Thomas Petazzoni

Call for papers for OSS Europe, ELC Europe, Zephyr Developer Summit: until April 14

Aside from the upcoming Embedded Recipes conference in Nice on May 14-16, one of the most significant events for the open-source embedded community in Europe will be the Open Source Summit Europe. In particular, its key sub-conferences—the Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) and the Zephyr Developer Summit—will bring together experts, developers, and enthusiasts. This conference will take place on August 25-27, 2025, in Amsterdam.

These events thrive on high-quality technical talks, making the selection of topics crucial. To shape a great program, the Call For Papers is open until April 14, 2025. If you’re working on an exciting project related to Embedded Linux or Zephyr, we strongly encourage you to submit a proposal! Keep in mind that this is an open-source conference, so commercial talks and sales pitches are not suitable—the focus is purely on technical content.

Presenting at the conference is an excellent opportunity to share your expertise with a global audience. All talks are recorded and made freely available online, ensuring that your contributions reach a wider community even beyond the event.

At Bootlin, we have a long history of engagement with the Embedded Linux Conference—our engineers have delivered numerous talks, and we have actively contributed to the program selection process. For 2025, Bootlin CEO Thomas Petazzoni is once again part of the Program Committee for the Embedded Linux Conference Europe, helping to curate an outstanding lineup of talks.

Don’t miss this opportunity—submit your talk and be part of the conversation shaping the future of embedded systems!

Linux 6.14 released, Bootlin contributions inside

Penguin coding, AI generated Linux 6.14 was released last week, and as usual, we recommend checking out the LWN articles covering the 6.14 merge window (part 1, part 2) to get a good sense of the main new features and updates in this release.

Bootlin engineers have once again been busy contributing to this kernel release, with 125 commits authored by Bootlin engineers, and 60 patches reviewed and merged by Bootlin engineers who are maintainers of specific parts of the Linux kernel.

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Bootlin at Embedded Recipes 2025

After a break in 2024, the Embedded Recipes conference is back in 2025! It will take place in Nice, France from May 14 to May 16.

Bootlin is a Chef Sponsor of the event, and we will have a strong participation, with numerous engineers from our team attending the conference. Indeed no less than 15 engineers from our team will participate: Alexandre Belloni, Alexis Lothoré, Antonin Godard, Bastien Curutchet, Hervé Codina, Jérémie Dautheribes, João Marcos Costa, Köry Maincent, Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Miquèl Raynal, Richard Genoud, Théo Lebrun, Thomas Petazzoni, Thomas Perrot and Thomas Richard.

Even if the schedule is yet to be published, the Embedded Recipes organizers have always managed to put together an excellent line-up of talks and speakers, so we definitely recommend to anyone working on embedded Linux topics to join us and attend Embedded Recipes!

Bootlin at Netdev 0x19, THE Technical Conference on Linux Networking

The Netdev conference is THE annual event dedicated to Linux networking, featuring numerous talks, presentations, and discussions on all aspects of network support in the Linux kernel and ecosystem. It takes place this year on March 10-13 in Zagreb, Croatia.

Given the importance of these topics to Bootlin, our engineers Köry Maincent and Romain Gantois are attending in person. Köry has contributed to Linux’s new Power over Ethernet support and improvements in PTP timestamping flexibility, while Romain is actively working on SFP support. Additionally, Bootlin networking expert Maxime Chevallier will be following the conference remotely.

Attending Netdev is essential for Bootlin, enabling our engineers to stay at the forefront of Linux networking advancements, collaborate with key contributors, and take part in discussions shaping the future of networking in the Linux kernel. By actively participating, we ensure that Bootlin continues to make meaningful contributions to the ecosystem while strengthening our expertise to better support our customers and open-source initiatives.

Welcome to Miguel Gazquez

We’re delighted to welcome Miguel Gazquez to our team!

In fact, Miguel has been part of Bootlin for quite some time already. He completed his final-year internship with us from March to August 2024, working on the Zephyr open-source real-time operating system. This project contributed to his successful graduation from Sorbonne University. In December 2024, he officially joined Bootlin as a full-time engineer, expanding his focus beyond Zephyr to include embedded Linux projects.

Miguel has already made significant upstream contributions to Zephyr, including a sensor driver, a MIPI DBI driver enabling display support, and an input driver. He has earned the Zephyr Technical Contributor badge, granted by the Linux Foundation. Additionally, he has shared valuable insights on Zephyr and driver development in a series of blog posts on our blog.

For more details, visit Miguel’s page on our website. Once again, a warm welcome to Miguel!

Bootlin’s Qualiopi certification for training courses renewed

For the past 20 years, Bootlin has been developing and delivering training courses on embedded Linux, offering unique features such as fully open-source training materials accessible to everyone for free, courses taught by engineers actively working on real embedded Linux projects—not just trainers with outdated industry experience—and meaningful hands-on labs instead of simple exercises.

