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Linux kernel drivers and Yocto public online courses now available for US/America time zones

Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, we have been offering our popular training courses online to our customers, in both public sessions (opened to individual registration) and dedicated sessions (organized on-demand for our customers, at their choice of date/time).

Our public sessions were initially all organized in the afternoon of Europe (14:00 to 18:00 Paris time), but we started in late 2021 proposing our Embedded
Linux system development training course for customers in the US/America, especially on the West Coast. Thanks to the success of this, we have decided to also start offering at times convenient for US/America customers the following courses:

our Linux kernel driver development training course. The first session is scheduled from April 11 to April 21, with Bootlin engineer and trainer Miquèl Raynal, who is also a maintainer in the Linux kernel! The course runs from 09:00 AM to 1:00 PM Pacific, 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM Eastern, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM Europe. Registration at the discount rate until March 10 for 829 EUR.
our Yocto/OpenEmbedded system development training course. The first session is scheduled from March 7 to March 10, with Bootlin engineer and trainer Maxime Chevallier. The course runs from 09:00 AM to 1:00 PM Pacific, 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM Eastern, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM Europe. Registration at the discount rate is available until February 6 for 519 EUR.

The chosen time is ideal for US/America customers, but also works for participants in Europe who would like to attend our courses outside of their normal working hours.

Of course, we have plenty of other training sessions scheduled, for all our 7 different training courses, covering a wide range of time zones. Check our training page for all the details, and contact us if you have specific needs: a dedicated training course for your company, a session organized at a different date/time, etc.

New training course: Real-Time Linux with PREEMPT_RT

In the field of embedded systems, a number of applications need real-time guarantees, and the Linux ecosystem has been offering for a long time a number of solutions to address those needs, either by improving the Linux kernel itself using the PREEMPT_RT approach, or by using a co-kernel approach such as the one offered by Xenomai. Bootlin training’s portfolio already has an initial coverage of these topics in our Embedded Linux system development course.

Today, we are happy to announce a brand new Real-Time Linux with PREEMPT_RT, which is specifically focused on the PREEMPT_RT solution. This solution made a vast amount of progress in recent times in terms of integration into the official Linux kernel, which makes it even more relevant for a number of projects which need real-time guarantees.

The main topics covered by the course are:

What is a real-time and deterministic operating system
How to configure, build and setup a PREEMPT_RT enabled Linux kernel
How to identify and benchmark the hardware platform in terms of real-time characteristics
How to configure and tune the Linux kernel and the system for deterministic behavior
How to develop and debug real-time user-space Linux applications as well as analyze latencies

The course is illustrated by practical labs or demonstrations made on the BeagleBone Black platform. It has been developed and is taught by Bootlin engineer Maxime Chevallier, who is an experienced embedded Linux and Linux kernel engineer and trainer.

As usual our training materials are fully open-source, including the ones for this brand new session. You can read the Slides and Practical lab instructions. Bootlin is one of the very few companies delivering training courses to make its training materials open-source: by choosing to work with Bootlin for your trainings, you support our work on developing and publishing freely available training materials.

If you’re interested in getting this new Real-Time Linux with PREEMPT_RT training course, you have three options:

Public on-line sessions, opened to individual registration. The course lasts 3 sessions of 4 hours. We have scheduled a first session on January 19-21, 2022, and registration is open, for 399 EUR at the Early bird rate, of 449 EUR at the Regular rate.
Dedicated on-line sessions, which we organize at the date/time of your choice. The course also lasts 3 sessions of 4 hours. Contact us to request a quote.
Dedicated on-site sessions, where our trainer travels to your location to deliver the training course. In this case, the course lasts two full days. Contact us to request a quote.

Online Embedded Linux system development course in new time zones

Since April 2020, we are offering our training courses online, both in public sessions available to individual registration and in dedicated sessions for specific customers.

So far, our public sessions have always been organized from 2 PM to 6 PM Paris time, which was a good fit for our customers in Europe and in the US East Coast, but not so much for our customers in the US West Coast, in the Middle East and Asia.

Therefore, we are happy to announce that we have opened two sessions of our Embedded Linux system development course at different times, to suit the needs of customers in different parts of the world:

An Embedded Linux system development course will start on November 22, spread over 7 sessions of 4 hours organized from 09:00 to 13:00 Paris time (UTC+1), which is 13:30 to 17:30 in India, and 16:00 to 20:00 in China. This time is best for our customers in Europe, Middle East and Asia. Registration is possible directly online or by contacting us to get a quotation. The trainer for this course will be Grégory Clement.
An Embedded Linux system development course will start on November 29, spread over 7 sessions of 4 hours organized from 18:00 to 22:00 Paris time (UTC+1), which is 09:00 to 13:00 in the US West Coast, and 12:00 to 16:00 in the US East Coast. Registration is possible directly online or by contacting us to get a quotation. The trainer for this course will be Michael Opdenacker.

