Hardware Manufacturer and Linux kernel relationships

Every Linux kernel needs a hardware platform to run it. Compared to twenty years ago, the relationships between hardware manufacturers and the Linux kernel community has improved in order to render the Linux kernel usage easy. This requires an organization on both...

How to choose a kernel for your products?

It’s often difficult to select a kernel for products that are shipped to customers. Several branches exist, bugs need to be avoided as much as possible and updates must be rare enough not to upset customers. All this must be true during all the product’s lifecycle....

Introduction to Kernel Power Management

In order to keep up with the complexities of SoCs, the Linux kernel has an ever-growing set of features for power management. For the uninitiated, it can be confusing how each of these features work and even more confusing how they should work together. This talk will...

Kernel packet capture technologies

Capturing packets running on the wire to send them to a software doing analysis seems at first sight a simple tasks. But one has not to forget that with current network this can means capturing 30M packets per second. The objective of this talk is to show what methods...