Linaro Connect 2025
Talks
14th May
CTO at Linaro
Keynote
Wednesday, 09:15 - 09:25
In this keynote John Thompson will talk about changes in the IoT landscape and how Arm is responding to these changes.
Senior Director, Software & Ecosystems at Arm
Keynote
Wednesday, 09:25 - 09:35
In this keynote Arm will talk about their priorities this coming year.
Director Cloud Software Ecosystem at Arm
In this keynote Microsoft will talk about what is happening in the Windows on Arm ecosystem.
Partner Software Engineer at Microsoft
Open Source is pervasive and has come to dominate the embedded market, as well as laptops, servers and clouds. The embedded space however includes products like automobiles, medical devices, planes, etc. where safety is a consideration. Over
VP Dependable Embedded Systesm at The Linux Foundation
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Wednesday, 10:30 - 10:55
SystemReady has steadily evolved, delivering fundamental capabilities that enable Linux distributions to boot with minimal effort on compliant systems. This foundation has made such systems not only easily deployable but also maintainable and extensible w
Director of Technology at Arm
Running AI workloads on ARM can be challenging due to the need for specialized hardware configurations, runtime optimizations, and dependency management. However, with the rise of tools like RamaLama, krunkit, libkrun, podman-machine, llama.cpp and vllm,
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
The TuxSuite ecosystem has evolved. This talk will highlight what the TuxSuite Ecosystem is and focuses on some of the exciting new feature additions to the project. This talk will focus on korg-gcc for optimized compilation of the Linux Kernel and TuxLAV
Engineer at Linaro
Engineer at Linaro
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Wednesday, 10:30 - 10:55
Staff Product Manager, Qualcomm at Qualcomm
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Wednesday, 11:00 - 11:25
Senior Linux Kernel Engineer at Linaro Ltd.
Linux Kernel Validation Expert - LKFT at Linaro
KleidiAI is an optimization library designed to accelerate Machine Learning(ML) workloads for best-in-class performance on Arm CPUs. Since its inception in May 2024, it has experienced an eventful few months with integrations into multiple ML frameworks.
Principal Software Engineer at Arm Ltd
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Wednesday, 11:00 - 11:25
Senior Tech Lead at Linaro
Senior Engineer at Linaro
Software Developer at Linaro
In this talk, we’ll explore a practical, repeatable process for tracking and evaluating Linux Kernel performance on ARM64-based systems in various environments. We will discuss the motivations behind continuous kernel performance evaluation, common chal
Performance Engineer at Linaro
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Wednesday, 11:30 - 11:55
Embedded Software Engineer at Linaro
Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly reshaping our daily life, and entire industries. Yet their increasing computational demands often hinder cost-effective deployment. This talk presents an end-to-end solution for accelerating GenAI workloads on Arm® Neover
Senior Software Engineer at ARM Ltd.
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Wednesday, 11:30 - 11:55
VP of Business Development at Linaro
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Wednesday, 12:00 - 12:25
Arm Base System Architecture (BSA) and the SBBR recipe in the Arm Base Boot Requirements (BBR) built the hardware and firmware foundation for the generic OSes to install and boot on the compliant systems with no need for customization. However, there are
Fellow at Arm
Engineer Staff/Manager at Qualcomm Inc
Senior Engineer at Linaro
Staff Product Manager, Qualcomm at Qualcomm
The presentation is going to describe real experience around LAA early adoption out of Linaro facility. Not everything is going well and not as smoothly as possible and wished. Early adoption is also opening a lot of new areas how LAA should be used and c
Developer at AMD
Senior Engineer at Qualcomm
Software Engineer at Linaro
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Wednesday, 14:00 - 14:25
The introduction of the Linaro Automation Appliance has led to an opportunity to make use of it to enable running Das U-Boot testing on hardware. As this was breaking new ground there were of course issues to resolve on the way.
Senior Engineer at Linaro
Representatives from both Linaro and Schneider Electric reflect upon the relationship built over the past six years, as Schneider Electric increasingly moves towards Linux and open-source. The engagement with Linaro began with LTS engineering, and has evo
Senior Software Engineer at Linaro
Embedded Linux Engineer at Schneider Electric
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Wednesday, 14:00 - 14:25
When migrating large-scale x86 applications to Arm, organizations often face the challenge of achieving optimal performance without a complete architectural rewrite. This talk demystifies the performance tuning process for x86-to-Arm migrations, offering
Linaro Developer Services at Linaro
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Wednesday, 14:30 - 14:55
Senior Software Engineer at Linaro
Resident queer firmware developer at Linaro
Senior Kernel Engineer at Linaro
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Wednesday, 14:30 - 14:55
Principal Field Application Engineer at Linaro
Technical Leader at Linaro
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Wednesday, 15:00 - 15:25
Resident queer firmware developer at Linaro
Principal Engineer at Qualcomm Inc
LLVM has become the dominant compiler for Windows on ARM, powering major open-source projects and surpassing competition in performance and adoption. But what’s still missing? This talk will explore the current state of LLVM on Windows on ARM, highlight
Tech Lead at Linaro
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Wednesday, 15:00 - 15:25
PROPOSALS FOR LINARO CONNECT 2025 (LISBON) Topic: Presenting SIMD programming model, comparing ARM SIMD(NEON & SVEx) vs X86 SIMD(SSEx, AVXx) as one of the most important and efficient software performance optimization approaches. Title: SIMD programmi
Software Engineer at Linaro
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Wednesday, 15:30 - 15:55
“Thread Affinity” controls which cores are favoured when distributing threads and processes. Getting the thread affinity right is key for getting the most out an MPI/OpenMP job, and bad affinity can often silently degrade the performance. For existing
Senior Software Engineer at Linaro
In this talk, we will go through the use of readily available Large Language Models (LLMs) to facilitate engineering workflow when running Continuous Integration (CI) loops and analyzing regressions. For this presentation, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.5
Tech Lead - LLVM Compiler Development at Linaro
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Wednesday, 15:30 - 15:55
A Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is a fundamental component of modern trusted computing systems, providing a secure vault for cryptographic operations that ensure system authenticity and integrity. Arm provides various security solutions for the ecosystem
Staff Software Engineer at Arm
Software Technology Manager at Arm
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Wednesday, 15:30 - 15:55
We will provide an overview of ACPI support on Radxa Orion O6 board in this session. The Radxa Orion O6 is a mini-ITX motherboard built around the CIX CD8180 12-core Armv9 SoC. We support a fully functional Linux including GPU, DPU, VPU, NPU, ISP, USB, PC
SW Engineer at CIX Technology
Tech Lead, LCG at Linaro
Senior Engineer at Linaro
Senior Engineer at Linaro Limited
Qualcomm aims to enable remote processors on the SA8775p SoC running Linux at EL2 (e.g., KVM). To support this configuration, the existing Qualcomm remoteproc PAS driver needs revision. The primary challenge lies in the differences in IOMMU translation ha
Staff engineer at Qualcomm at Qualcomm
This talk presents ongoing work at Arm to implement an fTPM SP in Trusted Services. The first functional version of the SP is already public. It implements the DEN0138 TPM CRB over FF-A specification as the communication layer. It contains the ms-20-tpm-r
Senior Software Engineer at Arm
Bjorn will talk about the importance of convenience for developers and testers to run the upstream Linux kernel, followed by a review of past/existing solutions applied by the members of the Qualcomm upstream community, and a walk through of recent develo
Principal Engineer at Qualcomm
Staff Product Manager, Qualcomm at Qualcomm
This BoF aims at - talking about the issues around the arm64 laptops and the ecosystem around it. - discuss issues around booting to end-to-end usecases. - update on what is cooking in parallel. High level topics for discussion are: -> Boot and DTB han
Embedded Software Engineer at Linaro
Kernel Engineer at Qualcomm
Tech Lead Google Landing Team at Linaro
Linux Kernel Maintainer at Linaro
Panel discussion - 40 minutes
Wednesday, 17:15 - 17:55
The Embedded Base Boot Requirements (EBBR) specification defines requirements for embedded systems to enable inter-operability between SoCs, hardware platforms, firmware implementations, and operating system distributions. This specification is key for Sy
System Architect at Arm
15th May
Qualcomm is dedicated to shaping the future of computing through open-source innovation and community collaboration. In this keynote, we will delve into Qualcomm’s contributions to the Linux kernel, open-source AI frameworks, and edge computing, which a
SVP Engineering at Qualcomm
Chairman of the openEuler Committee, Vice Chairman of the TOC at the OpenAtom Foundation at openEuler Community
Market Development Manager at FIDO Alliance
Keynote
Thursday, 09:50 - 10:05
Embedded computing typically serves a market characterized as low-volume, high-mix. Traditionally, the BIOS abstraction layer in x86 products has minimized the software support burden for embedded computer manufacturers.
Over the past 25 years, this abstra
Vice President, Technology & Development at ADLINK Technology Inc.
Principal Technical Consultant at Linaro
Ceph SPDK NVMe-oF Gateway is a SAN-like network block disk solution. It can be used in virtualization, cloud computing, data lakes, AI, etc. Compared to the Ceph-iSCSI Gateway, it supports the modern storage network NVMe-oF protocol, which features multi-
Engineer at Linaro
For Linux systems featuring without a BIOS that configures the PCI(e) bus (common for most of the ARM platforms), it is paramount to have a PCI(e) controller driver in the kernel to configure the bus and enumerate the endpoint devices. Such controller dri
Senior Engineer at Linaro
Tech Lead, LCG at Linaro
Senior Engineer at Linaro
Software Engineer at Google
Introduce the features and benefits of NFSv4.1, NFSv4.2. The evolution of NFS will continue to play a critical role in cloud, HPC, and hybrid storage architectures.
Landing Team Engineer at Linaro
As Web3 adoption accelerates, robust security measures are essential to safeguarding user assets and data. The Apache Teaclave TrustZone SDK, the recommended Rust SDK for OP-TEE, provides a memory-safe framework for developing Trusted Applications. Beyond
Principle Security Researcher at CertiK
libkrun is a dynamic library providing Virtualization-based process isolation capabilities or, in fewer words, a VMM in library form. Written in Rust and designed for minimal boot time and small footprint, it has evolved since its initial inception as a c
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Software Product Manager at Arm
UADK (Unified Acceleration Development Kit) was initially designed to support hardware accelerators. However, it has now expanded to include CPU-based accelerators like CE (Cryptographic Extensions) and SVE (Scalable Vector Extensions) to optimize perform
Software Engineer at Linaro
Tech Lead, LCG at Linaro
Senior Engineer at Linaro
The talk will talk bout Virtio-msg protocol, its kernel implementation and how it works with FFA to interface pVM with host and trustzone via pKVM.
Senior Engineer at Linaro
Principal Software Architect at Arm
This presentation will cover how we at AMD in collaboration with Linaro, ARM and others made use of the emerging virtio-msg transport to enable virtio devices between Xen guests running in different and heterogeneous CPU clusters (x86 and ARM). We will co
Principal Software Engineer at AMD
Kernel maintainer at Linaro
UADK(User-space Acceleration Development Kit) is an open-source framework designed to offload compute-intensive cryptographic algorithms to hardware accelerators. By integrating UADK with ARM cVMs, we enable hardware-accelerated cryptographic operations t
Senior Engineer, Huawei at Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Feedback Driven Optimizations are a set of toolchain techniques that use traces from program execution to improve the performance of output binaries. In this talk, we will discuss the support for AutoFDO available for native code (C/C++) in Android usersp
Software Engineer at Google
Attestation is a process designed to establish trust in an entity by authenticating and verifying that the device has booted into a known, secure state. Building trust is a critical requirement in various use cases, such as device onboarding and the deplo
Principal Software Engineer at Arm
Maintaining an Android phone over many OS versions is still difficult. At Fairphone we want to support our phones for up to 10 years but it’s not a simple task given the dependencies on all the suppliers and technical difficulties connected to that. We
Android & Linux Kernel Engineer at Fairphone
Today, Xen is the leading open-source hypervisor in the automotive industry. Over the past decade, the Xen community has worked tirelessly to develop key features that now form a top-tier automotive solution. Capabilities such as Dom0less, Cache Coloring
Fellow at AMD
Principal Software Engineer at AMD
This presentation will provide details of the Linux kernel driver for the new GIC architecture (GICv5) developed by Arm[1].
