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Gustavo A. R. Silva 🐧 @embeddedgus

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Joined September 2014
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"16 years ago today, after watching a presentation on YouTube titled “Write and Submit your first Linux Kernel Patch” by @gregkh, I submitted my first patch1 to the Linux kernel. 🐧🙂[...]" embeddedor.com/blog/2026/04/… 🐧 #Linux #OpenSource
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The Linux Foundation
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📅 The schedule is live for #OSSummit Korea, August 11-12 in Seoul! bit.ly/3S0DZ83 Explore 70 sessions covering #AI, #CloudNative, #Linux, embedded systems, software security, & more. ⏰ 4 days left to save up to ₩220,000 when you register by June 16: bit.ly/4sNbTK1
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"During one of my presentations at Open Source Summit Japan🇯🇵 the past year, I talked about a bug I found while addressing -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end issues in the Linux kernel. The warning reported by the compiler was [...]" embeddedor.com/blog/2026/04/… 🐧 #Linux #OpenSource
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"Today I woke up to the great news that we now have "only" 100 -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end issues left to be addressed in linux-next. I started fixing these issues a couple of years ago after running into a memory corruption bug caused by a flex[...]" embeddedor.com/blog/2026/04/…
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While reviewing one of the patches sent to the linux-hardening list this afternoon, I spotted a bug I introduced in the same code two years ago (on March 5 2024, to be precise). Over nearly a decade contributing to the Linux kernel, I've... Read more: embeddedor.com/blog/2026/03/… 🐧
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I presented at Everything Open @_everythingopen a couple of days ago. 🗣️🐧 My slides are already available for anyone who'd like to check them out. Thanks for having me - I really enjoyed the session! 🙂✌🏽 embeddedor.com/blog/presenta… #EverythingOpen #EO2025
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Yet another memory corruption bug caught thanks to -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end! 🐛🪲🐧 lore.kernel.org/linux-harden… This will soon land in mainline and a couple of stable trees. 😃🐧 Check out this presentation to learn more about this work: embeddedor.com/blog/presenta… KSPP ⚔️🛡️🐧
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I wrote a very short blog post to guide people to resources on how to start fixing Coverity issues and how that can be a great way to contribute to the Linux kernel. 🔍 🖥️ 🐧 It's particularly aimed at newcomers with some experience in C. 🙂 embeddedor.com/blog/2024/09/…
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"[...] Always remember: upstream Linux kernel development is highly social. 😉"
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Status update on GCC security features for the Linux kernel - Qing Zhao "Multiple security features for the Linux kernel have been added into GCC releases since GCC11, including "zero call-used registers at return" (GCC11) [...]" @gnutools m.youtube.com/watch?v=gsOaKP…
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GCC - GNU Toolchain
@gnutools
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Containers with compiler toolchains from kernel.org gtucker.io/posts/2024-09-30-…
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I’m really happy to share that I'll be traveling to Paris to speak at @KernelRecipes in the week after the Open Source Summit Europe. ✈️🇨🇵🗣️🎙️ I’m really excited about this edition, and as always, feel free to say hi if you see me around. 🙂👋🏽🐧 #Linux embeddedor.com/blog/2024/06/…
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embeddedor.com/slides/2024/k… (pdf) @KernelRecipes ❤️
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Happy to share that the video of my presentation @KernelRecipes last week is up. 🙂🐧⚔️🛡️ youtu.be/N-pcG0C0Ex4?si=vh0G…
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Kees Cook on Linux kernel security. 🐧 "I’ve found the term “undefined behavior” to have a really strict meaning within the compiler community, so I have tried to redefine my goal as eliminating “unexpected behavior” or “ambiguous language constructs”. " reproducible-builds.org/news…
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Velu Erwan@erwanaliasr1
27 Sep 2024
My talk about @PremdayConf presented at @osfc_io is now online : osfc.io/2024/talks/prem-day-…

Prem'Day: feedback on the first infra on-prem conference and creation of a user group - OSFC

Change the way of firmware development, collaborate with others and share knowledge.

osfc.io
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Velu Erwan@erwanaliasr1
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This morning I'll lead the largest charity auctions ever made at @KernelRecipes in favor of @larsaodomingos. Thanks @Dell France for the support.
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I presented at the Linux Plumbers this morning. 🗣️🐧 My slides are already available for anyone who'd like to check them out. I really loved that people asked many questions during & after the session. 😃 Next stop: @KernelRecipes in Paris next week 🇨🇵 lpc.events/event/18/contribu…
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Happy to share that I'll be traveling back to Europe in September to speak at the #OSSummit Europe in Vienna.✈️🇦🇹 I'll also attend both #Linux Security Summit and Linux Plumbers.🐧 I hope to meet with a lot of friends that I haven’t seen in a while.🙂 embeddedor.com/blog/2024/06/…
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I presented at Open Source Summit Europe this afternoon. 🗣️🐧 My slides are already available if anyone wants to check them out. My audience was great, and it seems they enjoyed the talk. 😃 Now, I'll be focusing on Linux Plumbers. embeddedor.com/slides/2024/l… (pdf) #OSSummit
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Hands down, this is honestly the best keyboard I've ever owned. I really enjoy typing on it every time. For some reason, I felt so happy about it this morning that I had to share it. 🧑🏽‍💻🙂 @keyboardio
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