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Online Embedded Linux system development course in new time zones

Since April 2020, we are offering our training courses online, both in public sessions available to individual registration and in dedicated sessions for specific customers.

So far, our public sessions have always been organized from 2 PM to 6 PM Paris time, which was a good fit for our customers in Europe and in the US East Coast, but not so much for our customers in the US West Coast, in the Middle East and Asia.

Therefore, we are happy to announce that we have opened two sessions of our Embedded Linux system development course at different times, to suit the needs of customers in different parts of the world:

An Embedded Linux system development course will start on November 22, spread over 7 sessions of 4 hours organized from 09:00 to 13:00 Paris time (UTC+1), which is 13:30 to 17:30 in India, and 16:00 to 20:00 in China. This time is best for our customers in Europe, Middle East and Asia. Registration is possible directly online or by contacting us to get a quotation. The trainer for this course will be Grégory Clement.
An Embedded Linux system development course will start on November 29, spread over 7 sessions of 4 hours organized from 18:00 to 22:00 Paris time (UTC+1), which is 09:00 to 13:00 in the US West Coast, and 12:00 to 16:00 in the US East Coast. Registration is possible directly online or by contacting us to get a quotation. The trainer for this course will be Michael Opdenacker.

In both cases, the course is offered at 829 EUR per participant in the early bird rate (valid for registrations at least one month prior to the course starting date), or otherwise at 929 EUR.

Of course, like for all our training courses, the training materials are fully open, so that you can verify that the course suits your needs. See Embedded Linux system development training page for the complete agenda, slides and lab instructions.

If there is sufficient interest in these new time zones, we will consider offering our other courses at similar times in the future.

Upcoming online training courses in 2021

Throughout this first half of 2021, our online training courses available for individual registration have been very popular. We have added some new dates for this summer and early fall for all our courses:

Our next Embedded Linux system development course starts on September 1, during 7 sessions of 4 hours each.
Our next Linux kernel driver development course starts on September 6, during 7 sessions of 4 hours each.
Our next Yocto/OpenEmbedded system development course starts on July 19, during 4 sessions of 4 hours each.
Our next Buildroot system development course starts on October 11, during 5 sessions of 4 hours each.
Our next Understanding the Linux graphics stack course starts on September 14, during 4 sessions of 4 hours each.
Our next Embedded Linux boot-time optimization course starts on October 25, during 4 sessions of 4 hours each.

You can register directly online through Eventbrite and pay by credit card, or request an invoice. Note that our sessions are regularly full: our embedded Linux training course next month is full one month before the session, so make sure to book your seat early enough. We offer a 100 EUR early bird discount for registrations taking place at least one month before the course.

These courses are delivered entirely online: you don’t need any hardware to participate, as the hands-on labs are replaced by live demonstrations made by the trainer. All you need is a web browser, a good Internet connection and an audio headset!

We can also organize private courses upon request, if you have a larger group of engineers to train on these topics. Contact us for details!

Bootlin “Buildroot system development” course updated to Buildroot 2021.02

Bootlin has been offering for several years a Buildroot system development course, which allows engineers interested in learning and understanding the Buildroot embedded Linux build system to get up to speed very quickly.

In preparation for our public Buildroot system development course next week, we updated our training materials, both slides and labs to Buildroot 2021.02, which is the latest stable Buildroot release as of today, and is also a Long Term Support release.

In addition to updating to a newer Buildroot version, we also use newer U-Boot and Linux versions for the practical labs on BeagleBone Black Wireless. The slides were also updated to document some new features that appeared between 2020.02 and 2021.02. If you’re interested, check out the materials on the training page.

We have one seat left for this training course next week, which will be taught by long-time Buildroot contributor and developer Thomas Petazzoni. Register now and take the last seat!

New training course: embedded Linux boot time optimization

For many embedded products, the issue of how much time it takes from power-on to the application being fully usable by the end-user is an important challenge. Bootlin has been providing its expertise and experience in this area to its customers for many years through numerous boot time optimization projects, and we have shared this knowledge through a number of talks at several conferences over the past years.

We are now happy to announce that we have a new training course Embedded Linux boot time optimization, open for public registration. This training course was already given to selected Bootlin customers and is now available for everyone.

The training course will be lead by Michael Opdenacker, Bootlin’s founder, and author of several publications on the topic of boot time optimization. The course is organized over 4 sessions of 4 hours, with a significant fraction of time spent on practical demonstrations showing on a real-life example the techniques to measure and reduce the boot time of an embedded Linux system.

