In today’s computer systems the level of complexity has risen such that when a task or response to an event takes longer than expected, it is not easy knowing what the culprit is. The Linux operating system contains several utilities that allows a user to see where things may be held up. This talk will cover many of these utilities and briefly explain how to use them. From the hardware latency detector to the latency tracers.
Want to run Linux on open hardware? This talk will explore Open Source Hardware projects capable of that task, and explore how RISC-V and free software FPGA projects can be leveraged to create libre systems.
This talk will explore Open Source Hardware projects relevant to Linux, including boards like BeagleBone, Olimex OLinuXino, the Reform laptop and more.
I will also talk about the importance of the open RISC-V instruction set and free software FPGA toolchains.
While it has been under development for years, the support for video CODEC accelerators has gain a lot of traction in past year. A formal specification has now been merge into Linux Media subsystem and staging control APIs and drivers now exist. This allow for blob free HW accelerated decoding on popular SoC like Allwinner, i.MX8 and Rockchip.
In this talk, Nicolas will give an overview of the decoding process using such hardware accelerators along with an overview of the user space API and how it’s used within multimedia frameworks.
PipeWire: The New Multimedia Service, Now Ready for Automotive - Julian Bouzas, Collabora PipeWire is the new emerging open source project that aims to greatly improve both audio and video handling on Linux systems, both desktop and embedded. It was recently adopted by Automotive Grade Linux as the core audio framework because its design’s flexibility makes it possible to address automotive requirements, replacing entirely previous solutions and addressing new use cases such as achieving ultra low latency with zero-copy media exchange, and allowing external session managers to define device policy logic.
U-Boot is the universal bootloader used on a vast majority of embedded systems, development kits, products and so on. This session is an introduction into the U-Boot bootloader, including a hands-on part, and covers practical topics like identifying that the board is running U-Boot, accessing and exploring the U-Boot shell, including advanced scripting techniques to make life easier, obtaining information about the current hardware, accessing buses and storage and finally booting the kernel.