Michael Opdenacker, Root Commit
Michael Opdenacker is a consultant and trainer specialized in embedded Linux, working at Root Commit (https://rootcommit.com).
Michael is a contributor to OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project, and spoke about Yocto at multiple Yocto events and at international conferences.
Michael also offers a 4-day training course about OpenEmbedded and Yocto, using innovative teaching and learning techniques: https://rootcommit.com/training/yocto/.
Sessions
Who said that Yocto comes only with 4 years of support? BitBake is so flexible that it's very easy to use the latest release to support very old hardware and games with very little added code. I'll show you how to create kernel and bootloader recipes to support a 17 year old board, tweak the device tree to add an I2C joystick, create a new machine, create a new recipe for an old game, and even a custom distribution to play PacMan on an ASCII display, using the joystick.
Zero polygons, infinite possibilities!
During this session, take a 5 minutes slot to join the stage and share what you're doing with Yocto - New recipes, new layers, new tooling, or just what you're trying to do and the challenges you're facing.
If you are interested, add your name to https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Yocto_Project_Workshop_Embedded_Recipes_2025 or ask me to do it.
This session is meant to spark experience sharing and create collaboration opportunities between participants. You can even join the stage without slides.