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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...
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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...
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Embedded Linux, kernel and Android engineer job openings
Home based jobs in Europe or at one of our offices in France To meeting increasing demand for its Embedded Linux, kernel and Android engineering services, Free Electrons is looking for developers: With...
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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Managing flash storage with Linux
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...
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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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Free Electrons customer project on Kickstarter!
For about 6 months, we’ve been working with Crystalfontz America on an imx28-based board, targeted at the hackers and DIYers. We’ve been working on the BSP, adding support to Linux and in Buildroot for...
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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...
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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Embedded Linux, kernel and Android engineer job openings
We’re getting busier than ever! Free Electrons is looking for developers: With experience developing embedded Linux systems With experience developing device drivers for the Linux kernel, and porting...
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Linux 3.12 released, Free Electrons 14th contributor by number of commits
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...
View ArticleLinux init failures now easier to debug
If you are an embedded Linux developer too, you have probably been frustrated by the lack of information from the Linux kernel when it failed to start the init process when you’re building a new root...
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New training materials: boot time reduction workshop
We are happy to release new training materials that we have developed in 2013 with funding from Atmel Corporation. The materials correspond to a 1-day embedded Linux boot time reduction workshop. In...
View ArticleFree Electrons contributions to Linux 3.13
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...
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Free Electrons at Embedded World 2014, Nuremberg, Germany
Embedded World is the world’s largest trade show about embedded systems. In 2013, it attracted around 900 exhibitors, over 22,000 visitors and almost 1,500 congress participants. This year, Free...
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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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