Embedded Recipes '26
Last week the Embedded Recipes conference was held in Nice, France. Igalia was sponsoring the event, and like last year, my colleague Martín and myself were attending. Unlike last year, we weren’t presenting, which for me means less stress and more opportunities for hallway conversations.
The event was extremely well organized, in a really cool venue (Parc Phœnix, in Nice) for the second year in a row. Kudos to the team at BayLibre!
The selection of talks was overall quite interesting and relevant. Here are a few of my personal highlights:
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Yocto Project and the Cyber Resilience Act where Paul Barker (Yocto Project) gave a few relevant definitions (Product with Digital Elements, stewards vs manufacturers) and discussed how this affects the Yocto project, which is essentially tooling, and what the project plans on implementing to remain compliant. [Recording]
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U-Boot on boot core as an always-on debug tool where Marek Vasut presented a clever use of the separate Cortex-M33 core used for boot only to run U-Boot to get access to the Cortex-A core that runs Linux. This is intended for development purposes only, not to be deployed in production. Really cool if you’re into that sort of low-level bringup work. [Recording].
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A Distributed Phone CI for postmarketOS where Pablo Correa Gómez walked the audience through the different attempts at implementing a CI pipeline running on physical phones by the postmarketOS project. This involved advanced custom hardware design, and the use of CI-Tron as the orchestrator. [Recording].
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Four NPUs, One Stack, Zero Blobs: Edge AI Acceleration in Mainline where Tomeu Vizoso presented his work on the kernel userspace APIs and Mesa drivers to enable a truly open-source AI stack. [Recording].
My personal interests normally tend to drive me towards higher-level concerns and constructs, which is why I feel I learnt so much in just two days, being immersed in a sea of hardware and low-level software to control it.
The social event on the beach at the end of the first day was a perfect opportunity for networking, to meet old friends and new folks alike.
I flew home after the end of the two days of conference, but fellow Igalians stayed/arrived to attend the following colocated events: Yocto Project Workshop, GStreamer Spring Hackfest, Display Next Hackfest.
I sure hope to be attending again next year.
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