Pixman gets NEON support
I’ve been working on NEON fastpaths for Pixman lately, and as I write, these are being pushed upstream, hopefully in time for Pixman’s next stable release. They complement some work already done in...
View ArticleBrowser D-Bus Bridge 1.1
Since the bug fixes were starting to pile up (thanks to all that contributed patches!), I decided to make a bugfix release of BDB. The changelog is not that impressive (no new features), but since the...
View ArticleMatrix 1.4
We’ve just released version 1.4 of the Matrix tool. It contains various smaller changes and enhanchments, the most important one being that with -f the (often slow) check for dirty files is no longer...
View ArticleBrowser D-Bus Bridge 1.2
Another bugfix release of BDB was more than overdue, finally got around to do it. There is on sort of new feature included though, the build supports now building the WebKit flavor against (a modified)...
View ArticleFinal release of the ARM Linux Internet Platform
ARM and Movial released the fifth and final release of the ARM Linux Internet Platform. The biggest changes are: Totem media player added HAL removed Xorg server 1.9 The full list of chagnes is here....
View ArticleBaby steps towards RandR goodies for xf86-video-omapfb
For a long while I’ve been wanting to implement RandR support for xf86-video-omapfb, but never really got around it. Fortunately, Movial came to the rescue and allowed me to kickstart the RandR code on...
View ArticleFlash Storage Devices (and how slow they are)
There’s been a lot of press in the past year or two about SSDs, and how they are revolutionising hard disk performance for servers, laptops and desktops (at a price). In the embedded world, however,...
View ArticleWhy is my ARM device slow?
At Movial, we are often asked to help customers achieve their dream user interface and multimedia experience with some selected hardware and/or software platform. Usually we are happy to provide our...
View ArticleHow can I make my ARM device fast?
In a previous article, I described common performance pitfalls that ARM devices typically succumb to. Here, I will lay out how to avoid most of those problems. Tip 1: Give your designers...
View ArticleWhy I Don’t Like Unity
Recent versions of Ubuntu use the Unity desktop by default. The overwhelming consensus on the Internet is that, due to lack of configurability, it is a step back from the Gnome desktop previously...
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