Embedded Linux Development Services

It depends on the product's lifetime and team. Buildroot is simpler and faster to learn, and suits smaller images and shorter lifecycles. Yocto has a steeper curve but scales better across product families and long maintenance horizons. We will recommend based on your situation, not habit.

Often, yes. PREEMPT_RT and careful tuning bring Linux's worst-case latency down far enough for many control applications, and we measure it on your hardware rather than quote a generic figure. If your deadlines are tighter or must be provably bounded, we will tell you that a separate microcontroller or FPGA is the right answer rather than pretend Linux can do it.

Your team, with everything documented so that is realistic — or us on an ongoing basis if you prefer. Either way the build is reproducible from a clean checkout, which is what makes long-term maintenance possible at all.

Usually, and it is a well-bounded piece of work. We measure where the time actually goes across bootloader, kernel and userspace, then address the largest contributors. Substantial reductions are common on systems that have not been tuned before.

Yes. We start by inventorying your out-of-tree patches, drivers and device tree changes, then migrate them in stages so the board keeps booting at each step. The result is a documented, reproducible build on a baseline that still receives security fixes.

ARM Cortex-A, x86 and RISC-V targets. If your SoC is not one we have worked with, we will say so after reviewing its datasheet and the state of its upstream kernel support, before you commit to a plan.

Schematics and the datasheets for the main SoC and peripherals, your functional and boot-time requirements, and access to a working board. If the hardware is still being designed, we can review the design for Linux support before it is fabricated.