Linux 4.6 released, with Free Electrons contributions
The 4.6 version of the Linux kernel was released last Sunday by Linus Torvalds. As usual, LWN.net had a very nice coverage of this development cycle merge window, highlighting the most significant...
View ArticleLinux 4.7 released, Free Electrons contributions
Linux 4.7 has been released on Sunday by Linus Torvalds, with numerous new features and improvements that have been described in details on LWN: part 1, part 2 and part 3. KernelNewbies also has an...
View ArticleLinux 4.8 released, Free Electrons contributions
Linux 4.8 has been released on Sunday by Linus Torvalds, with numerous new features and improvements that have been described in details on LWN: part 1, part 2 and part 3. KernelNewbies also has an...
View ArticleLinux 4.11, Free Electrons contributions
Linus Torvalds has released this Sunday Linux 4.11. For an overview of the new features provided by this new release, one can read the coverage from LWN: part 1, part 2 and part 3. The KernelNewbies...
View ArticleLinux 4.12, Free Electrons contributions
Linus Torvalds has released the 4.12 Linux kernel a week ago, in what is the second biggest kernel release ever by number of commits. As usual, LWN had a very nice coverage of the major new features...
View ArticleFree Electrons proposes an I3C subsystem for the Linux kernel
MIPI I3C fact sheet, from the MIPI I3C white paperAt the end of 2016, the MIPI consortium has finalized the first version of its I3C specification, a new communication bus that aims at replacing older...
View ArticleLinux 4.13 released, Free Electrons contributions
Linux 4.13 was released last Sunday by Linus Torvalds, and the major new features of this release were described in details by LWN in a set of articles: part 1 and part 2. This release gathers 13006...
View ArticleLinux 4.14 released, Free Electrons contributions
Drawing from Mylène Josserand, based on a picture from Samuel Blanc under CC-BY-SALinux 4.14, which is going to become the next Long Term Supported version, has been released a week ago by Linus...
View ArticleFree Electrons contributes Linux support for Microsemi MIPS SoC
Microsemi VSC7513 Block DiagramEarlier this month, Free Electrons engineer Alexandre Belloni posted a patch series (in its second version) adding initial support for Microsemi Ocelot SoCs, the VSC7513...
View ArticleLinux 4.15 released, Bootlin contributions
After a month of February busier than usual, with the renaming of our company from Free Electrons to Bootlin, our participation to FOSDEM and the welcoming of Maxime Chevallier, the latest addition to...
View ArticleLinux 4.19 released, Bootlin contributions
With the 4.19 released last week by Greg Kroah-Hartman (and not Linus), it’s time to have a look at our contributions for this release. As always, LWN.net did an interesting coverage of this release...
View ArticleMIPI I3C support is now in upstream Linux
Back in August 2017, we wrote in a blog post about the first iteration of the Linux kernel subsystem we proposed to support the brand new MIPI I3C bus. Almost a year and half later, there are some...
View ArticleAllwinner VPU support in mainline Linux end of the year status update
The end of 2018 is approaching, which is the right time to provide an update on where we stand with the Allwinner VPU support in Linux. The promise of our Kickstarter campaign was to deliver all funded...
View ArticleFree seats in embedded Linux and kernel training sessions (Mar 2019)
At Bootlin, we owe a lot to the Free Software community, and we’re doing our best to give back as much as we can. One way of doing that is welcoming community contributors in our public training...
View ArticleLinux 5.0 released, Bootlin contributions
Linux 5.0 was released two weeks ago by Linus Torvalds, and as it is now always the case, Bootlin has contributed a number of patches to this release. For an overview of the new features and...
View ArticleLinux 5.3 released, Bootlin contributions inside
The 5.3 version of the Linux kernel was released recently. As usual, we recommend our readers to look at the LWN coverage for this release merge window: part 1 and part 2. Together with the...
View ArticleLinux 5.4 released, Bootlin contributions inside
This time around, we’re quite late to the party, but Linux 5.4 was indeed released a number of weeks ago, and once again, Bootlin contributed a number of patches to this Linux kernel release. As usual,...
View ArticleLinux 5.5 released, Bootlin contributions inside
Linux 5.5 was recently released, as usual bringing a large number of new features and improvements, which are nicely detailed in the LWN articles on merge window part 1 and merge window part 2, but...
View ArticleCovid-19: Bootlin proposes online sessions for all its courses
Like most of us, due to the Covid-19 epidemic, you may be forced to work from home. To take advantage from this time confined at home, we are now proposing all our training courses as online seminars....
View ArticleLinux 5.6, Bootlin contributions inside
Linux 5.6 was released last Sunday. As usual, LWN has the best coverage of the new features merged in this release: part 1 and part 2. Sadly, the corresponding KernelNewbies page has not yet been...
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