Open Source Firmware Conference 2018
At September 12-15 the first conference focusing exclusively on open source firmware took place in Erlangen, Germany - the OSFC 2018. The mission of this conference is to provide an appropriate platform to bring together as many Open Source projects, hardware manufacturers and developers as possible, in order to collaborate, share knowledge and push the firmware development in an Open Source manner.
Different topics related to the open firmware developments mostly targeting different bootloader or payload variants were presented at the conference. LinuxBoot, coreboot, U-Boot and TianoCore and ARM Trusted Firmware related topics were intensively covered in different talks.
Pengutronix and the barebox bootloader project were represented by Sascha Hauer and Oleksij Rempel. While we didn't do any presentation ourselves we had a chance to communicate with many developers representing different projects with open or even closed nature.
From different talks I would note the following:
- many vendors do things and not always contribute back to initial open source projects - (this is not new)
- some vendors are looking for open source alternatives, for example for BIOS, because government related customers forbid usage of closed software for security reasons.
- almost all companies make their own variants of bootloaders, with special use case covering specific hardware.
All in all, it was an interesting conference, with many good talks and insights into other firmware projects' motivation.
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Labgrid Hands-On Training at Embedded Recipes 2025
We are happy to announce that we are hosting a one-day version of our hands-on labgrid training at the Embedded Recipes in Nice, France. The workshop takes place on day three of the Embedded Recipes (16.05.2025) and is part of the workshop track. The workshop is free of charge, but registration is required.
Rückschau: Embedded World 2025
Das war sie wieder: Die Embedded World 2025 in Nürnberg! Eine spannende Woche mit vielen anregenden Gesprächen mit den Besuchern auf unserem Messestand und mit vielen anderen Ausstellern liegt hinter uns. Für mich das war das wichtigste Takeaway: Ohne gut wartbaren Mainline-Linux Kernel, ohne Secure Boot und ohne Updating und Wartungsstrategie wird es im Zeitalter des Cyber Resilience Acts nicht mehr gehen!
Pengutronix auf den Chemnitzer Linux Tagen 2025
Wir freuen uns, auch in diesem Jahr bei den Chemnitzer Linux Tagen dabei sein zu können. Wie jedes Jahr sind die CLT eine willkommene Gelegenheit, Freunde zu treffen und sich über Linux, Open Source und den Rest der Welt auszutauschen. Auch in diesem Jahr stellen wir uns mit einem eigenen Stand vor und freuen uns, vier Vorträge zum Vortragsprogramm beitragen zu können.
Pengutronix auf der embedded world 2025
Treffen Sie uns auf der embedded world 2025 in Nürnberg! Sie finden uns wieder in Halle 4, Stand 4-261. Wie üblich zeigen wir auf unserem Messestand Demonstratoren zu aktuellen Themen. Darüber hinaus laden wir in diesem Jahr wieder zum RAUC- und Labgrid-Community-Meetup ein und tragen mit einem Talk über den Einsatz von Labgrid Integrationstests zur embedded world Conference bei.
Pengutronix at Electronica 2024 in Munich
Electronica trade fair in Munich, Germany is just around the corner and Pengutronix is currently gearing up to showcase some of our latest topics and developments. You find us in Hall B4 Booth 102 (map).
Bringing Barebox into OE-Core (Yocto)
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Pengutronix at FrOSCon 2024
Am 17. und 18. 08. 2024 ist es wieder soweit: Die FrOSCon findet an der Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin statt - und Pengutronix ist wieder als Partner dabei.
DSA in Barebox
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Foster mvebu Support in barebox
barebox works great on NXP's i.MX platforms. While there is some support for Marvell's mvebu platform, it is not even near being complete. The main limitation is in my eyes that there is no code to initialize RAM settings on these machines.