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Free training materials and conference presentations from Bootlin, covering kernel, real-time, Android, embedded Linux system and device driver development.

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Complete training materials

Presentations at technical conferences

Here are the most recent versions of presentations we made at technical conferences.

Keynotes

Linux kernel SoC mainlining: Some success factors (2015)

Linux kernel and hardware architectures

Device Tree 101 (video, 2021)
Network Performance in the Linux Kernel, Getting the most out of the Hardware (video, 2021)
An overview of the Linux kernel and user-space graphics stack (video, 2020)
ASoC: Supporting Audio on an Embedded Board (video, 2020)
From the camera sensor to the user: the journey of a video frame (video, 2020)
Supporting hardware-accelerated video encoding with mainline Linux (video, 2020)
Understand ECC support for NAND flash devices in Linux (video, 2020)
Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and packet timestamping in Linux (video, 2020)
Integrating HW-Accelerated Video Decoding with the Display Stack (2019)
Memory Technology Devices: what’s new? (2019)
RTC subsystem, recent changes and where it is heading (2019)
Offloading Network Traffic Classification (2019)
Introduction to Linux kernel driver programming: device model (2019)
Understand your NAND and drive it within Linux (video, 2018)
Introduction to the DRM subsystem (2017)
Power Management Integrated Circuits: Keep the Power in Your Hands (video, 2017)
A tour of the ARM architecture and its Linux support (video, 2017)
Upstreaming hardware support in the Linux kernel: why and how? (2016)
Supporting the Camera Interface on the C.H.I.P (video, 2016)
Bringing display and 3D to the C.H.I.P computer (video, 2016)
Your newer ARM64 SoC Linux check list! (video, 2016)
Using DT overlays to support the C.H.I.P.’s capes (video, 2016)
Porting Linux on an ARM board (2015)
Supporting multi-function devices in the Linux kernel (video, 2015)
Kernel maintainership: an oral tradition (video, 2015)
An overview of the DMAEngine subsystem (video, 2015)
Device Tree as a stable ABI: a fairy tale? (video, 2015)
Two years of ARM SoC support mainlining: lessons learned (2014)
Supporting a new ARM platform: the Allwinner example (video, 2014)
The DRM/KMS subsystem from a newbie’s point of view (2014)
SMP bring up on ARM SoCs (2014)
Common clock framework: how to use it (video, 2013)
ARM support in the Linux kernel (video, 2013)
Your new ARM SoC Linux support check-list (video from earlier session, 2013)
IIO, a new subsystem (2012)

Embedded Linux

Embedded Linux from Scratch in 45 minutes, on RISC-V (video, 2021)
OpenEmbedded and Yocto Project best practices (video, 2020)
Building embedded Debian/Ubuntu systems with ELBE (video, 2020)
Using Visual Studio Code for Embedded Linux Development (video, 2020)
Buildroot – What’s new? (video, 2020)
Getting started with Buildroot (2019)
Timing boot time reduction techniques (2019)
Introduction to Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded (2017)
Understanding D-Bus (2016)
Embedded Building a board farm: Continuous Integration and remote control (video, 2016)
Anatomy of cross-compilation toolchains (video, 2016)
Running UBI/UBIFS on MLC NAND (video, 2016)
Buildroot vs. OpenEmbedded/Yocto Project: A Four Hands Discussion (video, 2016)
GNU Autotools: a tutorial (video, 2016)
Using Yocto Project for module manufacturers (2014)
Buildroot: a deep dive into the core (2014)
Introduction to Buildroot (2013)
Buildroot: a nice, simple and efficient embedded Linux build system (2012)
Qt for non-graphical applications (2012)
Using Buildroot for real projects (video, 2011)
Embedded Linux introduction (2011)

Android

Introduction to Android and system bring-up (2012)

Legacy documents

These documents are not actively maintained any more. Therefore, they are likely to contain obsolete parts.

Android

Android system development course

Kernel

Linux serial drivers
New features in Linux 2.6 (since 2.6.10)
Linux PCI drivers
Block device drivers
Network device drivers
USB drivers
What’s new in Linux 2.6?

Architecture specific documents

Embedded Linux system development

Miscellaneous

Introduction to the Unix command line
SSH
Linux virtualization solutions (with an embedded perspective)
Advantages of Free Software and Open Source in embedded systems
Introduction to GNU/Linux and Free Software
Linux and ecology
Porting to a new PDA