Embedded Linux and kernel job openings for 2015
At Free Electrons, we are starting to get more and more requests for very cool projects. As it can be very frustrating to turn down very interesting opportunities (such as projects that allow us to...
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Embedded Linux Projects Using Yocto Project Cookbook
We were kindly provided a copy of Embedded Linux Projects Using Yocto Project Cookbook, written by Alex González. It is available at Packt Publishing, either in an electronic format (DRM free) or...
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Free Electrons engineer Alexandre Belloni co-maintainer of Linux Atmel...
After becoming the co-maintainer of the Linux RTC subsystem, Free Electrons engineer Alexandre Belloni also recently became a co-maintainer for the support of Atmel ARM processors in the Linux kernel....
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Free Electrons working on the $9 C.H.I.P computer
If you’re following the news about embedded Linux and new cool development platforms, you for sure couldn’t miss the announcement on the world’s first $9 computer. This computer, called C.H.I.P, was...
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Linux 4.1 released, Free Electrons contributions
Linus Torvalds recently released the 4.1 Linux kernel, for which LWN.net gave a good description of the major new features: 4.1 Merge window, part 1, 4.1 Merge window, part 2, The 4.1 merge window...
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Free Electrons talks at the Embedded Linux Conference Europe
The Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2015 will take place on October 5-7 in Dublin, Ireland. As usual, the entire Free Electrons engineering team will participate to the event, as we believe it is one...
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Linux 4.2 released, Free Electrons contributions inside
Linus Torvalds has released last sunday the 4.2 release of the Linux kernel. LWN.net covered the merge window of this 4.2 release cycle in 3 parts (part 1, part 2 and part 3), giving a lot of details...
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Embedded Linux internships at Free Electrons in 2016
Free Electrons has internship topics to propose to people studying in French Universities or Engineering Schools: Exploring and evaluating performance analysis tools for Linux (French) Generating...
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The quest for Linux friendly embedded board makers
We used to keep a list of Linux friendly embedded board makers. When this page was created in the mid 2000s, this page was easy to maintain. Though more and more products were created with Linux, it...
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Free Electrons at the Linux Kernel Summit 2015
The Linux Kernel Summit is, as Wikipedia says, an annual gathering of the top Linux kernel developers, and is an invitation-only event. In 2012 and 2013, several Free Electrons engineers have been...
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Linux 4.3 released, Free Electrons contributions inside
The 4.3 kernel release has been released just a few days ago. For details about the big new features in this release, we as usual recommend to read LWN.net articles covering the merge window: part 1,...
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Linux 4.4, Free Electrons contributions
Linux 4.4 has been released, a week later than the normal schedule in order to allow kernel developers to recover from the Christmas/New Year period. As usual, LWN has covered the 4.4 cycle merge...
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Seminar “Porting Linux on an ARM board”, materials available
On December 10th 2015, Free Electrons engineer Alexandre Belloni gave a half-day seminar on the topic of Porting Linux on an ARM board in Toulouse, France. This seminar covers topics like porting the...
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2016 Q1 newsletter
This article was published on our quarterly newsletter. The Free Electrons team wishes you a Happy New Year for 2016, with many new bits to enjoy in your life! Free Electrons is happy to take this...
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Free Electrons contributes Linux support for a first ARM64 platform: Marvell...
Over the last years, Free Electrons has become a strong participant to the Linux ARM kernel community, with our engineers upstreaming support for numerous ARM 32 bits platforms. Now, with ARM64...
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Free Electrons speaking at the Linux Collaboration Summit
Free Electrons engineers are regular speakers at the Embedded Linux Conference and Embedded Linux Conference Europe events from the Linux Foundation, to which our entire engineering team participates...
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Free Electrons at the Embedded Linux Conference 2016
Like every year for about 10 years, the entire Free Electrons engineering team will participate to the next Embedded Linux Conference, taking place on April 4-6 in San Diego, California. For us,...
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Free Electrons contributing Linux kernel initial support for Annapurna Labs...
We are happy to announce that on February 8th 2016 we submitted to the mainline Linux kernel the initial support for Annapurna Labs Alpine v2 Platform-on-Chip based on the 64-bit ARMv8 architecture....
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Free Electrons contributions to Linux 4.5
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 4.5, for which the major new features have been described by LWN.net in three articles: part 1, part 2 and part 3. On a total of 12080 commits, Free Electrons...
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Free Electrons engineer Boris Brezillon becomes Linux NAND subsystem maintainer
Free Electrons engineer Boris Brezillon has been involved in the support for NAND flashes in the Linux kernel for quite some time. He is the author of the NAND driver for the Allwinner ARM processors,...
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