Embedded Linux Conference & OpenIoT Summit North America 2018

Friendly to novices and experts alike, the Beagle experience tracks mainline u-boot, Linux and Debian development, while augmenting it to enable development to start as quickly as possible. Attendees will get started interacting with the hardware via the command-line, shell scripts, Python and JavaScript. Attendees will be walked through the configuration details for the boot configuration, pin multiplexing, USB networking and other helper scripts they should get to know. Support and development processes within the BeagleBoard.org community will be covered. Exercises will pave the way for the other workshops to dive into their topic without needing to backtrack excessively on PocketBeagle-specific details.

Important Note: This session is only open to the 50 people who have registered for the E-ALE track. You can find out more information about the track here.

Many people find the Linux kernel overwhelming place, and don’t know where to start. This seminar will introduce the kernel Kbuild system, one which has been copied into most other Embedded code bases in order to handle the configuration of features in the code. We will also cover how to build and install code as module into a running kernel.

Important Note: This session is only open to the 50 people who have registered for the E-ALE track. You can find out more information about the track here.

Pre-requisite: PocketBeagle Walk Through

U-Boot is the universal bootloader used on a vast majority of embedded systems, development kits, products and so on. This session is an introduction into the U-Boot bootloader, including a hands-on part, and covers practical topics like identifying that the board is running U-Boot, accessing and exploring the U-Boot shell, including advanced scripting techniques to make life easier, obtaining information about the current hardware, accessing busses and storage and finally booting the kernel. Furthermore, since every embedded project has it's unique set of requirements, U-Boot customization topics are briefly touched at the end of the session.

Important Note: This session is only open to the 50 people who have registered for the E-ALE track. You can find out more information about the track here.

Pre-requisite: PocketBeagle Walk Through

Most developers know a little about the GDB debugger, but the majority do not understand all of GDB's capabilities to help shorten the debug process. In this session, I'm hoping to highlight many of the capabilities of GDB that many developers have not used in the past.

Important Note: This session is only open to the 50 people who have registered for the E-ALE track. You can find out more information about the track here.

Pre-requisite: Introduction to Kernel Modules and Kbuild

For people new to Linux kernel driver programming, writing a driver for an I2C device is a relatively easy way to start. This presentation will start by explaining the Device Model, the mechanism that the Linux kernel offers to bind drivers to devices. Even though the way to detect or describe devices can depend on the bus or CPU architecture, the infrastructure binding devices with drivers is universal and therefore applies to all types of device drivers in the Linux kernel. You will see how the driver uses one of the frameworks offered by the Linux kernel to expose device data to user space in a generic way. Once again, this type of mechanism is used everywhere in the Linux kernel.

Important Note: This session is only open to the 50 people who have registered for the E-ALE track. You can find out more information about the track here.

Pre-requisite: Introduction to Kernel Modules and Kbuild

A tour of the Linux SPI subsystem. Provides a brief overview of the SPI protocol and examples of devices that use it. The Linux SPI driver subsystem will then we explored explaining the various pieces including host controller and device drivers as well as the devicetree bindings and various userspace interfaces.

Important Note: This session is only open to the 50 people who have registered for the E-ALE track. You can find out more information about the track here.

Pre-requisite: Introduction to Kernel Modules and Kbuild

Building an embedded project means building a bootloader, kernel, and root filesystem (with so many choices). The OpenEmbedded system, which is at the core of the Yocto Project, uses the bitbake tool to orchestrate the building of an image for a particular embedded board. In this seminar we will introduce you to bitbake, writing simple recipes, and building a minimal image to be run on the PocketBeagle development board. This seminar will include hands on labs, so makes sure you bring a fast laptop with at least 100GB of free space.

Important Note: This session is only open to the 50 people who have registered for the E-ALE track. You can find out more information about the track here.

Pre-requisite: PocketBeagle Walk Through

Need to create simple and optimized Linux systems for your embedded devices? Tired of complicated tools? You should try Buildroot!

In this tutorial, we will first introduce Buildroot, a popular embedded Linux build system, that allows you to build your own cross-compilation toolchain, Linux kernel and bootloader images, as well as root filesystem with your selection of user-space libraries and applications, all from an easy-to-use "menuconfig" interface.

Important Note: This session is only open to the 50 people who have registered for the E-ALE track. You can find out more information about the track here.

Pre-requisite: PocketBeagle Walk Through

We’ve covered the basics in the morning Yocto Project talk. In this seminar we assume you know how to use bitbake, write recipes and build images. Now we’re going to go more in depth into OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project. This seminar will cover more advanced aspects of the build system and some of the OpenEmbedded tools which can make your life a lot easier when building a project using the Yocto Project.

Important Note: This session is only open to the 50 people who have registered for the E-ALE track. You can find out more information about the track here.

Pre-requisite: Learn Bitbake with Yocto Project