The 5.3 version of the Linux kernel was released recently. As usual, we recommend our readers to look at the LWN coverage for this release merge window: part 1 and part 2. Together with the KernelNewbies page, these articles give a very nice overview of the major features and improvements of this new release. For … Continue reading “Linux 5.3 released, Bootlin contributions inside”
This year, Bootlin missed the Embedded Linux Conference North America which took place late August in San Diego, US. It was the first time in many years that Bootlin was completely absent from an Embedded Linux Conference. But the coming Embedded Linux Conference Europe is going to be different in that respect: Bootlin will once … Continue reading “Bootlin at the Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2019”
Every year, the X.Org community organizes the X.Org Developers Conference, the main conference to discuss graphics support in Linux. Despite the name, the conference is no longer restricted to X.Org topics, but also covers Wayland, Mesa3D and many other topics. The 2019 edition will take place on October 2-4 in Montréal, Canada, and the schedule … Continue reading “Bootlin at the X.Org Developers Conference 2019”
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”
Raspberry Pi Display Support and IGT We have been working with Raspberry Pi for quite some time, especially on areas related to the display side. Our work is part of a larger ongoing effort to move away from using the VC4 firmware for display operations and use native Linux drivers instead, which interact with the … Continue reading “More Improvements to Raspberry Pi Display Testing”
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”
First of all, the entire team at Bootlin wishes you a Happy New Year, and best wishes for 2019 in your personal and professional life. The beginning of the new year is a good time to look back and see the achievements of the past year, which is why we review the 2018 year in … Continue reading “2018 at Bootlin, a year in review”
The Linux 4.20 kernel has been released just before Christmas, on December 23. As usual, LWN had a very nice coverage of the most significant features and improvements provided by this new release as part of the merge window articles: part 1 and part 2. Bootlin once again contributed to this Linux 4.20 release, with … Continue reading “Linux 4.20 released, Bootlin contributions”
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”
The Embedded Linux Conference Europe edition 2018 took place last week in Edinburgh, Scotland, and no less than 9 engineers from Bootlin attended the conference. In this blog post, we would like to share the slides, materials and videos of the talks, tutorials and demos we gave during this conference. Talk: Supporting Hardware Codecs in … Continue reading “Back from ELCE 2018: talks, tutorials and demos from Bootlin”
