The untold story of BPF

This talk will uncover for the first time the true origin of ‘Extended Berkley Packet Filter’. It would be fascinating for aspiring and expert open source developers to discover BPF’s path into one of the most sophisticated and challenging parts of software stack....

Trust and the Linux development model

In 2020, the University of Minnesota was found to have submitted a number of hypocrite commits to the Linux kernel development community in an attempt to prove that the kernel development model was insecure. Because of this, the University was banned from future...

Rethinking the kernel camera framework

Video4Linux (V4L2) has enabled hundreds of different multimedia devices, from TV tuners to the webcam that has accompanied you during the pandemic. Unfortunately, it has been neglected by vendors when they have implemented camera stacks for mobile devices. In this...