Sessions at OSCON 2011 about Embedded Systems

Wednesday 27th July 2011

• Delivering Predictability: The Yocto Project Autobuilder

  by Elizabeth Flanagan and jefro_net

  See how the Yocto Project is able to deliver quality builds for embedded Linux with buildbot, automated sanity testing, license collection and auditing, and build statistics and history tracking.

  • Embedded Systems

  At 4:10pm to 4:50pm, Wednesday 27th July

  In D139/140, Oregon Convention Center

Thursday 28th July 2011

• The Caffeinated Plug Computing Tutorial

  by Federico Lucifredi

  You can now easily place a trivially sized computing device anywhere a power plug is present. This fast paced session will provide a complete, hands-on review of the currently available Plug format devices, their capabilities, advantages and pitfalls. We will demonstrate development and debugging on the most recent Sheevaplug-class device as a hands-on introduction to embedded Linux environments.

  • Embedded Systems
  • Linux

  At 11:30am to 12:10pm, Thursday 28th July

  In Portland 251, Oregon Convention Center

• Pandaboard: A Stellar Open Platform

  by Bryan Smith

  Pandaboard is the Goliath of Open Hardware Embedded Platforms. A Dual-core Arm Cortex A9 processor aND 1GB of DDR2 RAM make it ideal for a myraid of use scenarios. Pandaboard touts an HDMI interface, Hardware accelerated 1080p HD video playback, 802.11n Wifi, Bluetooth, and USB OTG all on an Omap 4 platform. Have fun exploring this amazing Open Hardware platform up close and personal.

  • Embedded Systems
  • Open Hardware

  At 5:00pm to 5:40pm, Thursday 28th July

  In Portland 251, Oregon Convention Center

Friday 29th July 2011

• 12 Years of Copyleft License Compliance: A Historical Perspective

  by bkuhn

  This talk surveys the FLOSS copyleft compliance problems that were and are encountered, and how they have changed historically. Much progress has been made since the 1990s, but widespread adoption of GPL'd and LGPL'd software in embedded systems has led to more violations than ever before. This talk explains how our community meets these challenges to improve worldwide copyleft compliance.

  • Embedded Systems
  • GNU Public License
  • Legal
  • Licensing
  • Open Source

  At 11:00am to 11:40am, Friday 29th July

  In E146, Oregon Convention Center