Open Source Summit Europe 2025: Full Schedule

25-27, August 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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09:00 CEST

Software ISP FOSS Support for MIPI Cameras - Hans de Goede, Red Hat & Bryan O'Donoghue, Linaro

Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:00 - 09:40 CEST

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Many recent Windows (on ARM and x86) laptops have replaced the standard UVC USB camera module with a raw MIPI camera-sensor using a CSI receiver and ISP in the CPU to process the raw data into an image (and on smartphones this has been the norm for ages).

Supporting these cameras under Linux is an ongoing challenge. At FOSDEM 2024 a solution using a software ISP running on the CPU was presented as a solution to get these cameras to work with a fully opensource stack.

This talk will look at where support for MIPI cameras using the software ISP is at now, 1.5 years later, mainly focusing on the ubiquitous x86 laptops using cameras connected to Intel's IPU6.

Depending on ongoing work this will include a demo of recent developments such as running the software ISP on the GPU and the first FOSS color-corrected images from an IPU6 attached sensor with the color calibration done using all FOSS tools.

Speakers

Hans de Goede

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Hans de Goede is a FOSS developer and enthusiast with 20 years of experience. He is a maintainer for the kernel’s x86 platform drivers subsystem.

Bryan O'Donoghue

Software Engineer, Linaro

Embedded developer, Dublin/Europe

Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:00 - 09:40 CEST
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Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

09:50 CEST

Powering Up: Lab Automation With Labgrid and CI - Tim Orling, Konsulko Group & Trevor Gamblin, BayLibre

Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:50 - 10:30 CEST

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How do you automate your day-to-day embedded software development workflow - if you do? In today's fast-moving world, automation is all-but-essential. In addition to development speed and efficiency, we need it to be confident that our changes are not breaking anything and to continuously keep up with upstream changes and security fixes. Toward this objective, we will explain how to get started with a GitLab runner for continuous integration, and combining it with Labgrid and pytest for automating testing on hardware at your desk. Our target device will be a BeaglePlay booting a Debian OS with the goal of a tight development loop for kernel drivers and devicetrees. We will also discuss how to incorporate that into a more "product" focused testing loop with the help of the Yocto Project. Most importantly, we'll explain why this is such a power-up for the developer by sharing our own experiences and how they've been improved by adopting the workflow we've described. After automating your personal development workflow, we’ll explore community initiatives like KernelCI that are using similar tools for automated builds & tests at scale.

Speakers

Tim Orling

Principal Software Engineer, Konsulko Group

Tim Orling is a Principal Software Engineer at Konsulko Group. Tim was elected to the OpenEmbedded Board in 2022 and the OE TSC in 2023. He has spent many years as a volunteer developer for OE and the Yocto Project. He has been an open source software and hardware enthusiast for many... Read More →

Trevor Gamblin

Embedded Linux Developer, BayLibre

Trevor Gamblin is an embedded Linux developer at BayLibre. He is a contributor to many projects but is especially focused on the Yocto Project, the Linux kernel, and all things Python. He has a background in wireless communication systems and physics.

Wednesday August 27, 2025 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
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Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Experience Level Beginner

11:00 CEST

Automotive Grade Linux - Evolution and Lessons Learned From 10 Years of Community Management - Walt Miner, The Linux Foundation

Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST

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Walt joined the Automotive Grade Linux Project in 2014 as the Community Manager. The community span the world with a variety of cultural and technical backgrounds. During those ten years we have experienced drastic changes on both the technical and business sides of the project as well as a global pandemic. Walt will share his lessons learned from last ten years and how we plan to continue to support the community for the next ten years.

Speakers

Walt Miner

Senior Director, AGL Community and Project Manager, The Linux Foundation

Walt Miner is the Senior Director of Community at The Linux Foundation and has served as Community Manager for Automotive Grade Linux since 2014. Walt has spoken at numerous conferences throughout the worlds and brings over 30 years of embedded software development and management... Read More →

Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
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Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Experience Level Beginner

11:55 CEST

U-Boot in the Fast Lane: Developing a Safety Test Framework for Automotive Applications - Neha Francis, Texas Instruments

Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST

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This session presents a proposal for a Safety Test framework in U-Boot. We use the ongoing integration effort of a Built-In Self Test (BIST) driver as an example and dive into the challenges we face during upstreaming it. In systems with heterogeneous SoCs such as the Texas Instruments (TI) K3 family, U-Boot may be required to bootstrap not just Linux running cores but also other MCUs running safe operating systems. Running safety tests on these cores would mean drivers execute safety diagnostics both triggering HW tests e.g. BIST, POST, JTAG etc. as well as SW e.g. STLs and SDLs prior to booting the MCU. At present, lack of a clear, dedicated subsystem leads to categorizing safety-related drivers under misc/. While this is a convenient approach, it may not be scalable as safety use-cases and applications increase.

