Linaro

27/08/2026

Following the conversation on and , here are 3 blogs worth reading ahead of the upcoming weekend:

➢ QEMU 8.2 and Linaro’s Maintainer Story - https://bit.ly/4hWLQ1p

➢ The Challenges of Abstracting Virtio - https://bit.ly/4gAfh6W

➢ Working on VirtIO - https://bit.ly/45MfiQn

Read and let us know your thoughts!

Author : Alex Bennée

In this article, Alex Bennee provides a summary of the history of VirtIO and the areas Linaro is working on for the future. Read the blog to find out more.

25/08/2026

Can VirtIO work in systems where there's no natural register interface at all?

virtio-msg is a proposed message-based Virtio transport designed for heterogeneous systems, keeping the same device model while replacing register access with structured messages between software endpoints.

In our newest blog, Viresh Kumar explains everything: https://bit.ly/4xkEKs8

Virtio-msg is a proposed message-based Virtio transport for heterogeneous systems where PCI and MMIO are not a natural fit. This blog explores its architecture, use cases, and ongoing standardization.

19/08/2026

Does your test setup change the moment you leave your desk for the lab?

We've added LAA support to Labgrid, so developers can run the same tests locally and at scale no tool-switching required.

Curious to know how?

Anders Roxell explains everything here here 🔗 https://bit.ly/466ut70

We added LAA support to Labgrid so developers can use the same testing workflow on their desk and in larger lab setups. The result is faster testing, easier scaling, and a smoother path from local testing to lab automation.

31/07/2026

What if your hardware validation lab is quietly costing you 75% more than it should?

Most silicon vendors and OEMs still treat compliance testing as a multi-week manual grind and it's bleeding OPEX while slowing time-to-market.

Linaro's ONELab v1.6.0 changes that math. With full Arm ACS v3.1.2 support and direct LAVA orchestration from the UI and staying audit-ready for the EU Cyber Resilience Act.

Mike Holmes explains how in our newest blog here 👉 https://bit.ly/3TyLpQy

Linaro’s ONELab v1.6.0 release delivers full automated support for Arm Architecture Compliance Suite (ACS) v3.1.2 and direct LAVA test orchestration from the UI.

29/07/2026

Does your "all green" test dashboard tell the whole story?

A device crash, network drop, or harness error can stop tests mid-run yet the tests that did complete still show PASS. LAVA 2026.01 fixes this with expected test cases.

Rémi Duraffort explains how it works here 👉️ https://bit.ly/4bkXaAe

A passing test suite does not always mean all of your tests actually ran.

28/07/2026

🎥 See how Linaro uses open-source technologies including Wayland, VirtIO-GPU, Sommelier, and Waydroid to seamlessly integrate Android, Linux, and QNX applications into a single user interface while preserving virtualization and workload isolation.

Watch the demo here 👉 https://bit.ly/45itvEc

See how Linaro uses open-source technologies including Wayland, Vir...

23/07/2026

🚨New blog: Confidential Computing on Arm, Architecture & Use Cases by Benjamin Mordaunt

This is a part II of our series where it digs into how Arm has actually built Confidential Computing into the hardware and software stack, from the Realm Management Extension to Granule Protection and Device Assignment.

You can read it all here 👉 https://bit.ly/4wl6DQw

Want to go deeper? Join our upcoming webinar, on September 9th.
🔗 Register here: https://bit.ly/4frKV67

21/07/2026

Official webinar announcement 🚨
Confidential Computing on Arm: Accelerating Trusted AI with Linaro with Benjamin Mordaunt

Discover the software, verification, attestation and engineering capabilities required to accelerate deployment while reducing complexity and risk.

Sign up today 👉 https://bit.ly/4frKV67

📆 Date: Wednesday, 9th of September 2026
🕒 Time: 17:30 BST
🌐 Online Event: Join from anywhere

09/07/2026

Why do systems that look healthy on paper still stutter in production?

Our kernel team dug into the Linux scheduler itself, using cyclictest, hackbench, and rt-app alongside ftrace to trace subtle EEVDF corner cases pushing worst case latency past 9 milliseconds.

Curious how we traced it, fixed it, and took it upstream? Read Behan Webster's full breakdown here 👉

Why do systems that pass every benchmark still stutter in production? Linaro's kernel team investigated Linux scheduler latency spikes. After fixes, 99.9th percentile latency dropped below 700 microseconds. Read how they traced it, fixed it, and took it upstream.

29/06/2026

Last month, some of our engineers were present at , an event that reminded us of what what makes the open source ecosystem so valuable: sharing knowledge, collaborating across organizations, and pushing embedded technologies forward together.

Our engineers were proud to contribute with three technical sessions:
🔹 Ilias Apalodimas presenting: ‘U-Boot: Running an Off-the-Shelf Distro on Your Embedded Board’
🔹 Rouven Czerwinski presenting: ‘OP-TEE and Its Many Features’
🔹 Stefan Schmidt presenting: ‘Matter over Thread: Taking Full Control of Your IoT Gadgets’

Watch the talks here 👉 https://bit.ly/4wftPPy

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