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Technical videos from conferences
Here are videos from presentations in technical conferences. They should be useful for people lacking time or money to attend these conferences.
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Other videos are available in French.
Embedded Linux Conference, Mountain View, USA, Apr. 2008
Don't miss our detailed report on the below presentations!
- Keynote: The Relationship Between kernel.org Development and the Use of Linux for Embedded Applications, by Andrew Morton (Google):
video, slides (55 minutes, 240 MB) - UME - Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded, by David Mandala (Canonical):
video, slides (30 minutes, 145 MB) - Appropriate Community Practices: Social and Technical Advice, by Deepak Saxena (MontaVista):
video (thanks to Kevin Hilman, MontaVista) (44 minutes, 139 MB) - Adventures In Real-Time Performance Tuning, by Frank Rowand:
video, slides (50 minutes, 251 MB) - Shifting Sands: Lessons Learned from Linux on an FPGA, by Grant Likely:
video, slides (44 minutes, 262 MB) - Disko - An Application Framework for Digital Media Devices, by Guido Madaus:
video (27 minutes, 190 MB) - Keynote: Tux in Lights, by Henry Kingman (LinuxDevices.com):
video, slides (44 minutes, 139 MB) - Back-tracing in MIPS-based Linux Systems, by Jong-Sung Kim (LG Electronics):
video, slides (54 minutes, 160 MB) - Making a Phone Call With Phase Change Memory, by Justin Treon (Numonyx):
video, slides (28 minutes, 159 MB) - Building Blocks for Embedded Power Management, by Kevin Hilman (MontaVista):
We couldn't film his presentation, but we already shot a similar presentation he gave at Fosdem 2008: video ((56 minutes, 183 MB) - Using Real-Time Linux, by Klaas van Gend (MontaVista):
video, slides (53 minutes, 263 MB) - Every Microamp is Sacred - A Dynamic Voltage and Current Control Interface for the Linux Kernel, by Liam Girdwood (Wolfson Microelectronics):
video, slides (35 minutes, 71 MB) - Power Management Quality of Service and How You Could Use it in Your Embedded Application, by Mark Gross (Intel):
video, slides (57 minutes, 401 MB) - OpenEmbedded for product development, by Matt Locke (Embedded Alley):
video, slides (49 minutes, 141 MB) - Kernel Size Report, and Bloatwatch Update, by Matt Mackall (Selenic Consulting):
video (49 minutes, 146 MB) - Leveraging Free and Open Source Software in a Product Development Environment, by Matt Porter (Embedded Alley):
video, slides (45 minutes, 220 MB) - Using a JTAG for Linux Driver Debugging, by Mike Anderson (PTR Group):
video, slides (113 minutes, 694 MB) - DirectFB Internals - Things You Need to Know to Write Your DirectFB gfxdriver, by Takanari Hayama ():
video (43 minutes, 200 MB) - Linux Tiny - Penguin Weight Watchers, by Thomas Petazzoni (Free Electrons):
video (thanks to Jean Pihet, MontaVista), slides (32 minutes, 140 MB) - Keynote: Status of Embedded Linux and CELF Plenary Meeting, by Tim Bird (Sony):
video, slides (49 minutes, 112 MB)
Slides are collected on http://www.celinux.org/elc08_presentations/.
Fosdem - Embedded developer room, Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 2008
- Modest, email client for embedded systems, by Dirk-Jan Binnema (Nokia):
video (34 minutes, 121 MB) - Design a Linux robot companion with 8 bits microcontrollers, by David Bourgeois:
video (54 minutes, 211 MB) - Linux on the PS3, by Olivier Grisel:
video (47 minutes, 272 MB) - Xen for Secure Isolation on ARM11, by Jean-Pihet (MontaVista):
video (41 minutes, 207 MB) - Building blocks for Embedded Power Management, by Kevin Hilman (MontaVista):
video (56 minutes, 183 MB) - Emdebian Update: Rootfs, GPE and tdebs, by Neil Williams:
video (47 minutes, 226 MB) - pjsip: lightweight portable SIP stack, by Perry Ismangil:
video (55 minutes, 194 MB)
Additional video
- Roadmap to recovery - pain and redemption in X driver development, by Keith Packard:
video (44 minutes, 168 MB)
CELF Embedded Linux Conference Europe / 9th Real-Time Linux Workshop, Linz, Austria, Nov. 2007
- Detection & Resolution of Real Time Issues Using TimeDoctor, by François Audeon (NXP):
video (32 minutes, 359 MB) - Fancy and Fast GUIs on Embedded Devices, by Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri (INDT):
video, slides (46 minutes, 146 MB) - arch/ppc, arch/powerpc and Device Trees - A Walk Through a Port, by Hugh Blemings (IBM):
video (30 minutes, 534 MB) - Free Software, Licensing and Business Processes, by Shane Martin Coughlan (FSF Europe):
video, slides (40 minutes, 138 MB) - Introduction to LogFS, by Jörn Engel:
video, slides (46 minutes, 260 MB) - WebKit on Linux and How It Compares to Other Open Source Engines, by Holger Freyther (Trolltech):
video, slides (49 minutes, 205 MB) - Status Overview of Real-Time, by Thomas Gleixner (Linutronix.de):
