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+How chip makers should (not) support Free Software
+
+Silicon manufacturers, or rather design houses play a key aspect in how well
+their products are supported in Free Software oparating systems such as Linux.
+In the early Linux days  - more than a decade ago - it was normal to have
+completely public technical reference manuals for the silicon, enabling Linux
+community developers to write drivers for the chips.
+After chip design houses start to realize there is an economically significant
+Linux market, they try to use their existing workflow, processes and
+development model for proprietary operating systems and try to apply this to
+Linux.  The result are in many cases binary-only drivers for certain Kernel
+versions and/or distributions or unmaintained, non-portable, coding style
+incompliant open source drivers for outdated kernel versions.  Those kind of
+drivers are bound to create dissatisfaction within the Free Software developer
+community, among the Free Software users.  Furthermore, they also result in
+inefficient use of R&D resources both inside and outside the chip vendor.
+
+Many silicon design houses still don't understand the Free Software and
+particularly Linux development model at all.  This results in suboptimal
+support of their hardware products.  In the end, customers are likely to buy
+from a different vendor.
+
+So what can chip design houses do to ensure excellent support of their products
+in the Free Software world?
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+Harald Welte is a freelancer, consultant, enthusiast, freedom fighter and
+hcaker who is working with Free Software (and particularly the Linux kernel)
+since 1995.  His first major code contribution to the kernel was within the
+netfilter/iptables packet filter.
+
+He has started a number of other Free Software and Free Hardware projects,
+mainly related to RFID such as librfid, OpenMRTD, OpenBeacon, OpenPCD, OpenPICC.
+
+During 2006 and 2007 Harald became the co-founder of OpenMoko, where he served
+as Lead System Architect for the worlds first 100% Open Free Software based
+mobile phone.
+
+Aside from his technical contributions, Harald has been pioneering the legal
+enforcement of the GNU GPL license as part of his gpl-violations.org project.
+More than 150 inappropriate use of GPL licensed code by commercial companiess
+have been resolved as part of this effort, both in court and out of court.
+
+He has received the 2007 "FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software" and
+the "2008 Google/O'Reilly Open Source award: Defender of Rights".
+
+Harald is currently working as "Open Source Liaison" for the taiwanese CPU,
+chipset and peripheral design house VIA, helping them to understand how to
+attain the best possible Free Software support for their components.
+
+He continues to operate his consulting business hmw-consulting.
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+%include "default.mgp"
+%default 1 bgrad
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page
+%nodefault
+%back "blue"
+
+%center
+%size 7
+
+
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+
+%center
+%size 4
+by
+
+Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
+
+netfilter.org / openmoko.org / openpcd.org 
+gpl-violations.org / openezx.org
+hmw-consulting.de / viatech.com
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Introduction
+
+Who is speaking to you?
+		an independent Free Software developer, consultant and trainer
+		13 years experience using/deploying and developing for Linux on server and workstation
+		10 years professional experience doing Linux system + kernel level development 
+		strong focus on network security and embedded
+		expert in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) copyright and licensing
+		digital board-level hardware design, esp. embedded systems
+		active developer and contributor to many FOSS projects
+		thus, a techie, who will therefore not have fancy animated slides ;)
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Introduction
+
+Why am I qualified?
+	The 'Linux community' POV
+		Former kernel subsystem maintainer (netfilter/iptables)
+		Initiator of OpenEZX project
+		Author of various drivers for embedded hardware
+	The 'embedded Linux done the rigth way' POV
+		Lead System Architect (SW+HW) at Openmoko, Inc.
+		Co-creator of Open Hardware + Software for RFID
+			OpenPCD, OpenPICC, librfid, libmrtd
+	The 'chip manufacturer' POV
+		Open Source Liaison at VIA Technologies, Inc.
+	The 'customer of consumer-grade embedded Linux' POV
+		Done reverse-engineering on hundreds of devices for gpl-violations.org
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Linux is everywhere!
+
+%image "linux_netfilter_singapore_entertainment.jpg"
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Linux is everywhere
+
+Linux is everywhere!