In both cases, the course is offered at 829 EUR per participant in the early bird rate (valid for registrations at least one month prior to the course starting date), or otherwise at 929 EUR.

Of course, like for all our training courses, the training materials are fully open, so that you can verify that the course suits your needs. See Embedded Linux system development training page for the complete agenda, slides and lab instructions.

If there is sufficient interest in these new time zones, we will consider offering our other courses at similar times in the future.

Upcoming online training courses in 2021

Throughout this first half of 2021, our online training courses available for individual registration have been very popular. We have added some new dates for this summer and early fall for all our courses:

Our next Embedded Linux system development course starts on September 1, during 7 sessions of 4 hours each.
Our next Linux kernel driver development course starts on September 6, during 7 sessions of 4 hours each.
Our next Yocto/OpenEmbedded system development course starts on July 19, during 4 sessions of 4 hours each.
Our next Buildroot system development course starts on October 11, during 5 sessions of 4 hours each.
Our next Understanding the Linux graphics stack course starts on September 14, during 4 sessions of 4 hours each.
Our next Embedded Linux boot-time optimization course starts on October 25, during 4 sessions of 4 hours each.

You can register directly online through Eventbrite and pay by credit card, or request an invoice. Note that our sessions are regularly full: our embedded Linux training course next month is full one month before the session, so make sure to book your seat early enough. We offer a 100 EUR early bird discount for registrations taking place at least one month before the course.

These courses are delivered entirely online: you don’t need any hardware to participate, as the hands-on labs are replaced by live demonstrations made by the trainer. All you need is a web browser, a good Internet connection and an audio headset!

We can also organize private courses upon request, if you have a larger group of engineers to train on these topics. Contact us for details!

Bootlin “Buildroot system development” course updated to Buildroot 2021.02

Bootlin has been offering for several years a Buildroot system development course, which allows engineers interested in learning and understanding the Buildroot embedded Linux build system to get up to speed very quickly.

In preparation for our public Buildroot system development course next week, we updated our training materials, both slides and labs to Buildroot 2021.02, which is the latest stable Buildroot release as of today, and is also a Long Term Support release.

In addition to updating to a newer Buildroot version, we also use newer U-Boot and Linux versions for the practical labs on BeagleBone Black Wireless. The slides were also updated to document some new features that appeared between 2020.02 and 2021.02. If you’re interested, check out the materials on the training page.

We have one seat left for this training course next week, which will be taught by long-time Buildroot contributor and developer Thomas Petazzoni. Register now and take the last seat!

New training course: embedded Linux boot time optimization

For many embedded products, the issue of how much time it takes from power-on to the application being fully usable by the end-user is an important challenge. Bootlin has been providing its expertise and experience in this area to its customers for many years through numerous boot time optimization projects, and we have shared this knowledge through a number of talks at several conferences over the past years.

We are now happy to announce that we have a new training course Embedded Linux boot time optimization, open for public registration. This training course was already given to selected Bootlin customers and is now available for everyone.

The training course will be lead by Michael Opdenacker, Bootlin’s founder, and author of several publications on the topic of boot time optimization. The course is organized over 4 sessions of 4 hours, with a significant fraction of time spent on practical demonstrations showing on a real-life example the techniques to measure and reduce the boot time of an embedded Linux system.

As usual with Bootlin, the training materials are fully available: Agenda, Slides and Practical lab instructions.

Our first course open for public registration will take place from April 6th to April 9th, 2021, from 14:00 to 18:00 UTC+2 (Paris time) on each day. The session cost is 519 EUR if you take advantage of the early bird price available until March 9th. Otherwise, the regular rate is 619 EUR. You can register now for this course on Eventbrite.

Also, if you’re interested in organizing a dedicated session for your company, do not hesitate to contact us.

Online training courses in March/April 2021

Our online training courses of January are now all completed, and were again successful. So we’re happy to announce the next dates for our public training courses in March and April, for all our courses: Embedded Linux system development, Linux kernel driver development, Yocto and OpenEmbedded system development, Buildroot system development and Linux graphics stack.

It is worth mentioning that we now have an Early Bird price, which is valid up to 1 month before the course, so register early if you’re interested!