As part of our commitment to high-quality training, we embarked on a rigorous process in 2021 that led us to obtain the French Qualiopi certification. This certification is awarded to training providers who adhere to strict standards in course organization, training materials, trainer selection, and more. While it enables our French customers to access public funding for our courses, it also serves as a broader guarantee that we follow well-defined processes to ensure a high-quality training experience.

This certification is not permanent; it requires regular renewal. A follow-up assessment takes place 1.5 years after the initial certification, and a full reassessment occurs every three years. In November 2024, we successfully renewed our Qualiopi certification. You can view our latest Qualiopi certificate, which is also verifiable online.

We take pride in our long-term commitment to training quality, which we believe is a key factor in the continued success of our courses!

Linux 6.13 released, Bootlin contributions inside

Penguin coding, AI generated Linux 6.13 has been released last Sunday and a few lucky kernel developers won some guitar pedals assembled by Linus Torvalds himself! As usual, we recommend looking at the excellent coverage from LWN.net of the 6.13 merge window to get a high-level overview of the main changes and new features: part 1 and part 2. KernelNewbies also has a nice thoroughly documented page about the Linux 6.13 updates.

On our side, we contributed a total of 96 patches to this release, making Bootlin the 22nd contributing company by number of commits. In addition to those direct contributions, Bootlin engineers also reviewed/merged 77 patches from other contributors, as part of their role of being kernel maintainers. Most notably, Alexandre Belloni reviewed/merged 53 patches from other contributors as the RTC and I3C subsystems maintainer, while Miquèl Raynal merged 17 patches from other contributors as an MTD subsystem co-maintainer.

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Bootlin Training: In-person public sessions are back!

Icon from www.flaticon.com Bootlin training courses have long been recognized for their quality and effectiveness. Before the COVID era, we offered in-person sessions either on-site at customer locations for larger groups or as public sessions at our facilities, bringing together engineers from multiple companies. However, with the onset of the pandemic, we transitioned exclusively to online training. Since then, we have resumed in-person sessions at customer locations, but public sessions have yet to make a comeback—until now.

We’re excited to announce the return of our in-person public training sessions! The first session will focus on Linux kernel driver development and is scheduled for June 16-20, 2025, in Lyon, France. This course will be conducted by none other than Bootlin engineer and Linux kernel maintainer Grégory Clement.

For participants who prefer an in-person learning experience, this session provides a valuable opportunity for direct interaction with our trainer and fellow attendees. It’s an excellent alternative to online sessions, fostering deeper engagement and collaboration.

Seats are available at the standard rate of 2100 EUR per participant, with a discounted rate of 2000 EUR per participant under certain conditions.

Beyond this Linux kernel driver development in-person public session, we have plans to also open in-person public sessions for our Embedded Linux system development, Yocto Project/OpenEmbedded system development and Debugging, tracing, profiling and performance analysis with Linux training courses. Do not hesitate to contact us if you’re interested. Your feedback will help us gauge interest and schedule these sessions accordingly.

Bootlin at FOSDEM 2025 and co-located events

The highly popular and super interesting FOSDEM conference will as usual take place the first week-end of February in Brussels. Many Bootlin engineers have been attending the event over the years, and we highly recommend anyone in the open-source ecosystem to attend at least once to get a sense of what FOSDEM looks like, and benefit from the hundreds of talks that are given.

This year, no less than 10 Bootlin engineers will be attending FOSDEM: Thomas Perrot, Louis Chauvet, Luca Ceresoli, Hervé Codina, Alexis Lothore, Théo Lebrun, Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Antonin Godard, Thomas Bonnefille and Thomas Petazzoni.

In addition, Mathieu Dubois-Briand and Antonin Godard will both be attending the OpenEmbedded Workshop 2025, which takes place on Monday right after FOSDEM, and Mathieu will be giving a talk Yocto Build Failure Swat Team – Workflow and Updates:

All Yocto branches under active maintenance, in addition to any patches proposed on the mailing lists, are built on the Yocto autobuilder. The Yocto SWAT team is responsible for monitoring build failures, doing a first investigation of their causes, logging the issues, and notifying the relevant
owners.

In this session, Mathieu will outline tasks and processes of the SWAT team, along with the tooling and recent improvements.

And finally, Thomas Petazzoni and Thomas Bonnefille will be attending the Buildroot Developer Days, organized right after FOSDEM.

Do not hesitate to get in touch with us during FOSDEM or the co-located events!

2024 at Bootlin: a year in review

2024 a year in review First of all, the entire Bootlin team wishes everyone a Happy New Year and best wishes for 2025!

The end of a year and the beginning of the next one is often the right time to look back at what has been achieved, and think about what’s coming next. And we’re going to do exactly this in this blog post, summing up 2024 at Bootlin, a year that has been very active.

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