Embedded Linux Conference 2021

Embedded Linux Conference 2021 The usual cadence of ELC North America and ELC Europe has changed this year due to the ongoing pandemic, and there is a single Embedded Linux Conference which begins next week: Monday, September 27th, through Wednesday, September 30th. The Linux Foundation is running ELC as a hybrid event which means there […]

Linux Kernel v5.14 released, our contributions

Linux Kernel v5.14 released, our contributions Linux v5.14, the latest version of the kernel, marks the 30th anniversary of Linux! As always, LWN.net has in-depth coverage including the merge window (part one, part two) and the statistics from the 5.14 development cycle. Here’s a summary of our contributions, organized by SoC family, and a summary […]

RISC-V PMP and Zephyr RTOS — a new user(space) has entered

RISC-V PMP and Zephyr RTOS — a new user(space) has entered Table of Contents Introduction Overview of generic Zephyr features Overview of relevant RISC-V hardware features New features / What we added Future work / Issues / Tricky stuff BayLibre & Zephyr Introduction Adoption of the RISC-V open standard ISA continues to grow, along with […]

Linux Kernel v5.4 released, our contributions

Linux Kernel v5.4 released, our contributions Linux v5.4, the latest version of the kernel, was released on Monday November 25th. An excellent summary of this release can be found over on KernelNewbies. As always, LWN.net has in-depth coverage of the statistics from the 5.4 development cycle, where BayLibre is once again in the top 20 […]

KernelCI Joins Linux Foundation

KernelCI Joins Linux Foundation We’re thrilled to announce that the KernelCI project has officially joined the Linux Foundation and that BayLibre is a founding member company along with Google, Collabora, Red Hat, Foundries.io and Microsoft. BayLibre’s Kevin Hilman was one of the original founders of kernelci.org in 2014, and since then Kevin and the BayLibre […]

The history of the KernelCI project

The history of the KernelCI project The KernelCI project brings automated build and boot testing to anyone wanting to check the quality and stability of Linux kernel releases. What started as a spare time project has gradually grown into a community-driven open source project that’s used by the likes of Google and the Automotive Grade […]

Linux Kernel v5.3 released, our contributions

Linux Kernel v5.3 released, our contributions BayLibre has continued our contribution to the Linux community as seen with this new version of Linux Kernel 5.3, released on Sunday, September 15th 2019.  An excellent summary of this release can be found at KernelNewbies. If you check out LWN.net’s 5.3 Kernel development cycle statistics article, you’ll see […]

When 32 bits isn’t enough — Porting Zephyr to RISCV64

When 32 bits isn’t enough — Porting Zephyr to RISCV64 Conventional wisdom says you should normally apply small microcontrollers to dedicated applications with constrained resources. 8-bit microcontrollers with a few kilobytes of memory are still plentiful today. 32-bit microcontrollers with a couple of dozen kilobytes of memory are also very popular. In the latter case, […]