Linux Plumbers Conference 2026

Name: Linux Plumbers Conference 2026
Start: 2026-10-05T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-07T19:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

5–7 Oct 2026

Europe/Prague timezone

2026

contact@linuxplumbersconf.org

System Boot and Security MC

Not scheduled

20m

Mr Piotr Król (3mdeb)Mr Daniel Kiper

The System Boot and Security Microconference remains a key venue for engineers and researchers focused on the intersection of firmware, bootloaders, and kernel security. For 2026, we continue our mission to address the persistent friction encountered when upstreaming security-focused boot improvements. Our goal is to bridge the gap between low-level hardware initialization and the Linux kernel requirements.

Experience shows that integrating complex security technologies - like TrenchBoot or advanced attestation frameworks - often stalls due to architectural disagreements or a lack of cross-project coordination. We want to bring together developers from different layers of the stack (firmware, bootloaders, and kernel) to identify these bottlenecks.
We are interested in deep technical deep-dives, but also in the legal, licensing, and organizational aspects that often dictate how-and if-security standards can be integrated into the open-source ecosystem.

We invite proposals covering technical updates, work-in-progress, and strategic discussions on:

TrenchBoot, tboot,
TPMs, HSMs, secure elements,
Roots of Trust: SRTM and DRTM,
Intel TXT, SGX, TDX,
AMD SKINIT, SEV,
ARM DRTM,
Growing Attestation ecosystem,
IMA,
TianoCore EDK II (UEFI), SeaBIOS, coreboot, U-Boot, LinuxBoot, hostboot,
Measured Boot, Verified Boot, UEFI Secure Boot, UEFI Secure Boot Advanced Targeting (SBAT),
shim,
boot loaders: GRUB, systemd-boot/sd-boot, network boot, PXE, iPXE,
UKI,
u-root,
OpenBMC, u-bmc,
legal, organizational, and other similar issues relevant to people interested in system boot and security.