From October 5 to October 9 this year, Prague will be the place to be for the open-source community, and especially for embedded open-source developers. The Open Source Summit Europe will take place there from October 7 to 9, while Linux Plumbers Conference will run from October 5 to 7. Numerous co-located events are also being organized around these two major conferences.
Bootlin will once again have a strong presence in Prague, both in terms of attendance and technical presentations.
Open Source Summit
No fewer than 26 engineers from our team will be attending the event, representing almost the entire company. This reflects one of Bootlin’s long-standing policies: every engineer, regardless of his seniority, is given the opportunity to attend at least two conferences each year. We believe this is essential to help our engineers stay up to date with the latest developments in the embedded open-source ecosystem, build and strengthen relationships with fellow developers and maintainers, and ultimately provide even better services to our customers while continuing to grow professionally.
With the Embedded Linux Conference co-located with the Open Source Summit, this is one of our must-attend events every year, which explains the large Bootlin delegation. This year’s edition will be particularly rich in technical content: thanks to Embedded Linux Conference talks running in parallel with the Open Source Summit morning keynotes, many additional presentation slots became available, allowing a total of 76 sessions to be scheduled. Bootlin CEO Thomas Petazzoni once again served on the Program Committee, contributing to the review and selection of talks.
In addition to attending, Bootlin will also contribute extensively to the conference by delivering no fewer than 9 talks, all of which are now listed in the recently published schedule:
- When PWM Meets the Common Clock Framework: How To Write a (not So) Simple Linux PWM Driver by Richard Genoud
- Journey of a Massive Internal Kernel Rework by Luca Ceresoli
- Enabling High-Performance SPI NAND in Linux: PHY Tuning, DDR, and Beyond by Miquèl Raynal (with Santhosh Kumar K, Texas Instruments)
- When the Kernel Writes Its Own Code: Debugging Runtime-Generated Instructions by Alexis Lothoré
- XDP & XSK Support From a Linux Driver Standpoint by Théo Lebrun
- Yocto BSP Layers: Breaking Free From Complexity by Mathieu Dubois-Briand & Köry Maincent
- Yocto: From Scarthgap To Wrynose, 2 Years of LTS Evolution by Jérémie Dautheribes
- The Netdev Upstreaming Journey: Process, Pitfalls, and Best Practices by Maxime Chevallier
- Updates on Sbom-cve-check: An Open-source CVE Analysis Tool for Embedded Systems by Benjamin Robin
Linux Plumbers
This year, 9 Bootlin engineers will be attending Linux Plumbers Conference, one of the key events for discussing ongoing Linux kernel development and future directions with the upstream community.
While the detailed schedule for all microconferences has not yet been published, we already know that two of our proposed sessions have been accepted:
- Device Tree Addons: Describe Hot-Pluggable Extension Boards, by Hervé Codina, as part of the Device Tree Microconference.
- Adding KASAN Support for JIT-compiled BPF Programs, by Alexis Lothoré, as part of the eBPF Track.
Co-located events
A few Bootlin engineers will not only attend the Open Source Summit and/or the Linux Plumbers conference, but they will also participate to some of the co-located events:
- Mathieu Dubois-Briand will attend the Yocto Project Developer Day on October 6. As the main contributor to the Yocto Project’s SWAT effort, he is a natural participant in this event.
- Bootlin CEO Thomas Petazzoni will attend the Buildroot Developer Days on October 10 and 11, immediately following Open Source Summit.
Come and meet us!
If you’re attending any of these events, don’t hesitate to get in touch! It’s always a pleasure to meet in person the open-source users, contributors, developers, and maintainers with whom we interact throughout the year on mailing lists. We also enjoy meeting those who have attended our training courses or made use of our freely available training materials. If you see one of us in Prague, come and say hello!
