Late october will be a busy moment for all the embedded Linux developers meeting in Edinburgh, UK. The Linux Foundation is organizing a number of conferences here, including the Embedded Linux Conference Europe (October 24-25) and LinuxCon Europe (October 21-23), and many co-located other events. Bootlin will be present at several of these events: First, … Continue reading “Bootlin at the ARM Kernel Summit, the Embedded Linux Conference and the Buildroot Developers Meeting”
The 2013.08 release of Buildroot has been published a few days ago by Peter Korsgaard, the project maintainer. As usual, this release contains a number of improvements and new features that are summarized in Peter’s release e-mail, and also visible in the CHANGES file. On a total of 744 commits merged for this release, Bootlin … Continue reading “Buildroot 2013.08 released, new features and contributions from Bootlin”
The 3.11 Linux kernel has now been released by Linus Torvalds, and as usual as thousands of patches coming from a large number of companies and contributors. For this release, Bootlin has contributed a total of 128 patches (yes, exactly 2^7), which makes Bootlin the 18th contributor in the list of companies contributing to the … Continue reading “Bootlin the top #18 contributor to the 3.11 kernel”
The Linux Plumbers conference has been running since quite a few years now, and has established itself as an important event for the Linux community that takes care of the low-level aspects of the Linux system: the kernel of course, but also the related userspace low-level components. It was originally the primary goal of this … Continue reading “Bootlin at Linux Plumbers 2013, September 2013, New Orleans”
The 3.10 Linux kernel has been released a few days ago. According to LWN, with almost 13.500 non-merge commits, the 3.10 has been the busiest ever, and also the fastest. Bootlin engineers again contributed to this release, with 99 patches integrated, making Bootlin the 28th most active company contributing, right between ST-Ericsson (103 patches) and … Continue reading “Bootlin contributions to the 3.10 kernel”
The Buildroot project is participating for the first time to the famous Google Summer of Code. This program, operated by Google, allows open-source projects to have students working on specific tasks for the summer, and the students get paid for their work, get mentored by open-source developers, learn about software development, open-source communities and more. … Continue reading “GSoC: Buildroot gaining improved ARM multimedia support”
A few months ago, we published a blog post showing our contributions to the 3.8 Linux kernel. With 128 commits merged in 3.8, Bootlin was ranked as the 17th company in terms of kernel contributions. The 3.9 kernel has been released a few weeks ago, with again a significant number of contributions from Bootlin. According … Continue reading “Bootlin contributions to the 3.9 kernel”
Early last week, version 3.8 of the Linux kernel has been released by Linus Torvalds. The KernelNewbies web site, has, as usual, a great summary of what’s new in this release, together with lots of links to the relevant LWN articles. With 12394 commits, 3.8 has been the busiest ever kernel release cycle, the previous … Continue reading “Linux kernel 3.8 released, Bootlin top #17 contributor”
Maxime Ripard worked as an embedded Linux engineer at Bootlin, between 2011 and 2019. In particular as a Linux kernel developer, he became co-maintainer for the Allwinner family of ARM SoCs, for the Allwinner VPUs and for GPU and DRM drivers.
Benefits of upstreaming Upstreaming consists in submitting and merging in an official open-source project the modifications and improvements done to support a specific hardware platform or device, or other types of improvements: bug fixes, performance optimizations, feature additions. Upstreaming brings many benefits: Reduced maintenance costs Easier upgrades to newer versions Higher code quality, thanks to … Continue reading “Upstreaming Linux kernel, drivers and bootloader code”
