Monthly Archives: May 2011

Parallel Programming: May 2011 Update

Once again, a big thank you for everyone who contributed to the parallel-programming book. This edition includes: Nicer fonts, courtesy of Tom Gunderson. Front and back cover art, courtesy of Melissa Broussard. Greatly expanded locking chapter (though this chapter never … Continue reading

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Linaro Developers Summit: ARM Linux Consolidation Summing Up

I wrote up a summary for LWN. In other news, Jon Corbet published a blog entry on this topic that is well worth reading. In addition, another LWN article gives an excellent parable illustrating the forces that lead to code … Continue reading

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Linaro Developers Summit: Even More ARM Linux Consolidation

Thursday’s pair of sessions covered Device Tree and the how/who of ARM Linux consolidation. This was followed by a wrap-up session on Friday morning. On Device Tree, Russell King acked the infrastructure patches, so we can now open the floodgates … Continue reading

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Linaro Developers Summit: More ARM Linux Consolidation

We had a principled discussion today. In particular, we arrived at several principles:         The only ARM-specific code is (a) ARM core architecture and (b) ARM SoC core architecture. What would otherwise be ARM board-specific code should … Continue reading

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Linaro Developers Summit: ARM struct clk consolidation

The second day of the Linaro Developers Summit went as well as did the first. There was excellent progress on the “struct clk” issue, which had been a source of serious contention on the mailing lists. This data structure deals … Continue reading

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Linaro Developers Summit: ARM Linux consolidation

Some of you might have seen some some discomfort with ARM Linux recently. Because this is one of the issues that Linaro was set up to address, it is only natural to ask “What is Linaro doing about this?” Of … Continue reading

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