Twisting Debian for running on Mobile Devices

Track: Embedded Applications

Type: Long talk (45 minutes)

Room: Grand amphi

Time: Jul 19 (Sat): 10:30

Duration: 0:45

Over the past 5 years, the DebianOnMobile and Mobian teams have worked towards making it possible to run Debian on (a few) smartphones and tablets. This includes packaging mobile-friendly software for Debian, but also requires significant infrastructure plumbing in order to generate ready-to-flash images for supported devices, with a strong focus on automation.

This talk will go through the tooling used by the DebianOnMobile team and Mobian, including Salsa CI-based pipelines, image generation scripts and stable kernel upgrades. Mobile devices being “just” another class of embedded devices, the speaker will also highlight how those tools and workflows could be applied to many different embedded systems, easing both hardware enablement and image generation.

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