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Persian Rug - It really ties the Rust room together

August 09, 2023 by Edmund Smith  |   Blog

Rust is a modern language known for its memory safety, efficiency, and wide range of high-level features. But many beginners also run into something else in Rust: how surprisingly difficult it is to represent some common designs.

Persian Rug - It really ties the Rust room together

NVK Has landed!

August 04, 2023 by Faith Ekstrand  |   News & Events

As of today, NVK, the new Vulkan driver for Nvidia GPUs, has landed in the main Mesa branch and will be included as an experimental driver in the 23.3 release of Mesa.

NVK Has landed!

Triple Threat: The Power of Transcription, Summary, and Translation

August 03, 2023 by Marcus Edel  |   Blog

At Collabora, we're committed to bringing people together. That's why we're pushing state-of-the-art machine-learning techniques like Large Language Models, Speech Recognition, and Speech-Synthesis techniques.

Triple Threat: The Power of Transcription, Summary, and Translation

Booting on Radxa's Rock-5B without any media used

July 31, 2023 by Eugen Hristev  |   Blog

I have been working on getting U-boot upstream up to speed for the Radxa Rock-5B Rockchip RK3588 board. One of the cool features that I recently published upstream is the ability to boot the board without any kind of non-volatile media (NVM) used.

Booting on Radxa's Rock-5B without any media used

EOSS - Recorded presentations (videos) now available

July 27, 2023 by Mark Filion  |   News & Events

If you weren't able to attend Embedded Open Source Summit in Prague last month, you're in luck as all presentations were recorded and are now available on YouTube.

EOSS - Recorded presentations (videos) now available

The next step for NVK: Merging into Mesa!

July 26, 2023 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

After months of work, led by Collabora's own Faith Ekstrand, Red Hat's Karol Herbst, and numerous open source contributors, NVK is now considered ready to be merged into the main Mesa project.

The next step for NVK: Merging into Mesa!

A helping Arm for Panfrost

July 20, 2023 by Daniel Stone  |   News & Events

Collabora continues to relentlessly shift the needle to make high-quality open-source software not just an aspiration, but an expectation. We're pleased to announce an extension of our collaboration with Arm, providing more surety and capability for Panfrost.

A helping Arm for Panfrost

Radxa's Rock 5A one step closer to U-boot mainline

July 18, 2023 by Eugen Hristev  |   Blog

I previously talked about getting the bigger brother Rock 5B into mainline U-boot; this time I worked on the Rock 5A, an even tinier SBC based on Rockchip's RK3588S SoC that is one step closer to getting accepted.

Radxa's Rock 5A one step closer to U-boot mainline

A weekend for developers

July 13, 2023 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

With Black Valley in Norway, and Akademy in Greece, this weekend's plans are all set or computer enthusiasts! Collabora is proud to sponsor both of these events as a chance for communities to come together and strengthen their bonds.

A weekend for developers

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.

Zink brings conformant OpenGL on Imagination GPUs

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.

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

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.

NVK update: Enabling new extensions, conformance status & more

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!

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

Decoding with Rockchip at Kernel Recipes 2026

September 17, 2026 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Next week we'll be in Paris for Kernel Recipes! We’re pleased to sponsor this gathering of the kernel community and contribute a talk on upstream H.264 and HEVC decoding for Rockchip RK3588/RK3576.

Decoding with Rockchip at Kernel Recipes 2026

Enabling responsive AI at SIDO 2026

September 15, 2026 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Visit us at the STMicroelectronics booth at SIDO to see how the STM32MP2 platform enables responsive edge-AI applications for industrial use cases.

Enabling responsive AI at SIDO 2026

Re-engineering YouTube for the Living Room: Bringing Chrobalt to RDK

September 11, 2026 by Santosh Mahto  |   News & Events

Working closely with Google, we built the first RDK-based Chrobalt reference platform for third-party devices, enabling Chromium-based YouTube support, certification, and automation on embedded TVs and set-top boxes.

Re-engineering YouTube for the Living Room: Bringing Chrobalt to RDK

Mesa on Android: How we brought Turnip, SkiaVK, and Cuttlefish to CI

September 10, 2026 by Valentine Burley  |   News & Events

Turnip is the first Mesa driver to achieve official Vulkan conformance on Android, with stronger Android integration, shared Vulkan runtime improvements, and real-device CI testing on Qualcomm Adreno hardware.

Mesa on Android: How we brought Turnip, SkiaVK, and Cuttlefish to CI

Building GPU Drivers in Rust: Tyr at RustConf 2026

September 08, 2026 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Join us in Montreal for the 10th edition of RustConf! Catch our talk on Tyr, the new Rust kernel driver for Arm Mali GPUs.

Building GPU Drivers in Rust: Tyr at RustConf 2026

From AI video analytics to XR streaming at IBC 2026

September 08, 2026 by Kara Bembridge  |   News & Events

Collabora is heading to Amsterdam! Join us at Booth A63 in Hall 14 to see GStreamer Analytics with machine learning, standalone XR remote rendering, and our MediaTek Genio-powered Magic Mirror for virtual clothing swaps.

From AI video analytics to XR streaming at IBC 2026

Kernel 7.2: RK3588 media, smarter GPU memory, and Rust foundations

August 18, 2026 by Deborah Brouwer  |   News & Events

Linux kernel 7.2 adds broad core, Rust, and hardware-support updates, with Collabora contributing 102 patches across graphics, media, virtualization, networking, power management, and SoC enablement.

Kernel 7.2: RK3588 media, smarter GPU memory, and Rust foundations

MediaTek Genio upstream update: from HDMI 2.0 to booting on U-Boot and TF-A

August 12, 2026 by Julien Massot  |   News & Events

Collabora and MediaTek continue expanding upstream support across the Genio IoT family, with HDMI 2.0 now enabled for existing boards, Genio 520 and 720 support progressing in Linux, and Genio Pro 5100 enablement extending into U-Boot and Trusted Firmware-A.

MediaTek Genio upstream update: from HDMI 2.0 to booting on U-Boot and TF-A

Kraid is a now a real compiler

July 30, 2026 by Faith Ekstrand  |   News & Events

Kraid, the new compiler for the Panfrost driver stack, now passes all Vulkan CTS compute shader tests. This marks a major milestone, with work continuing on additional shader stages, code quality, and performance optimization.

Kraid is a now a real compiler

Cracking Windows Open: Porting RADV to WIN32

July 28, 2026 by Louis-Francis Ratté-Boulianne  |   News & Events

RADV’s experimental Windows port brings Mesa’s open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs closer to running real workloads, while highlighting the need for a stable interface to AMD’s proprietary kernel driver.

Cracking Windows Open: Porting RADV to WIN32

Building an Arch Linux aarch64 port for Holo Core

July 17, 2026 by Denis Pynkin  |   News & Events

The Holo Core aarch64 preview provides early binaries, sources, and containers for an Arch Linux-based aarch64 port, backed by tooling and CI work for reproducible rolling-release builds.

Building an Arch Linux aarch64 port for Holo Core

Weston 16: HDR-ready, improved debugging, and DRM backend features

July 16, 2026 by Marius Vlad  |   News & Events

Weston 16 expands HDR and color management support, improves Perfetto debugging and DRM backend performance, and adds new protocol and renderer capabilities for more efficient and flexible Wayland compositor development.

Weston 16: HDR-ready, improved debugging, and DRM backend features

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