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Linaro News
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Linaro News is the company blog at linaro.org, writing about systems and hardware. Since 2010, 47 different Hacker News readers have linked it 56 times, most often “Upstream Linux support available for Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-22, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- /blog/qualcomm-and-linaro-enable-latest-flagship-snapdragon-compute-soc/4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-01-17
- Upstream Linux support available for Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-10-29
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-29
- The end of an Era – changing every single instance of a 32-bit time_t in Linux2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-07
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-23
- Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-27
What Hacker News says?
Does that happen at the firmware level or the driver level? It seems Qualcomm devices are pretty actively developed in the Linux kernel? I found Linaro, which claims to be doing work on Qualcomm devices: https://www.linaro.org/blog/highlights-from-linaro-connect-o...
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on “Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone”Submitted Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops as a story · 291 points
HN discussionARM has helped found Linaro (linaro.org) ~10 years ago to fix the problem with mainline Linux integration for all the participating SoC vendors. You should expect the following manufacturers to have good mainline support: https://www.linaro.org/membership/ I am sure your mileage will vary between vendors (I am pretty sure Qualcomm was NOT one of the founding members, but it's there now), but this at least signals an…
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on “FTC sues to block Nvidia-Arm merger”Submitted The hidden JTAG in a Qualcomm/Snapdragon device’s USB port as a story · 242 points
HN discussion> AMD could release a 2x powerful GPGPU tomorrow for half the price and most current NVIDIA users wouldn't care because what good is that if you can't program it?. Correction: Nobody will be able to use the AMD hardware (outside of computer graphics) because everybody has been locked-in with CUDA on Nvidia. They can not even change even if they want to: it is pure madness to reprogram an entire GPGPU software stack…
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on “Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia A100 GPU”Submitted The end of an Era – changing every single instance of a 32-bit time_t in Linux as a story · 165 points
HN discussionhttp://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/2011/08/15/enabling-device... The Linaro kernels ("Linaro Stable Kernel" is the keyphrase) boot from devicetrees (aka FDTs). Not sure how much of that is upstreamed, but devicetrees are pretty standard in the ARM world as far as I can tell. (Also, in general if you're doing Linux stuff on ARM, Linaro is the place to look for everything). Edit: actually, that link isn't very relevant…
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on “Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claims Release Was Accidental”Submitted A Case for Open-Source GPU Drivers as a story · 82 points
HN discussionLinaro | Software Automation Engineer | REMOTE (US/UK) | Full-Time I'm hiring for a position on our Linux Kernel Validation team which performs CI/CD on upstream Linux kernel branches, with a particular focus on long term stable branches. Full details @ https://www.linaro.org/careers/#op-167495-software-automatio... Feel free to contact me directly at dan.rue@linaro.org with questions or interest, or apply on the we…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)”Submitted The Evolution of the QEMU Translator as a story · 80 points
HN discussionpocl (Portable Computing Language) [1] provides a remote backend [2] that allows for serialization and forwarding of OpenCL commands over a network. Another solution is qCUDA [3] which is more specialized towards CUDA. In addition to these solutions, various virtualization solutions today provide some sort of serialization mechanism for GPU commands, so they can be transferred to another host (or process). [4] One e…
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on “Show HN: Attaching to a virtual GPU over TCP”Submitted Reducing code size with LLVM Machine Outliner on 32-bit Arm targets as a story · 50 points
HN discussionTrustZone alone is much closer to a SecureBoot or TPMish feature than ME. It's possible it would allow implementation of an ME-like software stack running inside the TEE. It's worth mentioning that there is at least one OSS implementation of a TEE software stack, OP-TEE, making this even less of an issue. Assuming your device/soc mfg doesn't lock you out. http://www.linaro.org/blog/core-dump/op-tee-open-source-secu.…
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on “ORWL – The first open source, physically secure computer”Submitted How and why Linaro builds, boots and tests over a million Linux kernels per year as a story · 45 points
HN discussionTwo groups probably have more experience in that than others: Linaro: https://www.linaro.org/ OpenWRT: https://www.openwrt.org/ Going on a bit of a tangent: Most of the time these companies just don't care. If you don't mind getting your hands dirty, then have a look at some vendor kernel trees. For example, a $300AUD router released last year is running 2.6.34brcm - http://www.tp-link.com.au/download/Archer-D9.html…
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on “Android security in 2016 is a mess”Submitted ARM, IBM, Samsung and T.I. Form New Company to rollout Linux-Based Devices as a story · 39 points
HN discussionLinaro is also doing a lot in that space (at least for ARM): https://www.linaro.org/os-build-and-test/
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on “Linux with “memory folios”: a 7% performance boost when compiling the kernel”Submitted Linaro at FOSDEM 2024 as a story · 31 points
HN discussionIt is packaged by Ubuntu. Linaro is doing the work with Qualcomm. https://www.linaro.org/blog/qualcomm-and-linaro-enable-lates...
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on “First Impressions: Lenovo T14s with Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM64 CPU”Submitted Glibc improvements and what to expect in future Linux distributions as a story · 26 points
HN discussionFor reference, [0] appears to be the referenced paper. The relevant passage: > To understand how disabling these optimizations may impact performance, we ran SPECint 2006 with GCC and Clang, respectively, and measured the slowdown when compiling the programs with all the three -fno-* [-fno-strict-overflow, -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks, and -fno-strict-aliasing] options shown in Figure 9. The experiments were cond…
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on “Undefined behavior in C is a reading error”Submitted Windows on Arm Project as a story · 21 points
HN discussionThat's disappointing, since mainline Linux support has made progress, https://www.linaro.org/blog/qualcomm-and-linaro-enable-lates...
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on “Personal computing paves the way for personal library science”Submitted Upstream Linux support available for Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI even made a cheesy video ;-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX61U_q6ksg Board: http://pandaboard.org/ OS: http://www.linaro.org/
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on “My £60 ARM server”Submitted A solution to the severe throughput loss caused by I/O-bandwidth management as a story · 8 points
HN discussionLinaro: https://www.linaro.org/downloads/ Bootlin: https://toolchains.bootlin.com/
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on “Building GCC as a Cross Compiler for Raspberry Pi”Submitted Preventing the “Epochalypse” by changing every instance of 32-bit time in Linux as a story · 4 points
HN discussionDoes anyone know if there's been any efforts towards running freeBSD on arm64 laptops? On Linux there's been some effort: https://www.linaro.org/blog/linux-on-snapdragon-x-elite/ Ed: hn discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44699393
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on “Laptop Support and Usability (LSU): July 2025 Report”Submitted Modem Host Interface (MHI) Bus for Endpoint Devices Upstreamed to Linux Kernel as a story · 3 points
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