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Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America...
May 18-20, 2026
Minneapolis, MN
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Tuesday, May 19
 

11:00am CDT

State of Embedded Linux - Walt Miner, The Linux Foundation
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
This talk offers a comprehensive look at what's changed in the embedded Linux world over the past year. Walt will walk through the latest kernel developments most relevant to embedded developers, survey key userspace projects shaping modern embedded designs, and cover the broader community, industry, and legal landscape — from the status of major processor architectures to initiatives at the Linux Foundation and beyond.

Whether you're tracking changes to subsystems you already rely on or looking for new tools and techniques to improve your workflow, this session will help you stay current in a fast-moving ecosystem. Come find out what's new, what's shifting, and what it means for your embedded Linux work.
Speakers
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Walt Miner

AGL Community Manager, The Linux Foundation

Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:00am - 11:40am CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

11:55am CDT

Easy Bring-up Your RISC-V SBC Using Yocto Project - RISC-V Architecture Layer - Khem Raj, Comcast
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
There are several different RISC-V based single board computers out in market and coming in future. Yocto project, is a leading embedded linux framework, and RISCV is first tier architecture supported in project, core supports RISCV64 QEMU and runs all tests. This talk will discuss using meta-riscv layers to add the support for new RISCV SBCs. meta-riscv has best practices and pre-existing support for known SBCs which can be used as template to bring-up the new board quickly. The talk will cover the content of meta-riscv in detail and the project setups using Kas and the SBC specific documentation using markdown files, detailing the flashing and build instructions, sharing common details but clearly differentiating board specific intructions.
This talk will also cover the challanges and future roadmap for meta-riscv and RISCV architecture support in Yocto Project.
Speakers
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Khem Raj

Fellow, Comcast
Khem Raj is a yocto project maintainer and long time OpenSource contributor to many projects e.g. LLVM, Glibc, Musl, OpenEmbedded etc., he has been helping several open source initiatives in industry. He is guiding the company's adoption of open source software, and becoming an active... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 11:55am - 12:35pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference

2:10pm CDT

Practical Insights Into Interactive Debugging of Linux MMC Block Device Drivers - Akhilesh Patil, Amazon
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
Transitioning from bare-metal firmware development to Linux kernel development presents unique challenges, particularly in debugging methodologies. Traditional approaches such as halting execution via JTAG alone may not straightforwardly work for embedded Linux.

In this presentation we talk about challenges I faced and techniques I came across to debug Linux MMC block device drivers interactively using tools such as T32/GDB debuggers on embedded systems. This talk briefly covers MMC driver and block layer interactions and key golden breakpoints to use for MMC bus driver debugging. I will also discuss tools and techniques to take full control of eMMC block drivers, generating block IO requests as needed, setting up triggers and probing signals on an oscilloscope for detailed waveform level debugging.

key topics: Embedded Linux setup for interactive debug (single CPU, KASLR, WDT, ramfs, RCU, softlocks), strategic SDHCI breakpoints, GPIO-triggered oscilloscope capture signals, handling filesystem mounts; leveraging mmc_test module for generating controlled transactions for debug.
Speakers
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AKHILESH PATIL

Embedded Software Developer, Amazon
Akhilesh is an embedded software engineer at Amazon working with the devices Linux kernel team. He is working on various BSP packages including linux drivers, runtime firmware and bootloaders. He has a background of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and is passionate about embedded... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference
  • Audience Experience Level Any

3:05pm CDT

Microseconds Matter : Benchmarking Thread Synchronization - Gautham Ponnu, The MathWorks
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
This talk aims to analyze the performance of most common Linux synchronization primitives under PREEMPT_RT, comparing their behavior across a range of workloads. We’ll explore how each primitive scales with thread count, handles contention, and impacts determinism. Expect graphs, latency histograms, and a few surprises. If you’re building real-time systems or tuning performance, this session will help you make smarter, faster, and safer decisions.
Speakers
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Gautham Ponnu

Principal Software Engineer & Manager of Engineering, The MathWorks
Gautham Ponnu is a Principal Software Engineer for Real-Time Systems at MathWorks, where he leads development of real-time simulation and hardware-in-the-loop testing tools. With over a decade of experience in embedded and real-time systems, Gautham specializes in real-time synchronization... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 3:05pm - 3:45pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference

4:20pm CDT

Why Demand Is Growing for Linux as a Real Time OS in Embedded IEC 61508/ISO 26262-compliant Systems - Dylan Dawson, Elektrobit
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
As automotive E/E architectures evolve toward centralized high-performance computing (HPC) real-time operating systems (RTOS) need better visibility into system timing behavior. Additionally software defined vehicle (SDV) trends where open, flexible, non-proprietary software stacks are the goal. In this landscape, legacy concepts like dedicated microcontrollers in-service to HPC safety are being challenged. ADAS workloads are balancing HPC compute power with strict time constraint requirements in real-time behavior. Combining mixed-critical workloads on a single HPC platform is a viable solution for OEMs and Tier 1s building perception, control, and safety-relevant HPC domain controller functions. However, the struggle to ensure real-time performance and deterministic timing is an ongoing challenge.
This presentation will demonstrate how Linux can provide measurable, stable, and predictable real-time performance, enabling ADAS teams to run time-critical functions on a modern automotive-grade Linux stack. The audience will gain confidence in a concept which accelerates development for SDV without proprietary RTOS islands, and charters a path to ASIL B/SIL 3 certification
Speakers
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Dylan Dawson

Director of Cross-portfolio Growth & Strategic Alliances - North America, Elektrobit
Dylan Dawson is a North American Director at Elektrobit. His focus is strategic partnerships and product evangelism across in automotive. His experience spans securing design wins with OEMs, expanding market reach for emerging software products, and building strategic alliances across... Read More →
Tuesday May 19, 2026 4:20pm - 5:00pm CDT
208A+B (Level Two)
  Embedded Linux Conference
 
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