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Experimental Panfrost GLES 3.0 support has landed in Mesa

February 27, 2020 by Alyssa Rosenzweig  |   Blog

Panfrost's ES 3.0 support has landed in upstream Mesa and works with a mainline Linux kernel. The support is still early, but if you're feeling adventurous, feel free to give it a try on your favourite ES 3.0 applications and games.

Experimental Panfrost GLES 3.0 support has landed in Mesa

Monado OpenXR runtime developer update

February 25, 2020 by Jakob Bornecrantz  |   News & Events

Ever since announcing the project at GDC 2019, we have been working on improving the full open source XR stack to a usable state. Today, we are very happy to tag version 0.1 of the Monado OpenXR runtime for Linux!

Monado OpenXR runtime developer update

Using gcc sanitisers to get a nasty bug fixed

February 18, 2020 by Andrej Shadura  |   Blog

When a bug surprises you when doing Apertis packaging of a typical vendor code signing tool, it's time to debug it using the compiler's built-in tools.

Using gcc sanitisers to get a nasty bug fixed

Low latency streaming of security video feeds with SRT and GStreamer

February 12, 2020 by Jakub Adam  |   News & Events

With the advent of 5G networks, it's now possible to stream high quality video in real-time with a very low latency that wasn't possible with the past generations of mobile networks.

Low latency streaming of security video feeds with SRT and GStreamer

FOSDEM 2020 - Recorded presentations (videos)

February 05, 2020 by Mark Filion  |   Blog

From KernelCI's new home, the latest on Zink (OpenGL on Vulkan), OpenXR & Monado, PipeWire in the automotive industry, JPEG2000, and GStreamer on the Magic Leap One, Collaborans gave talks in 6 different devrooms, as well on the main track.

FOSDEM 2020 - Recorded presentations (videos)

Linux Kernel 5.5

January 30, 2020 by Sebastian Reichel  |   News & Events

With the 5.5 kernel released earlier this week, here's a detailed look at Collabora’s contributions, including work to improve upstream support of peripherals used together with the i.MX 6 family of processors.

Linux Kernel 5.5

FOSDEM 2020

January 23, 2020 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

In less than 10 days, Collabora will be in Brussels to take part in this year's edition of FOSDEM! Come say hello, or catch one of the dozen talks (in the main track and 6 different devrooms) given by Collaborans!

FOSDEM 2020

Meet the newest Collaborans!

January 16, 2020 by Erica Ryoo  |   News & Events

What better way to start the new year than by highlighting the newest members of our engineering and administrative teams who joined in Q4 2019! Please join us in welcoming Antonio, Afonso, Narciso and Eleni!

Meet the newest Collaborans!

Opening up Mali T720

December 20, 2019 by Alyssa Rosenzweig  |   Blog

If you have a device with a Mali T720 or T820 GPU, you’re in luck – your device is now supported in upstream Mesa at feature parity with other GPUs. Get out your Allwinner H6 or Amlogic S912 board, grab the latest Mesa, and enjoy a match of SuperTuxKart!

Opening up Mali T720

New graphing tool for PipeWire debugging

December 09, 2019 by Julian Bouzas  |   Blog

PipeWire, the new and emerging open source framework that aims to greatly improve the exchange and management of audio and video streams inside a Linux system, has seen a number of improvements and bug fixes over the past year.

New graphing tool for PipeWire debugging

Linux Kernel 5.4

December 02, 2019 by Enric Balletbò i Serra  |   News & Events

Linus has released the 5.4 kernel and Collabora was once again a very active contributor with 12 Collaborans authoring 95 commits while also helping the kernel maintainers by contributing 124 Reviewed-by tags.

Linux Kernel 5.4

Building GStreamer on Windows

November 26, 2019 by Aaron Boxer  |   Blog

With the advent of meson and gst-build, it is now possible to set up a GStreamer Windows development environment that rivals the finest Linux has to offer, with full support for Visual Studio debugging into the library.

Building GStreamer on Windows

What's the latest with WirePlumber?

February 19, 2024 by George Kiagiadakis  |   Blog

Back in 2022, after a series of issues were found in its design, I made the call to rework some of WirePlumber's fundamentals in order to allow it to grow. So where are we now? And what's next? Let's dive in!

What's the latest with WirePlumber?

DRM-CI: A GitLab-CI pipeline for Linux kernel testing

February 08, 2024 by Helen Koike  |   Blog

Continuing our Kernel Integration series, we're excited to introduce DRM-CI, a groundbreaking solution that enables developers to test their graphics subsystem patches across numerous devices within the community's shared infrastructure.

DRM-CI: A GitLab-CI pipeline for Linux kernel testing

Persian Rug, Part 4 - The limitations of proxies

January 23, 2024 by Edmund Smith  |   Blog

This is the fourth and final part in a series on persian-rug, a Rust crate for interconnected objects. We've touched on the two big limitations: lack of deletion and lack of enforced matching between proxies and containers. Let's look at other solutions.

