Linus Torvalds has just released the 3.14 version of the Linux kernel. As usual, it incorporates a large number of changes, for which a good summary is available on the KernelNewbies site. This time around, Bootlin is the 19th company contributing to this kernel release, by number of patches, right between Cisco and Renesas. Six … Continue reading “Linux 3.14 released, Bootlin contributions inside!”
Version 3.13 of the Linux kernel was released by Linus Torvalds on January, 19th 2014. The kernelnewbies.org site has an excellent page that covers the most important improvements and feature additions that this new kernel release brings. As usual Bootlin contributed to this kernel: with 121 patches merged in 3.13 on a total of 12127 … Continue reading “Bootlin contributions to Linux 3.13”
In the last few years, the practical labs of our Embedded Linux kernel and driver development training were based on the ARMv5 Calao USB-A9263 platform, and covering the ARM kernel support as it was a few years ago. While we do regularly update our training session materials, with all the changes that occurred in the … Continue reading “Updated version of our kernel driver development course: Device Tree, BeagleBone Black, Wii Nunchuk, and more!”
The 3.12 kernel has just been released by Linus Torvalds, who summarized what he considers to be the major improvements offered by this release: improvements to the dynamic tick code, support infrastructure for DRM render nodes, TSO sizing and the FQ scheduler in the network layer, support for user namespaces in the XFS filesystem, multithreaded … Continue reading “Linux 3.12 released, Bootlin 14th contributor by number of commits”
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 3.10 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”
We have delivered two seminars about Android during the last quarter of 2012. The seminars were held in Belfort and Grenoble, France, and were organized by Captronic, a French public program to support innovation in electronic systems. This one day seminar targets people who wish to understand the constraints and implications of using Android in … Continue reading “Android seminar slides”
Note: this article was first written for the German edition of Linux Magazine, and was later posted in the English edition too. We negotiated the right to publish it on our blog after the print editions. Here is the original version (the paper versions were modified by the editors to make them more concise). In … Continue reading “Managing flash storage with Linux”
