[Buildroot] Buildroot at the Libre Software Meeting 2012, 10-12 July, Geneva

[Buildroot] Buildroot at the Libre Software Meeting 2012, 10-12 July, Geneva

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

The Libre Software Meeting is a free software conference that will take
place from July 7th to July 12th in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference
entrance is free.

This conference will have talks on a wide range of topics, but amongst
them, there will be an "Embedded Systems and Open Hardware" track, in
which there will be numerous talks, including talks about Buildroot.

About Buildroot:

 * On Wednesday 11th July, 17:00 to 17:40, I will give a general
   presentation of Buildroot.

 * On Thursday 12th July, 14:00 to 17:00, I will teach a practical
   workshop about Buildroot, with hands-on practicing.

The rest of the topic schedule is as follows (will be announced soon on
the official conference website) :

 * Tuesday 10th July

   - 14:00 - 14:40, A look through the Android Stack, Maxime Ripard,
     Free Electrons
   - 14:40 - 15:20, OsciPrime, An Open Source Android Oscilloscope,
     Manuel Di Cerbo and Andreas Rudolf, Nexus Computing
   - 15:20 - 16:00, Make a free camera fly with free hardware, ?ric
     Boudrand
   - 16:20 - 17:00, Open hardware and the future of cinema, Micheal
     Green
   - 17:00 - 17:40, Open Telecom: From software to hardware,
     Alexander Chemeris and Sergey Portnoy, Fairwaves

 * Wednesday 11th July

   - 9:20 - 10:00, OpenHardware at CERN, Javier Serrano, CERN
   - 10:00 - 10:40, Migen, a Python toolbox for building complex
     digital hardware, Sebastien Bourdeauducq
   - 11:00 - 11:40, A Tale of Two Sims, Mike Frysinger, Google (and
     Blackfin/uClibc and much more)
   - 16:20 - 17:00, Introduction to cross compilation, Yann E.
     Morin, Crosstool-NG
   - 17:00 - 17:40, Buildroot: a nice, simple and efficient embedded
     Linux build system, Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons

 * Thursday 12th July

   - 9:20 - 10:00, NAND Flash memory under Linux, Matthieu Castet and
     Ivan Djelic, Parrot
   - 10:00 - 10:40, Linux kernel on ARM: consolidation work, Thomas
     Petazzoni, Free Electrons
   - 11:00 - 11:40, U-Boot driver model, Marek Va?ut, Denx
   - 11:40 - 12:20, Minimizing boot times using U-Boot "Falcon" mode,
     Wolfgang Denk, Denx
   - 14:00 - 17:00, Buildroot workshop, Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons

There will also be interesting talks in the "Operating system" track.
Don't hesitate to book your flights or train tickets to Geneva to join
us!

Best regards,

Thomas Petazzoni
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com