Persian Rug, Part 4 - The limitations of proxies

How to share code between Vulkan and Gallium

January 16, 2024 by Faith Ekstrand  |   Blog

One of the key high-level challenges of building Mesa drivers these days is figuring out how to best share code between a Vulkan driver and a Gallium driver when Gallium isn't really capable of implementing Vulkan. Here's how.

How to share code between Vulkan and Gallium

Google Open Source Peer Bonus 2023

December 19, 2023 by Mark Filion  |   Blog

Google Open Source have chosen their second group of winners for the 2023 Google Open Source Peer Bonus Program, and Arnaud Ferraris, Senior Software Engineer at Collabora and Mobian project lead, is among the recipients!

Google Open Source Peer Bonus 2023

A new kselftest for verifying driver probe of Devicetree-based platforms

December 11, 2023 by Nícolas F. R. A. Prado  |   Blog

As we continue working to improve the kernel integration landscape on multiple fronts, this also means making better tests available for all. Working closely with the community, we have now landed a new, ready-to-use, kselftest in mainline Linux.

A new kselftest for verifying driver probe of Devicetree-based platforms

Thoughts on PipeWire 1.0 and beyond

December 06, 2023 by George Kiagiadakis  |   Blog

We can now confidently say that PipeWire is here to stay. But of course it is not the end of the journey. There are many new areas to explore going forward, especially in WirePlumber and the ecosystem that builds around PipeWire.

Thoughts on PipeWire 1.0 and beyond

Persian Rug, Part 3 - The warp and the weft

December 05, 2023 by Edmund Smith  |   Blog

Our look at the Rust crate for interconnected objects continues, as we examine how persian-rug really does tie the room together by providing a convenient container solution with a safety net to go along with it.

Persian Rug, Part 3 - The warp and the weft

Advocating a better Kernel Integration for all

December 01, 2023 by Gustavo Padovan  |   Blog

The testing ecosystem in the Linux kernel has been steadily growing, but are efforts sufficiently coordinated? How can we help developers and maintainers integrate code more efficiently? How can we mitigate maintainer burnout?

Advocating a better Kernel Integration for all

WirePlumber: Exploring Lua scripts with Event Dispatcher

October 30, 2023 by Ashok Sidipotu  |   Blog

With the upcoming 0.5 release, WirePlumber's Lua scripts will be transformed with the new Event Dispatcher. More modular and extensible with very little redundant processing, they will look and feel completely different.

WirePlumber: Exploring Lua scripts with Event Dispatcher

A roadmap for VirtIO Video on ChromeOS: part 2

October 02, 2023 by Daniel Almeida  |   Blog

This second installment explores the Rust libraries Collabora developed to decode video and how these libraries are used within ARCVM to eventually remove CrosVM's dependency on the Chrome codec stack.

A roadmap for VirtIO Video on ChromeOS: part 2

Persian Rug, Part 2 - Other ways to make object soups in Rust

September 27, 2023 by Edmund Smith  |   Blog

Why is creating object graphs hard in Rust? In part 1, we looked at a basic pattern, where two types of objects refer to one another. In this part we'll follow up in more detail and examine the different approaches that can be applied.

Persian Rug, Part 2 - Other ways to make object soups in Rust

Event: IBC 2014

August 13, 2014 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Amsterdam, The Netherlands September 12-16, 2014: the essential global meeting place for everyone engaged in creating, managing and delivering the future of electronic media and entertainment technology and content. Collabora booth #8.B38c

Event: IBC 2014

Event: SIGGRAPH 2014

August 11, 2014 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Vancouver, Canada August 12-14, 2014: SIGGRAPH, visit ARM at Booth #933 in the Mobile Pavilion to meet with Collabora. SIGGRAPH attracts 20,000 international attendees from across the globe and many creative and technical disciplines. It is the only…

Event: SIGGRAPH 2014

News: In Cambridge, England 2014

August 05, 2014 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Cambridge, England August 5-8, 2014: With so many silicon vendors and OEMs visiting Cambridge England, August 5-8 transforms the univeristy town into the world's center of innovation for one week. Cambridge in August attracts international leaders in…

News: In Cambridge, England 2014

News: Raspberry Pi Today Interview

July 17, 2014 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Raspberry Pi Today interviews Collabora's Daniel Stone about Collabora and the Raspberry Pi Foundation's work on Wayland and WebKit.

News: Raspberry Pi Today Interview

Event: Automotive Linux Summit

June 19, 2014 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Tokyo, Japan July 1-2, 2014: The Automotive Linux Summit will bring together the most innovative minds from automotive expertise and open-source excellence.

Event: Automotive Linux Summit

News: New Collabora website launches

June 19, 2014 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Collabora introduces our new brand and logo

News: New Collabora website launches

Press release: Collabora Brings Wayland...

May 23, 2013 by Guy Lunardi  |   News and Events

Press release: Collabora Brings Wayland...

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