Bootlin

France

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Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) is an engineering consultancy and training provider founded in 2004, headquartered in Oullins-Pierre-Bénite near Lyon, France, with an additional engineering facility in Colomiers near Toulouse. The company specializes exclusively in low-level embedded software, operating systems, and kernel-level integration for hardware platforms.

The engineering team at Bootlin is globally recognized for its deep technical focus and active contributions to open-source software, regularly ranking among the top contributors to the mainline Linux kernel. The company employs multiple official Linux kernel subsystem maintainers (including maintainers for RTC, I3C, and NAND/MTD subsystems). Bootlin is also an official software partner of major silicon vendors including Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics, and holds French Crédit d’Impôt Recherche (CIR) certification.

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Bootlin provides engineering services, technical support, and developer training across low-level embedded systems layers:

Linux Kernel & Driver Development: Architecture porting, development of custom peripheral drivers (character devices, network, audio ASoC, block storage, DMA, clock management, pin-muxing, power management), and mainline Linux kernel upstreaming.
Board Support Packages (BSPs) & Bring-up: Complete board bring-up for custom hardware designs based on ARM, RISC-V, MIPS, and x86 architectures; bootloader porting and adaptation (U-Boot, Barebox); and factory flashing tooling (such as Snagboot).
Embedded Linux System Integration: Tailored distribution building using the Yocto Project, OpenEmbedded, Buildroot, and OpenWrt; boot-time optimization; and root filesystem creation.
Zephyr RTOS Development: Porting Zephyr RTOS to new microcontroller architectures and System-on-Chips, HAL and device driver implementation, and upstreaming support to the Zephyr Project.
Real-Time & Security Hardening: Integration of real-time Linux using the PREEMPT_RT patch, secure boot implementation, vulnerability tracking, and software bill of materials (SBOM) CVE compliance tools.
Technical Training: Professional instructor-led training programs on Embedded Linux, Linux Kernel Device Drivers, Yocto/OpenEmbedded, Buildroot, Audio in Linux, and Real-Time Linux.

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