Best of Recent

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Best of Recent CELF Conferences July 25, 2008
Tim Bird CELF Architecture Group Chair
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What is this presentation about?

• Just FYI
• CELF has lots of events
• Lots of material is presented at these events
• Unfortunately, most people dont know about it
• Regional events in Asia are in local language
• Most presentations are translated
• This is an overview of material from different
  events

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CELF events

• Embedded Linux Conference
• Worldwide (ELC) once a year in April, in the
  U.S.
• European (ELCE) once a year in the fall
• Next one is November 6,7 in Ede, The Netherlands
• Japan Jamborees (JJ)
• Every other month, in Tokyo
• Korean Technical Jamboree (KTJ)
• Periodically probably have fourth one this fall

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Topic areas

• Bootup Time
• Browsers
• Distributions
• File Systems
• Graphics
• Memory Management
• Mobile Phone
• Power Management

• Processor/Platform
• RealTime
• Security
• Size
• Tools
• Tracing
• Advice/Tips for Acting within Community
• Advocacy

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Bootup Time

• Bootchart lite (lightning talk) Shuuji Miyake
  (JJ16)
• Parallelizing Linux boot on CE Devices - Vitaly
  Wool (ELCE07)
• Evaluation and improvement of Bootchart - K.
  Yasui (JJ18)
• TP TimeMeasure, A tool to masure application
  software startup time - Yoichi Yuasa (JJ19)
• Instant Startup for Application Using Reducing
  Relocation Time and Rearrange Function - Min-Chan
  Kim (ELC08)
• Fast Booting of Embedded Linux - Ho-Jun Park
  (KTJ3)

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Browsers

• WebKit on Linux and How It Compares to Other Open
  Source Engines - Holger Freyther (ELCE07)
• Embedding a Mozilla Based Browser - Sampo
  Nurmentaus (ELCE07)

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Distributions

• The PokyLinux Distribution Mobile GNOME at Your
  Fingertips - Dodji Seketeli (ELCE07)
• Maemo Mobile Linux Platform, Current Status and
  Future Directions Kate Alhola (ELC08)
• Roll-Your-Own Linux the Easy Way with LTIB
  Stuart Hughes (ELC08)
• Building Custom Embedded Linux Distributions
  (using OpenEmbedded) Matt Locke (ELC08)
• UME - Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded - David Mandala
  (ELC08)

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File Systems

• JFFS2/YAFFS explanation and comparison of
  mounting time - K. Yano (JJ17)
• Improving JFFS2 RAM Usage and Performance -
  Alexey Korolev (ELCE07)
• Introduction to LogFS - Jörn Engel (ELCE07)
• YAFFS - Wookey (ELCE07)
• The Comparison of Flash File system performace-
  JFFS2, YAFFS, LogFS -Katsuki Uwatoko (JJ19)

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File Systems (cont.)

• AXFS Architecture and Results Jared Hulbert
  (ELC08)
• Filesystem Support on Multi Level Cell (MLC)
  Flash in Open Source - Kyungmin Park (ELC08)

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Graphics

• Writing DirectFB gfxdriver For Your Embedded
  System - Takanari Hayama (ELCE07)
• DirectFB Internals - Things You Need to Know to
  Write Your DirectFB gfxdriver - Takanari Hayama
  (ELC08)
• Adding Framebuffer support for Freescale SoCs -
  York Sun (ELC08)
• Gstreamer and OpenMAX IL plug and play - Felipe
  Contreras (ELC08)

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Memory Management

• Asymmetric NUMA Multiple-Memory Management For
  The Rest of Us Paul Mundt (ELCE07, JJ19)
• Implementation of Memory management method for
  embedded systems using CABI - Miyake (JJ18)
• Swap usage in embedded system (Korean) - Seung-Ho
  Park (KTJ2)
• Avoiding Out-Of-Memory on Embedded Linux
  Young-Joon Jang (KTJ2, ELC08)
• Dependable Memory management system for Embedded
  Linux (Japanese) - Yamamoto (JJ20)

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Mobile Phone

• Development of Mobile Linux Open Platform
  (Android) - Junji Kondo (JJ18, ELC08)

GPE Phone Edition - An Open Source Software Stack
for Linux Mobile Phones
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Power Management

• A Power Management Architecture For Mobile
  Devices - Matthew Locke (ELCE07)
• Linux Suspend-to-Disk Objectives for Consumer
  Electronic Devices Vitaly Wool (ELCE07)
• Linux Clock Management Framework - Siarhei
  Yermalayeu (ELCE07)
• A Dynamic Voltage and Current Control Interface
  for the Linux Kernel Liam Girdwood (ELC08)

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Power Management (cont.)

