Tim Orling
Tim Orling is a Principal Software Engineer at Konsulko Group. Tim joined Konsulko Group at the end of 2021. Tim was elected to the OpenEmbedded Board in 2022. He has spent many years as a volunteer developer for OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project. He has been an open source software and embedded hardware enthusiast for many years. He taught in a university setting for more than 5 years and has given many well-received training sessions and technical talks at conferences. Tim is currently working in areas of over the air updates, secure boot and disk encryption. Tim has driven updates in the Python recipe infrastructure to keep up with upstream packaging changes and the introduction of Rust extensions. Tim has been tinkering at home with microcontrollers via Zephyr Project, MicroPython and CircuitPython.
Sessions
The Linux kernel is a key component of your board support package (BSP). In this session, we will discuss various practical ways of building the Linux kernel in the Yocto Project. We will cover building a traditional git tree and defconfig, an out-of-tree kernel module, a linux-yocto based kernel, adding kernel fragments for additional functionality and other common workflow patterns. This session will be a combination of a talk and hands-on labs.
Upstream Python has deprecated ‘distulils’ and is moving towards ‘pyproject.toml’ instead of ‘setup.py’. In this talk you will learn what changed in the Yocto Project classes and recipes for Python packages in the 4.0 ‘kirkstone’ release. You will also learn about how to look at an upstream ‘pyproject.toml’ and determine which of the new classes to use instead of ‘setuptools3’. We will also discuss recipes for packages that add Rust extensions for Python.