30 Jun EOSS2023 – Test-driven development challenges
Testing with actual hardware boards is essential in OSS software development, a recent talk/topic at the Embedded Open Source Conference....
30 Jun EOSS2023 – To use Android, or not to use Android, that is the question
To use Android, or not to use Android, that is the question Recently I attended a talk at the Linux Embedded Open Source Software Conference in Prague (EOSS) about AOSP (https://sched.co/1LcQE). In this talk, an important issue was discussed: for your embedded projects, should you use...
28 Jun EOSS2023 – Accelerated Mainline Linux Development Ahead of SoC Availability (Bryan Brattlof & Praneeth Bajjuri – Texas Instruments)
Traditionally, you get hardware and then write a driver for it. As a SoC creator, however, the driver development is part of the development cycle, i.e. it is done before final hardware (or any hardware) is available....
27 Jun EOSS2023 report – WirePlumber, Propelling PipeWire for Embedded (Ashok Sidipotu – Collabora)
Pipewire is an audio and video server designed around pipeline, and the standard on desktop systems nowadays. WirePlumber is its default session manager. It has a 0.5 release coming sometime this year....
27 Jun EOSS2023 – Fearless Embedded Rust – Martin Mosler, Zuehlke Engineering AG
Martin is Rust advocate within his company, and is allowed to do some community things on company time like organise meetups. Zühlke believes that Rust is very useful, especially in embedded. He created a demo on ESP32-C3 devkit. It's well-supported, RISC-V and has Wifi....
26 Jun EOSS2023 – Automated Full System Testing on Hardware With OpenQA (Laurence Urhegyi – Codethink)
In Automotive, automated functional testing on hardware matters a lot. OpenQA is a framework to make testing framework easier. Lack of automated testing leads to fear of updating e.g. the kernel, because things may break....