• Power Management Quality of Service and How You
  Could Use it in Your Embedded Application Mark
  Gross (ELC08)
• Building Blocks for Embedded Power Management
  Kevin Hillman (ELC08)
• Linux System Power Management on OMAP3430 -
  Richard Woodruff (ELC08)

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Processor/Platform

• CELL BE - H. Machida (ELCE07)
• ARM procedure call standard Hee Seo (KTJ2)

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RealTime

• Recent new Features in NPTL - Hiroki Kumagai
  (JJ16)
• Covers priority inheritance mutexes
• CABI, CPU Resource Allocator development status -
  Y. Yuasa (JJ17)
• Status Overview of Real-Time Thomas Gleixner
  (ELCE07)
• RT Patch for Cell EB - Patch Status and
  Performance Measurements - Tsutomu Owa (ELCE07)
• Using Real-Time Linux - Klaas van Gend (ELC08)
• Real-Time Virtualization Solutions for Linux - A
  Comparison of Strategies - Nicholas McGuire
  (ELC08)
• Adventures In Real-Time Performance Tuning -
  Frank Rowand (ELC08)
• The Completely Fair Scheduler - Thomas Gleixner
  (KTJ3)
• Designing a Realtime System with MV Linux-
  Seung-Ryong Kwon (KTJ3)

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Security

• Knoppix 5.1.1 for Trusted Computing Geeks -
  K.Suzaki (JJ17)
• Trusted Secure Isolation For Embedded Linux
  Hadi Nahari (ELCE07)
• Development of Embedded SELinu - Yuichi Nakamura
  (JJ18, ELC08)
• Performance evaluation of Secure OS using LSM -
  Naoto Matsuda (JJ18)
• Recent Security Features and Issues in Embedded
  Systems - KaiGai Kohei (ELC08)

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Security (cont.)

• Avoiding Web Application Flaws in Embedded
  Devices Jake Edge (ELC08)
• How to Analyze Your Linux's Behavior with TOMOYO
  Linux - Kentaro Takeda (ELC08)

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Size

• Compressed Cache (JJ16)
• Linux-tiny update Satoru Ueda (for Tim Bird)
  (JJ17)
• Linux Tiny - The Diet Must Go On Michael
  Opdenacker (ELCE07)
• Compressed Swap Solution for Embedded Linux -
  Alexander Belyakov (ELC08)
• Kernel Size Report, and Bloatwatch Update Matt
  Mackall (ELC08)
• Linux Tiny - Penguin Weight Watchers Thomas
  Petazzoni (ELC08)

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Tools

• TimeDoctor - Francois Audeon (ELCE07)
• Using a JTAG for Linux Driver Debugging Mike
  Anderson (ELC08)
• How GCC Works, An Embedded Engineer's Perspective
  Gene Sally (ELC08)
• Embedded Linux Development with Eclipse - JT
  Thomas (ELC08)
• Scratch Box on cross compile environment
  (Japanese) Kobayashi (JJ20)
• Scratch Box on cross compile environment - part 2
  (Japanese) Fuse (JJ21)

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Tracing

• KFT on PPC Tsutomu Owa (JJ16)
• OProfile porting on MIPS architecture - Takehiko
  Nagano (JJ16)
• Episodes of LKST for Embedded Linux Systems -
  Hirohisa Iijima (ELC08)
• Function-Call Backtracing based on MIPS
  architecture Linux System - Jong-Sung Kim (KTJ3)

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Tutorials/ Development tips

• Dynamic Linking 3 Tetsuyuki Kobayashi (JJ16)
• Learning Kernel Hacking from clever people Hugh
  Blemings (ELC08)

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Advice/Tips for Acting within Community

• To Go Along with Community Shibata (3-JJ17)
  (4-JJ18)
• Experiences Posting Patches to the Community -
  Nakamura (JJ16)
• Free Software, Licensing and Business Processes -
  Shane Martin Coughlan (ELCE07)
• Methods to Protect Proprietary Components in
  Device Drivers Matt Porter (ELCE07)
• From the world of CommunityDavid Woodhouse
  (JJ19, KTJ2)
• The Relationship Between kernel.org Development
  and the Use of Linux for Embedded Applications  -
  Andrew Morton (ELC08)

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Advice/Tips for Acting within Community (cont.)

• Appropriate Community Practices Social and
  Technical Advice - Deepak Saxena (ELC08)
• The Discrimination Method of GPL License
  Violation on Embedded Products - Kyung-Ae Kim
  (KTJ3)

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Advocacy

• Advantage of Linux for use of Embedded systems
  (JJ18)

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Guidelines

• Check eLinux.org past events periodically
• Follow links to events
• Look for interesting stuff
• If information (presentation or translation) is
  missing, ask about it on celinux-dev_at_tree.celinuxf
  orum.org
• If you are really kind, try to see if its
  already linked to from an appropriate area on
  eLinux.org
• If not, link it!
• (You have my permission)

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