+	Linux mobile phones (Motorola, Openmoko)
+	In-flight entertainment systems 
+	Embedded networking gear
+		DSLAMs
+		rack monitoring
+	Public payphones
+	ATM's / PoS / vending machines
+	Now even Fitness gear (Daum Ergometer)
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Strengths of FOSS [0/4]
+
+
+What are the true strengths of FOSS
+	Innovative and creative development
+	Security due to code review / bugreport / patches
+	Long-term maintainable code
+	Stable and reliable systems
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Strengths of FOSS [1/4]
+
+
+Innovative and creative development
+	easy-to-read existing codebase
+	standard (FOSS) development tools
+	thus, easy to modify and add features
+	community will build around great new features/apps
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Strengths of FOSS [2/4]
+
+
+Security due to code review / bugreport / patches
+	all the code is out there
+	many people are familiar with existing architecture
+	code quality requirements usually very high
+	community process allows quick and fast integration of bugfix
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Strengths of FOSS [3/4]
+
+
+Long-term maintainable code, because
+	there's a lot of attention on good software architecture
+	many developers are familiar with the shared/common API's
+	code quality requirements usually very high
+	all code in mainline gets maintained and updated
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Strengths of FOSS [4/4]
+
+
+Stable and reliable systems, because
+	code quality requirements usually very high
+	kernel releases are quite frequent
+	all mainline code is automatically ported to new releases
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Reality Check
+
+
+	So we should have the perfect world
+		tons of embedded Linux products
+		all of them maitainable, secure, stable
+		encouraging lots of creative work on top of their codebase
+
+	What is the reality
+		tons of embedded Linux products
+		none of the strengths of FOSS present in 99% of them
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Differences to PC Linux
+
+
+Differences to Linux on a PC
+	In the PC world, I can
+		download the latest kernel from kernel.org
+		compile + install it on almost every current+old platform
+		have an almost 100% chance that it will boot and support all the major peripherals
+		only some more obscure hardware might not have drivers yet
+		update at any time to the latest 2.6.x.y maintenance release
+		update at any time to the next 2.6.(x+1) release
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Differences to PC Linux
+
+
+Differences to Linux on a PC
+	In the PC world, I can
+		take about any major Linux distribution, based on my own preference
+		install and run that very distribution on about any hardware
+		distribution kernels are very close to mainline these days
+		benefit of regular security updates by distributions
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Differences to PC Linux
+
+
+Differences to Linux on a PC
+	In the Embedded world
+		every CPU/SoC maker runs their own kernel tree
+		often one kenrel tree per product, based on different mainline versions
+		ages-old base revisions
+		a neverending security nightmare
+		no benefit from recent new features in mainline
+		non-standard subsystems (e.g. different USB device or SDIO stack)
+		proprietary drivers cause lock-in to old kernels
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Differences to PC Linux
+
+
+Differences to Linux on a PC
+	In the Embedded world
+		I often do not have a choice of which distro to run
+		There might actually be no distribution
+		No regular security updates
+		Often no package management for deploying those updates
+		If there are distributions, they either need to use the kernel from the BSP (which is ages old) or creare yet another custom off-mainline branch/port
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Differences to PC Linux
+
+
+
+
+%center
+THIS SUCKS!
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+What does the vendor get
+
+
+So what do the embedded vendors get?
+	unstable software
+	security nightmares
+	unmaintainable code
+	no innovation
+	no user-contributed bug fixes
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+What does the vendor get
+
+
+unstable software
+	because the code really sucks in many cases
+	because they patch around problems rather than solving them
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+What does the vendor get
+
+
+security nightmares
+	because they use stoneage forks of the kernel
+	because they never contributed their code mainline
+	because those forks can never be merged back with mainline again
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+What does the vendor get
+
+
+unmaintainable code
+	because they have one fork of the code per device (product)
+	because their code quality sucks
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+What does the vendor get
+
+
+no innovation
+		because they try to hide their code (gpl-violations.org)
+		because their R&D environment is non-standard
+			weird cross-toolchains that nobody has seen before
+			weird filesystems with custom patches that nobody knows
+		because they add proprietary components to lock developers from adding features
+			e.g. the entire web-based UI for embedded networking gear
+			binary-only kernel modules that force people to use old kernels with no interesting new features
+		because it is, overall, way too hard to develop on/for their platform
+		because they don't disclose serial console and/or JTAG access
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Reality Check
+
+
+So why do they still do it?
+	there can only be one conclusion:
+		they never understood the real potential of FOSS!
+		all they do is try to compete with what proprietary competitors do
+		they never think about creating platforms, every product is distinct/separate
+		they have no interest in improving their products
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+What does the community get
+
+
+So what does the community get?
+	products that run some crappy fork of Linux somewhere under the hood
+		but which we cannot really touch/modify without a lot of effort
+	we face opposition from the product maker if we want to help him to improve
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+TODO (devica maker)
+
+
+What should the device vendor do?
