Accelerated Mainline Linux Development Ahead of SoC Availability - Bryan Brattlof & Praneeth Bajjuri

Accelerated Mainline Linux Development Ahead of SoC Availability - Bryan Brattlof & Praneeth Bajjuri, Texas Instruments
All the work that goes into conceptualizing and designing all the multi-media and crypto accelerators, the GPUs, PRUs, DSPs, CPUs and everything else that goes into modern chips and the complexity this brings, we would be foolish not to test the design before spending the millions of dollars needed to produce a chip. Typically this means we will have Linux booting on these (simulated) devices long before these designs are ever etched into silicon. Join Bryan as he talks about how Texas Instruments uses the time they spend on pre-silicon development and testing to begin fixing bugs and adding support to the Linux kernel for all the chips TI produces each year long before silicon arrives at our desk.