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Embedded World 2019

February 20, 2019 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

Collabora is headed to Nuremberg, Germany to take part in this year's edition of Embedded World, the leading international fair for embedded systems! Come say hello, booth 4-280!

Embedded World 2019

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.

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

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.

FOSDEM 2019 - Recorded presentations (videos)

FOSDEM 2019

January 23, 2019 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

In just over a week's time, Collabora will be heading to Brussels to take part in the 2019 edition of FOSDEM! Come say hello, or catch one of the 8 talks (in 5 different devrooms) given by Collaborans!

FOSDEM 2019

Linux Kernel 4.20

January 07, 2019 by Fabien Lahoudere  |   News & Events

A few weeks ago, in the final days leading up to Christmas, Linus Torvalds released Linux Kernel 4.20. Collaborans were once again active during this development cycle, contributing 22 patches, 112 reviews & 55 sign-offs. Here's a look at their contributions.

Linux Kernel 4.20

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 Panfrost milestone

Outreachy - Round 17

December 20, 2018 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

As one year ends and another begins, Collabora is proud to be once again an Includer sponsor for the latest round (#17) of Outreachy internships, which began earlier this month! More specifically, Collabora is sponsoring the Linux kernel projects for…

Outreachy - Round 17

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.

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

ESE Kongress

December 04, 2018 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

This week, Collaborans will be taking part, and speaking, in this year's ESE Kongress, Germany's largest congress for professional embedded software engineering.

ESE Kongress

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.

Convincing your manager that upstreaming is in their best interest

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.

Metrics for test suite comprehensiveness

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.

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

Alyssa Rosenzweig receives Google Open Source Peer Bonus

April 20, 2020 by Mark Filion  |   Blog

Google Open Source has announced their 2020 first quarter Google Open Source Peer Bonus winners, and Alyssa Rosenzweig, Software Engineer at Collabora, is among the recipients!

Alyssa Rosenzweig receives Google Open Source Peer Bonus

Using syzkaller, part 2: Detecting programming bugs in the Linux kernel

April 17, 2020 by Andre Almeida  |   Blog

In my previous blog post, we discussed the importance of testing, what is fuzzing, and how the syzkaller fuzzes the kernel in order to find bugs. Now, let’s install the tool and starting using it to improve our code base.

Using syzkaller, part 2: Detecting programming bugs in the Linux kernel

Open Source software releases: Q1 2020 recap

April 14, 2020 by Mark Filion  |   Blog

Open Source software development thrives on remote collaboration, and continues to do so in 2020, with multiple projects announcing releases in the first quarter.

Open Source software releases: Q1 2020 recap

Clean, reliable setup for dependency installation

April 10, 2020 by Pekka Paalanen  |   Blog

When you work on a piece of software, you usually want to be able to build and test it manually on your local system, but without compromising your system or destabilizing the distribution provided software.

Clean, reliable setup for dependency installation

Adding mainline Arm Frame Buffer Compression support for Rockchip

April 08, 2020 by Andrzej Pietrasiewicz  |   Blog

Rockchip SoCs, notably the RK3399, are popular in devices such as Chromebooks and single-board computers. Indeed, they bring some interesting features, one of them being the Arm Frame Buffer Compression (AFBC).

Adding mainline Arm Frame Buffer Compression support for Rockchip

Using syzkaller, part 1: Fuzzing the Linux kernel

March 26, 2020 by Andre Almeida  |   Blog

With the code base of the Linux kernel constantly changing and deployed in devices around the world, performing proper testing is crucial. Here's a look at syzkaller, a valuable tool widely adopted by the kernel community to detect bugs in the kernel.

Using syzkaller, part 1: Fuzzing the Linux kernel

Getting started with GStreamer's gst-build

March 19, 2020 by Stéphane Cerveau  |   Blog

GStreamer relies on multiple repositories such as base and good to build its ecosystem, and now owns more than 30 projects in Gitlab. So, a unified tool/build system has always been necessary to build a specified version.

Getting started with GStreamer's gst-build

Why remote working can be good for people, business and environment

March 10, 2020 by Olivier Potin  |   Blog

Here at Collabora, we trust our people to work remotely, we give them full responsibility for their output, and we believe it helps creating an even stronger internal culture and comes with some other positives.

