Linux kernel patches under active upstream review, open source tools used in production, 200+ merged pull requests and merge requests across GitHub and GitLab, and published technical writing on systems engineering. Everything listed here is public and verifiable.

Upstream Kernel Contributions

Work currently in active upstream review or recently merged. All verifiable via public mailing list archives.

MediaTek MT7927 WiFi 7 - linux-wireless@

18-patch series adding full WiFi 7 support for the MT7927/MT6639 (Filogic 380) to the mt76/mt7925 driver. Covers chip ID helpers, PCI device IDs, CBTOP remap, DMA initialization, hardware bring-up, mac_reset recovery, and suspend/resume. Series at v4, addressing feedback from Sean Wang (MediaTek). Community-tested across 10+ hardware platforms with 9 Tested-by tags (ASUS, Lenovo, Foxconn, AMD RZ738).


MediaTek MT7927 Bluetooth 5.4 - linux-bluetooth@

8-patch series enabling MT6639 Bluetooth in btusb/btmtk: USB device ID registration, hardware variant support, firmware section filtering to prevent chip hang, and firmware naming corrections. Companion firmware submitted to linux-firmware (MR !946, pipeline passing).


libcamera Simple Pipeline - AGC and AWB fixes

3-patch series (v4) fixing two bugs affecting all sensors with >8-bit output on the Simple pipeline: a proportional AGC controller replacing the fixed +/-10% bang-bang step (eliminates brightness flicker), and an AWB statistics normalization fix correcting a bit-depth mismatch that produced a ~9% green color cast. Reviewed by engineers from Red Hat, Collabora, and Ideas on Board.


UEFI Secure Boot - meta-arm (Yocto)

Complete UEFI Secure Boot implementation for ARM platforms upstreamed into meta-arm: U-Boot key enrollment, systemd-boot signing, Linux kernel image signing, a reusable sbsign BitBake class, OE-QA runtime test cases, and GitLab CI integration. Accepted after 8 revision cycles (Oct 2024).

  • Status: Merged
  • Accepted by: Jon Mason (ARM)

OP-TEE / optee-client - meta-arm

Patches replacing static tee-supplicant service dependencies with udev-based dynamic activation, resolving initialization failures on platforms with multiple /dev/teepriv* devices.

  • Status: Merged (2023)

Open Source Tools

mediatek-mt7927-dkms

DKMS package bridging out-of-tree MT7927 WiFi 7 + Bluetooth 5.4 patches to Arch Linux AUR users while upstream review is in progress. Packages for Debian and Fedora. Supports 10+ hardware variants with automated firmware extraction and an 8-hour stability test script.


jig

A Go TUI for git workflows built with Bubble Tea. Consolidates interactive staging, hunk-level add, diff viewing, commit log browsing, fixup commits, and interactive rebase into a single tool - replacing forgit, diffnav, tig, and git-interactive-rebase-tool. Ships with goreleaser, golangci-lint, and a 90% test coverage threshold.


glpkg

Python CLI for the GitLab Generic Package Registry, published on PyPI as glpkg-cli. Fills a gap in the official glab CLI for package registry uploads. Includes shell completion, GitHub Actions CI/CD, and a comprehensive test suite.


Open Source Contributions

Merged pull requests to third-party projects on GitHub, grouped by domain.

Firmware & Security

  • fwupd#9105 - Enhance firmware metadata generation in firmware_packager (Aug 2025)
  • edk2#10844 - Fix proper return after capsule update in CapsuleApp (Mar 2025)
  • mbedtls#9105 - Add Host header to ssl_client2 HTTP GET request (Oct 2024)
  • mbedtls#9118 - Backport ssl_client2 Host header fix to 3.6 (Oct 2024)
  • meta-secure-core#76 - Add gen-sbkeys.bb recipe for UEFI Secure Boot key generation (Oct 2024)
  • openwrt#13512 - Enable KASLR in kernel 6.1 for armsr/armv8 (Oct 2023)
  • test-definitions#385 - Add Secure Boot Enabled test definition (Nov 2022)

