BMW Continues Making Great Progress With Linux
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Helio Chissini de Castro of BMW presented at the event this week. For those not in attendance his slide deck is available here (PDF). Some of the highlights include:
- BMW's "head unit" / in-vehicle infotainment system is running on Linux.
- BMW's Linux OS is "from scratch" but based on Yocto.
- The BMW GUI code was ported to Linux for preserving their legacy code-base.
- They build everything from source internally and no longer accept arbitrary binary blobs.
- BMW is participating in the Linux Foundation's ELISA project for open-source safety-critical systems. Toyota, Suzuki, and others are also involved with ELISA.
- They are also beginning to make use of Linux on their assembly lines.
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