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Linux on TI OMAP processors

Posted on November 18, 2008 by Michael Opdenacker

This presentation aims at giving embedded system developers everything they need to start running Linux on TI OMAP processors. It is available under the Creative Commons BY-SA license (see details and other documents). It is available under several formats: PDF: slides, practical labs Open Document Format: slides, practical labs… Continue reading →

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Linux 2.6.33 features for embedded systems

Posted on March 2, 2010 by Michael Opdenacker

Interesting features for embedded Linux system developers Linux 2.6.33 was out on Feb. 24, 2010, and to incite you to try this new kernel in your embedded Linux products, here are features you could be interested in. The first news is the availability of the LZO algorithm for kernel and initramfs compression. Linux 2.6.30 already introduced LZMA and BZIP2 compression options, which could significantly reduce the size of the kernel and initramfs… Continue reading →

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Barebox 2011.03 released, with contributions from Free Electrons

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Thomas Petazzoni

Barebox is a bootloader started about two years ago for embedded systems of various architectures. It plays the same role as U-Boot, which is the best known project in this area, but has several advantages over U-Boot. First, it has a much better configuration and compilation system, based on the one used by the Linux kernel: instead of the rusty include/configs/myboard.h configuration headers in U-Boot, Barebox provides a nice menuconfig/xconfi… Continue reading →

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Free embedded Linux training: one year after

Posted on October 15, 2005 by Michael Opdenacker

A summary of the improvements brought in 1 year to our free embedded linux training materials. Since our first public release in October 2004, we made significant improvements to our free embedded Linux training materials: The total number of slides increased from approximately 500 to more than 1000. Here are all available training materials and presentations. New training materials: audio in embedded Linux systems, multimedia in embedded Linux… Continue reading →

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Reasons for choosing our development services

Posted on February 2, 2009 by Michael Opdenacker

Community members We are active members of the community developing the Linux kernel, U-boot, Buildroot, BusyBox… We know this community very well: its people, its rules, its best practices and its best resources. This helps us to make the right decisions (if needed, collecting advice from the right people), and quickly obtain the expected results. Technical know-how We already have significant experience in developing for the Linux kernel… Continue reading →

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Docs

Posted on November 9, 2008 by Michael Opdenacker

Free training materials and conference presentations from Free Electrons, covering real-time, Android, embedded Linux system and device driver development. License All our documents are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. This essentially means that you are free to download, distribute and even modify them, provided you mention us as the original authors and that you share these documents under t… Continue reading →

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Customers

Posted on November 9, 2008 by Michael Opdenacker

This list does not include the countless customers in our public training sessions. Note that some of our customers do not want us to make their name public. See also our training location maps. 2013 Captronic (France) Android system development seminar Crystalfontz (USA) Linux kernel code development and toolchain work, adding support for the customer hardware in the mainline Linux kernel. Emutex (Ireland) Embedded Linux kernel and driver dev… Continue reading →

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Michael Opdenacker

Posted on July 12, 2009 by Michael Opdenacker

Michael Opdenacker Michael has a 20 years experience using Unix and GNU / Linux and promoting Free Software. Embedded Linux experience Michael has been working on Embedded Linux since 2003: Creating the Free Electrons company, to support individuals and organizations in using Linux and Free Software in embedded systems. Creating training materials and presentations. Performing embedded Linux and kernel training sessions for major embedded plat… Continue reading →

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ELC 2010 program announced

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Thomas Petazzoni

The program of talks and BOFs of the 2010 edition of the Embedded Linux Conference has been published a few days ago, an opportunity to look at the most important and interesting conference for embedded Linux developers. For the record, ELC 2010 will take place from April, 12th to April, 14th in San Francisco, CA, USA, in the same place as the 2009 edition. A nice set of talks A set of real-time related talks: Real-Time Linux Failure, by Frank… Continue reading →

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