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Permissively-licensed MTP device implementation

May 16, 2019 by Andrzej Pietrasiewicz  |   Blog

Introducing cmtp-responder - a permissively licensed Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) responder implementation which allows embedded devices to provide MTP services and supports a core set of MTP operations.

Permissively-licensed MTP device implementation

An eBPF overview, part 5: Tracing user processes

May 14, 2019 by Adrian Ratiu  |   Blog

Up until now, talking in-depth about userspace tracing was deliberately avoided because it merits special treatment, hence this part devoted to it. We'll now look at the why of it, and we'll examine eBPF user tracing in two categories: static and dynamic.

An eBPF overview, part 5: Tracing user processes

Linux Kernel 5.1

May 09, 2019 by André Almeida  |   News & Events

Earlier this week, Linux Kernel 5.1 was released, and with it came over 13,000 commits from developers all around the world, including Collaborans. This time around, no less than 12 different developers contributed commits (64), sign-offs (111) & more.

Linux Kernel 5.1

CEF on Wayland upstreamed

May 08, 2019 by Santosh Mahto  |   Blog

After a successful team effort, the patch enabling the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) Ozone builds to run with different platform backends, such as Wayland, has finally landed upstream.

CEF on Wayland upstreamed

Collabora & GStreamer 1.16

May 06, 2019 by Aaron Boxer  |   News & Events

After a year-long development cycle, the much anticipated release was made available recently. With it came a number of exciting new features we're especially proud of, including per-element latency tracer and support for planar or non-interleaved audio.

Collabora & GStreamer 1.16

An eBPF overview, part 4: Working with embedded systems

May 06, 2019 by Adrian Ratiu  |   Blog

Now that we've studied the mainstream way of developing and using eBPF programs on top of the low-level VM mechanisms, we'll look at projects taking different approaches, attempting solutions to some of the unique problems faced by embedded Linux.

An eBPF overview, part 4: Working with embedded systems

Running Android and Wayland on embedded devices

May 02, 2019 by Robert Foss  |   Blog

A previous post introduced the SPURV Android compatibility layer for Wayland based Linux environment. In this post, we're going to dig into how you can run an Android application on the very common i.MX6 based Nitrogen6_MAX board.

Running Android and Wayland on embedded devices

An eBPF overview, part 3: Walking up the software stack

April 26, 2019 by Adrian Ratiu  |   Blog

In part 1 and 2 of this series, we took a condensed in-depth look at the eBPF VM. In part 3, we define the high-level components of an eBPF program, including the backend, loader, frontend and data structures.

An eBPF overview, part 3: Walking up the software stack

GStreamer buffer flow analyzer

April 25, 2019 by Guillaume Desmottes  |   Blog

GStreamer's logging system is an incredibly powerful ally when debugging but it can sometimes be a bit daunting to dig through the massive amount of generated logs. I often find myself writing small scripts processing gst logs when debugging.

GStreamer buffer flow analyzer

Weston debugging and tracing on-the-fly

April 24, 2019 by Marius Vlad  |   Blog

The recent release of version 6 of the Weston compositor has brought with it the weston-debug protocol, a new feature that allows developers and users alike to display on-the-fly various debugging (logging) information generated by the compositor.

Weston debugging and tracing on-the-fly

Quick hack: git-pw

April 18, 2019 by Ezequiel Garcia  |   Blog

A well-known Linux kernel developer once said, a poor craftsman famously complains about his tools, but a good craftsman knows how to choose excellent tools. Here's a python-based tool that integrates git and patchwork, and can greatly improve your toolbox.

Quick hack: git-pw

An eBPF overview, part 2: Machine & bytecode

April 15, 2019 by Adrian Ratiu  |   Blog

The second part of this series takes a more in-depth look at the eBPF VM and program studied in the first part. Having this low level knowledge is not mandatory but can be a very useful foundation for the rest of the series.

An eBPF overview, part 2: Machine & bytecode

Adding stateless support to vicodec

October 09, 2019 by Dafna Hirschfeld  |   Blog

Prior to joining Collabora, I took part in Round 17 of the Outreachy internships, to work on the virtual drivers in the media subsystem of the Linux kernel, or more specifically, on the vicodec driver.

Adding stateless support to vicodec

Why HDCP support in Weston is a good thing

October 03, 2019 by Pekka Paalanen  |   Blog

What HDCP is, and why supporting HDCP in Weston is justified in both an economical and technical context.

Why HDCP support in Weston is a good thing

Virglrenderer and the state of virtualized virtual worlds

August 28, 2019 by Gert Wollny  |   Blog

With the release of virglrenderer 0.8.0, getting accelerated OpenGL within a virtual machine (VM) made a big leap forward. Since virglrenderer-0.7.0, the code base has seen ~600 commits, and Collabora provided more than 80% of these contributions.

Virglrenderer and the state of virtualized virtual worlds

Panfrost & Wayland on a Rockchip board

August 06, 2019 by Rohan Garg  |   Blog

Ongoing work on the reverse-engineered Panfrost OpenGL ES driver for Arm Mali GPUs has turned the RK3399 SoC into a very attractive platform to try out Wayland on ARM devices.

