Our Company and the Open Source Community: A Journey from Anxiety to Collaboration
Talkat Open Source Summit Europe + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2019 · on Tuesday, 2019-10-29· at 14:25· Forum 1·
summary
A sub‑GHz IoT gateway based on the MediaTek MT7688 SoC, Yocto and U-Boot ships with most sources on GitHub, root access open via UART for owners, and driver and BSP work upstreamed so U-Boot and Linux mainlined; mainline fixes for MT76 took about 45 man-hours to pass Wi‑Fi Alliance tests. Manufacturing hit 250 units with 30 failing until a 4.19 kernel fix recovered them, mainlining costs under 10% of budget and prevents long‑term maintenance pain.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:45Agenda
- 1:47About our company
- 2:34Gardena Smart System
- 3:40Project Background
- 6:00Hardware
- 7:35UART
- 8:33Build System
- 9:00GPL
- 9:57Court Ruling
- 10:42New Project
- 11:18Open Hardware
- 15:06Mainlining
- 17:24Support
- 18:08Certifications
- 19:53Problems
- 20:54Current State
- 22:00Conclusion
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