Porting U-Boot and Linux on New ARM Boards: A Step-by-Step Guide – Quentin Schulz, Free Electrons

October 28, 2023

May it be because of a lack of documentation or because we don’t know where to look or where to start, it is not always easy to get started with U-Boot or Linux, and know how to port them to a new ARM platform.

Based on experience porting modern versions of U-Boot and Linux on a custom Freescale/NXP i.MX6 platform, this talk will offer a step-by-step guide through the porting process. From board files to Device Trees, through Kconfig, device model, defconfigs, and tips and tricks, join this talk to discover how to get U-Boot and Linux up and running on your brand new ARM platform!

About Quentin Schulz
Quentin joined Free Electrons in mid-2016 as an embedded Linux engineer after spending a 6-months internship designing, building and integrating a farm to Kernel CI. He has been especially working on adding support for the ADC of Allwinner SoCs and for power supplies drivers of X-Powers PMICs, often seen on the same boards. He spoke about kernel Continuous Integration with LAVA and KernelCI at the 2016 ELCE in Berlin.

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