Type	Dates	Time	Duration	Cost and registration
Embedded Linux (agenda)	Mar. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 2021 + extra session on Mar. 17 if needed	14:00 – 18:00 (Paris, UTC+1)	28 h	Early: 829 EUR^* Regular: 929 EUR^* Register
Linux kernel (agenda)	Mar. 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 2021	13:30 – 17:30 (Paris time, UTC+1)	28 h	Early: 829 EUR^* Regular: 929 EUR^* register
Buildroot (agenda)	Mar. 8, 9, 10, 11, 2021	14:00 – 18:00 (Paris time, UTC+1)	16 h	Early: 519 EUR^* Regular: 619 EUR^* Register
Yocto Project (agenda)	Mar. 22, 23, 24, 25, 2021 + extra session on Mar 26 if needed	14:00 – 18:00 (Paris time, UTC+1)	16 h	Early: 519 EUR^* Regular: 619 EUR^* Register
Linux Graphics (agenda)	Apr. 6, 7, 8, 9, 2021	14:00 – 18:00 (Paris time, UTC+2)	16 h	Early: 519 EUR^* Regular: 619 EUR^* Register

Bootlin training courses for beginning of 2021

It’s the beginning of 2021, and Bootlin’s offering of online training courses continues. We have dates available for our 5 training courses, at an affordable cost, and with the same quality characteristics of all Bootlin courses: trainers with proven in-field experience, fully open-source training materials and worldwide recognized training contents.

Here are the dates of our upcoming sessions:

Embedded Linux system development course, taught by Bootlin CEO Michael Opdenacker, from January 11 to January 19, register for 829 EUR
Linux kernel driver development course, taught by Bootlin engineer Grégory Clement, who has 19 years of embedded development experience, is a Linux kernel maintainer, and has contributed over 400 patches to the official Linux kernel. This course takes place from January 11 to January 19, register for 829 EUR
Yocto and OpenEmbedded system development course, taught by Bootlin engineer Maxime Chevallier, one of Bootlin’s Yocto expert. This course takes place from January 18 to January 21, register for 519 EUR
Displaying and rendering graphics with Linux, taught by Bootlin engineer and multimedia expert Paul Kocialkowski. Paul has key experience in the Linux kernel DRM and Video4Linux subsystems. See for example his last two talks on graphics topics: An Overview of the Linux and Userspace Graphics Stack and Supporting Hardware-Accelerated Video Encoding with Mainline. This course will take place from January 19 to January 22, register for 519 EUR
Buildroot system development, taught by Bootlin CTO Thomas Petazzoni, who is one of the co-maintainers of Buildroot, and has contributed over 4000 patches to the project over the past 12 years. The course will take place from March 8 to March 11, register for 519 EUR

See our training page for more details about all our training courses!

Online training courses in September/October 2020

Following the success of our online training courses in Spring/Summer, we now have scheduled additional online training courses in September/October, for all our 5 training courses.

Those courses are delivered live, online, by a Bootlin instructor: the entire contents of our training lectures are covered, and the training practical labs are demonstrated live by the instructor. All you need to register is a Chrome-based web browser, an audio headset, and you’re all set to learn about embedded Linux, Linux kernel driver development, Yocto, Buildroot or Linux graphics!

Registration is open for the following 5 sessions, make sure to book your seat before the sessions fill up!

Type	Dates	Time	Duration	Expected trainer	Cost and registration
Linux kernel (agenda)	Sep. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21 and 22, 2020	13:30 – 17:30 (Paris time)	28 h	Gregory Clement	829 EUR + VAT^* (register)
Linux Graphics (agenda)	Sep. 22, 23, 24 and 25, 2020	14:00 – 18:00 (Paris time)	16 h	Paul Kocialkowski	519 EUR + VAT^* (register)
Yocto Project (agenda)	Sep. 28, 29, 30, Oct. 1, 2, 2020	14:00 – 18:00 (Paris time)	20 h	Maxime Chevallier	625 EUR + VAT^* (register)
Embedded Linux (agenda)	Sep. 28, 29, 30, Oct. 1, 2, 5, 6 2020.	17:00 – 21:00 (Paris), 8:00 – 12:00 (San Francisco)	28 h	Michael Opdenacker	829 EUR + VAT^* (register)
Buildroot (agenda)	Oct. 1, 2, 5, 6, and 8, 2020	14:00 – 18:00 (Paris time)	16 h	Thomas Petazzoni	519 EUR + VAT^* (register)

Yocto Project training course available on STM32MP1 platform

Back in May 2019, we announced the availability of our Embedded Linux system development course on the STMicroelectronics STM32MP1 platform, in addition to the already supported Microchip SAMA5D3 Xplained board.

In the context of our partnership with STMicroelectronics, we are now happy to announce the availability of our Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded development training also on the STM32MP1 platform for the practical labs. We now support either the BeagleBoneBlack Wireless or the STMicroelectronics STM32MP1 platforms for this training course.

The complete training materials are available: detailed agenda, slides and practical labs. The complete source code of the training materials is also available in our Github repository.

Bootlin Yocto course on STM32MP1 — Slides of Bootlin’s Yocto course for the STM32MP1

This will hopefully help customers around the world to get started with using Yocto on the STM32MP1 system-on-chip. The Yocto experts at Bootlin are available to deliver this 3-day course anywhere in the world, at your location. The first edition of this new variant of the course is going to be given this week to one of our customers in Spain. Contact us if you’re interested by having this course organized at your location!