Last summer, we announced the availability of our Embedded Linux course on the BeaglePlay platform.
Today, we are happy to announce the publication of our Linux kernel driver development and Yocto Project/OpenEmbedded system development courses also ported on the BeaglePlay platform.
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Back in January 2023, we announced the availability of a new Bootlin training course “Linux debugging, profiling, tracing and performance analysis”, initially developed and taught by former Bootlin engineer Clement Léger. A year and a half later, the training course, now taught by Bootlin engineers Luca Ceresoli and Alexis Lothoré, is one of the most requested amongst Bootlin training courses.
Following the feedback received from many people who attended the course, we are happy to announce that a new version of the training is available and now includes a whole new part about eBPF technology !
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Earlier this year, the BeagleBoard.org foundation announced the availability of a new development board, the BeaglePlay, centered around the Texas Instruments AM625 ARM64 processor. Bootlin has for a long time supported the BeagleBone Black as one of the hardware platforms used in the practical labs of its training courses, and we are happy to announce today that we now have added support for the BeaglePlay to our most popular course, the Embedded Linux system development course.
This means that participants to our Embedded Linux system development course can now choose to perform the practical labs on the BeaglePlay, experiencing a new and modern hardware platform, based on an ARM64 processor. This applies not only to participants choosing to purchase our course, but also to everyone else in the world, as our training materials are all freely available and distributed under an open-source license. The materials are all available on our Embedded Linux system development training course page:
We would like to thank Clément Ramirez who has worked with us on this effort of porting this course to the BeaglePlay platform.
“Bootlin is a leading provider of high-quality, in-depth Linux education. What amazes me is how much they not only support open source with outstanding teaching, but how much they stand behind the principles of open source by sharing their teaching materials and contributing to the open source projects that drive them.” said Jason Kridner, founder of BeagleBoard.org. “BeagleBoard.org shares these principles and that is why I believe BeaglePlay is an excellent choice. BeaglePlay doesn’t just run open source software, the hardware itself is open source with detailed documentation on the board and associated Texas Instruments AM625 system-on-chip, with availability to enable hobbyists and professionals alike from prototype to production. I couldn’t be more excited.”
Bootlin’s Embedded Linux course, like all our training courses, is available in 3 different options:
In both our private on-line sessions and private on-site sessions, our customers are free to chose, among our set of supported platforms, the HW platform they would like to use for the practical labs, and this now includes the BeaglePlay. In our public on-line sessions, the trainer demonstrates the practical labs on one particular platform, but participants are able to reproduce the labs on the platform of their choice among our supported platforms.
With this new development, we look forward to continue our mission of helping the broader engineering community get trained on embedded Linux technology and expand the number of users and contributors to open-source technologies and communities.
Over the past years, Bootlin has helped more and more of its customers with numerous audio aspects on embedded Linux systems: development of Linux kernel drivers for audio components, description of audio hardware in Device Tree, support of unusual audio hardware setups, integration of user-space audio frameworks and servers such as PipeWire, and more. We have seen an interest from our customers and the broader community in getting trained on those topics, so we have built a brand new training course covering the following:
The detailed agenda of course is available for on-line sessions (4 half-days of 4 hours each) and on-site sessions (2 days). As usual with Bootlin, our training materials will be published for free under an open-source license in the next few weeks.
This course has been developed and is taught by Bootlin expert Alexandre Belloni.
We have a first public on-line session scheduled on September 11-14 2023, with a possible extra session on September 15. Sessions take place from 2 PM to 6 PM UTC+2 on each day. Seats are offered at 619 EUR per participant, with a discount at 519 EUR per participant under conditions. You can book your seat now, beware that only 12 seats are available.
This new training course is the 9th training course we offer in our portfolio, with all courses centered around embedded Linux development. We aim at developing more of those specific courses in the next few years, to continue to help engineers working on embedded Linux grow their skills and expertise.
Buongiorno!
For many years, we have been offering our training courses in both English and French. We are happy to announce that we are now expanding our offering towards our Italian customers: we are now able to deliver our very popular Embedded Linux system development and Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded development training courses in Italian. Those courses are delivered by a native Italian speaker, Bootlin engineer Luca Ceresoli. Luca has 20 years of experience working with embedded systems, including 15 years on embedded Linux.
Thanks to this offering, our Italian customers can enjoy a training course delivered in their native language, which obviously facilitates communication, understanding and interaction. We can offer our Embedded Linux course and Yocto course in Italian through either private on-site sessions or private on-line sessions. Contact us at training@bootlin.com for details and pricing!
Ti aspettiamo!
Since its inception, Bootlin has offered training courses on technical topics related to the use of Linux in embedded systems, with freely accessible training materials, and trainers with in-depth and real-life experience in their field. Based on these ideas, we have progressively extended our training portfolio over the years.
Today, we are extremely happy to announce a brand new course: Linux debugging, profiling, tracing and performance analysis. Many of our customers working on embedded Linux systems have expressed interest in diving into these complex topics, so we’ve created this course to:
See the complete agenda for this course: debugging-online-agenda.pdf. The complete training materials will be freely available after the first session has been delivered, end of November 2022.
This course is currently being prepared by Bootlin engineer Clément Léger, who will also be teaching this course. Clément has a deep knowledge of how CPUs work and how Linux runs on a given CPU architecture, by having ported the Linux kernel to a brand new CPU architecture.
While the first session of this course will be delivered to a private customer, we have already scheduled a first public session which will take place on January 30, 31, Feb 1, 2, 2023, plus an extra session on Feb 3, 2023 if needed to cover all topics/questions. This session will take place each day from 14:00 to 18:00 UTC+1 (Paris time). Registration takes place directly online: the pricing is 569 EUR per seat at the discounted rate, or at 669 EUR per seat at the normal rate.
We can also organize a private session of this course for your team/company, either on-line or on-site: contact us to request a quote if you’re interested.
Bootlin has been helping its customers optimize the boot time of embedded Linux systems for many years, ensuring that these systems meet their startup time requirements. Thanks to this, Bootlin has accumulated a significant experience in this field.
Next week, Bootlin is organizing or participating to two events related to Embedded Linux boot time optimization:
We are participating to the Improving Linux® Boot Time in Your Embedded Application webinar organized by Microchip, one of our silicon vendor partner. The webinar takes place at 08:00 AM PST, 05:00 PM UTC+2 and participation is free, only registration is required.In addition, if you need help and support to optimize the boot time of your Embedded Linux systems, do not hesitate to as we offer engineering services, thanks to which we can take your existing Embedded Linux system, and significantly reduce its startup time to meet your requirements.
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!
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.
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:
See our training page for more details about all our training courses!
