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Finding the secret ingredient at Embedded and Kernel Recipes

May 26, 2022 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

After a two-year hiatus, the City of Lights is shinning brightly again to welcome the community for a full week of engaging talks at Embedded Recipes and Kernel Recipes conferences.

Finding the secret ingredient at Embedded and Kernel Recipes

Talks of the town: Software engineering edition

May 17, 2022 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Less than a day away, May 18th looks to be a very busy time. With Live Embedded Event and Embedded Vision Summit taking place almost simultaneously, Collabora will be presenting four different talks!

Talks of the town: Software engineering edition

PipeWire: Bluetooth support status update

April 29, 2022 by Frederic Danis  |   News & Events

Over the last two years, Bluetooth® audio support has steadily grown in PipeWire and has become a featureful, stable, conformant, open source Bluetooth® audio stack implementation. Here's a look at where things stand.

PipeWire: Bluetooth support status update

SocketCAN x Kubernetes

April 27, 2022 by Jakub Piotr Cłapa  |   News & Events

Looking to use hardware-backed and virtual SocketCAN interfaces inside your Kubernetes Pods? A new device plugin now allows processes inside a pod to communicate with each other using the full Linux SocketCAN API.

SocketCAN x Kubernetes

Monado accepted in GSoC 2022!

April 06, 2022 by Frédéric Plourde  |   News & Events

Monado has been accepted for the first time as a mentoring organization for the 2022 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)! Collabora will be providing three mentors to support contributors who want to work on Monado-related projects.

Monado accepted in GSoC 2022!

Visual-inertial tracking for Monado

April 05, 2022 by Mateo de Mayo  |   Blog

Monado now has initial support for 6DoF ("inside-out") tracking for devices with cameras and an IMU! Three free and open source SLAM/VIO solutions were integrated and adapted to work on XR: Kimera-VIO, ORB-SLAM3, and Basalt.

Visual-inertial tracking for Monado

Kernel 5.17: Solid & steady

March 31, 2022 by Sebastian Fricke  |   News & Events

While eastern Europe has experienced ghastly events that have shaken the world, the latest Linux kernel release could aptly be named "Solid & Steady." Here's a look at some of the contributions made by Collabora's kernel team.

Kernel 5.17: Solid & steady

Spotlight on Meson's full-featured developer environment

March 30, 2022 by Xavier Claessens  |   Blog

When developing an application or a library, it is very common to want to run it without installing it, or to install it into a custom prefix rather than on the system. Here's how Meson can help with that.

Spotlight on Meson's full-featured developer environment

School's back in session at Open Source 101

March 24, 2022 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Join us next week for Open Source 101, a one-day conference where we'll dive into the latest around FOSS virtual & augmented reality, and look at the implications of enabling automated testing upstream.

School's back in session at Open Source 101

How to write a Vulkan driver in 2022

March 23, 2022 by Faith Ekstrand  |   Blog

An incredible amount has changed in Mesa and in the Vulkan ecosystems since we wrote the first Vulkan driver in Mesa for Intel hardware back in 2015. Not only has Vulkan grown, but Mesa has as well.

How to write a Vulkan driver in 2022

Improving the reliability of file system monitoring tools

March 14, 2022 by Gabriel Krisman Bertazi  |   Blog

Every file system used in production has tools to try to recover from system crashes. To provide a better infrastructure for those tools, our kernel team developed FAN_FS_ERROR, a new fanotify event which monitors error notifications.

Improving the reliability of file system monitoring tools

PipeWire: A year in review & a look ahead

March 08, 2022 by George Kiagiadakis  |   Blog

The PipeWire project made major strides over the past few years, bringing shiny new features, and paving the way for new possibilities in the Linux multimedia scene. A look what was accomplished in 2021, and what lies ahead for 2022.

PipeWire: A year in review & a look ahead

Mesa CI and the power of pre-merge testing

October 08, 2024 by Deborah Brouwer  |   Blog

Having multiple developers work on pre-merge testing distributes the process and ensures that every contribution is rigorously tested before merging.

Mesa CI and the power of pre-merge testing

A shifty tale about unit testing with Maxwell, NVK's backend compiler

August 15, 2024 by Faith Ekstrand  |   Blog

After rigorous debugging, a new unit testing framework was added to the backend compiler for NVK. This is a walkthrough of the steps taken to achieve this.

A shifty tale about unit testing with Maxwell, NVK's backend compiler

A journey towards reliable testing in the Linux Kernel

August 01, 2024 by Laura Nao  |   Blog

We're reflecting on the steps taken as we continually seek to improve Linux kernel integration. This will include more detail about the tests used to enhance the quality of testing processes and coverage.

A journey towards reliable testing in the Linux Kernel

Building a Board Farm for Embedded World

June 27, 2024 by Christopher Obbard  |   Blog

With each board running a mainline-first Linux software stack and tested in a CI loop with the LAVA test framework, the Farm showcased Collabora's recent hardware enablement and Continuous integration (CI) efforts.

Building a Board Farm for Embedded World

Smart audio filters with WirePlumber 0.5

June 26, 2024 by Julian Bouzas  |   Blog

WirePlumber 0.5 arrived recently with many new and essential features including the Smart Filter Policy, enabling audio filters to automatically insert themselves in between client streams and devices.

