JeremyKerr
About Me
I'm the Technical Architect for Canonical's Commercial Engineering team. My background is in Linux kernel development, mostly for hardware enablement & bringup.
Contact Information
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Contributions
I've been working on a few things:
- Hardware enablement on the x86, arm and powerpc architectures
Planning and development for OEM Ubuntu preinstall projects (eg, the Ubuntu BIOS/UEFI requirements document)
- Ubuntu support for UEFI and Secure Boot
Initial design and development work for the ARM clock subsystem & device tree infrastructure
- I'm the kernel maintainer of the SPU filesystem. SPUFS provides userspace access to the vector offload processors on the Cell Broadband Engine.
The patchwork web-based patch tracking system
Various askubuntu contributions
Future Goals
Most of my plans for the quantal cycle are based around UEFI, to ensure we have the components to support Ubuntu on UEFI & secure-boot enabled hardware (both preinstalls and post-sale installs of Ubuntu), and associated management infrastructure.
There's a few components to this:
- Rolling out changes to the preinstall process that work with OEM factory setup for UEFI-based machines
- Developing tools for managing signing and verification of the Ubuntu boot process
- Ensuring that the Ubuntu boot infrastructure works with secure boot
- Implementation of key management infrastructure for post-install updates of secure boot configuration
- Hardware enablement for new features in UEFI
Testimonials
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