Episode 31
Drew Moseley From Toradex
Discussion with Drew about Embedded Linux, technologies, and challenges.
The TMPDIR podcast · Cliff Brake and Khem Raj
May 18, 202448m 0s
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Show Notes
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In this episode, we had a great discussion with Drew about:
- Drew’s career – many interesting companies
- Toradex
- manufacturers SOMs (System-on-Module)
- started out providing WinCE solutions
- Torizon
- opinionated stack
- fully integration solution
- container runtime – allows developers to deploy applications without knowing much about Linux
- customize OS without doing Yocto builds
- Visual Studio Code plugin
- simplifies management of Docker images, containers, cross compilation, remote debugging, etc.
- Torizon device side software is OSS
- SW update system
- many options: Mendor, RAUC, SWUpdate, OSTree
- Toradex uses OSTree
- OSTree is file based for delta updates, where RAUC and SWUpdate are block based.
- single partition
- Git-like store where changes can be rolled back, etc.
- read-only rootfs
- Uptane is provides protection against attackers
- Greenboot – used to verify system is functioning properly
- Toradex’s upstream first policy
- Challenges in developing with Embedded Linux
- drinking from the OSS firehose
- understanding all the components
- realistic expectations about how long this stuff takes to develop
- regulations
- The future
- immutable distros
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