Linux kernel development

Writing Linux kernel code: device drivers, board support code, fixing bugs…

There are several things we could do for you: CALAO usb9263 board

Write board initialization code, to make Linux boot on your hardware.
Write Linux device drivers, whatever their type (PCI, USB, Ethernet, audio, video, MTD, CAN…).
Port a feature to your hardware. For example, we could port the realtime preemption patches and high resolution timers work well on your board.
Mainline the Linux kernel code that you’re using, i.e. making the official kernel sources support your hardware.
Implement power management support, both in software and taking advantage of hardware capabilities
Reduce boot time, by optimizing existing drivers and system initcalls.
Hunting for bugs in your kernel code (timing / latency issues, race conditions, out of order execution…), or investigating the ones you report, and then fixing them.

Reasons for choosing us for this job:

We already contribute to the Linux kernel, in particular through the Linux Tiny project to reduce the size of the kernel for dedicated systems. See our contributions.
We will write kernel code in a way that it can be accepted (merged) in the official sources, in particular by asking the kernel and architecture development community to review our code. Merging will probably succeed after the initial code release, but that’s something we will take care of at no extra cost, whatever the time it takes.
We know the kernel development community very well. We know who / where to ask for specific questions, and we are familiar with implementing solutions that the community will accept.
By working with the community, we can get valuable feedback and suggestions early in the development process, avoiding major mistakes, and reducing our overall development costs.
We offer free mainstreaming for this kind of development.
Working on the kernel is what we are most interested in .