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Add Support for New Boards to Mainline Linux, U-Boot and Yocto

UD2.120 (Chavanne) | Day 2 | 14:30 - 14:55 | Speakers: Michael Opdenacker

Add Support for New Boards to Mainline Linux, U-Boot and Yocto
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Abstract

In the course of the past months, Michael has added or expanded support for new ARM and RISC-V boards to the Linux kernel (6.19+), to Yocto BSP layers and hopefully before FOSDEM 2026, to the U-Boot bootloader.

This turned out to be much easier than expected, thanks to the availability of device drivers for most hardware blocks, and thanks to the possibility to reuse code (especially Device Tree) for already supported boards.

So, if you have hardware sitting idle or working suboptimally because of quick and dirty vendor kernels and BSPs, join this talk and learn how to let the mainline Linux kernel, U-Boot and appropriate Yocto Project layer fully support your board. This should enable other contributors to get involved, and make it much easier for community projects to adopt such hardware too.

Speakers

Michael Opdenacker

Michael is an independent embedded Linux consultant and trainer, and former founder of Bootlin. His new company is Root Commit (https://rootcommit.com).

Michael is a contributor to the Linux kernel and to the Yocto Project. His recent contributions include support for RISC-V boards and boards with Rockchip ARM64 SoCs.

Passionate about Free Software and knowledge sharing, he authored many presentations related to embedded Linux, the Linux Kernel, Free Software and technology in general. He finds talking at conferences a great way to truly learn what he shares.

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