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ARM appoints Segars as CEO after Warren East retires

Simon Segars will become ARM CEO when Warren East retires July 1, the company said Tuesday.

Segars is currently ARM‘s president. As CEO, he will take charge of a fast-growing company whose processor designs are used in most tablets and smartphones from companies like Apple and Samsung.

Simon Segars

East, 52, is a well-respected leader, credited with pushing ARM out of obscurity into the forefront of mobile devices. Segars, who joined ARM in 1991, will take over a company in the midst of expanding its presence in areas such as embedded devices, taking market share away from another chip designer MIPS.

ARM is also forging ahead into new markets such as servers, which is dominated by x86 chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. AMD has adopted ARM processors and plans to put them in servers, and Dell and Hewlett-Packard are offering prototype ARM servers for testing.

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Imagination Technologies hopes to breathe new life into MIPS

Imagination Technologies is moving forward with the development of the MIPS CPU architecture, trying to dispel concerns about the processor’s future after acquiring struggling MIPS Technologies late last year for a heavily discounted price.

Imagination, widely known for its powerful PowerVR graphics core in Apple’s mobile devices and Intel’s tablet chips, is making assets acquired from MIPS Technologies the basis of its future CPU development, said Tony King-Smith, executive vice president of marketing at Imagination.

“We are calling all our processor families MIPS,” King-Smith said.

Android tablets based on current MIPS Technologies CPU designs

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Cross Compilig Issue of udev-151 for MIPS Little Endain Architecture

By bsreeram

Hi All,
I am trying to cross compile udev-151 for MIPS little endian architecture.

I am configuring like this:

./configure –prefix=$PWD/sree –host=mips-linux-gnu

configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the –build type, don’t use –host.
If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used.
checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane… yes
checking for mips-linux-gnu-strip… mips-linux-gnu-strip
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p… /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk… gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… yes
checking for style of include used by make… GNU
checking for mips-linux-gnu-gcc… mips-linux-gnu-gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name… a.out
checking whether the C compiler works… yes
checking whether we are cross compiling… yes
checking for suffix of executables…
checking for suffix of object files… o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler… yes
checking whether mips-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g… yes
checking for mips-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89… none needed
checking dependency style of mips-linux-gnu-gcc… gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor… mips-linux-gnu-gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e… /bin/grep
checking for egrep… /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files… yes
checking for sys/types.h… yes
checking for sys/stat.h… yes
checking for stdlib.h… yes
checking for string.h… yes
checking for memory.h… yes
checking for strings.h… yes
checking for inttypes.h… yes
checking for stdint.h… yes
checking for unistd.h… yes
checking minix/config.h usability… no
checking minix/config.h presence… no
checking for minix/config.h… no
checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__… yes
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files… no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files… 64
checking build system type… x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type… mips-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for a sed that does not truncate output… /bin/sed
checking for fgrep… /bin/grep -F
checking for ld used by mips-linux-gnu-gcc… /home/intel/mips-4.3/mips-linux-gnu/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/home/intel/mips-4.3/mips-linux-gnu/bin/ld) is GNU ld… yes
checking for BSD– or MS-compatible name lister (nm)… /home/intel/mips-4.3/bin/mips-linux-gnu-nm -B
checking the name lister (/home/intel/mips-4.3/bin/mips-linux-gnu-nm -B) interface… BSD nm
checking whether ln -s works… yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments… 1572864
checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs… yes
checking whether the shell understands “+=”… yes
checking for /home/intel/mips-4.3/mips-linux-gnu/bin/ld option to reload object files… -r
checking for mips-linux-gnu-objdump… mips-linux-gnu-objdump
checking how to recognize dependent libraries… pass_all
checking for mips-linux-gnu-ar… mips-linux-gnu-ar
checking for mips-linux-gnu-strip… (cached) mips-linux-gnu-strip
checking for mips-linux-gnu-ranlib… mips-linux-gnu-ranlib
checking command to parse /home/intel/mips-4.3/bin/mips-linux-gnu-nm -B output from mips-linux-gnu-gcc object… ok
checking for dlfcn.h… yes
checking for objdir… .libs
checking if mips-linux-gnu-gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions… no
checking for mips-linux-gnu-gcc option to produce PIC… -fPIC -DPIC
checking if mips-linux-gnu-gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works… yes
checking if mips-linux-gnu-gcc static flag -static works… yes
checking if mips-linux-gnu-gcc supports -c -o file.o… yes
checking if mips-linux-gnu-gcc supports -c -o file.o… (cached) yes
checking whether the mips-linux-gnu-gcc linker (/home/intel/mips-4.3/mips-linux-gnu/bin/ld) supports shared libraries… yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in… no
checking dynamic linker characteristics… GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs… immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible… yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries… yes
checking whether to build shared libraries… yes
checking whether to build static libraries… no
checking for gawk… (cached) gawk
checking for mips-linux-gnu-pkg-config… no
checking for pkg-config… /usr/bin/pkg-config
configure: WARNING: using cross tools not prefixed with host triplet
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0… yes
checking for gtkdoc-check… no
checking for gtkdoc-rebase… no
checking for gtkdoc-mkpdf… no
checking whether to build gtk-doc documentation… no
checking for xsltproc… /usr/bin/xsltproc
checking for gperf… /usr/bin/gperf
checking for GLIB… yes
checking for acl_init in -lacl… no
configure: error: libacl not found

Please guide me to fix this error. I also have installed libacl using sudo -apt-get install command. yet it throws error while configuring it.

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