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The Zephyr Podcast

Benjamin Cabé & Fabio Baltieri
The Zephyr Podcast
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    Github vs. Raspberry Pi in a Closet

    10/07/2026 | 40 mins.
    Device filesystem for /dev-style access and Linux portability
    CDAC THEJAS32 RISC-V support
    Proposed fan subsystem
    Twister preferred_toolchain support for better LLVM coverage (among other things)
    Initial DWC2 USB host controller support
    Pouch, portable data across devices, gateways, and transports
    A trigger.py workaround for delayed GitHub Actions schedules
    Microchip SmartFusion2 FPGA + SoC support
    The RISC-V WCH CH32V103EVT board
    A Bouffalo Lab BL61x Wi-Fi driver
    HS400 enhanced strobe support for eMMC
    A new I2S shell for audio testing and tone generation
    AMD Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC support
    New boards: Radxa ROCK 3B and Adafruit TRRS Trinkey
    A per-test coverage matrix dashboard
    Upcoming Tech Talk on evaluating the real-time behavior of Zephyr systems
    Join us on Discord! // #podcast at https://chat.zephyrproject.org
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    Pick Your (Memory) Poison

    03/07/2026 | 44 mins.
    New Zephyr RTOS Cookbook from Roy Jamil and Ayoub Bersheela (AC6), now on Amazon in print and e-book
    Git 2.55: one-step commit fixups, auto-stash on checkout, and remote groups for fetch and push
    Linux kernel debating the Assisted-by: tag
    Address Sanitizer memory poisoning to catch use-after-free, buffer overflows, and unallocated access
    Lightweight heap write sanitizer for sys_heap
    rpmsgfs filesystem for mounting remote-core directories over RPMsg
    MAINTAINERS file "deferral" so driver changes reach the actual driver maintainer, not just the subsystem owner
    Revamped tracing sample with cross-OS terminal viewer rendering traces on the fly
    Hall-effect flow meter driver
    STG-800 lococube mini-PLC (24 V, CAN, and a rugged enclosure)
    FeatherWing MAX3421E shield (USB host and device over SPI)
    XIAO nRF54LM20A
    MIMXRT685-AUD-EVK, an audio-focused NXP crossover MCU with HiFi DSP
    RA8P1 Titan: a Cortex-M85 beast with dual gigabit Ethernet, MIPI DSI/CSI, and a Raspberry-Pi-style header
    Check out Zephyr Tech Talk next week (https://github.com/golioth/pouch)
    Join us on Discord! // #podcast at https://chat.zephyrproject.org
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    The "K" That Saved 30K

    26/06/2026 | 48 mins.
    snprintk() vs. snprintf() 
    Linux 7.2 drops strncpy()
    Steam Machine teardown, and another kite spotted inside
    SPDX 3 SBOM support lands in Zephyr, a day before it merged in the Linux kernel.
    Web-based SPDX 3 visualization tool, for browsing the dependency graph, sources, licenses, ... from your SBOM.
    Standalone UF2 USB MSC bootloader
    Where double-tap reset actually came from (Arduino, around April 2015, on a SAMD21 board)
    Ghost edge AI sticker, a flexible nRF54L15 PCB with vibration and temperature sensing
    GigaDevice ramping up their Zephyr efforts
    Twister post-build checks flag stray Git repos pulled in during CI
    A WCH QingKe Debug Module console driver, single-pin printf-style logging in the spirit of Arm SWO
    scoped_guard() and scoped_cond_guard(), Python-with-style auto-releasing locks for C
    ZMS' interactive storage calculators
    UDP logging backend for coredump
    MikroElektronika Two Wire ETH Click, a tiny 10BASE-T1S single-pair Ethernet shield
    Four new ST B-M2MEM-PACK1 M.2 memory packs, hexa/octa-SPI flash and RAM on an M.2-style connector
    TI AM243x-EVM, Sitara with dual R5 clusters, a Cortex-M4, gigabit Ethernet, EtherCAT, and PCIe
    One last nudge to fill out the Zephyr Developer Survey before it closes!
    Join us on Discord! // #podcast at https://chat.zephyrproject.org
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    FIDO2 Comes to Zephyr

    19/06/2026 | 35 mins.
    The Orange Pi 6, a 12-core Cortex-A720 SBC, maybe powerful enough for hardware-in-the-loop CI
    Shell command chaining with &&
    A VirtIO input driver bringing touch, mouse, and keyboard to QEMU
    A FIDO2/CTAP2 authenticator subsystem, with a button-press sample
    A native u-blox M10 GNSS driver
    A Linux LED native_sim driver that maps host LEDs to Zephyr LED devices
    Hardware JPEG encoding on STM32 H7/H5/U5
    A native LR1121 LoRa driver, sub-GHz and 2.4 GHz
    Ebyte E80 node and EORA hub gateway, both LR1121-based
    The Arm Corstone-1000 A320 FVP (the chip, not the Airbus)
    The MuseLab nanoCH32V317, RISC-V with on-chip Ethernet PHY and high-speed USB
    The BeagleConnect Zepto, a tiny MSPM0 Click carrier
    Several new CAN boards from CANmodule
    The nRF54L15 Tag, coin-cell-sized with dual antennas and Bluetooth channel sounding
    A reminder to fill out the Developer Survey and send topics for ZDS in Prague: ZDS Call for Papers
    Zephyr Maintainers Forum

    Join us on Discord! // #podcast at https://chat.zephyrproject.org
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    The Native Sim-phony

    12/06/2026 | 48 mins.
    Linus' guitar pedal project, and why it clearly needs Zephyr next
    RISC-V Summit Europe recap: QEMU, custom instructions, DSPs, and low-power cores
    ETM tracing, CoreSight, and "time-travel" debugging
    Testplan v2 for faster, smarter CI
    CMake unity build experiments
    ESP-NOW broadcast sample and ESP32 WPA Enterprise support
    Realtek Ameba Wi-Fi support
    BCM2711 framebuffer driver for Raspberry Pi
    native_sim DMIC and I2S file backend for audio testing
    DMIC shell
    nPM10xx LED driver and fake LED controller
    ARMv8-A AArch32 execution state support
    DPLPMTUD probe tracking for QUIC
    Neighbor Awareness Networking, aka Wi-Fi Aware
    Experimental Model Context Protocol support
    Mutex misuse detection and reverse iterable sections
    Himax HX8353E display driver
    New shields and boards: MikroElektronika EERAM 3.3V Click and Armfly STM32H743XIH6
    Upcoming Zephyr meetups and developer survey reminder
    Join us on Discord! // #podcast at https://chat.zephyrproject.org
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A weekly chat about all things Zephyr RTOS—community news, technical discussions, and more.
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