+	stop thinking in terms of selling black boxes
+	defining products that take advantage of the true strength of FOSS
+	compete against the proprietary competition on a level that they can't match
+	give up the idea of defining all aspects of an appliance
+	rather think of building an extensible platforms and let community innovate
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+A note to chip vendors
+
+
+There are two types of customers
+	The Linux-aware customer
+		understands FOSS much better than you do
+		will share the criticism of this talk
+		will likely go to a competitor who understands Linux better
+	The Linux-unaware customer
+		who just uses Linux to save per-unilt OS royalties
+		who doesn't really care about most issues presented here
+		who will create inferior products
+	Linux-awareness is increasing, not decreasing
+		now is already late, but if you don't have proper FOSS support on your agenda now, you will likely loose the "openness competition"
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+TODO (chip maker)
+
+
+What should the chip vendors do?
+	engange in "sustainable development"
+		develop against latest mainline
+		make your development trees public (use git!), don't just release stable snapshots as BSP to your tier-one customers
+		actively interact with the community
+		learn how to play by the rules (coding style, use common interfaces, no proprietary drivers)
+		don't just do big code drops every now and then
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+TODO (chip maker)
+
+
+What should the chip vendors do?
+	Externally
+		Don't mistake FOSS as just a technology.  It is a R&D philosophy!
+		Provide public reference manuals with no NDA
+		If you have to resort to NDA, make sure they are FOSS friendly
+		Ensure you don't license IP cores that conflict with FOSS
+	Internally
+		Draft a proper in-house FOSS strategy with clear goals
+		Don't expect your product mangers or engineers to know everything about FOSS without proper training
+		Hire people with strong community background into your R&D and managemnt to facilitate the know-how transfer
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Lessons Learnt (chip maker)
+
+
+	Chip Product Managers need to learn
+		There's more Linux use with their chips than they ever learn
+		Their customers are not just the tier-one customers
+		If you want to support Linux, do it the mainline way.  If you support only N number of distributions, your 'N' will be growing and you'll be wasting R&D resources to support each one of them
+		That there is no single 'contact window' / entity for Linux
+		The big change is the FOSS development model, not the Linux API's
+		Linux-aware customers care not only about performance+price, but also about the quality of the Linux port code
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Lessons Learnt (chip maker)
+
+
+	BSP R&D Managers need to learn
+		Linux is not just a set of API's for their developers to learn
+		Linux is FOSS.  The FOSS R&D model is different
+		Their engineers need to be encouraged to communicate
+			and thus, need real internet (git, mailing lists, ..)
+			have to get clear indication what is confidential and what not
+		FOSS is about cooperation. You don't need to reinvent the wheel
+			don't include your own 802.11 stack in your wifi driver
+		If you do not merge your code mainline, you end up in a maintenance nightmare
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Lessons Learnt (chip maker)
+
+
+	BSP Software Engineers need to learn
+		Linux is not just a set of API's
+		How and where to ask the right kind of questions
+		How and where to look for the latest code
+		Code is written to be read by other people, not just to execute
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+TODO (community)
+
+What should the community do
+	Provide non-partisan documentation
+		on FOSS advantages, proper FOSS development
+		hardware companies are intrested to learn, but don't know who to ask. If they ask a commercial distributor, then they get in bed with them, which is not the same as working with the mainline development community
+	Something like a mentoring program
+		take software/driver R&D by their hand and walk them through the mainline merge
+	Don't scare them away
+		They have to be taught about the communication / review culture
+		Your valid criticism to patches has to be explained
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Problems (chipmaker)
+
+	Patent licensing schemes
+		e.g. MPEG patent license doesn't at all work in a FOSS model
+	Technology licensing schemes
+		e.g. Sony Memorystick. Impossible for a chip maker to provide FOSS driver
+	Everyone in the industry has those very same problems
+		Chip makers should cooperate to present their case together to the respective licensors
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Problems (chipmaker)
+
+	Patent trolls
+		openly accessible documentation invites patent trolls
+	Why?
+		patent trolls rarely read+understand FOSS code
+		thus, open documentation increases the risk to be hit
+	However
+		this is a by-product of how the patent system currently works
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Outlook
+
+Outlook
+	We will see even more embedded Linux, e.g. Mobile phones
+	We will see even more restricted devices (Tivo-ization, DRM for code)
+		which go on _very_ thin ice even with GPLv2
+		which almost completely remove all freedoms of FOSS
+	We have some faint dim light at the end of a very far tunnel
+		e.g. projects like Openmoko, who truly see openness as a feature
+		e.g. chip makers who slowly open up a bit more
+			on the PC side, Intel defiitely is setting the best overall example
+			on the Embedded side, I see some movement in major players (TI, Marvell, Samsung, Infineon, ...)
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%page 
+How to do Embedded Linux [not] right
+Thanks
+
+	Thanks for your attention.
+
+	Some Time left for Q&A
+
+	Enjoy the NLUUG + CELF ELCE 2008
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