Linux 5.2 was released not long ago, and as usual it is time to have a look at the contributions that Bootlin engineers did to this kernel release. But before that, if you’re interested in having an overview of the major new features of this kernel, we recommend reading LWN articles covering the 5.2 merge … Continue reading “Linux 5.2 released, Bootlin contributions inside”
Linux 5.1 was released a a few days ago by Linus Torvalds. As usual, LWN covered the major new features of this release by looking at what got merged during the merge window: part 1 and part 2. KernelNewbies also has a nice summary. Bootlin contributed 181 commits to this release, making us the 14th … Continue reading “Linux 5.1 released, Bootlin contributions”
Linux 5.0 was released two weeks ago by Linus Torvalds, and as it is now always the case, Bootlin has contributed a number of patches to this release. For an overview of the new features and improvements brought by Linux 5.0, we as usual recommend to read the LWN articles: merge window summary part 1, … Continue reading “Linux 5.0 released, Bootlin contributions”
Here are details about booting the Beagle Bone Black Wireless board through NFS. I’m writing this here because it doesn’t seem to be documented anywhere else (except in our Linux kernel and driver development course, for which I had to support this feature). Why Booting a board on a root filesystem that is a directory … Continue reading “tftp and NFS booting on Beagle Bone Black Wireless and Pocket Beagle”
Paul is an embedded Linux engineer, who worked at Bootlin from 2018 to 2023. While no longer a full time employee of Bootin, as of 2024, Paul is still teaching the Understanding the Linux Graphics Stack training course to Bootlin customers. Linux Kernel Development Experience As part of his internship, Paul worked extensively on the … Continue reading “Paul Kocialkowski”
With the 4.19 released last week by Greg Kroah-Hartman (and not Linus), it’s time to have a look at our contributions for this release. As always, LWN.net did an interesting coverage of this release cycle merge window, highlighting the most important changes: the first half of the 4.19 merge window and the rest of the … Continue reading “Linux 4.19 released, Bootlin contributions”
4.17 was released last Sunday, so it’s time for our highlight article to see daylight. As always, LWN.net did an interesting coverage of this release cycle merge window, highlighting the most important changes: the first half of the 4.17 merge window and the rest of the 4.17 merge window. For 4.17 only, Bootlin contributed a … Continue reading “Linux 4.17 released, Bootlin contributions”
After a month of February busier than usual, with the renaming of our company from Free Electrons to Bootlin, our participation to FOSDEM and the welcoming of Maxime Chevallier, the latest addition to our engineering team, our article on the latest release of the Linux kernel arrives a bit late, more than a month after … Continue reading “Linux 4.15 released, Bootlin contributions”
Linus Torvalds has released the 4.12 Linux kernel a week ago, in what is the second biggest kernel release ever by number of commits. As usual, LWN had a very nice coverage of the major new features and improvements: first part, second part and third part. LWN has also published statistics about the Linux 4.12 … Continue reading “Linux 4.12, Bootlin contributions”
Linus Torvalds has released this Sunday Linux 4.11. For an overview of the new features provided by this new release, one can read the coverage from LWN: part 1, part 2 and part 3. The KernelNewbies site also has a detailed summary of the new features. With 137 patches contributed, Bootlin is the 18th contributing … Continue reading “Linux 4.11, Bootlin contributions”
