Linux Kernel and Driver Development Training Linux Kernel

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Linux Kernel and driver development training
Linux Kernel and driver
development training

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Linux Kernel and driver development training
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These slides are the training materials for Bootlin’s Linux Kernel
and driver development training course.
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If you are interested in following this course with an experienced
Bootlin trainer, we offer:
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Public online sessions, opened to individual registration. Dates
announced on our site, registration directly online.
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Dedicated online sessions, organized for a team of engineers
from the same company at a date/time chosen by our customer.
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Dedicated on-site sessions, organized for a team of engineers
from the same company, we send a Bootlin trainer on-site to
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Details and registrations:
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Contact: [email protected]
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About Bootlin
About Bootlin

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Bootlin introduction
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Engineering company
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In business since 2004
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Before 2018: Free Electrons
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Team based in France and Italy
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Serving customers worldwide
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Highly focused and recognized expertise
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Embedded Linux
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Linux kernel
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Embedded Linux build systems
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Strong open-source contributor
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Activities
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Engineering services
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Training courses
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Bootlin engineering services
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Bootlin training courses
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Bootlin, an open-source contributor
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Strong contributor to the Linux kernel
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In the top 30 of companies contributing to Linux worldwide
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Contributions in most areas related to hardware support
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Several engineers maintainers of subsystems/platforms
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8000 patches contributed
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https://bootlin.com/community/contributions/kernel-contributions/
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Contributor to Yocto Project
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Maintainer of the official documentation
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Core participant to the QA effort
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Contributor to Buildroot
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Co-maintainer
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5000 patches contributed
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Significant contributions to U-Boot, OP-TEE, Barebox, etc.
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Fully open-source training materials
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Bootlin on-line resources
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Website with a technical blog:
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Engineering services:
https://bootlin.com/engineering
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Training services:
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Twitter:
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LinkedIn:
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Elixir - browse Linux kernel sources on-line:
https://elixir.bootlin.com
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Generic course information
Generic course
information

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Supported hardware
BeagleBone Black or BeagleBone Black Wireless, from BeagleBoard.org
▶ Texas Instruments AM335x (ARM Cortex-A8 CPU)
▶ SoC with 3D acceleration, additional processors (PRUs) and lots of
peripherals.
▶ 512 MB of RAM
▶ 4 GB of on-board eMMC storage
▶ USB host and USB device, microSD, micro HDMI
▶ WiFi and Bluetooth (wireless version), otherwise Ethernet
▶ 2 x 46 pins headers, with access to many expansion buses (I2C, SPI, UART
and more)
▶ A huge number of expansion boards, called capes. See
https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBone_Capes.
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