Articles

Native compilation on Arm servers is so much faster now

Tue 14 September 2021 - Paul Sherwood

Previously ARM servers were slower than x86, but not any more

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Higher quality of FOSS: How we are helping GNOME to improve their test pipeline

Thu 12 August 2021 - Sam Thursfield

High quality releases require high quality testing infrastructure. To show how deep OS and GUI testing can be done, let's look at the OpenQA instance we helped set up for GNOME.

RISC-V: A Small Hardware Project

Thu 15 July 2021 - Robin J. Heywood

As part of Codethink's interest in RISC-V, we created some simple hardware.

Why aligning with open source mainline is the way to go

Thu 17 June 2021 - Neill Whillans

You’ve made a choice to use open-source software as part of your product release. That’s a great start. Open-source software projects usually have large contributing communities that help improve the software’s quality and functionality over time.

Build Meetup 2021: The BuildTeam Community Event

Fri 11 June 2021 - Nicole Mpofu

For the last few months, the BuildTeam Community has been organising a meetup to gather like-minded community members to discuss, share and exchange innovations and relevant topics and systems in build.

A new approach to software safety

Thu 20 May 2021 - Paul Albertella

Applying functional safety practices to modern software-intensive systems requires a different approach to the established methods enshrined in current safety standards. Codethink have been working with Exida on a new approach to software safety for systems based on Linux.

Does the "Hypocrite Commits" incident prove that Linux is unsafe?

Tue 11 May 2021 - Paul Sherwood

The recent furore around University of Minnesota’s “Hypocrite commits” research, which spilled over from the Linux Kernel Mailing List and into mainstream tech media, has provoked a lot of discussion about the Linux kernel community’s processes, and arguably provided ammunition to folks who have been saying all along that open source software cannot be trusted.

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.

Why your organisation needs to embrace working in the open-source ecosystem

Tue 27 April 2021 - Laurence Urhegyi

Consuming open-source is only the start of the journey for many companies. Whether by design or necessity, organisations find themselves adapting from being simply open-source consumers to being full-fledged producers, contributors and maintainers, eventually working in public, following ‘open by default and ‘upstream first’ principles.

RISC-V User space access Oops

Wed 21 April 2021 - Ben Dooks

As part of Codethink's interest in RISC-V I have been following the RISC-V kernel list. Whilst looking through the postings the following bug came up, titled: [syzbot] BUG: unable to handle kernel access to user memory in schedule_tail