Updated: 2009-06-22

LSM/RMLL 2009

Libre Software Meeting - Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre 2009

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS & OPEN HARDWARE

 

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CONTEXT

The LSM/RMLL '09 meeting is organized at Nantes, FRANCE during the 7th to 11th july 2009.

The embedded systems are increasingly present in our life. The embedded system community usually used commercial software solutions with royalties to reverse each time a system is sold. Since few years, a reversal of tendency has appeared with the use of free software for embedded systems. That is made possible by the adaptation of the Linux kernel to the constraints of atypical embedded system (no MMU, small memory footprint, filesystem in FLASH memory...) and its port on various types of processors. The purpose of this session is to give the state of the art of free software for embedded systems.

• Growing interest in using free software for embedded systems.

• Designing, testing, developping and profiling embedded systems using free software.

• Maintaining, following and industrializing embedded systems using free software

• Feedback on proprietary to free software migrations.

• Sharing Intellectual Property blocs (IP) in ASIC/FPGA design as well as integration schematics of the chips.

• Is there a limit in opening up the hardware?

• Lack of proper open hardware license which would cover the printed circuit boards, schematics…

• Is it possible to promote Open Hardware and make business of it?

   

• Florian Fainelli. florian.fainelli@openpattern.org
• Patrice Kadionik, Associate Professor. eddy33.kadionik@enseirb.fr
• Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons. thomas.petazzoni@enix.org
• Pierre Ficheux, CTO OpenWide. Pierre. pierre.ficheux@openwide.fr

FINAL PROGRAM