As usual with Bootlin, the training materials are fully available: Agenda, Slides and Practical lab instructions.

Our first course open for public registration will take place from April 6th to April 9th, 2021, from 14:00 to 18:00 UTC+2 (Paris time) on each day. The session cost is 519 EUR if you take advantage of the early bird price available until March 9th. Otherwise, the regular rate is 619 EUR. You can register now for this course on Eventbrite.

Also, if you’re interested in organizing a dedicated session for your company, do not hesitate to contact us.

Online training courses in March/April 2021

Our online training courses of January are now all completed, and were again successful. So we’re happy to announce the next dates for our public training courses in March and April, for all our courses: Embedded Linux system development, Linux kernel driver development, Yocto and OpenEmbedded system development, Buildroot system development and Linux graphics stack.

It is worth mentioning that we now have an Early Bird price, which is valid up to 1 month before the course, so register early if you’re interested!

Type	Dates	Time	Duration	Cost and registration
Embedded Linux (agenda)	Mar. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 2021 + extra session on Mar. 17 if needed	14:00 – 18:00 (Paris, UTC+1)	28 h	Early: 829 EUR^* Regular: 929 EUR^* Register
Linux kernel (agenda)	Mar. 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 2021	13:30 – 17:30 (Paris time, UTC+1)	28 h	Early: 829 EUR^* Regular: 929 EUR^* register
Buildroot (agenda)	Mar. 8, 9, 10, 11, 2021	14:00 – 18:00 (Paris time, UTC+1)	16 h	Early: 519 EUR^* Regular: 619 EUR^* Register
Yocto Project (agenda)	Mar. 22, 23, 24, 25, 2021 + extra session on Mar 26 if needed	14:00 – 18:00 (Paris time, UTC+1)	16 h	Early: 519 EUR^* Regular: 619 EUR^* Register
Linux Graphics (agenda)	Apr. 6, 7, 8, 9, 2021	14:00 – 18:00 (Paris time, UTC+2)	16 h	Early: 519 EUR^* Regular: 619 EUR^* Register

Bootlin training courses for beginning of 2021

It’s the beginning of 2021, and Bootlin’s offering of online training courses continues. We have dates available for our 5 training courses, at an affordable cost, and with the same quality characteristics of all Bootlin courses: trainers with proven in-field experience, fully open-source training materials and worldwide recognized training contents.

Here are the dates of our upcoming sessions:

Embedded Linux system development course, taught by Bootlin CEO Michael Opdenacker, from January 11 to January 19, register for 829 EUR
Linux kernel driver development course, taught by Bootlin engineer Grégory Clement, who has 19 years of embedded development experience, is a Linux kernel maintainer, and has contributed over 400 patches to the official Linux kernel. This course takes place from January 11 to January 19, register for 829 EUR
Yocto and OpenEmbedded system development course, taught by Bootlin engineer Maxime Chevallier, one of Bootlin’s Yocto expert. This course takes place from January 18 to January 21, register for 519 EUR
Displaying and rendering graphics with Linux, taught by Bootlin engineer and multimedia expert Paul Kocialkowski. Paul has key experience in the Linux kernel DRM and Video4Linux subsystems. See for example his last two talks on graphics topics: An Overview of the Linux and Userspace Graphics Stack and Supporting Hardware-Accelerated Video Encoding with Mainline. This course will take place from January 19 to January 22, register for 519 EUR
Buildroot system development, taught by Bootlin CTO Thomas Petazzoni, who is one of the co-maintainers of Buildroot, and has contributed over 4000 patches to the project over the past 12 years. The course will take place from March 8 to March 11, register for 519 EUR

See our training page for more details about all our training courses!

Online training courses in September/October 2020

Following the success of our online training courses in Spring/Summer, we now have scheduled additional online training courses in September/October, for all our 5 training courses.

Those courses are delivered live, online, by a Bootlin instructor: the entire contents of our training lectures are covered, and the training practical labs are demonstrated live by the instructor. All you need to register is a Chrome-based web browser, an audio headset, and you’re all set to learn about embedded Linux, Linux kernel driver development, Yocto, Buildroot or Linux graphics!

Registration is open for the following 5 sessions, make sure to book your seat before the sessions fill up!