[1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/aes0070
Principal software engineer at Linaro
Compiler Technology Manager at Arm
Given the shared nature of AWS instances, one might think it would be difficult to obtain accurate and reproducible benchmark results on them, due to interference from other instances running on the same physical machine. But in practice, how much variati
Toolchain Engineer at Linaro
The presentation provides an overview of the audio subsystem on Qualcomm ARM devices, exploring the essential components required for hassle-free sound functionality on older and modern Qualcomm sound architectures -- Elite and Audioreach. The presentatio
Senior Engineer at Linaro
Linux Kernel Maintainer at Linaro
Kernel Engineer at Qualcomm
Research Associate at TU Dresden
In this talk, I will describe the history and issues of providing a CSRNG in userland on Linux, from the initial proposal on glibc to provide arc4random (and the pitfalls to support old kernels), to the first short-lived implementation based on BSD, to th
Toolchain Software Engineer at Linaro
Staff Software Engineer at Arm
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Regulatory licensing and compliance
Thursday, 14:30 - 14:55
In this talk, presented by a former Google Android Product Manager in charge of EU Digital Markets Act (now CEO of source.dev), we will explore key upcoming regulations related to device software longevity and security. We’ll examine how these regulator
CEO at Source.dev
Flang, the Fortran compiler frontend in the LLVM Project, is under active development. However, the Flang/LLVM community lacked comprehensive Fortran test-suites, unlike those available for C/C++. This prevented rapid development of Flang without regressi
Software Engineer at Fujitsu Limited
Software Engineering Manager at Fujitsu Limited
Senior Researcher at Huawei International
Chief Scientist of Trusted Computing Lab at Huawei
AArch64's Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) and Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) have registers whose size are given by the SVE vector length — a parameter that can be changed by the running application at its convenience. GDB already supports this when de
Software Engineer at Linaro
The Runtime Security Engine (RSE) has emerged as a crucial component in modern security architectures, serving as a hardware root-of-trust and an isolated attestation enclave for A-profile compute subsystems. As computing environments evolve to support Co
Director, Software Technology Management at Arm
Staff Software Engineer at Arm Limited
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Thursday, 15:00 - 15:25
Linux Kernel Engineer at Linaro
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Regulatory licensing and compliance
Thursday, 15:30 - 15:55
OEMs are facing the prospect of mandatory compliance with cybersecurity regulations such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). To comply, product manufacturers will need to pay more attention to security practices related to software and hardware supply c
Principal Security Architect at Arm
Principal Engineer at Arm
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Regulatory licensing and compliance
Thursday, 15:30 - 15:55
Bringing an existing codebase into MISRA compliance is known to be a challenging, risky, and time-consuming task. Yet, it is a necessity when a product needs functional safety certifications. Such an endeavor requires facing multiple tradeoffs and, conseq
Software verification expert / Professor of computer science at BUGSENG / University of Parma
With AI models handling sensitive data, security must extend beyond data protection at rest and in transit to also protect data during execution. Arm Confidential Compute Architecture (CCA) introduces Realm Virtual Machines (Realm VMs) that provides a tru
Software Engineering Manager at Fujitsu
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Thursday, 15:30 - 15:55
Engineer at Linaro
BoF aims at providing platform to discuss state of Qualcomm SoCs and Platforms support in Mainline Linux Kernel. Focusing mainly on. -> Where we are, Current Status of Qualcomm drivers. -> Ongoing efforts on new Drivers/Frameworks. -> Pending pro
Senior Software Engineer at Linaro
Kernel Engineer at Qualcomm
Tech Lead, LCG at Linaro
Senior Engineer at Linaro
This is a discussion rather than a technical presentation. There's an ongoing effort in the kernel to add support for secure or restricted memory for various use cases, such as Secure Video Playback, Trusted UI, and Secure Video Recording. I've posted a p
Senior Software Engineer at Linaro
16th May
Founder at Ygreky
Executive Director at Confidential Computing Consortium
Keynote
Friday, 09:35 - 09:50
Business Development PT Lead at Siemens Energy
Kernel debug mechanisms are traditionally reliant on a software handler, that can inspect or help inspecting a faulting kernel. It could be it a panic trigger or a specific event, the ability to start a failsafe kernel, or a working userspace. An embedded
Engineer at Linaro
Last year I presented about major changes coming to the TianoCore community, especially a migration to github. This year we'll present on how that went, future plans, and other changes in the community - including a shakeup of edk2-platforms.
