Snagboot has just received its second major version number increase since its initial release in 2023! The jump to 2.0 had been made to mark the introduction of Snagfactory, back in 2024. Almost two years have passed since then, and contributions to the project have been going strong! The milestone which underlies our decision to jump to 3.0 is a major overhaul of Snagfactory, turning it into a QT6-based app.
Let’s look back at some notable changes since the last release.
Linux 7.2 has been released last Sunday afternoon. You can take a look at the whole content of this new version thanks to LWN merge window posts (see part 1 and part 2). As stated by Linus Torvalds himself, the final week of this release has not been a peaceful endeavour (with some late reverts being needed), but this phenomenon seems to be slowly becoming “the new normal thing”. You can find more details and facts about this release in the 7.2 coverage from LWN.
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We recently welcomed two engineers in our team located in Toulouse, France: Paul Louvel and Diogo Ivo.
Paul joined Bootlin in February 2026, after graduating from École 42, with a combined apprenticeship at IDEMIA on SIM card technology projects, implementing the (D)TLS protocol in a smart card operating system. At Bootlin, Paul already contributed to the development and customization of Linux BSPs targeting x86-based Intel platforms, PowerPC, and ARM-based NXP platforms, using both Yocto and Buildroot. Paul is also contributing to the Linux kernel, developing and making changes to various drivers using different subsystems, including GPIO, IRQ, and crypto.
Check out Paul’s page on bootlin.com, LinkedIn profile and Linux kernel commits.
Diogo joined Bootlin at the beginning of June 2026. Diogo graduated with a Master’s Degree in Engineering Physics from Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal) in 2022. From 2023 to 2026, he worked at Siemens as an Embedded Linux engineer, working with edge industrial platforms and gaining experience in Yocto integration, platform maintenance and BSP kernel updates. He also contributed to the upstream Linux kernel, namely an Ethernet driver for the Texas Instruments AM654x SR1.0 SoC and a watchdog driver for the Intel Over-Clocking watchdog.
Check out Diogo’s page on bootlin.com, LinkedIn profile and Linux kernel commits.
We’re happy to see two young and talented engineers join our team to work on the numerous embedded Linux projects from our customers!
Yocto is often seen as fairly complex, and at Bootlin we believe one reason for this perception is the unnecessary complexity of the BSP layers provided by silicon or board vendors, each of which often includes highly custom logic that isn’t needed. That’s why, back in 2023, we released meta-kiss, an example layer demonstrating how simple it can be to support various hardware platforms with Yocto, without relying on any vendor-provided BSP layer.
Since then, we’ve kept this layer up-to-date and added several new features. In this blog post, we’d like to highlight recent significant updates: an upgrade to Yocto Scarthgap, support for the i.MX93 FRDM platform, and the ability to build OP-TEE for the previously supported STM32MP1 platform.
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Version 2.5 of Snagboot was released last week! The updates in this version mostly target snagrecover, with two brand new SoC families supported! Let’s take a look at what’s new.
We’re very happy to welcome in our team Benoît Monin and Benjamin Robin.
It’s been a few months already that Benoît Monin joined our team, as he started in May, just in time to participate to our yearly company-wide team week event in June. Benoît graduated from CPE Lyon in 2002, and then spent no less than 21 years at Centum Adeneo, where he worked on a large number of embedded projects, mostly Linux-based. He supported Alstom Transport on embedded systems used in train communication and signaling, including Linux porting, hardware integration on ARM platforms, and R&D on 5G train-to-ground communication. His past experience also includes work for Airbus on measurement and noise analysis systems, and for JDSU on high-speed communication test equipment using PowerPC. Benoît is also a contributor to open-source, as he contributes to OpenStreetMap and the openSUSE project. Since his arrival at Bootlin, Benoît has been mostly focused on Linux kernel upstream work, mainly around the Mobileye platforms. Check out Benoît’s page on bootlin.com for more details.
More recently, in late August, Benjamin Robin also joined our team. This time, he joined just in time to participate to the recent Open Source Summit Europe in Amsterdam, a great opportunity to meet almost the entire Bootlin’s team, and also the embedded Linux community. Benjamin also graduated from CPE Lyon, but in 2011. Prior to joining Bootlin, Benjamin spent 14 years at Centum T&S, where he held roles as both an embedded software engineer and an embedded Linux engineer. Benjamin has primarily worked on ARM platforms for industrial customers, always with a strong focus on low-level development close to the hardware. His expertise spans from embedded Linux system development to critical bare-metal software on constrained platforms such as ARM Cortex-M. He has developed significant expertise in building custom BSP layers using Yocto for projects involving various frameworks, including Qt. Benjamin also has experience developing Linux drivers for customer-specific hardware. His platform experience covers a wide spectrum, from Xilinx Zynq 7000, OMAP, and TI Sitara processors, to i.MX SoCs, Marvell OCTEON SoCs, and even some experience with x86-based SoCs. Beyond his professional work, Benjamin contributes to various open source projects, fixing bugs and implementing enhancements to improve functionality. He for example actively supports the French-speaking Arch Linux community. Check out Benjamin’s page on bootlin.com for more details.
We are pleased to welcome Benoît and Benjamin to our Oullins office near Lyon. Their arrival brings the Lyon team to 12 members, now equaling the headcount of our Toulouse office.
Snagboot is an open-source and vendor-neutral tool to recover and reflash a wide variety of embedded platforms, leveraging the communication protocols offered by the boot ROMs of most modern system-on-chips. It replaces unpractical, vendor-specific and often closed-source tools provided by silicon vendors.
Spring 2025 has been especially rich in Snagboot contributions. Various bug fixes, feature requests and even support for additional SoC families have been submitted to the official repository. Version 2.4 of Snagboot was released last Monday, which gives us a good opportunity to take a closer look at some of these improvements.
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!
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.
Bootlin is happy to announce a new release of our OpenWrt feed openwrt-feed-st, which provides integration of ST’s STM32MP platforms with the OpenWrt build system. This new release openstlinux-6.1-openwrt-master-mpu-v24.06.26 updates the BSP software components and adds support for the new STM32MP2 platform.
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