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Collabora at Embedded World 2026

Embedded World 2026 has begun in Nuremberg! Join us at booth 4-404 to see Open Source AI & embedded innovation!

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#EmbeddedWorld2026 #Vulkan #NVK #GStreamer #EmbeddedAI #OpenSourceSoftware #Linux

Collabora at Embedded World 2026: Open Source AI and Embedded Innovation Collabora will be at Booth 4-404 with an impressive lineup of live demonstrations spanning graphics, machine learning, continuous testing, and real-world applications.

Discover the power of open source at Embedded World 2026! 🚀

As champions of open source in the embedded community, Collabora will be at Booth 4-404 with an impressive lineup of live demos. Stop by to experience our latest work in graphics, machine learning, & more!

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#EW26

Running Mainline Linux, U-Boot, and Mesa on Rockchip: A year in review Learn about the strides made on Rockchip from a recap on Nicolas Frattaroli's talk at FOSDEM 2026.

Missed FOSDEM this year? No problem!

Grab the recap of Nicolas Frattaroli's talk detailing Rockchip’s mainline progress, including Vulkan 1.4 and NPU support as a vital path to sustainable, affordable hardware.

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#FOSDEM2026 #Rockchip #Vulkan #OpenSource

RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel Rockchip VDPU381/VDPU383 support is now upstream in Linux, adding mainline H.264/HEVC decode, robust IOMMU reset recovery, and more!

Big news for #Rockchip users: Upstream #Linux now supports VDPU381 and VDPU383 hardware decode! This brings mainline H.264/HEVC acceleration, improved IOMMU-reset recovery, and new HEVC V4L2 controls that work with Vulkan Video! 🚀

Details here: col.la/videodecoders

#LinuxKernel #OpenSource

Weston 15.0 is here: Lua shells, Vulkan rendering, and a smoother display stack Weston 15.0 has arrived, bringing a brand new Lua-based shell for fully customizable window management, an experimental Vulkan renderer, and a host of improvements.

ICYMI: Weston 15.0 is out now.

It brings a new Lua-based shell for fully customizable window management, an experimental Vulkan renderer, and a wide range of improvements across color handling, media playback, and display performance.

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#Weston #Wayland #OpenSource @vulkan.org

Mesa PanVK Driver Seeing Up To 25.7x Speedup For MSAA The open-source PanVK driver providing Vulkan support for modern Arm Mali graphics hardware is seeing big speed-ups in the multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) performance in Vulkan tests as a result of…

Mesa PanVK Driver Seeing Up To 25.7x Speedup For MSAA

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#Mesa #PanVK #Vulkan

GStreamer 1.28 brings AI inference to your media pipeline See our latest GStreamer contributions from adding inference backends, standardizing metadata handling, to smarter decoding, and more!

ICYMI: Throughout the past year, Collabora has helped make mainline GStreamer a stronger media and Machine Learning platform with new inference backends, richer tensor/metadata handling, and production-ready analytics building blocks.

Learn more: col.la/gstreamer128

@gstreamer.org #AIInference

PipeWire 1.6 Released with Support for Audio Channel Layouts, LDAC Decoder - 9to5Linux PipeWire 1.6 open-source server for handling audio/video streams and hardware on Linux is now available for download with new features.

PipeWire 1.6 Released with Support for Audio Channel Layouts, LDAC Decoder 9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-6...

@pipewire.org #Linux #OpenSource

Weston 15.0 is here: Lua shells, Vulkan rendering, and a smoother display stack Weston 15.0 has arrived, bringing a brand new Lua-based shell for fully customizable window management, an experimental Vulkan renderer, and a host of improvements.

Weston 15.0 has arrived, bringing a brand new Lua-based shell for fully customizable window management, an experimental Vulkan renderer, and a host of improvements to color handling, media playback, and display performance.

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#Weston #Wayland #LinuxGraphics #OpenSource @vulkan.org

Monado at the core of Android XR Collabora is excited to see Monado at the heart of the new OpenXR runtime for Android XR, a major milestone for open source XR interoperability.

Collabora is excited to see Monado at the heart of the new OpenXR runtime for Android XR, a major milestone for Open Source XR interoperability.

Learn more about this discovery: col.la/monadoandroi...

#OpenXR #Monado #AndroidXR #OpenSourceXR

GStreamer 1.28 brings AI inference to your media pipeline See our latest GStreamer contributions from adding inference backends, standardizing metadata handling, to smarter decoding, and more!

Over the past year, Collabora has helped turn mainline @gstreamer.org into a first-class media and Machine Learning platform by bringing new inference backends, extended tensor/metadata handling, and production-ready analytics building blocks.

See our impact: col.la/gstreamer128

#GStreamer

Mesa 26.0 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here's What's New - 9to5Linux Mesa 26.0 open-source graphics stack is now available for download with new features and improvements across all supported drivers.

Mesa 26.0 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New 9to5linux.com/mesa-26-0-op...

#Linux #gaming #OpenSource

Kernel 6.19: GPU, SoC, and Rust improvements The latest Linux kernel brings Arm Mali GPU improvements, expanded MediaTek and Rockchip SoC support, Rust integration progress, and new Rockchip video capture functionality.

Collabora continues to be a key contributor to the #Linux kernel, with 125 patches from 21 devs for release 6.19! 🚀 Highlights include Arm Mali GPU improvements, expanded MediaTek and Rockchip SoC support, #RustLang integration progress, and new Rockchip video capture functionality. col.la/lk619

Tyr demo at Linux Plumbers 2025

What’s next for Tyr?

