Earlier in the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS “Precise Pangolin” development cycle I noted some performance improvements happening on the ARM side, particularly for Texas Instruments OMAP4. Namely, Ubuntu 12.04 was ARMing up for better performance with ARM hard-floa…
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A NVIDIA Tegra 2 DRM/KMS Driver Tips Up
Besides a binary driver update from the GeForce/Quadro camp coming out today, a basic DRM/KMS driver for NVIDIA's ARM-based Tegra 2 SOC has appeared this morning…
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ARM’s Super-Efficient New Chip Can Get "Years of Battery Life" [Guts]
With processors, it's easy to get caught up in gigahertz and petaflops and the top-end specs. But blazing fast speed doesn't mean all that much for, say, your refrigerator. ARM's says its Cortex-M0+ chip will connect your dumb appliances…
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Samsung Has G2D Driver, Virtual Display For Linux 3.4
Besides the DRM work already piling up for Linux 3.4, there's more. The Samsung developers responsible for the Exynos graphics driver have sent in their "-next" pull request, which brings several new features, including the basis of 2D…
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Multi-core ARM Gets OpenCL Compiler from The Portland Group
Today The Portland Group released an OpenCL compiler for Multi-core ARM processors.
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Progress on ARM Versions of Fedora and openSUSE
If all goes to plan, openSUSE 12.2 will offer full support for ARM processor cores. The launch of the Fedora remix for the Raspberry[ ]Pi has been delayed…
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openSUSE ARM Plans
Andrew Wafaa posted plans for "full ARM support" in openSUSE 12.2 to the opensuse-arm mailing list. "ARMv7 is the focus. This isn't necessarily news, but we just wanted to reiterate the message. Also the ARMv5 builds are goin…
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Kernel Prepatch 3.3-rc3
The 3.3-rc3 prepatch is out. "No big surprises, which is just how I like it. About a third of the patches are in ARM, but the bulk of that is due to the removal of the unused DMA map code form the bcmring support. So no complaints."…
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Plans For X.Org, Wayland At FOSDEM 2012 Are Drawn
Besides formally announcing an open-source, reverse-engineered ARM graphics driver, there's lots of pother interesting X.Org / Wayland related talks happening in two weeks at FOSDEM 2012 in Brussels, Belgium…
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