Why remote working can be good for people, business and environment

PipeWire, the media service transforming the Linux multimedia landscape

March 05, 2020 by Julian Bouzas  |   Blog

PipeWire 0.3 was released a few days ago, marking a big step forward in the effort of making this emerging media service the core layer of all multimedia on Linux.

PipeWire, the media service transforming the Linux multimedia landscape

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

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

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)

Kernel 6.14: Enhanced hardware capabilities, improved performance & more!

March 26, 2025 by Cristian Ciocaltea  |   News & Events

The kernel release emphasizes the continuing growth and maturity of the Linux ecosystem and delivers new features, improvements, and optimizations that everyone will be eager to explore. See where Collabora's kernel team contributed to this release.

Kernel 6.14: Enhanced hardware capabilities, improved performance & more!

Hololight joins the OpenXR momentum

March 26, 2025 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Collabora is thrilled to see its partner, Hololight, join the Khronos Group and become an active member of the OpenXR Working Group. We are excited to support their innovative approach and rapid expansion in the XR streaming space.

Hololight joins the OpenXR momentum

Goodbye Nouveau GL. Hello Zink!

March 11, 2025 by Faith Ekstrand  |   News & Events

Starting with Mesa 25.1, Nouveau users will no longer get the old Nouveau OpenGL driver by default and will instead get Zink+NVK.

Goodbye Nouveau GL. Hello Zink!

MediaTek Genio update: Kernel, Debian 13 images, and KernelCI

March 10, 2025 by Sjoerd Simons  |   News & Events

Towards the end of 2024, MediaTek and Collabora started on a journey to improve upstream support for MediaTek Genio devices. Here's where things stand.

MediaTek Genio update: Kernel, Debian 13 images, and KernelCI

Apertis v2025: the second Bookworm-based release for industrial embedded devices

March 07, 2025 by Dylan Aïssi  |   News & Events

Apertis v2025 has landed with all the updates from Debian 12.9. This release has a variety of updates including new supported boards, improved release processes, and more!

Apertis v2025: the second Bookworm-based release for industrial embedded devices

Embedded World 2025

February 27, 2025 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

Join us at the NürnbergMesse in Nuremberg, Germany, as we take part in Embedded World 2025, one of the largest trade fairs of its kind, and a global platform for the embedded community!

Embedded World 2025

12 years of incubating Wayland color management

February 24, 2025 by Pekka Paalanen  |   News & Events

It's been a long road for Wayland's recently landed color management extension. We take a brief look back at how this latest feature was formed.

12 years of incubating Wayland color management

Breaking language barriers: Fine-tuning Whisper for Hindi

February 19, 2025 by Vineet Suryan  |   News & Events

We're proud to announce that Whisper is now available in Hindi! With 2,500 hours of Hindi speech data and innovative techniques like Indic Normalization, this model sets a new benchmark for Hindi ASR.

Breaking language barriers: Fine-tuning Whisper for Hindi

Mesa 25.0: PanVK moves towards production quality

February 04, 2025 by Erik Faye-Lund  |   News & Events

The first release candidate of Mesa 25.0 has recently shipped, bringing with it multiple updates to Panfrost, and most notably to PanVK, the open source Vulkan driver for Arm Mali GPUs.

Mesa 25.0: PanVK moves towards production quality

Welcoming the libsurvive project

January 29, 2025 by Frederic Plourde  |   News & Events

Collabora's involvement in Open Source XR development continues to grow today as we welcome the libsurvive project, the open source lighthouse tracking system, into the fold!

Welcoming the libsurvive project

Kernel 6.13: A flawless end of the year

January 28, 2025 by Sebastian Fricke  |   News & Events

The latest Linux kernel release is here, bringing improvements to the DRM subsystem, further enablement of Rockchip SoCs, a new debugging guide for developers, and more! Here's a recap of Collabora's contributions for 6.13.

Kernel 6.13: A flawless end of the year

MediaTek improvements in Linux 6.13

January 24, 2025 by Sebastian Fricke  |   News & Events

Collabora's deep involvement with the MediaTek community continued to shine this week with the release of Linux 6.13, which saw multiple improvements land for MediaTek SoCs.

MediaTek improvements in Linux 6.13

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