In a new LWN.net subscriber-only article, Daniel Almeida explores a possible 2026 roadmap for upstreaming Tyr — a Rust driver for CSF-based Arm Mali GPUs — and shares his thoughts on the path forward.

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#Linux #OpenSource #Rustlang #LinuxKernel #Graphics

Frederic Plourde from @collabora.com doing "Leveling up @openxr.org" talk at @fosdem.org

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📢 Save the date: XDC 2026 will take place September 28–30 in Toronto 🇨🇦

Big thanks to Arm for organizing this year’s conference — more news soon!

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#Mesa #Wayland #Linux #Graphics #OpenSource #XDC2026

Save your spot at FOSDEM 2026: Rockchip, Tyr, GStreamer ML & more! Join us at FOSDEM to get the latest on video capture on Rockchip SoCs, Tyr, machine learning in GStreamer, and more!

Who's ready for FOSDEM? 🙋

Tomorrow kicks off the open source weekend we've all been waiting for. Catch our 7 talks on Rockchip, Tyr, machine learning in GStreamer, and more!

See you there! col.la/fosdem26

@fosdem.org #FOSDEM2026 #Rockchip #Tyr #MachineLearning #GStreamer

Running Debian on the OpenWrt One How to easily install and run a full Debian system leveraging the OpenWrt One’s NVMe storage.

ICYMI: With openwrt-one-debian, you can now run a full #Debian system on the OpenWrt One using its #NVMe storage, unlocking custom services, containers, development tools, and lightweight server workloads on open hardware.

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#OpenWrtOne #OpenWrt #EmbeddedLinux #Linux #OpenSource

Save your spot at FOSDEM 2026: Rockchip, Tyr, GStreamer ML & more! Join us at FOSDEM to get the latest on video capture on Rockchip SoCs, Tyr, machine learning in GStreamer, and more!

Psst! Are you going to @fosdem.org?

Don’t miss Collabora’s 6 talks covering everything from Rockchip video capture and Tyr to machine learning in GStreamer and beyond.

Add these sessions to your FOSDEM lineup: col.la/fosdem26

#FOSDEM2026 #Rockchip #Tyr #MachineLearning #GStreamer

Chromium on MediaTek: From testing to real-world performance on Genio 700 & 720 A deep dive into the current status of Chromium enablement and hardware video acceleration on MediaTek Genio SoCs.

ICYMI: Curious how Chromium performs on MediaTek Genio SoCs? We dive into the enablement work and share real-world performance numbers using #MediaTek hardware codecs via #Chromium’s V4L2 pipeline.

Details here: col.la/ChromiumMedi...

#VideoAcceleration #HardwareAcceleration #EmbeddedLinux

Running Debian on the OpenWrt One How to easily install and run a full Debian system leveraging the OpenWrt One’s NVMe storage.

New year, new Debian project: How to install and run a full Debian system on the OpenWrt One, turning open router hardware into a compact, general-purpose Linux system!

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#Debian #OpenWrtOne #OpenWrt #EmbeddedLinux #Linux #OpenSource #SelfHosting #NVMe

$99 BeaglePlay Board Achieves "100% Open-Source" Upstream PowerVR Graphics Going back many years Imagination PowerVR graphics were widely despised by open-source enthusiasts and Linux desktop users for their lack of an open-source GPU driver

Always rewarding to see some of our contributions go a long way. Great to see this kind of momentum around the PowerVR Mesa driver! #OpenSource #OpenFirst

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Save your spot at FOSDEM 2026: Rockchip, Tyr, GStreamer ML & more! Join us at FOSDEM to get the latest on video capture on Rockchip SoCs, Tyr, machine learning in GStreamer, and more!

Collabora will be at this year’s @fosdem.org with 6 talks!

Catch our sessions covering video capture on Rockchip SoCs, Tyr, machine learning in GStreamer, and more: col.la/fosdem26

#FOSDEM2026 #Rockchip #Tyr #MachineLearning #GStreamer

Chromium on MediaTek: From testing to real-world performance on Genio 700 & 720 A deep dive into the current status of Chromium enablement and hardware video acceleration on MediaTek Genio SoCs.

Take a deep dive into Chromium enablement on MediaTek Genio SoCs, with real performance numbers from #MediaTek hardware codecs using #Chromium’s V4L2 pipeline.

Get the breakdown here: col.la/ChromiumMedi...

#VideoAcceleration #HardwareAcceleration #EmbeddedLinux

Etnaviv Driver Wires Up PPU Flop Reset Support Needed By Some Vivante Hardware Sent out today was the latest batch of drm-misc-next changes to DRM-Next for staging ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle

Etnaviv Driver Wires Up PPU Flop Reset Support Needed By Some Vivante Hardware

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Great write-up by Michał Wilczyński: mwilczynski.dev/posts/riscv-...

#RISCV #Mesa3D #Zink #OpenSource #Graphics #GPU #LinuxGraphics

Our substantial work on the PowerVR Mesa driver helped make this achievement possible, and it’s great to see these pieces coming together to enable new platforms and architectures.

We're pleased to see Zink enabling the first Gallium-free Mesa driver—an important milestone for the graphics and RISC-V ecosystem.

Weston 15.0 Alpha Released With New Protocols, Experimental Vulkan Renderer After being delayed by three months to allow additional time for new features to land, Weston 15.0 Alpha 1 is out today as a big feature release for this reference Wayland compositor.

Weston 15.0 Alpha Released With New Protocols, Experimental Vulkan Renderer

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#Weston #Vulkan

Warm holiday wishes from everyone at Collabora! May your season be safe, happy, and filled with good health, and your New Year full of opportunity!

#happyholidays2025 #heresto2026 #openfirst #opensource #linux