Feedback from Open Source Summit Europe 2024: our selection of talks #1

Open Source Summit Europe 2024The Open Source Summit Europe took place about a month ago in Vienna, and a large part of the Bootlin team attended the event, at which we also gave two talks.

At Bootlin, after such conferences, we also have a tradition of highlighting a number of talks we found interesting, and sharing this selection with our readers: we have asked each Bootlin engineer who attended Open Source Summit Europe 2024 to pick one talk they liked, and share a summary.

You’ll find in this first blog post a first selection of 3 talks: with their videos being available, this gives you the ideal playlist for the upcoming cold and rainy evenings!

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Welcome to Antonin Godard

After Mathieu Dubois-Briand and Olivier Benjamin, a third engineer joined this September our team at our Lyon office in France: we’re happy to welcome Antonin Godard.

After graduating from the french Telecom Paris engineering school in 2020, Antonin spent 4 years at Witekio, exclusively dedicated to embedded Linux system development. He has primarily been involved in Yocto-based projects, designing and architecturing BSPs for various customers and maintaining them. He also has experience with secure boot, CI/CD , CVE analysis, OTA updates and automated testing. Antonin also worked for a year in Witekio’s Seattle office, where he pursued his work on Yocto-based projects for American customers.

Over the years, Antonin got to work with Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale and NXP Layerscape SoCs as well as some experience with i.MX and x86 based-SoCs – for which he got bootloaders (U-boot / Grub), the Linux kernel and various open-source software up and running.

As part of his work at Bootlin, Antonin has already been involved in contributing to the Yocto Project documentation, and he will bring his expertise to help our customers on all embedded Linux topics. See Antonin’s profile on our website for more details.

Once again, welcome Antonin!

2025 internships at Bootlin

We have just published our 2025 internships booklet, documenting the internship topics we are offering to students in engineering who are completing their studies by a final internship.

Since this is mainly targeted at students based in France, who can join our offices in Lyon (France) or Toulouse (France), the internship descriptions are in French.

The topics we are proposing this year are:

  • exploration of Machine Learning solutions for embedded Linux
  • improvement of Snagboot, the universal embedded flashing tool
  • drivers and hardware support in Linux or U-Boot
  • enhancement of Device Tree support in the Linux kernel
  • porting Bootlin training to Qemu
  • evaluation and porting of Bootlin training to a new hardware platform
  • contributions to the Yocto ecosystem
  • contribution to the Buildroot project
  • monitoring the security of Linux BSPs
  • reference implementation of a secure embedded Linux OS
  • Ultra Wide Band (UWB) support in the Linux kernel
  • open topic on embedded Linux or Zephyr



Bootlin welcomes cybersecurity expert Olivier Benjamin

We’re happy to announce that Olivier Benjamin has recently joined the Bootlin engineering team!

For anyone in the tech industry, and especially the embedded industry, it is clear now that security is one of the most important topics of the recent and coming years both from a technical standpoint and from a regulatory standpoint (with regulations such as the CRA). Bootlin has already been helping its customers improve the security of their embedded Linux products by providing expertise on secure boot, encryption, TPM or maintenance of Linux BSPs.

With the arrival of Olivier in our team, we’re really happy to be significantly strengthening our security expertise. Indeed, Olivier has a very strong and solid security background: he started his career at security R&D firm Quarkslab doing embedded device security assessment, then he worked for several years for the french Ministry of Defense reverse engineering security implementation in embedded devices, searching for vulnerabilities and developing proofs of concept. He then joined AWS at Amazon, going through various security roles including incident response as well as looking into security vulnerabilities of concern for the hypervisor and kernel layers of EC2.

In addition to being a security expert, Olivier is also passionate about Linux and Open Source, matching well Bootlin’s DNA. Most notably, Olivier is a contributor to the UBPorts project, looking specifically at the Pine64 native port.

Check out Olivier’s profile on our website for more details. Once again, welcome Olivier!

Welcome to Mathieu Dubois-Briand

Mathieu Dubois-BriandWe’re happy to announce that Mathieu Dubois-Briand has just joined the Bootlin engineering team!

Mathieu graduated from the UTBM, Mathieu spend 12 years at Witekio, where he worked first on Android AOSP, and then on many Linux-based Board Support Package, based on Yocto or Buildroot, for various ARM and ARM64 platforms such as the NXP i.MX and TI OMAP families. During this process, he wrote Device Trees and developed Linux kernel drivers for common devices, such as touchscreen controllers, 3-axis accelerometers, and network PHYs.

