A Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) is used for mission critical projects that require a deterministic response time for external stimuli. Many times project managers request an RTOS even though they don’t fully understand what exactly an RTOS gives them. And many...
Testing is important. That’s a well known fact that very few developers will dispute. Why is then so little kernel code covered by a clear testing strategy ? Through real stories about test plans (or the lack thereof), this talk will convince you that none of your...
Libabigail is a new infrastructure for semantic analysis of ELF binaries containing C or C++ programs that has emerged lately. It powers command line tools like ‘abidiff’, which let users compare ABI changes between two different versions of a given ELF binary by...
With the wide variety of more “modern” development tools such as github, gerrit, and other methods of software development, why is the Linux kernel team still stuck in the 1990’s with ancient requirements of plain text email in order to get patches accepted? This talk...
