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.
May 30, 2019 by Mark Filion | News & Events
A few days ago, coding began for this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) projects. Along with four GStreamer and Wayland related projects, this year's edition also includes two Debian projects for which Collaborans will be mentors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
July 07, 2022 by Gert Wollny | Blog
Adventures in NIR-land: the past, the present, and what's lies ahead for the native NIR back-end for Mesa's R600 driver.
June 15, 2022 by Manas Chaudhary | Blog
Getting PanVk, an open source driver for Arm Mali Midgard and Bifrost GPUs, closer to conformancy by implementing one of the core Vulkan features: support for secondary command buffers.
June 09, 2022 by Faith Ekstrand | Blog
After fighting with the divide between implicit and explicit synchronization with Vulkan on Linux for over seven years, we may finally have some closure. We're not to synchronization nirvana quite yet, but this is an important step along the way.
May 31, 2022 by Moses Turner | Blog
Optical hand tracking for XR has a bit of a reputation - getting training data, training neural nets, and deploying them in real-time, low-latency environments such as XR is every bit as hard as they say it is.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
February 08, 2022 by André Almeida | Blog
Over the past 18 months, we have been on a roller-coaster ride developing futex2, a new set of system calls. As part of this effort, the futex_waitv() syscall has now landed in Linux 5.16. But what exactly is futex?
January 27, 2022 by Alyssa Rosenzweig | Blog
Until now, no Valhall devices (Mali-G57, Mali-G78) ran mainline Linux - whilst this made driver development obviously difficult, there’s no better time to write drivers than before the devices even get into the hands of end users.
January 25, 2022 by Pekka Paalanen | Blog
My work on Wayland and Weston color management and HDR support has been full of learning new concepts and terms. Many of them are crucial for understanding how color works, and what the values in a pixel actually mean.
April 27, 2026 by Adrian Ratiu | News & Events
Collabora's contributions to Git 2.54 and the upcoming 2.55 add powerful config-based hooks with better visibility, opt-in parallel hook execution, and safer submodule handling via path-collision fixes.
April 20, 2026 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Collabora is headed to Stuttgart for XR Expo 2026! Visit us in Hall 2, booth 2C22, to experience the latest around Monado and ElectricMaple, and catch our 2 talks!
April 14, 2026 by Olivier Crête | News & Events
This week, Collabora is at the YouTube Device Partner Summit in Tokyo showcasing our ongoing work with YouTube, notably on their TV app and the RDK platform, which has resulted in the RDK's integration as a core platform for Cobalt development.
April 13, 2026 by Loic Molinari | News & Events
Kernel 7.0 is out with broad hardware enablement and performance updates. Collabora contributed 227 patches from 24 developers, spanning major graphics work, multimedia fixes, and substantial enablement for Rockchip and MediaTek.
April 13, 2026 by Michael Riesch | News & Events
After over five years of development and collaboration across the Open Source community, initial mainline Linux support for Rockchip RK3588's video capture hardware has finally landed.
April 09, 2026 by Pekka Paalanen | News & Events
Wayland 1.25 refreshes its documentation with three new chapters covering Wayland XML specification, content model updates, and color management design.
April 08, 2026 by Olivier Crête | News & Events
Our multimedia engineering team delivered major improvements to GStreamer 1.28: hardware acceleration and zero-copy pipelines, HDR and color support for Wayland, AI inference integration, plus critical codec and RTP/WebRTC interoperability fixes.
April 02, 2026 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Collabora presents "Bringing BitNet to ExecuTorch via Vulkan" at PyTorch Conference Europe in Paris (April 7-8) and attends ICLR in Rio de Janeiro (April 23-27). Connect with our team to discuss machine learning and open source innovation!
March 31, 2026 by Walter Lozano | News & Events
Based on Debian 13 (Trixie), Apertis v2026 delivers updated system libraries, development tools, compilers, and core services, alongside a new default Wayland compositor, a reworked SDK, and smarter packaging pipelines.
March 26, 2026 by Frederic Plourde | News & Events
Google's AndroidXR. Qualcomm's Snapdragon Spaces. NVIDIA CloudXR. What do they have in common? Monado, the Open Source, cross-platform OpenXR runtime Collabora launched as an alternative to proprietary XR stacks.
March 05, 2026 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
As champions of open source development in the embedded community, Collabora will be at Booth 4-404 with an impressive lineup of live demonstrations spanning graphics, machine learning, continuous testing, and real-world applications.
February 25, 2026 by Detlev Casanova | News & Events
Support for Rockchip’s VDPU381 and VDPU383 decoders is now upstream in Linux, bringing mainline H.264/HEVC decode support, robust IOMMU-reset recovery, and new HEVC V4L2 UAPI controls aligned with Vulkan Video.
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