Articles with tag 'freedesktop-sdk'

Assessing the reproducibility workflow in freedesktop-sdk

Tue 16 June 2026 - Tanvir Roshid

Reproducibility is a fundamental concept for long-term maintainability and the trustability of systems, but the validation process itself across dependency graphs comes at a cost. This article examines freedesktop-sdk's current approach to reproducibility and proposes a lightweight target-level workflow using Bash and discusses the tradeoffs with this approach.

Bringing up a new distro for the CVA6 RISC‑V FPGA processor

Thu 09 October 2025 - Nazar Kazakov, Ben Dooks, Lawrence Hunter, Joseph Baker

In this blogpost we will cover how to bring CVA6 processor up with Linux on it and how we replaced the OS there with a different one, based on Freedesktop SDK, updating the kernel version on the way.

GNOME OS & Atomic Upgrades on the PinePhone

Fri 16 September 2022 - Lawrence Hunter, Owen Park, Tanvir Roshid

GNOME OS and Atomic Upgrades on the PinePhone

RISC-V: running GNOME OS on SiFive hardware for the first time

Tue 28 September 2021 - Valentin David, Sam Thursfield

Codethink continues to participate in the promising RISC-V ecosystem, and we have exciting news around Freedesktop SDK and GNOME.

ABI Stability in freedesktop-sdk

Tue 04 May 2021 - Thomas Coldrick

If API is the way a programmer can call one program from another, then ABI is how the computer can call one program from another. This covers a whole lot of intricacies, such as calling conventions and the object format.

RISC-V: Codethink's first research about the open instruction set

Thu 11 February 2021 - Sam Thursfield

When something as exciting as a completely open CPU architecture comes along, it's hard to stop Codethink's engineers from getting involved. We've set up an internal research project with the goal of learning about RISC-V, and we have some interesting results already.

Red Hat announces new Flatpak Runtime for RHEL

Thu 13 August 2020 - Paul Sherwood

We’re excited to see that Red Hat has decided to offer flatpak runtimes for RHEL with a ten year security fix plan...