Name: Snag It, Flash It, Ship It: Rethinking Factory Flashing With Open Tools - Romain Gantois, Bootlin & Paresh Bhagat, Texas Instruments
Start: 2025-08-25T09:55:00+0200
End: 2025-08-25T10:35:00+0200

25-27, August 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Monday August 25, 2025 09:55 - 10:35 CEST

D201

Factory flashing is a critical stage in the lifecycle of any embedded product. It can quickly become a bottleneck in the supply chain, and its correct execution is essential to ensure that shipped devices are both fully functional and secure. Today’s available tools are often closed-source and tightly coupled to specific vendors, limiting flexibility and making customization difficult.

In 2023, Bootlin introduced Snagboot—an open-source, vendor-agnostic tool designed for recovering and reflashing embedded platforms. Building on this foundation, Bootlin and Texas Instruments collaborated in 2024 to expand Snagboot into a comprehensive factory flashing solution, maintaining its open-source and vendor-neutral nature.

In this talk, we’ll present Snagboot as a recovery and reflashing solution, highlighting its core tools, snagrecover and snagflash. We’ll then dive into the unique challenges of factory flashing and explain how our extended toolset—Snagfactory—addresses them effectively.

Speakers

Romain Gantois

Embedded Linux and kernel engineer and trainer, Bootlin

Romain's journey at Bootlin started with his end of studies internship, during which he developed Snagboot, an open-source and vendor-agnostic embedded platform recovery and reflashing tool. He is currently still maintaining Snagboot, which has attracted several contributions since... Read More →

Paresh Bhagat

Embedded Software Engineer, Texas Instruments

I am an Embedded Software Engineer at Texas Instruments with nearly 3 years of experience in developing and integrating solutions for embedded Linux systems. My work spans across multiple areas including Hypervisor like Jailhouse, custom Linux build systems using Buildroot and Yocto... Read More →

Monday August 25, 2025 09:55 - 10:35 CEST
D201

Embedded Linux Conference

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Open Source Summit Europe 2025

Romain Gantois

Paresh Bhagat

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