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Advance Auto Parts Professional Rolls Out Coverage Increases for MotoLogic® Repair and Diagnostics

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Advance Auto Parts Professional Rolls Out Coverage Increases for MotoLogic® Repair and Diagnostics

Audi, Mazda, Mercedes, Volkswagen, older car models, plus a dedicated service team added to support commercial garages

ROANOKE, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Advance Auto Parts (NYS: AAP) —a leading automotive aftermarket retailer and provider to commercial garages of parts, accessories and maintenance items—announced today the addition of OE repair and diagnostic information for manufacturers Audi, Mazda, Mercedes and Volkswagen to MotoLogic®, its industry-leading repair and diagnostic software tool.

Fast navigation; accurately rendered, original OE content; and extraordinary ease of use have made MotoLogic a best-in-class repair and diagnostic service. The depth of information and ease of access available within MotoLogic is unrivaled in the industry, and included in the rollout of additional manufacturer coverage is the addition of service information for older-model vehicles dating from the early 1990s to the 1950s.

“The demand we’ve seen for high-quality and accurate auto repair information has driven MotoLogic’s immediate success among our commercial customers,” said Walter Scott, vice president of eCommerce and eServices for Advance Auto Parts. “We’re offering shops an easy, accessible solution for their repair and diagnostic needs. The continued expansion of our manufacturer coverage and support team dedicated to MotoLogic ensures that we’re delivering the information that garages need to fix vehicles fast, all with just a few clicks of the mouse.”

The fully searchable, OE diagnostic and repair resource for the automotive service and repair sector features a state-of-the-art search engine that ensures faster results, based on virtually any criteria—sight, sound, smell, diagnostic code, component type and more. In addition to speed, MotoLogic’s detailed search engine lets technicians access OEM service information, clickable and color-coded OEM wiring diagrams, service bulletins, diagnostic flowcharts with sophisticated hyperlinks, component locators, labor times, owner’s manuals and more—all in the time it takes to click “Search.”

To further support repair and diagnostic needs of commercial shops, Advance Auto Parts Professional also introduced a new support staff of automotive experts dedicated to supporting MotoLogic customers. Should a customer not be able to locate the repair or diagnostic information they need through MotoLogic directly, they may contact the support staff at Motologic.com or 855-222-1632 for direct assistance.

The dedication of Advance Auto Parts Professional to innovation in eServices provides auto repair shops with the tools and services needed to grow their business and streamline processes in today’s competitive auto marketplace. In addition to MotoLogic, Advance offers commercial customers online training solutions and …read more
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Marcin Juszkiewicz: AArch64 porting update

Most of my work at Linaro is around AArch64 architecture. Ubuntu cross compilers were kind of adopted by Matthias Klose (Debian/Ubuntu toolchain maintainer) so I was able to spend more time on ARMv8.

We have two projects at Launchpad:

In short: first one is about porting software to ARMv8, second about OpenEmbedded support for it. The fact that both projects are on Launchpad does not mean that they are for Ubuntu (which is common mistake). It is open for everyone. We have people working on fixing packages in Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu (when it comes to distributions) and in OpenEmbedded. All of that with usual mantra: upstream first.

So how it goes today? I would say that quite good. Since September (when we started OpenEmbedded work) we got to point when we fixed several projects and find less and less new ones to work on.

For me it is nice experience. As I am not a programmer (my last application was for AmigaOS in last millennium) I was often surprised how small changes are sometimes needed to get software running. I got X11 running with ~8 lines of code. Libav required editing of one line in configure script. NumPy was adding 4 lines. OProfile required copying few lines from kernel source. And all those got merged upstream or is on a way to it.

If you want to track our work then check “Merge ARMv8 support into OpenEmbedded” blueprint where I track every project I touch. And ignore ‘milestone’ field — it is always work in progress because every project we fix gives us new projects to build. Which often means another set of software to patch.

I prefer not to think how much it would take us without OpenEmbedded. Being able to just easily cross compile huge amount of software in automated way is great. Sure, from time to time I had to boot software model and do some native compilation or run some tests. But mostly to generate some files which are not properly built/guessed during cross compilation.

Also I would like to thank all maintainers (from OE and upstream projects) for reviewing all our patches and all help we got. But we did not finished yet — there is a long queue of things to clean up and send for merging 🙂


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AArch64 porting update was originally posted on Marcin Juszkiewicz website

Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu