BoF: Embedded Update Tools - Jan Lübbe, Pengutronix
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 25/10/2018

BoF: Embedded Update Tools - Jan Lübbe, Pengutronix

 This BoF will start with a quick overview of existing open source update tools and servers. As there are many alternatives by now, the focus of the BoF will be to have an open discussion between users and developers about real-world experiences and unsolved problems.

Some possible topics that could be discussed based on interest:
- Benefits vs. complexity of multiple signatures (TUF)
- Detecting a successful update
- Automated testing of the update process
- Delta-updates for bandwidth-constrained devices (GSM)
- Migration of user data
- Peer to peer update distribution
- ...

Although the submitter is the author of rauc, the intention is to focus on use-cases and not on specific tools. 

About Jan Lübbe
After building Linux smartphones with OpenMoko and deploying open source GSM networks to cruise ships, Jan Lübbe joined Pengutronix in 2012 as a kernel hacker. Since then he helps customers understand Linux and how it can solve their problems. While not hacking Linux, Jan builds atomic clocks at the Stratum 0 hacker space in Brunswick. Previously, he presented at ELCE 2016&2017, FOSDEM, the Linux Days in Chemnitz and the OSADL Networking Days.