Panfrost & Wayland on a Rockchip board

What's new in OpenXR 1.0 & Monado?

August 02, 2019 by Ryan Pavlik  |   Blog

As part of its unwavering commitment to open source and open standards, Collabora is proud to be part of bringing the recently-released OpenXR 1.0 to life, and to be pioneering the Monado open source runtime for OpenXR.

What's new in OpenXR 1.0 & Monado?

Zink: Summer Update & SIGGRAPH 2019

July 25, 2019 by Erik Faye-Lund  |   Blog

There's been quite a few updates to Zink, an OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan, since I last wrote about it. Here's an overview of the recent changes, as well as an exciting announcement!

Zink: Summer Update & SIGGRAPH 2019

GStreamer in Oslo

July 18, 2019 by Nicolas Dufresne  |   Blog

A little over a month and a half ago, Collaborans including Aaron Boxer, George Kiagiadakis, Guillaume Desmottes, Stéphane Cerveau and myself took part in the GStreamer Spring Hackfest in Oslo. This year, the hackfest was kindly hosted by Pexip.

GStreamer in Oslo

GNOME meets Panfrost

June 26, 2019 by Alyssa Rosenzweig  |   Blog

In my last Panfrost blog post, I announced my internship goal: improve Panfrost to run GNOME3. GNOME is a popular Linux desktop making heavy use of OpenGL; to use GNOME with only free and open source software on a machine with Mali graphics, Panfrost…

GNOME meets Panfrost

Using dummy-hcd to play with USB gadgets

June 24, 2019 by Andrzej Pietrasiewicz  |   Blog

Dummy_hcd which consists of a software-emulated host controller and a UDC chip. In other words, this means you can play with USB gadgets even if you don't have the appropriate hardware, because your PC can act as both a USB host and a USB device.

Using dummy-hcd to play with USB gadgets

Building Debian images for Le Potato and OrangePi with debos

June 18, 2019 by Frédéric Danis  |   Blog

Both the Le Potato and OrangePi Zero Plus2 boards are already supported by Armbian. But how do you get a minimal Debian upstream image with only the packages you want? Debos is the perfect tool to do this.

Building Debian images for Le Potato and OrangePi with debos

Joining Collabora for a summer of Panfrost

June 05, 2019 by Alyssa Rosenzweig  |   Blog

Years ago, I joined the open-source community with a passion and a mission: to enable equal access to high-quality computing via open-source software. With this mission, I co-founded Panfrost, aiming to create an open-source driver for the Mali GPU.

Joining Collabora for a summer of Panfrost

Testing Video4Linux2 drivers like a boss

May 23, 2019 by Ezequiel Garcia  |   Blog

With virtme, you can run a custom built kernel on top of our running root filesystem. In this post, we explore another example of virtme in action, and see how to test Video4Linux2 drivers on bleeding edge GStreamer builds.

Testing Video4Linux2 drivers like a boss

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

5 talks for FOSDEM 2025: BlueZ, GStreamer, Open Source AI models & more!

January 07, 2025 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

A testament to its long standing community interest and devote volunteers, FOSDEM will be celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Join us as we take the stage to discuss BlueZ, GStreamer, Open Source AI models, & more!

5 talks for FOSDEM 2025: BlueZ, GStreamer, Open Source AI models & more!

Upstream support for Rockchip's RK3588: Progress and future plans

December 20, 2024 by Sebastian Reichel  |   News & Events

The Rockchip RK3588 upstream support has progressed a lot over the last few years. As 2024 comes to a close, it is a great time to have a look at the recent changes, work in progress, and the current state in general.

Upstream support for Rockchip's RK3588: Progress and future plans

Academically inclining at NeurIPS 2024

December 09, 2024 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Collabora will be at NeurIPs this week to dive into the latest academic findings in machine learning and research advancements that are changing the industry.

Academically inclining at NeurIPS 2024

Apertis v2024: the new Bookworm-based release for industrial embedded devices

December 05, 2024 by Dylan Aïssi  |   News & Events

Now based on Debian Bookworm, Apertis is a collaborative OS platform that includes an operating system, but also tools and cloud services to optimize development and increase reliability.

Apertis v2024: the new Bookworm-based release for industrial embedded devices

Initial upstream support for the Rockchip RK3576

December 03, 2024 by Sebastian Reichel  |   News & Events

Initial support for Rockchip's RK3576, a new SoC introduced earlier this year, has landed in Linux kernel 6.12. With the main target being industrial applications, it is less of a powerhouse than the RK3588, but it still reuses many components.

Initial upstream support for the Rockchip RK3576

NVK now supports Vulkan 1.4

December 02, 2024 by Faith Ekstrand  |   News & Events

Today, Khronos announced the release of the Vulkan 1.4 specification, and NVK is one of the day-zero conformant Vulkan 1.4 implementations! Vulkan 1.4 support in NVK has been merged into Mesa and will be part of the Mesa 25.0 release in early 2025.

NVK now supports Vulkan 1.4

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