Conference Talks

Sweeten Your Yocto Build Times with Icecream

Learn how Icecream’s distributed compilation can accelerate Yocto builds, with testing results, configuration guidance, and practical deployment tips.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Why and How of libseccomp

Learn how libseccomp simplifies Linux syscall filtering and build a seccomp filter to reduce the attack surface of untrusted processes.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Breaking and Protecting Linux Kernel Stack

Explores Linux kernel stack attacks and evaluates protections including guard pages, stack initialization, and randomized stack offsets, with attention to performance implications.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

How to Write a Linux Security Module

Learn to design Linux Security Modules using kernel hooks and security blobs, with filesystem, process, networking, and audit interfaces.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Exploiting Buffer Overflows on RISC-V

Learn how buffer overflow exploitation differs on RISC-V, including stack manipulation, assembler shellcode, and ret2libc techniques.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Why the Yocto Project for My IoT Project

An overview of the Yocto Project as a flexible Linux build system for IoT and embedded devices.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Building Container Images with OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project

Build custom container images with OpenEmbedded and Yocto, focusing on reproducibility, security vulnerability fixing, image size, and license compliance.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Linux and Zephyr - Talking to Each Other in the Same SoC

See how Linux and Zephyr share data across heterogeneous cores in one SoC using RPMsg.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Uh-oh, It's I/O Ordering!

A practical guide to Linux I/O-ordering barriers for drivers, explaining when to use memory, DMA, and endpoint barriers without sacrificing performance.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Strategies for Developing and Deploying Your Embedded Applications and Images

Compare package management, boot, and OTA update strategies for deploying applications and images to embedded Linux devices.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Managing Linux Kernel Configurations with Config Fragments

Learn how configuration fragments make Linux kernel choices deliberate, granular, and easier to manage across kernel versions and upgrades.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Using Seccomp to Limit the Kernel Attack Surface

Learn how seccomp uses BPF programs to filter system calls and reduce the Linux kernel attack surface.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Device Security in IoT

Explore IoT device security principles, secure boot, roots of trust, authentication, firmware updates, and platform security architecture through Trusted Firmware-M and PSA.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Primer - Testing Your Embedded System - What is a ptest, Lava, Fuego, KernelCI and More

Compare frameworks for testing embedded Linux systems, from Yocto ptest and Fuego to LAVA, labgrid, and KernelCI.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Buildroot vs Yocto - Differences for Your Daily Job

Compare Buildroot and Yocto through a practical translation table for bootstrapping projects, building systems, customizing root filesystems, and adapting recipes.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk