Thomas is Bootlin’s co-owner and Chief Executive Officer.| Bootlin
More recently, in late August, Benjamin Robin also joined our team. This time, he joined just in time to participate to the recent Open Source Summit Europe in Amsterdam, a great opportunity to meet almost the entire Bootlin’s team, and also the embedded Linux community. Benjamin also graduated from CPE Lyon, but in 2011. Prior to joining Bootlin, Benjamin spent 14 years at Centum T&S, where he held roles as both an embedded software engineer and an embedded Linux engineer. Benjamin has pri...| bootlin.com
More recently, in late August, Benjamin Robin also joined our team. This time, he joined just in time to participate to the recent Open Source Summit Europe in Amsterdam, a great opportunity to meet almost the entire Bootlin’s team, and also the embedded Linux community. Benjamin also graduated from CPE Lyon, but in 2011. Prior to joining Bootlin, Benjamin spent 14 years at Centum T&S, where he held roles as both an embedded software engineer and an embedded Linux engineer. Benjamin has pri...| bootlin.com
We’re very happy to welcome in our team Benoît Monin and Benjamin Robin. It’s been a few months already that Benoît Monin joined our team, as he started in May, just in time to participate to our yearly company-wide team week event in June. Benoît graduated from CPE Lyon in 2002, and then spent no … Continue reading "Welcome to Benoît Monin and Benjamin Robin!"| Bootlin
Bootlin had a very strong presence at the recent Open Source Summit Europe, with 26 members of our team attending the event, 8 talks given by our engineers, and a booth at the technical showcase.| Bootlin
We are excited to announce the release of a new version of our freely available, pre-compiled cross-compilation toolchains, hosted at toolchains.bootlin.com. This update covers a range of 43 CPU architecture variants, including: aarch64, aarch64be, arcle-750d, arcle-hs38, armv5-eabi, armv6-eabihf, armv7-eabihf, armebv7-eabihf, armv7m, m68k-68xxx, m68k-coldfire, microblazebe, microblazeel, mips32, mips32el, mips32r5el, mips32r6el, mips64-n32, mips64el-n32, mips64r6el-n32, openrisc, powerpc-440...| Bootlin
Introduction Congatec’s x86 System-on-Modules (SoM) include a Board Controller component connected to the processor via an eSPI bus, and providing various features such as I²C buses, GPIOs, a watchdog timer, and various sensors for monitoring voltage, fan speed, and more. For their x86 System-on-Modules (SoMs), Congatec provides a Yocto meta-layer: meta-congatec-x86. This meta-layer includes, among … Continue reading "Congatec Board Controller support into the upstream Linux Kernel"| Bootlin
Linux 6.16 was released last Sunday, and as usual LWN provides the best coverage of what’s new: part 1 and part 2, as well as the KernelNewbies.org page for this release. This time around, the engineers at Bootlin contributed 89 patches to the 6.16 release, but also as maintainers, they reviewed/merged 117 patches from other … Continue reading "Linux 6.16 released, Bootlin contributions"| Bootlin
Snagboot is an open-source and vendor-neutral tool to recover and reflash a wide variety of embedded platforms, leveraging the communication protocols offered by the boot ROMs of most modern system-on-chips. It replaces unpractical, vendor-specific and often closed-source tools provided by silicon vendors. Spring 2025 has been especially rich in Snagboot contributions. Various bug fixes, feature … Continue reading "Snagboot 2.4 release overview"| Bootlin
This year’s edition of the Embedded Linux Conference Europe will take place as part of the broader Open Source Summit Europe, on August 25–27 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. As usual, Bootlin will have a strong presence at this major event in the Embedded Linux ecosystem. This year, however, our presence will be especially significant, with no … Continue reading "Bootlin Gears Up for ELCE 2025 with 25 Engineers and 8 Talks"| Bootlin
This post is the sixth in our series about Zephyr. You can find the previous episodes below: Getting started with Zephyr Understanding Zephyr’s Blinky example Zephyr: Implementing a Device Driver for a sensor Integrating ST7789H2 Display Support on STM32L562E-DK with Zephyr: A Step-by-Step Guide Zephyr: making a driver for the Nunchuk joystick In this sixth … Continue reading "Step-by-Step Guide to Adding SoC and Board Support to Zephyr with CH32V303"| Bootlin
This year, the Linux Display Next Hackfest was hosted by AMD in Toronto. The event brought together a diverse group of contributors from a wide range of projects and companies, all united by a shared interest in advancing Linux Graphics. Participants included kernel developers, compositor maintainers, hardware vendors, and others deeply involved in the graphics stack. For the second year in a row, I had the opportunity to attend in person—an important step for Bootlin, as staying closely en...| Bootlin
This blog post is the second installment in our eBPF blog post series, following our blog post about eBPF selftests.| Bootlin