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...
The Linux kernel features an extensive array of, to put it kindly, somewhat disorganized documentation. A significant effort is underway to make things better, though. This talk will review the state of kernel documentation, cover the changes that are being made...
