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Public embedded Linux session in Madrid – July 7-11
We are happy to announce a new public Embedded Linux training session on July 7-11, in Madrid, Spain. It is organized by our partners ISEE (the makers of the IGEPv2 board that we are using in this...
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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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Marvell publishes the datasheet of the Armada XP processor
A bit more than a month after publishing the datasheet of the Armada 370 processor, Marvell has now released a similar datasheet for the more powerful Armada XP processor. The datasheet is available as...
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Linux 3.16 released, Free Electrons 7th contributing company
Linus Torvalds has released the 3.16 kernel a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, the KernelNewbies LinuxChanges page has not been updated, but LWN.net summaries of the merge window (part 1, part 2 and final...
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Embedded Linux training update: Atmel Xplained, and more!
We are happy to announce that we have published a significant update of our Embedded Linux training course. As all our training materials, this update is freely available for everyone, under a Creative...
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Free Electrons at the Embedded Linux Conference Europe
The Embedded Linux Conference Europe will take place on October 13-15 in Düsseldorf, Germany. As usual, a large part of the Free Electrons engineering team will participate to the conference, with no...
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Embedded Linux Development with Yocto Project
We were kindly provided a copy of Embedded Linux Development with Yocto Project, written by Otavio Salvador and Daiane Angolini. It is available at Packt Publishing, either in an electronic format...
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Videos from Embedded Linux Conference 2014
As the summer is coming to an end, we finally managed to publish the videos we recorded during the last Embedded Linux Conference, held earlier this year in San Jose, California. This year, the Linux...
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Free Electrons at Kernel Recipes 2014
The Kernel Recipes conference is holding its third edition next week in Paris, on September 24th and 25th. With speakers like Greg Kroah-Hartmann, Hans Peter Anvin, Martin Peres, Hans Verkuil or Jean...
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This article was published on our quarterly newsletter. Free Electrons is happy to share some news about the latest training and contribution activities of the company. Kernel contributions Since our...
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Atmel SAMA5D4 support in the mainline Linux kernel
Atmel announced its new ARM Cortex-A5-based SoC on October 1, the SAMA5D4. Compared to the previous Cortex-A5 SoC from Atmel, the SAMA5D3, this new version brings a L2 cache, NEON, a slightly different...
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Linux 3.17 released, Free Electrons 14th contributing company
Linux 3.17 has been released a few days ago. One can read the coverage of the 3.17 merge window by LWN (part 1 and part 2) to get some details about the new features brought by this kernel release. As...
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Free Electrons team back from ELCE and Linux Plumbers
As we announced in an earlier blog post, the entire Free Electrons engineering team was at the Embedded Linux Conference Europe and Linux Plumbers Conference last week in Düsseldorf. Free Electrons...
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Call for participation for the Embedded Linux Conference 2015
The Embedded Linux Conference Europe is just over that it’s already time to think about the Embedded Linux Conference 2015, which will take place on March 23-25 in San Jose, California. The call for...
View ArticleDMAEngine Documentation: Work (finally) in Progress
While developping a DMA controller driver for the Allwinner A31 SoCs (that eventually got merged in the 3.17 kernel), I’ve realised how under-documented the DMAEngine kernel subsystem was, especially...
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Linux 3.18 released, Free Electrons 13th contributing company
Linus Torvalds has recently released the 3.18 version of the Linux kernel. As usual, LWN.net made an excellent coverage of the merge window: part 1, part 2 and part 3. As of 3.18-rc6, LWN.net gathered...
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Free Electrons at FOSDEM 2015
For many open-source developers based in Europe, the FOSDEM is probably the most useful, interesting and exciting conference. Once again this year, several Free Electrons engineers will attend the...
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Embedded Linux Conference schedule announced, several talks from Free Electrons
The schedule for the upcoming Embedded Linux Conference, which takes place on March 23-25 in San Jose, has been announced and is available publicly at http://elcabs2015.sched.org/, together with the...
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Free Electrons engineer Alexandre Belloni co-maintainer of the Linux RTC...
The Linux RTC subsystem supports the Real Time Clock drivers for a large number of platforms and I2C or SPI based Real Time Clocks: it contains about 140 different device drivers, plus the RTC core...
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