Type	Dates	Time	Duration	Expected trainer	Cost and registration
Linux kernel (agenda)	Sep. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21 and 22, 2020	13:30 – 17:30 (Paris time)	28 h	Gregory Clement	829 EUR + VAT^* (register)
Linux Graphics (agenda)	Sep. 22, 23, 24 and 25, 2020	14:00 – 18:00 (Paris time)	16 h	Paul Kocialkowski	519 EUR + VAT^* (register)
Yocto Project (agenda)	Sep. 28, 29, 30, Oct. 1, 2, 2020	14:00 – 18:00 (Paris time)	20 h	Maxime Chevallier	625 EUR + VAT^* (register)
Embedded Linux (agenda)	Sep. 28, 29, 30, Oct. 1, 2, 5, 6 2020.	17:00 – 21:00 (Paris), 8:00 – 12:00 (San Francisco)	28 h	Michael Opdenacker	829 EUR + VAT^* (register)
Buildroot (agenda)	Oct. 1, 2, 5, 6, and 8, 2020	14:00 – 18:00 (Paris time)	16 h	Thomas Petazzoni	519 EUR + VAT^* (register)

Yocto Project training course available on STM32MP1 platform

Back in May 2019, we announced the availability of our Embedded Linux system development course on the STMicroelectronics STM32MP1 platform, in addition to the already supported Microchip SAMA5D3 Xplained board.

In the context of our partnership with STMicroelectronics, we are now happy to announce the availability of our Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded development training also on the STM32MP1 platform for the practical labs. We now support either the BeagleBoneBlack Wireless or the STMicroelectronics STM32MP1 platforms for this training course.

The complete training materials are available: detailed agenda, slides and practical labs. The complete source code of the training materials is also available in our Github repository.

Bootlin Yocto course on STM32MP1 — Slides of Bootlin’s Yocto course for the STM32MP1

This will hopefully help customers around the world to get started with using Yocto on the STM32MP1 system-on-chip. The Yocto experts at Bootlin are available to deliver this 3-day course anywhere in the world, at your location. The first edition of this new variant of the course is going to be given this week to one of our customers in Spain. Contact us if you’re interested by having this course organized at your location!

Publication of Linux graphics training materials

Back in June 2019, we announced the availability of a new training course, Displaying and rendering graphics with Linux. At the time of this announcement, the training materials were not available though.

Since then, Bootlin engineer Paul Kocialkowski has been very busy preparing those training materials, and has successfully delivered the first edition of this course to one of our customers in Spain early September. After taking the time to polish those training materials following this first course, we are now very happy to publish and share this 200+ slides deck, covering a wide range of graphics related topics:

Image and color representation
Basic drawing
Basic and advanced operations
Hardware aspects overview
Hardware for display
Hardware for rendering
Memory aspects
Performance aspects
Software aspects overview
Kernel components in Linux
Userspace components with Linux

See also the detailed agenda of this training course. The LaTeX source code for all our training materials, including this graphics training, is available in a Git repository. It is worth mentioning that this training only consists of slides and demos, and does not include practical labs done by the participants, in order to keep the training logistics manageable and the duration reasonably short (2 days).

Here are a few slides showing various aspects of this training course:

By publishing this training materials right after our first course, and under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license, Bootlin sticks to its commitment of publishing all its training materials under a free documentation license, to better spread the knowledge in the entire embedded Linux community.

We are available to deliver this Displaying and rendering graphics with Linux course anywhere in the world, at your location. Contact us for more details.

Embedded Linux system development course on STM32MP1 Discovery

For many years, Bootlin has been offering an Embedded Linux system development training course, which has been delivered world-wide to hundreds of engineers by Bootlin trainers. This course is the most appropriate one for engineers getting started with embedded Linux: it goes through all the software layers of an embedded Linux system, from the toolchain to the application, through the bootloader, Linux kernel and basic user-space. With numerous hands-on labs, attendees get practical experience during this training, and learn how to build their embedded Linux system from the ground-up.

This course has been available for a while in two variants:

A 5-day variant, which covers all topics, including flash storage and filesystems as well as-real time
A 4-day variant, which is identical to the 5-day variant, except that flash storage and filesystem and real-time are not covered

Embedded Linux system development Today, we are happy to announce that all the practical labs of our 4-day variant are now done on the recently announced STM32MP157 Discovery board, which uses the STM32MP157 processor from STMicroelectronics. This processor has a number of interesting features for a large number of embedded applications, as we discussed in a previous blog post.