March 10, 2023 by Rebecca McKeever | Blog
Since joining the graphics team at Collabora as a Software Engineering Intern last November, I have implemented several Vulkan API extensions for NVK, an open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa.
March 09, 2023 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Nestled in the historic city of Nuremberg, the annual Embedded World conference will be taking place from March 14 to 16. Collabora will be set up in Hall 4, Booth 4-404, with plenty of space to connect and multiple demos to showcase
March 03, 2023 by Rafael Garcia Ruiz | Blog
Rewriting bmaptool in Rust to remove Python dependencies, create statically linked binary, and allow the bmap sparse file format to be used in other Rust projects.
February 24, 2023 by Moses Turner | News & Events
Work on this new tracking method started around January 2022. Now, after a little over a year of development, Monado's "Mercury" hand tracking is finally ready for the public to use!
February 23, 2023 by Boris Brezillon | News & Events
A look into the new job-scheduling model with Mali GPUs, their support in the new PanCSF DRM driver, and what it means as the rest of the ecosystem also moves to firmware-assisted scheduling.
February 21, 2023 by Daniel Almeida | News & Events
With more SoC support, a new V4L2 driver and a new dma-buf locking convention among its contributions, Collabora was one of the most active employers for this latest kernel development cycle.
February 17, 2023 by Muhammad Usama Anjum | Blog
Just over a year has passed since the futex_waitv() syscall, part of the new futex2 systems calls, landed in Linux 5.16. But why are both needed? What role do they play in the context of gaming on Linux? Let's find out.
February 08, 2023 by Olivier Crête | News & Events
Improved support for hardware accelerated video decoders, new GTK+ integration for Wayland rendering, and further Meson enhancements to make GStreamer shine on embedded, Collabora's multimedia team made a number of key contributions for this latest release.
February 02, 2023 by Faith Ekstrand | Blog
Over the course of the last decade, Rust has emerged as a new programming language for writing safe low-level code. This blog post is the first in a series exploring the area of using Rust to write Mesa Vulkan drivers.
January 20, 2023 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
After two years of hosting the event virtually, Brussels will once again welcome attendees on February 4 & 5 on the old stomping grounds of the ULB Solbosch Campus. Collabora will be presenting 8 different talks, in 7 devrooms as well as on the main track!
January 17, 2023 by Jakub Piotr Cłapa | Blog
MLfix is an open-source tool that combines novel unsupervised machine-learning pipelines with a new user interface concept that, together, help annotators and machine-learning engineers identify and filter out label errors.
January 17, 2023 by Adrian Ratiu | Blog
Times are changing: LLVM has become more than a spare to GCC, such that glibc - the last big GCC bastion, is now working towards supporting LLVM as a first-class citizen.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
October 04, 2022 by Faith Ekstrand | News & Events
Say hello to a brand new, open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, written almost entirely from scratch using the new official headers from NVIDIA.
September 29, 2022 by Marius Vlad | News & Events
Announced earlier this week, Weston 11.0 brings a number of highlights including optimizations in the DRM-backend, color management infrastructure code and multiple RDP improvements.
September 29, 2022 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
This year's X. Org Developer's Conference (XDC) is teaming up with WineConf and FOSS XR in Minneapolis at the University of St. Thomas' Opus Hall for a jam-packed three day event.
September 27, 2022 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Adding a variety of expertise from across the globe, the departments of Core, Multimedia, Kernel, XR, People Operations, and DevOps now have more hands on deck. Discover a snapshot of our newest teammates!
September 12, 2022 by Mark Filion | News & Events
Mere weeks after the debut of Open Source Summit Latin America, Dublin continues the collaborative momentum with the 2022 hybrid editions of Linux Plumbers Conference and Open Source Summit Europe!
September 06, 2022 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Showcasing two new software demonstrations featuring machine learning, including backend video compression that runs on Panfrost, and a data quality assurance tool designed to integrate into the annotation pipeline.
August 30, 2022 by Frédéric Plourde | News & Events
Be part of the FOSSXR lineup by submitting your talk by September 5th, 2022. That means there's one week left for all you AR and VR enthusiasts and industry movers to share your exciting XR projects/news/demos with the world.
August 16, 2022 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
A magnet for open source supporters, the very first edition of Open Source Summit Latin America is opening its virtual doors. This new annual conference takes place online from August 23 to 24 with 5 talks from Collabora's very own!
August 02, 2022 by Cristian Ciocaltea | News & Events
As usual, there are quite a few changes merged into the mainline kernel. Let's take a look at some of the contributions by Collabora's kernel team!
July 05, 2022 by Marius Vlad | News & Events
The latest release of Weston was made on February 1, 2022. Meanwhile, a few bugs were discovered and we decided to do a bug-fix release, which we haven't had in several years.
June 21, 2022 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Part steadfast approach - part welcoming spirirt; Collabora continues to successfully expand with new talent amply on deck. Well ahead of the remote work curve, our new joiners have settled into their roles from their respective corners of the planet.
June 16, 2022 by Kara Bembridge | News & Events
Big events draw in an array of individuals to learn and connect, and the Open Source Summit North America is no exception. Jam-packed with sessions to uncover from June 21 to 24, this year's event features three talks by Collabora's very own!
Here are the events we'll be attending in the coming weeks – come say hello!
December 10-15, Vancouver, Canada
February 1-2, Brussels, Belgium