Principal Engineer at Qualcomm
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Principal Engineer at Linaro
Join us as we bring together renowned experts in cybersecurity regulations, supply chain challenges and confidential computing technologies to navigate the dynamic interplay of these critical domains. Evolving digital landscapes and escalating threats imp
Distinguished Engineer at Linaro
VP Dependable Embedded Systesm at The Linux Foundation
Founder at Ygreky
Executive Director at Confidential Computing Consortium
KubeVirt is an incubating project in CNCF providing Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines. In this presentation, I will share how we have successfully built and maintained a strong relationship with the K
Staff Software Engineer at Arm
Compute eXpress Link (CXL) has evolved substantially over the last few years as the specifications and software support have matured. (http://computeexpresslink.com/) This has enabled new use cases but also brings new challenges for the software ecosystem
Kernel Expert at Huawei Technologies R&D (UK)
Hafnium is the reference implementation as the Secure Partition Manager (SPM), designed specifically for Arm Cortex-A processors that operate within TrustZone's secure environment at the Secure EL2 exception level. Its main role is to manage and secure is
Staff Software Engineer at Arm
As computationally intensive workloads with high-density processing requirements, big data and data science applications have always been crucial deployment scenarios for ARM server architectures. These domains place exceptional demands on CPU computation
Tech Lead at Linaro
Engineer at Linaro
Fellow at Arm
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Friday, 11:10 - 11:35
VP Dependable Embedded Systesm at The Linux Foundation
Trusted Firmware-A provides an open-source reference implementation of the secure software for Armv8-A and Armv9-A. It provides SoC developers and OEMs with a reference trusted code base complying with the relevant Arm specifications for A-class processor
Principal Software Engineer at Arm Inc
Senior System Software Engineer at NVIDIA Corporation Pvt Ltd
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Friday, 11:40 - 12:05
Recently I began an earnest effort to bring Rust support to Zephyr. This work is now in a Zephyr module and included in the mainline support. This talk will describe where we're at with this, what can be done with it, and why someone might want to use Rus
Senior Engineer at Linaro
Director, Software Technology Management at Arm
Director, Software Technology Management at Arm
Kernel Engineer at Linaro
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Friday, 12:10 - 12:35
When seeking to use Rust for embedded development, there are several options, including bare-metal, a few rust-specific rtos implementations, and several existing RTOSes. This talk discusses why Zephyr is a good fit for an embedded Rust, and especially ho
Senior Engineer at Linaro
OS kernel Architect at Huawei
CPU expert at Huawei
TF-A developer and maintainer, leading runtime aspects of TF-A (BL31) at arm
Technical presentation - 30 minutes (including q&a)
Friday, 12:40 - 13:05
Today’s edge and IoT embedded systems must support multi-domain software, secure deployment and runtime, and in the case of FPGA SoCs dynamic hardware reconfigurations. This presentation will outline the system architecture AMD is implementing to suppor
Fellow - Systems Architecture at AMD
The TF-RMM is a firmware component that runs at Realm EL2 and forms part of a system which implements the Arm Confidential Compute Architecture (Arm CCA). This talk discuses the EL0 app framework which allows to deprivilege parts of RMM to run in a separa
Principal Software Engineer at ARM Ltd
In this presentation, we explore the integration of Arm's Ethos-U NPUs with Executorch to enable efficient edge AI solutions. We leverage the TOSA (Tensor Operator Set Architecture) framework to optimize neural network operations, ensuring seamless compat
Software Engineer at Arm
Return Oriented Programming (ROP) is a powerful technique where attackers divert a program by modifying a function's return address. Then by returning through a chain of code snippets found in the binary ("gadgets") they can make programs behave malicious
Principal Software Engineer at Arm