Kazuhiro Hayashi

Build tools for applying Debian to Embedded Systems

When software developers try to apply Linux into their embedded products, they would be able to choose their base system from various distributions today, which could be divided into two kinds; binary based and source code based distributing.

Debian, one of the major binary based distributions, has stability and long-term support from its strong communities, which are essential stuff especially for civil infrastructure system. On the other hand, additional efforts for customizations and management of product releases are sometimes needed to cover various product requirements.

Kazuhiro will introduce approaches for applying Debian into embedded systems with Yocto Project build tools. In this talk, he will show some possibilities in combining Debian and benefits from Yocto Project, examples of customizations and resource managements, lessens learned from product developments thus far, and future plans for getting better affinity with Debian and other communities.

Cross-building Debian packages and rebootstrap

Cross-building Debian packages is important topic for embedded developers. Many activities are there for cross-building or tooling for that in debian-embedded, debian-cross and others.

In this BoF, the following topics would be discussed (and others are welcome) to share the current development state of cross-building, clarify new issues to be solved, and future plan of such kind of activities.

• Recent issues in debian-cross
• How to share efforts (i.e. patches, testing, investigation) for cross-building packages
• Infrastructure for cross-building packages (cross-buildd?)
• Involving people who are interested in this topic (info in PTS, etc.)
• Documentating using Wiki to share information
• And more…