Spectre and Meltdown vs. Real-Time - Measuring Mitigation Costs
Explore the impact of Spectre and Meltdown mitigations on real-time systems. Quantify performance costs using benchmarks, focusing on latency and determinism in embedded environments and hypervisors.
Getting Your Patches in Mainline Linux - What Not to Do and What to Try Instead
Insights on effectively submitting Linux kernel patches from a contributor-turned-maintainer. Explores common pitfalls, successful strategies, and the trust-building process between submitters and maintainers.
Unikernels and Explorations - Challenges and Opportunities
Explore unikernels' potential in cloud environments, their advantages over traditional VMs and containers, and challenges in gaining widespread adoption. Insights on optimizing unikernel platforms for performance and customization.
Is Linux Kernel Development Suitable for Safety-Critical Systems? - Progress and Methods
Explore Linux kernel development for safety-critical systems, examining methods to assess and improve its suitability for use in autonomous driving and other high-stakes applications.
Protecting Your System from Security Threats - Linux Security Mechanisms
Comprehensive overview of Linux security mechanisms for embedded systems, covering encryption, secure boot, and integrity measures to protect against various attacks.
Introducing the Lab in a Box Concept for Continuous Integration
Simplifying Continuous Integration for embedded systems with "Lab in a Box" - a turnkey solution for setting up LAVA board farms, reducing complexity and improving test automation.
Bash the Kernel Maintainers - Addressing Contributor Frustrations
Open forum for kernel contributors to voice frustrations and suggest improvements to the Linux kernel maintenance process, aiming to enhance collaboration and efficiency.
Replace Your Exploit-Ridden Firmware with Linux
Learn how to replace vulnerable UEFI firmware with NERF, an open-source system using a tiny Linux kernel and initramfs, enhancing security and reducing exploit risks in PC and laptop firmware.
Identifying and Supporting X-Compatible Hardware Blocks in SoCs
Explore techniques for identifying and integrating undocumented hardware blocks in SoCs, focusing on Allwinner SoCs and Linux kernel support. Learn to spot compatible components and adapt existing drivers.
Conversation with Linus Torvalds on Linux Kernel Development and Open Source
Insightful conversation between open source leaders Dirk Hohndel and Linus Torvalds, exploring Linux development, community dynamics, and the future of open source software.
Linux Storage System Bottleneck for eMMC and UFS
Explore Linux storage system bottlenecks for eMMC/UFS, analyzing I/O performance limitations and software challenges to motivate future optimizations in high-speed flash-based storage devices.
Linux Container Internals - Deep Dive Lab
Explore the inner workings of Linux containers, including isolation mechanisms, Docker Daemon functionality, and container image creation. Gain deep technical insights for confident application of Linux knowledge to containerization.
Improving Containers Isolation in Kubernetes
Explore Kubernetes Security Profiles Operator for enhanced container isolation, focusing on SELinux, seccomp, and AppArmor. Learn how eBPF simplifies custom profile creation and gain insights from Adobe's implementation.
Exploring Phantom Traffic Jams in Data Flows
Discover how phantom traffic jams affect data flows, their causes, and detection methods. Learn to identify and address unexplained slowdowns in computer networking and storage I/O.
Elements Towards Functional Safety Use Cases with Linux in Automotive
Explore Linux's role in automotive functional safety, focusing on warning signs in instrument clusters as a starting point for more complex safety-critical applications.
How ELISA Is Helping Use Linux in Safety-Critical Systems
Explore how the ELISA Project facilitates Linux adoption in safety-critical systems, enhancing reliability and security for critical applications across industries.
The Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer - Detecting Concurrency Bugs in Linux
Explore Linux kernel concurrency, LKMM, and KCSAN with Marco Elver. Learn to detect and prevent concurrency bugs in kernel code using practical examples and advanced techniques.
Bridging Safety Gaps in Graphics
Explore techniques for integrating unsafe components into safety-critical systems, focusing on camera image pipelines and expanding Linux's use in ASIL-compliant scenarios.
Attestation and Confidential Dump for IBM Secure Execution on Linux
Explore new features for IBM Secure Execution on Linux: attestation for third-party verification and encrypted external VM dumping, enhancing trust and usability in confidential computing on IBM Z.
Getting Into Linux Kernel Development After 30 Years
Explore paths to Linux kernel development, including training, internships, and communication channels. Learn strategies for navigating complex codebases and contributing effectively.
Testing the Media Subsystem: Compliance Tests and Virtual Drivers - Mentorship Session
Explore media API testing challenges and solutions using compliance tests and virtual drivers for diverse hardware, enabling effective regression testing without physical devices.