The stages from elementary bootloader bringup through initial kernel port, to final patches will be discussed with examples given. This talk will discuss the typical process of porting Linux to a new platform (whether based upon a reference design or entirely new). But porting an Operating System to new hardware is rarely a trivial task and there can be a number of pitfalls along the way.

It has been ported to almost any device for which specifications were available (and many for which there were none) and is frequently the Operating System of choice for new embedded designs. Linux has a long history of being highly portable to many different kinds of platforms built upon dozens of different architectures.