Developer Tools & AI

  • summarize#109 - Support CLI models in daemon chat and agent endpoints (Mar 2026)
  • difi#30 - Fix CalculateFileLine off-by-one and header misparse (Feb 2026)
  • llmswap#9 - Refactor CLI entrypoint and update README (Dec 2025)
  • gibr#55 - Add uv instructions for optional dependencies (Nov 2025)
  • conform.nvim#579 - Add commitmsgfmt formatter (Nov 2024)
  • LazyVim#1229 - Fix yaml lang TypeError on undefined length (Jul 2023)
  • SchemaStore.nvim#19 - Document yaml option to fix LSP completion (Jul 2023)
  • harvey#10 - Fix crash with requests v2.8.1 (Nov 2015)

Vim/Neovim Ecosystem

Build Systems & Infrastructure

  • Ceedling#58 - Surround YAML and C code with fenced code blocks (Mar 2016)
  • Ceedling#57 - Normalize line endings, convert CRLF to LF (Mar 2016)
  • build-tools-cpp#58 - Swap mentions of u/o key maps call command (Feb 2016)
  • workrave#50 - Build with C++11 if gtkmm >= 3.18.0 (Oct 2015)
  • mkdocs#584 - Add copyright footer for readthedocs theme (Jun 2015)

Documentation & Community

  • ec#1 - Add AUR installation options (Feb 2026)
  • difi#16 - Add AUR installation instructions for Arch Linux (Feb 2026)
  • oelint-adv#28 - Add Arch Linux install instruction (Oct 2019)
  • bic#22 - Add Arch Linux install instruction (Oct 2019)
  • oelint-adv#20 - Ignore PyCharm & VSCode, apply PEP8 rules (Aug 2019)
  • docker#28 - Remove data and src symlinks (Mar 2019)
  • bashew#16 - Format all shell codes with shfmt (Nov 2022)
  • reproc#5 - Reword the different ways to install reproc (Sep 2018)
  • yank#32 - Add Arch Linux install instruction (Jan 2017)
  • dtags#5 - Keep previous $IFS, do not lose it (Mar 2016)
  • pac-info#1 - Add example how to use gen-proxy-env (Aug 2016)

GitLab Contributions

Merged merge requests to Linaro, SOAFEE, and upstream projects on GitLab, grouped by initiative.

Trusted Substrate - GPIT CI/CD Platform

End-to-end CI/CD platform for Yocto-based Trusted Substrate images with automated LAVA testing, OEQA result parsing, and email reporting.

  • gpit!29 - Propagate Poky info to downstream jobs (Oct 2025)
  • gpit!25 - generate-test-results.py: add missing comma (Sep 2025)
  • gpit!23 - Add –log-file input and two-pass OEQA parsing (Sep 2025)
  • gpit!19 - Revert python3-uswid in the image (Aug 2025)
  • gpit!17 - Install python3-uswid in the image (Aug 2025)
  • gpit!15 - Enhancements to GitLab CI and build process (Jul 2025)
  • gpit!14 - Make public gpit-genericarm64.img.xz (Jul 2025)
  • gpit!13 - Switch to arm64 architecture for kv260 (Jul 2025)
  • gpit!12 - Use meta-ts-ci-kas to build genericarm64 (Jul 2025)
  • gpit!10 - Add genericarm64 layer support and update LAVA testing (Jun 2025)
  • gpit!9 - Add new gpit genericarm64 image with SecureBoot (Jun 2025)
  • gpit!8 - Add dual pipeline for manual and automated Yocto testing (Jun 2025)
  • gpit!7 - Add Git describe row (Jun 2025)
  • gpit!6 - Add Poky Commit row in OEQA Test Summary (Jun 2025)
  • gpit!5 - Send email test results (May 2025)
  • gpit!4 - Export optee test suite (May 2025)
  • gpit!3 - Keep testexport tarball for LEDGE LAVA tests (May 2025)
  • gpit!2 - Publish LAVA test results with enhanced reporting (May 2025)
  • gpit!1 - Integrate LAVA test failure detection, KV260 support, and kas migration (Apr 2025)

Trusted Substrate - Testing & Secure Boot

UEFI Secure Boot testing infrastructure including EFI shell scripts, capsule update validation, and container migration.

