We are thrilled to announce that KOAN, a leading embedded software engineering company based in Italy, is officially member of NXP Partner Program

This article explores the powerful capabilities of Auditd, a crucial tool for security auditing in Linux embedded systems. Learn how to configure Auditd, monitor system calls, track changes to vital files, and ensure compliance with security standards. With practical installation steps and usage techniques, this guide equips you with the knowledge to enhance system security and monitor activities effectively.

Starting this autumn, we will resume offering in-person courses, both public and private, directly at companies around the world. Our first in-person public course will be held in Bergamo, Italy, in November. This will be a comprehensive four-day course on Linux embedded and Yocto Project, focusing on a board with an NXP i.MX8MM CPU. The course will include several exercises for managing additional peripherals (I2C, SPI and GPIO) mounted on an dedicated expansion board.

Time management on 32bit Linux machines has always been done with signed 32bit type. These type present a problem: in 2038 the 32bit space will run out and the time count will return to 13/12/1901.

KOAN is supporting with Yocto Project the new Texas Instruments (TI) AM62x System-on-Chip This SoC offers impressive capabilities to meet diverse project needs. Our company is here to help you harness the power of this dynamic duo.

The Yocto Project Developer Day is a one-day presentation and hands-on training event that puts you in direct contact with Yocto Project technical experts and developers. Its primary aim is to show developers how to create, customize, and optimize Linux distributions for embedded devices using the rich features, tools, and content of Yocto Project. The knowledgeable and engaging instructors help you better understand topics like build system workflow, working with containers, building applications, optimizing images, hardening your devices, and leveraging tools like devtool. You have also a chance to network and put your new skills to work.

A free guide to programming Linux kernel modules and device drivers. An excellent guide for anyone wishing to get started on kernel module programming.

Despite the challenges the pandemic has thrown our way, the Yocto Project team is very happy about the progress accomplished last year! Many thanks to everyone from the Yocto Project membership and community!

Due to a very frequent requests for an updated version we decided to provide an unofficial Yocto Project 2.7 'warrior' setup system for Engicam iMX6 boards family.

On February 2, 2020, GitHub took a snapshot of all active public repositories on GitHub to archive in the vault. GitHub plan was for their team to fly to Svalbard, Norway and save the most important open source projects for future generations. We’re happy to report that KOAN was admitted to the program.

We are currently working to complete activities started before the lockdown but more surprisingly we started new projects too, because companies that want to remain competitive must take advantage of this moment for a rapid recovery. With our services we help companies as always and more than before by offering solutions to speed up their time to market. Here you can learn what we have been doing.

KOAN is now offering all training as online courses. Our goal is not to reduce our teaching service to providing a mere seminar where participants listen passively, but rather continue to follow our participatory teaching style. For this reason, the sessions will still have 'hands-on' workshops although more limited and compatible with the material available from each. Read below for more details.

KOAN CEO Marco Cavallini has been nominated the first european "Yocto Project ambassador" in recognition of the continued support, promotion and help for the growth of the Yocto Project community. A Yocto Project Ambassador actively promote, create and deliver assets that drive technical audiences to adopt the Yocto Project. Nominations are made based on activity as education and teaching, contribute to social media or other online channels which promote the project.

Marco Cavallini presented a talk during the Yocto Project summit 2019 in Lyon, France. This presentation described how to strenghten the Yocto Project deployments using the Autobuilder2. Autobuilder2 is a project based on Buildbot which is a software development continuous integration tool which automates the compile or test cycle required to validate changes to the project code base.

Yocto Project can nowadays be considered the 'de facto' standard among the automated generation systems of embedded linux distributions. Experienced users appreciate the features offered by Yocto Project and its complete customization that allows to adapt it to any specific requirement. However, from the beginner's point of view, the situation is a bit more complicated due to the Yocto Project's particularly steep learning curve. The tools that can support the development with Yocto Project are Toaster, that allow the configuration of the builds through a web interface, and the 'extended SDK' (eSDK), based on Devtool which allows the system to be tuned or extended without editing configuration files.

KDE e.V. organize every year the KDE Akademy. The goal of the conference section of Akademy is to learn and teach new skills, and share our passion around what we're doing together at KDE and KDE is one of the largest active Free Software communities and is built on top of the Qt toolkit.

Koan is proud to provide the unofficial Yocto Project BSP for STM32MP1 based boards. This project is not endorsed nor supported by ST. ST OpenSTLinux is based on OE, our BSP extends the use of ST meta layers with Yocto, using latest commits on the branch 2.6 ‘thud’ on each meta layer.

The Koan staff will be present at the QtDay 2019 in Florence, Italy and Marco Cavallini will show how to Run Qt  on Linux embedded systems using Yocto on Monday Apr 01 - 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM. Find presentation slides below.

Marco Cavallini presented a workshop at LinuxLab 2018 which took place on 3 and 4 December 2018 in Florence. Title of the workshop was Yocto Project, an automatic generator of embedded linux distributions.

Con legge n. 205 del 27.12.2017 (meglio conosciuta come Legge di Bilancio 2018) è stato introdotto un nuovo incentivo consistente nell’assegnazione di un credito d’imposta pari al 40% per le imprese che investono in formazione del personale, calcolato sul costo del personale occupato in attività di formazione.

Koan offers an enterprising 3-day course which provides you with everything you need to get started with embedded Linux embedded and Yocto Project. You will be guided step-by-step by experienced trainer Marco Cavallini. The course is for a maximum of 10 attendees and will be held in English.

Creazione di un piccolo supercomputer per calcolo parallelo con tecnologia MPI 'cluster' usando Linux e schede RaspberryPi3. Presentazione di Marco Cavallini (KOAN sas) al ArduinoDay 2017.

How to add RS485 support to the UART on a Freescale iMX6 (SABRELITE) with kernel 3.10.17 Remember to set the appropriate GPIO for RTS signal in the Device Tree.