Finding the Path from Embedded to Edge using Product Lines
Talkat Embedded Linux Conference @ Open Source Summit North America 2022 · on Wednesday, 2022-06-22· at 15:45· Griffin Hall (Level 2), JW Marriott Austin, 110 E 2nd Street Austin, TX 78701·
summary
Company projects expect 50 million Linux devices by 2025 and estimate at least ~$50M yearly spent on Linux maintenance, so a consolidation strategy is urgent. Work builds a Debian‑based reference stack called apparatus reference system with prebuilt images and device support (including iMX‑8 mainline patches, U‑Boot iterations, network‑boot), evaluates container runtimes (Docker/Podman/LXC/flatpak — similar CPU/io but flatpak shows best latency numbers yet poor corporate docs), uses OSS Review Toolkit for SBOM/SPDX, and reports upstreaming and GPLv3/licensing pains.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:31Linux
- 5:04Things are changing
- 6:04Maintenance
- 8:40Open Source
- 14:19Container frameworks
- 15:56Results
- 18:40Orchestration
- 20:30OSS Review Toolkit
- 21:20OSS Review 2 Kit
- 22:10Embedded
- 23:39Embedded Linux
- 24:14Embedded Debian
- 26:01Building Source Packages
- 27:03Practical Considerations
- 29:51Upstream Work
- 35:26Questions
- 36:10Outro
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