Romain Gantois joined Bootlin’s Toulouse office in 2023 as an Embedded Linux engineer.
His journey at Bootlin started with his end of studies internship, during which he developed Snagboot, an open-source and vendor-agnostic embedded platform recovery and reflashing tool, and refactored the Linux kernel driver for the IPQ4018 IPQESS Ethernet switch to decouple it from the DSA subsystem. Romain is currently still maintaining Snagboot, which has attracted several contributions since its publication. He joined Bootlin as an engineer after his internship, and continues to work on embedded Linux system integration and Linux kernel drivers.
Experience
- Romain co-developed Buildroot support for the STM32MP2 line of SoCs released by STMicroelectronics in 2023. He handled bootloader and kernel configuration aspects, as well as various hardware component demos and Rauc integration.
- He also worked on BSP development aspects for various projects, including backporting Ethernet PHY drivers, troubleshooting MAC driver issues, and developping SFP cage support. This led him to upstream support for the RZN1 variant of a Synopsys Ethernet MAC, as well as a full driver for the TUSB1046 USB-C crosspoint switch.
- Romain has also gained experience in Wi-Fi driver development and integration, including troubleshooting of 802.1x exchanges, regulatory domain aspects and roaming optimizations.
Romain can be contacted by e-mail (first name dot last name at bootlin dot com) or Linkedin.