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First i.MX 8M Patches posted for Mainline

Eight days after NXP announced the immediate availability of the i.MX 8M processor family, Pengutronix developer Lucas Stach today posted a first set of 11 patches to support i.MX 8M in the mainline kernel (linux-gpio, linux-clk, linux-arm-kernel and linux-netdev).


PTXdist.org: Departure into a new Age

Over the past months, we did a lot of work in giving some open source projects maintained by Pengutronix folks the attention they deserve while also being more open to the community and ease contributing to and using them.


Bridging the Gap: The RAUC hawkBit Client

OTA field updates are a common requirement in modern embedded device deployments. The larger the amount of devices to control, the more important is having a good infrastructure that is reliable in updating and smart in rolling out the software.


RAUC v0.2 Released

We proudly just sent out a new release of the RAUC update framework.


rsc's Diary: ELC-E 2017 - Day 3

Day 3 of the Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2017 in Prague is over, all of our talks have been absolved successfully and we made many new community contacts and refreshed old ones. Here is my report.


rsc's Diary: ELC-E 2017 - Day 2

The second day of ELC-E is over. This is my report.


rsc's Diary: ELC-E 2017 - Day 1

This is my report from the first day of Embedded Linux Conference Europe (ELC-E) 2017 in Prague.


USB-SD-Mux: Automated SD-Card Juggler

Once the bootloader on your embedded device is up and running the development of kernel and userland in PTXdist-based BSPs is usually based on booting from network. Thus there is no need for the developer to write the boot media with a new image.


All Systems Go 2017: Updating Embedded Systems

At the All Systems Go conference in Berlin, Michael Obrich reported at 2017-10-22 about "Updating Embedded Systems - Putting it all together", based on the experiences of the Pengutronix integration team.


Talk at All Systems Go 2017 Conference

Before the ELC-E conference starts in Prague, Berlin hosts the All Systems Go conference, the successor of the systemd conference. In times of increasing IT security incidents with IoT devices, updating such systems in a secure and reliable way becomes more and more important. Michael Olbrich's talk outlines the challenges and possible solutions for a robust update process.