Late october will be a busy moment for all the embedded Linux developers meeting in Edinburgh, UK. The Linux Foundation is organizing a number of conferences here, including the Embedded Linux Conference Europe (October 24-25) and LinuxCon Europe (October 21-23), and many co-located other events.
Bootlin will be present at several of these events:
- First, three Bootlin engineers will be present at the ARM kernel summit on October 22nd and 23rd. The ARM kernel summit is an invitation-only conference, organized in relation with the Linux Kernel Summit. Gregory Clement, Maxime Ripard and Thomas Petazzoni, engineers at Bootlin have been invited due to their participation to the ARM support in the kernel, mainly on Allwinner SOCs for Maxime and on Marvell SOCs for Gregory and Thomas. Being present at this event is an excellent opportunity to be part of the discussion that shapes the future of ARM support in Linux, and strengthen our relations with other members of this growing community.
- Then, the entire technical team of Bootlin will attend the Embedded Linux Conference, on October 24th and 25th. Several talks will also be given by Bootlin engineers:
- On Thursday, 24th October at 11:40 AM, Thomas Petazzoni will give a talk titled Device Tree for dummies!, which will give an introduction to the Device Tree on ARM: what it is, how it is compiled, how it used by the kernel, how Device Tree bindings are defined, how drivers are affected by the Device Tree, etc.
- At the same time in another room, Michael Opdenacker will lead a Bird of a Feather session dedicated to Small Businesses in the embedded Linux world. Exchanging experiences, networking with other companies working in the same field, etc.
- Still on Thursday, at 3 PM, Gregory Clement will give a talk on the Linux kernel Common Clock Framework, which will be an updated version of the talk he gave at ELC earlier this year.
- On Friday, 25th October at 9:30 AM, Thomas Petazzoni will be part of the keynote panel session dedicated to a discussion on Embedded Linux build systems together with Tim Bird (Sony Mobile), Ross Burton (Intel), and Karim Yaghmour (Opersys), the panel being moderated by Jeff Osier-Mixon (Intel).
- On Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th October, the Buildroot community is organizing its traditional Developers Meeting, to which Thomas Petazzoni will participate. Some of the core Buildroot developers will join for two days of discussion and work to improve this embedded Linux build system.
As you can see, this will be a very interesting and busy week, and we’re all looking forward to meeting more embedded Linux developers and learning about the latest technologies in this field.
