How to boot an uncompressed Linux kernel on ARM
This is a quick post to share my experience booting uncompressed Linux kernel images, during the benchmarks of kernel compression options, and no compression at all was one of these options. It is...
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Embedded topics at the Libre Software Meeting, Geneva, July 9-11
Libre Software Meeting, GenevaThe Libre Software Meeting is a community-driven free software event that exists since 2000, composed of talks and workshops. Its 2012 edition will take place from July...
View ArticleFree Electrons at the Libre Software Meeting
In a previous post, we detailed all the talks of the Embedded Systems and Open Hardware track of the Libre Software Meeting, taking place in Geneva in early July. Free Electrons will have a quite...
View ArticleELCE 2012 slides: porting Linux to new ARM SoC
We are just returning from Barcelona, Spain, after participating to the 2012 edition of the Embedded Linux Conference Europe. My colleague Thomas Petazzoni has delivered the below presentation: Your...
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ISEE working on IGEPv5 board with OMAP5
Our partner ISEE is famous for their IGEPv2 board that we use in our embedded Linux course. This board is both powerful (running at 1 GHz) and featureful (on-board WiFi and Bluetooth, many connectors...
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Super fast Linux splashscreen
Here’s a simple trick that I recently rediscovered when I worked on a boot time reduction project for a customer. It’s not rocket science, but you may not be aware of it. Our customer was using fbv to...
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Linux kernel 3.8 released, Free Electrons top #17 contributor
Thomas Petazzoni (front) and Grégory Clement (back) at the Embedded Linux Conference 2013 in San Francisco, discussing ARM Linux kernel issues.Early last week, version 3.8 of the Linux kernel has been...
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FIQ Handlers in the ARM Linux Kernel
Part of the work on the CFA-10036 and its breakout boards was to write a driver that was using the FIQ mechanism provided by the ARM architecture to bitbang GPIOs on the first GPIO bank of the iMX28...
View ArticleFree Electrons contributions to the 3.9 kernel
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, Free Electrons was ranked as the 17th company in terms of kernel...
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GSoC: Buildroot gaining improved ARM multimedia support
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...
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Workshop on the Altera SoC FPGA platform
On June 25, 2013, Altera and some partner companies where organizing a workshop in Toulouse (where some of the Free Electrons offices are located) about the Altera SoC FPGA platform. For $99, I...
View ArticleFree Electrons contributions to the 3.10 kernel
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. Free Electrons engineers again...
View ArticleFree Electrons the top #18 contributor to the 3.11 kernel
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, Free Electrons has...
View ArticleFree Electrons at the ARM Kernel Summit, the Embedded Linux Conference and...
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...
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Updated version of our kernel driver development course: Device Tree,...
BeagleBone Black connected to the Wii Nunchuk over I2CIn the last few years, the practical labs of our Embedded Linux kernel and driver development training were based on the ARMv5 Calao USB-A9263...
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Linux 3.14 released, Free Electrons contributions inside!
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...
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Embedded Linux Conference 2014, Free Electrons participation
One of the most important conference of the Embedded Linux community will take place at the end of this month in California: the Embedded Linux Conference will be held in San Jose from April, 29th to...
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Free Electrons welcomes Boris Brezillon and Antoine Ténart
We are happy to announce that our engineering team has recently welcomed two new embedded Linux engineers: Boris Brezillon and Antoine Ténart. Boris and Antoine will both be working from the Toulouse...
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Marvell publishes the datasheet of the Armada 370 processor
Over the last two years, Free Electrons has contributed support for the Marvell Armada 370 and Marvell Armada XP processors to the mainline Linux kernel. These ARM processors are used mainly in Network...
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Linux 3.15 released, an overview of Free Electrons contributions
The 3.15 of the Linux kernel was released just a few days ago by Linus Torvalds. As explained by LWN.net, the headline features in 3.15 include some significant memory management improvements, the...
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