Trusted Substrate - meta-ledge-secure

Yocto security layer for UEFI Secure Boot, OP-TEE, disk encryption, and EFI variable management.

SOAFEE Test Suite

Test framework for SOAFEE (Scalable Open Architecture for Embedded Edge) covering container engine, k3s, Xen virtualization, OpenAD Kit, and Linux ABI compliance. Includes TAP reporting, LAVA integration, and documentation.

EWAOL (meta-ewaol)

Yocto layer for Edge Workload Abstraction and Orchestration Layer. Recipe updates, kas configuration, and test suite integration.

Blueprints CI

LAVA-based CI/CD infrastructure for Yocto image testing on ARM hardware (Synquacer, RockPi4, KV260, AVA). Covers test plans, capsule updates, image merging, and SOAFEE integration.

  • ci!190 - Refresh README based on transition to kas (Feb 2025)
  • ci!189 - Match EFI test devices with LAVA devices (Feb 2025)
  • ci!182 - Fix EFI test for rock-pi-4b (Feb 2025)
  • ci!181 - Transition to kas build tool and EFI testing (Feb 2025)
  • ci!180 - Make EFI test to use dynamic CI images (Jan 2025)
  • ci!176 - Add EFI tests to test plan (Jan 2025)
  • ci!172 - Add Git Merge branch in kas conf (Jan 2025)
  • ci!171 - Replace refspec with branch in kas (Jan 2025)
  • ci!170 - Add kas build meta-ts (Dec 2024)
  • ci!168 - Clean BOOT and Capsules UEFI vars in rockpi4b (Dec 2024)
  • ci!146 - Power-cycle kv260 before updating capsule (Mar 2024)
  • ci!144 - Use RockPi4 invalid capsule from ci-artifacts repo (Feb 2024)
  • ci!143 - Enable LAVA capsule update testing for kv260 (Feb 2024)
  • ci!133 - Replace wait-on-systemd-units test with ping (Sep 2023)
  • ci!132 - Conditionally run virtual soafee-test-suite test plan (Sep 2023)
  • ci!127 - Fix synquacer romramfw URL (Jul 2023)
  • ci!126 - Refactor wildcard expression to pick TS/TRS images (Jul 2023)
  • ci!121 - Add Xen Guest Images tarball (Jun 2023)
  • ci!118 - Integrate soafee-test-suite results into LAVA (May 2023)
  • ci!117 - Re-enable soafee-test-suite in AVA (May 2023)
  • ci!116 - Add meta-ewaol tests YAML file (May 2023)
  • ci!112 - Remove soafee-test-suite in AVA CI Test Plan (May 2023)
  • ci!108 - Increase run timeout to 60m for SOAFEE Test Suite (Apr 2023)
  • ci!105 - Resize to 10 GB qemu image disk (Apr 2023)
  • ci!97 - Improve MR workflow with a template (Apr 2023)
  • ci!91 - Rewrite ts-merge-images.sh to support multiple partitions (Mar 2023)
  • ci!90 - Use ts-merge-images.sh from BP CI repo (Mar 2023)
  • ci!89 - Add ts-merge-images.sh script (Mar 2023)
  • ci!78 - Run soafee-test-suite-setup before soafee-test-suite (Mar 2023)
  • ci!67 - Depend on the required systemd units (Feb 2023)
  • ci!63 - Wait for systemd is-running state before tests (Feb 2023)
  • ci!61 - Add test duration time in SOAFEE Test Suite (Feb 2023)
  • ci!40 - Make soafee-test-suite report on TAP format (Jan 2023)
  • ci!28 - Run SOAFEE Test Suite in AVA (Dec 2022)
  • ci!20 - Add SOAFEE Test Suite into LAVA (Dec 2022)
  • ci!8 - Fix how to run the test locally (Oct 2022)
  • ci!5 - Test UEFI Secure Basics (Oct 2022)

Trusted Reference Stack

Yocto distribution layer for ARM Trusted Reference Stack. Build system improvements, QEMU tooling, mirror setup, and recipe updates.