The need of such a framework would be inevitable following the increase in safety-driven automotive systems. It could become a useful precursor to enabling ELISA systems and starting safe RTOSes. It would also benefit systems using Linux ecosystems such as RedHat's In-Vehicle Operating System (RHIVOS). A Safety Test uclass framework would be proposed in this session.

Speakers

Neha Francis

Embedded Software Engineer, Texas Instruments

Neha Malcom Francis is a Software Engineer working in Texas Instruments in the Linux Core Product Development Team for Jacinto Processors. Neha mainly works on U-Boot development along with assisting customer requirements.

Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
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Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

14:10 CEST

The Bootloader: An Underestimated Risk To Embedded Linux Security - Richard Weinberger, sigma star gmbh

Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST

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As regulations like the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) drive the adoption of stronger security measures, features such as verified and secure boot are becoming increasingly common. Within this context, the bootloader plays a crucial role in establishing the chain of trust for embedded Linux systems. This talk will explore security vulnerabilities in popular bootloaders that can undermine the effectiveness of verified boot. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of these risks and learn practical techniques to mitigate them, ultimately improving the security posture of embedded devices.

Speakers

Richard Weinberger

CTO, sigma star gmbh

Richard Weinberger is co-founder of sigma star gmbh where he offers consulting services around Linux and IT security.

Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
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Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

15:05 CEST

How and Why Do the Bad Guys Attack Embedded Products? - Marta Rybczynska, Ygreky

Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST

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Unlike traditional IT systems, embedded devices are often physically accessible to attackers. This key difference shapes both the threats and the methods used to exploit them.

In this talk, Marta will explore the attacker's mindset and approach: what they see, how they think, and where they strike - using real-world examples from recent years. She will walk through physical interfaces, software stacks, and the often-overlooked organizational and social "features" that open the door to compromise.

Participants will learn how to map the attack surface of their own products and build a so-called "threat model" of their.

To wrap up, Marta will share practical recommendations to avoid the most common pitfalls - and reflect on what has (and hasn’t) changed since Jake Edge’s observations at ELC 2009.

Speakers

Marta Rybczynska

Technical Program Manager, Security Team, Eclipse Foundation/Ygreky

Marta Rybczynska has a network security background, with 20 years of experience in Open Source. She has worked with embedded operating systems like Linux and various real-time OSes, and with system libraries and frameworks up to user interfaces. She has been involved in various Open... Read More →

Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
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Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

16:20 CEST

Yocto or Debian for Your Embedded System? Yes. - Alan Martinovic, Northern.tech

Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST

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Many embedded products start with a stock Debian image. It’s quick to get started and familiar from laptop installations, but what works for prototyping becomes a liability as the product matures. A stock installation created directly on the device—by clicking through menus and tweaking settings at runtime—gets frozen into a fragile “golden image” that breaks as soon as you need reproducibility or more than a few people work on the device.

On the other hand, Yocto gives you full control—down to the exact version of systemd or how 'ls' gets built... even when you don't want to. It’s powerful, but comes with a steep learning curve, long build times, and complexity that feels overwhelming in the early stages of development.

This talk is about a third approach. By reusing prebuilt Debian packages, you can assemble a custom OS without relying on the golden image or Yocto. We’ll look at how this model works and show hands-on examples of building minimal images with several tools and how it compares to the other two approaches.

Speakers

Alan Martinovic

Senior Customer Engineer, Northern.tech

I've been working with embedded Linux for over 10 years, covering everything from low-level systems to full product experiences and customer-facing work. These days, I help teams handle device lifecycle challenges and roll out OTA updates. Along the way, I've worked with a bunch of... Read More →

Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
D201

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Experience Level Intermediate