Smart audio filters with WirePlumber 0.5

The latest on cmtp-responder, a permissively-licensed MTP responder implementation

June 12, 2024 by Andrzej Pietrasiewicz  |   Blog

Part 3 of the cmtp-responder series with a focus on USB gadgets explores several new elements including a unified build environment with Docker and an example strategy for building and deploying to a target.

The latest on cmtp-responder, a permissively-licensed MTP responder implementation

A roadmap for VirtIO Video on ChromeOS: part 3

June 06, 2024 by Daniel Almeida  |   Blog

The final installment of a series explaining how Collabora is helping shape the video virtualization story for Chromebooks with a focus on the future plans for cros-libva and cros-codecs.

A roadmap for VirtIO Video on ChromeOS: part 3

Hacking on the PipeWire GStreamer elements

June 05, 2024 by George Kiagiadakis  |   Blog

Last week I attended the GStreamer spring hackfest in Thessaloniki to work on the PipeWire GStreamer elements and connect with the community.

Hacking on the PipeWire GStreamer elements

Transforming speech technology with WhisperLive

May 28, 2024 by Kara Bembridge  |   Blog

The world of AI has made leaps and bounds from what It once was, but there are still some adjustments required for the optimal outcome. With the help of WhisperLive, VoxAI was able to improve its response time and oratory abilities.

Transforming speech technology with WhisperLive

Re-converging control flow on NVIDIA GPUs - What went wrong, and how we fixed it

April 25, 2024 by Faith Ekstrand  |   Blog

While I managed to land support for two extensions, implementing control flow re-convergence in NVK did not go as planned. This is the story of what went wrong and how we fixed it.

Re-converging control flow on NVIDIA GPUs - What went wrong, and how we fixed it

Automatic regression handling and reporting for the Linux Kernel

March 14, 2024 by Ricardo Cañuelo Navarro  |   Blog

In continuation with our series about Kernel Integration we'll go into more detail about how regression detection, processing, and tracking can be improved to provide a better service to developers and maintainers.

Automatic regression handling and reporting for the Linux Kernel

Almost a fully open-source boot chain for Rockchip's RK3588!

February 21, 2024 by Eugen Hristev  |   Blog

Now included in our Debian images & available via our GitLab, you can build a complete, working BL31 (Boot Loader stage 3.1), and replace the closed binary blob with an open-source binary that anyone can compile.

Almost a fully open-source boot chain for Rockchip's RK3588!

GStreamer Conference 2016

October 07, 2016 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Collabora is proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of this year's GStreamer Conference, taking place at the Betahaus in Berlin, Germany on 10-11 October 2016. Come say hello, or catch one of the four presentations given by Collaborans during the conference!

GStreamer Conference 2016

Upcoming events - Fall 2016

September 19, 2016 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

This fall, we're thrilled to be sponsoring not one, but five great conferences!

Upcoming events - Fall 2016

Event: IBC 2016

September 05, 2016 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Collabora will be exhibiting at IBC 2016, the premier annual event for professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and news content worldwide.

Event: IBC 2016

Event: DebConf16

June 30, 2016 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Collabora is proud to be sponsoring DebConf16, the annual Debian developers meeting, taking place in Cape Town, South Africa, from 2 July to 9 July 2016.

Event: DebConf16

News: GStreamer leaks tracer

June 22, 2016 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

At Collabora, our multimedia team is always looking to improve QA tools in GStreamer. This week, we're introducing a new QA tool: a GStreamer tracer to track leaked objects.

News: GStreamer leaks tracer

Event: InfoComm 2016

June 07, 2016 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Collabora will be exhibiting at InfoComm 2016, the largest, most exciting event in the United States focused on the pro-AV industry, in Last Vegas on June 8-10, 2016.

Event: InfoComm 2016

News: Linux Kernel 4.6

May 18, 2016 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Linux Kernel 4.6 was released this week, with a total of 9 Collabora engineers taking part in its development, Collabora’s highest number of engineers contributing to a single Linux Kernel release yet!

News: Linux Kernel 4.6

Event: GStreamer Spring Hackfest 2016

May 13, 2016 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Starting today, 13 May, and throughout the weekend, four Collaborans will be attending the GStreamer Spring Hackfest 2016 in Thessaloniki, Greece!

Event: GStreamer Spring Hackfest 2016

Event: Apertis hands-on session, April 28

April 11, 2016 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

On Thursday 28th of April in Paris, France Bosch and Collabora will be hosting the first Apertis hands-on session during the GENIVI AMM. The session will give everyone present an opportunity to work first hand with Apertis and produce applications to…

Event: Apertis hands-on session, April 28

News: Vulkan 1.0 specification released

February 16, 2016 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Today sees the public release of Vulkan 1.0, the next-generation graphics API from the Khronos Group. As a member of Khronos, Collabora has been committed to improving EGL, OpenGL ES and OpenGL itself, and this continues with Vulkan.

News: Vulkan 1.0 specification released

Event: ISE 2016

December 17, 2015 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Amsterdam, The Netherlands - from 09/02/2016 to 12/02/2016: We'll be exhibiting at ISE 2016, the world's largest tradeshow dedicated to professional AV and electronic systems integration. Collabora booth 8-K321

Event: ISE 2016

Event: systemd.conf 2015

October 28, 2015 by Mark Filion  |   News and Events

Berlin, Germany - from 05/11/2015 to 07/11/2015: The systemd.conf is the first conference devoted to the systemd project. It aims to bring developers, distribution packagers and devops professionals together to present, discuss, and work on that topics that will shape the future of the systemd project.

Event: systemd.conf 2015

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