In addition to development, Mathieu has managed the maintenance of several projects, including CVE analysis and updating software components throughout the product lifecycle. His work has also involved security-related topics, including secure boot, Trusted Execution Environment, and Trusted Applications using OP-TEE, as well as secure communication between devices, primarily employing TLS and DTLS protocols.

Furthermore, Mathieu has some experience with microcontroller development, using real-time operating systems like FreeRTOS and Zephyr on MCUs from the i.MXRT, ESP32, and STM32 families.

Mathieu has joined our engineering team based in Lyon, and will help us offer more embedded Linux expertise to our customers, including some additional expertise on BSP development, maintenance, CVE analysis, and security. As a Bootlin engineer, Mathieu already participated to the Open Source Summit Europe in Vienna, and is directly contributing to the build engineering effort of the upstream Yocto Project.

Please see Mathieu’s Bootlin page and LinkedIn profile.

Bootlin contributions to Linux Plumbers conference: slides and videos

Luca Ceresoli and Hervé Codina speaking at Linux Plumbers conference 2024After the participation of 13 Bootlin engineers to Open Source Summit 2024, no less then 8 Bootlin engineers attended the Linux Plumbers Conference that took place right after Open Source Summit Europe in Vienna.

In addition to participating, we contributed 3 talks/discussions (Linux Plumbers is primarily designed to host discussions, not pure talks): Representing the front-facing ports of Ethernet interfaces, Hotplug DRM pipeline components on non-discoverable video busses and Runtime hotplug on non-discoverable busses with device tree overlays.

In this blog post, we’re happy to share the slides and videos of those talks.

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Bootlin talks at Open Source Summit Europe 2024: slides and videos

João Marcos Costa giving his talk at Open Source Summit Europe 2024No less than 13 Bootlin engineers attended the Open Source Summit Europe 2024 in Vienna earlier this month, and two Bootlin engineers gave talks at this conference, keeping with Bootlin’s long standing tradition of sharing knowledge with our peers of the broader embedded Linux community.

In this blog post, we’re happy to share the slides and videos of the two talks we have during this event: Linux Power Management Features, Their Relationships and Interactions and Inspecting and Optimizing Memory Usage in Linux

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Linux 6.11 released, Bootlin contributions inside

Linux 6.11 has been released a week ago, the day before Open Source Summit Europe started, but as a large part of the Bootlin team was attending this conference and the immediately following Linux Plumbers conference, we are only posting now our usual blog post about our Linux 6.11 contributions.

As usual, we warmly recommend our readers to look at the articles from LWN.net covering the 6.11 merge window (part 1, part 2) to get a good high-level overview of the major new features and hardware support added in 6.11. CNX-Software also has a useful article on the 6.11 features relevant for embedded platforms.

From a Bootlin perspective, we contributed a total of 120 commits in this release, making us the 19th contributing company by number of commits, worldwide, according to the statistics. In addition to those 120 commits authored by Bootlin engineers, we reviewed and merged 76 patches from other contributors, as part of the Linux kernel maintainer role of several Bootlin engineers (Alexandre Belloni as the RTC and I3C maintainers, Miquèl Raynal as the MTD co-maintainer, and Grégory Clement as the Marvell platform maintainer).

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Bootlin at Kernel Recipes 2024

Kernel Recipes 2024Just after the busy week of Open Source Summit Europe and Linux Plumbers in Vienna, the Kernel Recipes conference is starting in Paris, as it takes place on Sep 23-25.

With its single-track format, high-profile speakers, small audience and friendly atmosphere, Kernel Recipes is quite unique in the landscape of open-source conferences, and has therefore become very popular over the past 10 years.

This year again, Bootlin engineers are attending this event, with this year 5 of our engineers participating: Jérémie Dautheribes, Alexis Lothoré, Romain Gantois, Louis Chauvet and Bastien Curutchet.

Bootlin engineers at Kernel Recipes

Do not hesitate to get in touch with the Bootlin engineers at the event to discuss Linux kernel and/or embedded Linux topics!

Bootlin Live #0, live video podcast on embedded Linux

We’re happy to announce that we’re starting Bootlin Live, a (hopefully) regular live video podcast that will cover embedded Linux topics in the broadest sense, as we aim at also covering open-source RTOS, hardware, and other related topics relevant to embedded open-source developers. Save the date of Sep 30 at 6 PM UTC+2 for the first episode and read on for more details on this new initiative.

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