BOF: Corporate Use of Embedded Linux
Talkat Embedded Linux Conference @ Open Source Summit North America 2022 · on Friday, 2022-06-24· at 14:00· Room 203/204 (Level 2), JW Marriott Austin, 110 E 2nd Street Austin, TX 78701·
summary
Large corporations run into concrete problems: one product once ships with 25,000 out-of-tree patches, proxy upstreaming for whole SoC stacks fails, and some drivers take years to upstream while frameworks can take a decade or more. Procurement needs upstream-driver clauses; supply chains need SBoMs and rebuild scripts. Sony-style operations end up maintaining 14 kernel versions and juggling long lifecycles (10–15 years). Hiring an external specialist sometimes gets a driver upstream in weeks, but most fixes take much longer.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:49Abstract
- 3:14Lack of Upstream Drivers
- 6:33Upstream drivers (cont.)
- 16:55Diversity between product lines
- 20:49Focus Shift
- 23:36Compliance services
- 26:47Patrick McHardy
- 29:46SFC vs. Vizio lawsuit
- 31:18Encouraging contributions
- 32:47License Management and SBOMS
- 33:21Supply-chain headaches
- 34:46Internal headaches
- 36:58Testing issues
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