2023 by Faith Ekstrand | News & Events

Looking back, it's amazing how much has happened in NVK in just the last 7 months. If development continues at this crazy pace, we may be looking at a pretty decent driver before too much longer.

Ready to embark for Embedded Open Source Summit

June 22, 2023 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events

Taking place at the Prague Congress Centre from June 27 to 30, this new 4-day umbrella event brings multiple conferences, including Automotive Linux Summit (ALS) and Embedded Linux Conference (ELC), all under one roof.

Making new strides at AWE

May 29, 2023 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events

Set in the heart of Silicon Valley, XR enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting to see the latest advancements on display at Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2023.

Weston 12.0: Highlights and changes for Wayland's reference compositor

May 25, 2023 by Marius Vlad | News & Events

Released last week, Weston 12.0 brings a number of highlights including two new backends, support for multiple scanout devices, and the addition of new protocol implementations. Here's a look at some of the changes that have landed in this new version.