  • trs!216 - Add SBSIGN_KEYS_DIR var (Dec 2024)
  • trs!178 - Update missing python3-pexpect as build prerequisites (Feb 2024)
  • trs!134 - Add kirkstone to virtualization layer (Jan 2023)
  • trs!132 - Replace MR template with a simpler version (Apr 2023)
  • trs!130 - Remove kas traces from documentation (Aug 2023)
  • trs!129 - Replace ethtool with mii-tool (Aug 2023)
  • trs!127 - Update soafee-test-suite recipe to f8bbf1b (Aug 2023)
  • trs!126 - Add ethtool to TRS image (Aug 2023)
  • trs!121 - Remove kas from python-prereqs and update docs (Aug 2023)
  • trs!120 - Update soafee-test-suite recipe to a0eb006 (Jul 2023)
  • trs!117 - Update soafee-test-suite recipe to 31bc53a (Jul 2023)
  • trs!116 - Avoid resize image if calling make run more than once (Jul 2023)
  • trs!114 - Update soafee-test-suite recipe to a3b1004 (Jun 2023)
  • trs!113 - Update soafee-test-suite recipe to 7931ea4 (Jun 2023)
  • trs!111 - Update soafee-test-suite recipe to 31dcf0e (Jun 2023)
  • trs!106 - Update soafee-test-suite recipe to e0f3797 (May 2023)
  • trs!103 - Move from ewaol-machine to trs (May 2023)
  • trs!102 - Update soafee-test-suite recipe to d0b19d8 (May 2023)
  • trs!94 - Add MR template (Mar 2023)
  • trs!92 - Resize qemu image in runtime (Mar 2023)
  • trs!73 - Disable k3s systemd service (Feb 2023)
  • trs!72 - Ignore busybox-initrd recipe from meta-virtualization (Feb 2023)
  • trs!46 - Allow to set the number of threads in local.conf (Jan 2023)
  • trs!44 - Add kirkstone to virtualization layer (Jan 2023)
  • trs!32 - Set up bitbake to use local mirror (Nov 2022)
  • trs!29 - Add gen-mirror-tar target (Nov 2022)
  • trs!22 - Update DL_DIR and SSTATE_DIR in local.conf (Nov 2022)
  • trs-manifest!138 - Change to meta-openembedded from GitHub (Feb 2025)
  • trs-manifest!134 - Update to latest meta-xilinx master hash (Dec 2024)
  • trs-manifest!133 - Update manifest for UEFI Secure Boot (Nov 2024)
  • trs-manifest!27 - Change to master from upstream meta-virtualization (Feb 2023)
  • trs-manifest!18 - Update meta-virtualization to langdale (Jan 2023)
  • poky!2 - go: update to v1.19.4 (Feb 2023)

ONELab & LAVA

ONELab documentation, container tooling, and LAVA appliance firmware flashing.

  • onelab-user-guide!7 - Add Sprinto SLScan stage and job (Dec 2025)
  • artifactory!7 - Refactor multi-architecture image building process (Dec 2025)
  • artifactory!6 - Improve cabinet-builder image and build workflow (Dec 2025)
  • firmwares!17 - am62pxx-flash-fw: Install tio in LAA and validate version (Apr 2025)
  • firmwares!11 - am62pxx-sk: Support flashing FW using UART (Mar 2025)
  • firmwares!7 - am62pxx-sk: Change Boot Mode to eMMC (Jan 2025)

Automotive SOAFEE Test Suite (legacy)

Early SOAFEE test suite work before migration to the dedicated soafee/ namespace.


Linaro Engineering Blog

Press Coverage

Personal Blog

In-depth articles on Linux kernel development, Yocto, embedded security, and systems engineering. Covers the full MT7927 upstream journey across 4 posts, Intel IPU6 mainline migration, DKMS packaging, UEFI/QEMU workflows, and more.

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