2025-02-03 –, Lily Rose
Projects based on OpenEmbedded that are expected to have long lifetimes need to be prepared for updates that may outlast the LTS lifespans. The relatively recent change of LTS lifetime to 4 years is a huge step and makes life easier for many developers. However, there are many industries where the lifetimes are longer than that. Developers in these scenarios need to make decision early in their development regarding how they are going to support these systems after the community support has ended. In this talk we will discuss options for handling this and present some real-life projects we have seen that have faced this issue. After this talk, attendees will be better equipped to start discussions with their own teams to decide the right approach for them.
This talk will provide practical advice, real-world examples, and actionable tips to help you build a sustainable and maintainable OE ecosystem for long-lived projects.
Drew is currently a Technical Solutions Architect for the Torizon Linux system at Toradex. He has worked on embedded projects such as Mender, RAID storage controllers, Direct and Network-attached storage devices, and graphical pagers.
He has spent the last 14 years working in Professional Services helping customers develop production embedded Linux systems. He has spent his career in embedded software and developer tools and has focused on Embedded Linux and Yocto for about 15 years.
Drew has spoken at various conferences, including Embedded World, Embedded Systems Conference, All Systems Go, Embedded Linux Conference, and FOSDEM.