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Linux kernel engineer job in Nice

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Michael Opdenacker

Free Electrons is looking for a embedded Linux and kernel engineer in the area of Nice in France (on the French Riviera). The contract will be home based, but will also involve working at customer locations in the same area, … Continue reading →

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A new tool to ease kernel maintainer life

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Gregory Clement

When you are involved in mainlining or maintaining some kernel code, a non negligible part of your time is spent checking patches or patchsets themselves . It is not the most interesting part but it is truly necessary to help … Continue reading →

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How to boot an uncompressed Linux kernel on ARM

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Michael Opdenacker

This is a quick post to share my experience booting uncompressed Linux kernel images, during the benchmarks of kernel compression options, and no compression at all was one of these options. It is sometimes useful to boot a kernel image … Continue reading →

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Linux on ARM: xz kernel decompression benchmarks

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Michael Opdenacker

I recently managed to find time to clean up and submit my patches for xz kernel compression support on ARM, which I started working on back in November, during my flight to Linaro Connect. However, it was too late as … Continue reading →

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Linux Kernel Development, third edition

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Thomas Petazzoni

Linux Kernel Development is a book authored by Robert Love, a famous kernel developer. Contrary to the very famous Linux Device Drivers book, Linux Kernel Development is not oriented towards driver development, but instead covers how the core Linux kernel … Continue reading →

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Linux device drivers architecture talk at Libre Software Meeting

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Thomas Petazzoni

Thomas Petazzoni gave a talk on the Linux kernel architecture for device drivers at the Libre Software Meeting in Bordeaux, France. While the talk was given in French, the materials are in English and can therefore benefit a larger audience. … Continue reading →

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New jobs at Free Electrons

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Michael Opdenacker

Looking for kernel and embedded Linux experts Free Electrons is looking for experienced members of the Free Software community to satisfy increasing demand for development, consulting and training on embedded Linux and on the Linux kernel. One thing that distinguishes … 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 … Continue reading →

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LZO kernel compression

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Albin Tonnerre

As Michael stated in his review of the interesting features in Linux 2.6.30, new compression options have been recently added to the kernel. We therefore decided to have a look at those compression methods, from a compression ratio and decompression … Continue reading →

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New jobs at Free Electrons

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Michael Opdenacker

Looking for kernel and embedded Linux experts Free Electrons is looking for experienced members of the Free Software community to satisfy increasing demand for development, consulting and training on embedded Linux and on the Linux kernel. All the details can … Continue reading →

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