Accelerated Mainline Linux Development Ahead of SoC Availability
summary
Texas Instruments boots and exercises Linux on simulated and emulated SoCs months before silicon, using vlab (ASTC systemC models) for fast software iterations and room-sized FPGAs for cycle-accurate performance, finding real DDR latency and driver bugs early. Most existing drivers get upstreamed during pre-silicon, leaving wake‑up on samples as largely device tree and docs. Model updates arrive daily, hardware fixes often land in a day-or-two, and small integrations can reach functional validation in about six months, dramatically reducing post‑silicon work.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:23From hobbyist to SOC dev
- 3:11SOC design with Linux
- 8:27Hardware and software validation
- 13:10Board design and Linux integration
- 16:03Early SOC samples
- 17:10Upstreaming and maintenance
- 20:36Q&A
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