video (47 minutes, 236 MB) - Kernel Summit Report, by Thomas Gleixner (Linutronix.de):
video (34 minutes, 520 MB) - Writing DirectFB gfxdriver For Your Embedded System, by Takanari Hayama (igel):
video, slides (31 minutes, 223 MB) - Improving JFFS2 RAM Usage and Performance, by Alexey Korolev (Intel):
video, slides (20 minutes, 141 MB) - YAFFS, by Wookey:
video, slides (45 minutes, 194 MB) - Parallelizing Linux boot on CE Devices, by Vitaly Wool (Embedded Alley Solutions):
video, slides (40 minutes, 185 MB) - Linux Suspend-to-Disk Objectives for Consumer Electronic Devices, by Vitaly Wool (Embedded Alley Solutions):
video, slides (35 minutes, 652 MB) - Evaluation of Linux rt-preempt for embedded industrial devices for Automation and Power technologies - A case study, by Morten Mossige, Pradyumna Sampath, Rachana Rao (ABB):
video, paper (22 minutes, 224 MB) - Assessment of the Realtime Preemption Patches (RT-Preempt) and their impact on the general purpose performance of the system, by Arthur Siro (DSLab / OSADL):
video, paper (31 minutes, 224 MB) - Panel: the ideal embedded Linux distribution, by Tim Bird (Sony):
video (65 minutes, 465 MB)
Embedded Linux Conference (CELF), San Jose, California, April 2006
- Keynote, by Tim Bird (Sony):
video, slides (46 minutes, 139 MB) - Usability of User-Space device drivers, by a speaker from Renesas:
video, slides (50 minutes, 256 MB) - What's New with Busybox, by Rob Landley (TimeSys):
video (55 minutes, 322 MB) - Topics in Embedded Power Management, by Todd Poynor (MontaVista):
video, slides (44 minutes, 253 MB) - CE Linux Forum Open Test Lab, by Matt Locke (Nomad Global Solutions):
video (35 minutes, 213 MB) - Power Management Panel, by Mark Gross (Intel):
video (55 minutes, 360 MB) - Panel: Tips for Mainlining, From the Experts (starring Greg K.H., Greg Ungerer, Matt Mackall), by Tim Bird (Sony):
video (34 minutes, 230 MB) - MIPS BOF, by Arvind Kumar (MIPS):
video (53 minutes, 268 MB) - uClinux, by Greg Ungerer (SnapGear):
video, slides (44 minutes, 235 MB) - Examining Linux Kernel Size, by Munehiro Ikeda (NEC):
video, slides (42 minutes, 247 MB) - Integrating DirectFB into a UHAPI Platform, by Denis Kropp (directfb.org):
video, slides (31 minutes, 93 MB) - Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation, by Mathieu Desnoyers (École Polytechnique de Montréal):
video, slides (34 minutes, 211 MB) - MythTV on Philips Nexperia PNX8550, by Klaas de Waal (Philips):
video, slides (50 minutes, 293 MB) - Visualizing Resource Usage During Initialization of Embedded Systems (embootchart), by Matthew Klahn (Motorola):
video, slides (51 minutes, 236 MB) - State of Linux Real-time BOF, by Manas Saksena (TimeSys):
video (42 minutes, 297 MB) - Closing Activity: Embedded Linux Quiz, by Tim Bird (Sony):
video (22 minutes, 235 MB)
Slides are being collected on http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki/ELC2006Presentations.
Fosdem, Brussels, Belgium, February 2006
- Software patents, by Richard Stallman (Free Software Foundation):
video (83 minutes, 345 MB) - SETR LiveCD, live tool for embedded development, by Hector Oron:
video (30 minutes - lacks the first 5 minutes, 93 MB) - Optimizing the Linux kernel and applications, by
Michael Opdenacker (Free Electrons):
video (49 minutes, 129 MB, slides) - Lock-Free Data Exchange for Real-time applications, by Peter Soetens (Flander's Mechatronics Technology Center, Leuven):
video (49 minutes, 170 MB) - Alsa SoC layer, by Liam Girdwood (Wolfson Microelectronics):
video (37 minutes, 95 MB) - The Maemo development platform, by Tommi Komulainen (Nokia):
video (45 minutes, 151 MB, slides) - Building and supporting distributions with OpenEmbedded,
by Koen Kooi (Familiar release manager):
video (48 minutes, 179 MB) - Towards a common embedded power management solution, by
David Weinehall and Sampsa Fabritius (Nokia):
video (81 minutes, 292 MB) - Real-time patches for Linux, by Klaas van Gend (MontaVista):
video (55 minutes, 126 MB) - SLIND, a small Debian for embedded systems, by Benjamin Collar (Siemens):
video (55 minutes, 161 MB) - Openocd, the Open On-Chip Debugger, by Dominic Rath (University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg):
video (40 minutes, 128 MB) - The challenge of the GNU/Linux desktop, by Jeff Waugh (Ubuntu / Gnome):
video (53 minutes, 176 MB)
See the abstracts of the presentations in the embedded track. Many other Fosdem videos can be found here.
Linux Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, July 2005
- TWIN: An Even Smaller Window System For Even Smaller Devices, by Keith Packard:
video (50 minutes, 307 MB)
See the on-line proceedings
Libre Software Meeting, Dijon, France, July 2005
- GNU/Hurd, general presentation, by Gael Le Mignot:
video (71 minutes, 215 MB, slides) - The Dillo web browser, by Jorge Arellano Cid:
video (63 minutes, 176 MB, slides)


