BayLibre’s Contributions to GCC 16
BayLibre’s Contributions to GCC 16 The GNU Compiler Collection project released GCC version 16.1 on April 30, 2026. Once again, BayLibre’s Compiler Services team were among top contributors to the annual release; with 363 total commits, BayLibre ranks 6th this release cycle when counting commits tagged with corporate or institutional e-mail addresses (behind Red Hat, […]
PGP keysigning
If you’re wondering “I participated in a PGP keysigning event, what am I supposed to do now?”, this blog post is for you. When you come home after (e.g.) Embedded Recipes 2026 and participated in the keysigning event you should have a list of other participants with their verified names and certificate fingerprints. A useful […]
BayLibre contributions to Yocto wrynose
BayLibre contributions to Yocto wrynose Yocto Wrynose (6.0) was released on May 13, 2026, following Whinlatter (5.3). BayLibre contributed 56 authored commits across openembedded-core, meta-openembedded, meta-riscv, meta-updater, and the Yocto autobuilder configuration repositories. meta-riscv Spacemit K1 platform The bulk of Trevor Gamblin’s meta-riscv work introduces a structured K1 platform family. A new k1-image.bbclass automates bootinfo_sd.bin […]
Baylibre Partners with SpacemiT to Bring Android 16 to RISC-V
BayLibre is proud to announce a successful collaboration with SpacemiT to enable initial functionalities of Android 16 on the SpacemiT K1 (RISC-V RVA22 + RVV 1.0) System-on-Chip (SOC). This achievement marks a significant step toward validating and accelerating Android enablement on high-end RISC-V platforms. The Purpose: Paving the Way for Future RISC-V Adoption The main […]
BayLibre contributions to Zephyr v4.4.0
BayLibre contributions to Zephyr v4.4.0 Zephyr v4.4.0 was released on April 14, 2026. BayLibre contributed 256 authored commits spanning cryptography, ARM64 architecture, LoRa/LoRaWAN, and driver support. Cryptography: Mbed TLS 4.x and TF-PSA-Crypto 1.x Valerio Setti led the integration of Mbed TLS 4.1 and TF-PSA-Crypto 1.1 into Zephyr. For the time being Mbed TLS 3.6 is […]
BayLibre contributions to U-Boot v2026.04
BayLibre contributions to U-Boot v2026.04 U-Boot v2026.04 was released on April 6, 2026. MediaTek Clock Driver David Lechner overhauled the MediaTek clock driver infrastructure in this release. The first area of work was safety. David added size fields to the core clock data structures. These enable bounds checking on array accesses that currently occur without […]
BayLibre contributions to Linux v7.0
BayLibre contributions to Linux v7.0 Linux v7.0 was released on April 12, 2026. BayLibre contributed 127 authored commits across multiple subsystems. Driver Core: Bus Method Migration Uwe Kleine-König continued a cross-subsystem effort to migrate bus drivers away from the generic struct device_driver callbacks to bus-specific equivalents. For FSI, the migration included centralizing bus assignment in […]
BayLibre contributions to Linux v6.19
BayLibre contributions to Linux v6.19 Linus released Linux 6.19 on February 8, 2026. BayLibre contributed 49 authored commits to this release across several subsystems. IIO ADC: AD7124 David Lechner fixed a possible out-of-bounds array access in the AD7124 driver where using a non-zero value for the adi,gain-milli devicetree property could trigger the issue. He changed […]
BayLibre open-sources Copilot
BayLibre open sources Copilot hardware to automate embedded software development workflows We’re thrilled to announce that BayLibre has open-sourced Copilot! Don’t worry, this Copilot has nothing to do with Microsoft or AI; it won’t write your code, but it will take care of your Device Under Test (DUT)’s power, serial communication, and GPIOs like a […]
Our Open Source Journey: A 2025 Retrospective
Our Open Source Journey: A 2025 Retrospective As we enter 2026, it is a perfect opportunity to look back at 2025 and how we have been involved with and contributed to different open-source ecosystems and communities. Over the past year, BayLibre has acted as an active contributor and maintainer within projects including the Linux kernel, […]