Mark Pearson
Special guest
20 years of experience working on uboot, linux kernel and low level interface for telecom switches.
- Linux PC Team technical lead.
- Working with open source communities and distro's to deliver Linux on Lenovo Thinkpad, Thinkstation and desktop platforms.
- Working with powerpc, Intel and PIC processors and a wide variety of network switches and PHYs
- Deep knowledge of uboot and linux kernel.
- Board bring up of 20+ boards from initial power on to delivery to application team
- Working on diagnostics utilities for both software development team and manufacturing. Providing API for software development team to use to interact with hardware
- Experience with Yocto, gcc, GDB, oprofile, DUMA, electric fence, kGDB, Rational TRT
- Experience with customer site debug
- Fluent in English and French
Mark Pearson has been a guest on 1 episode.
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28: The Lenovo Linux Lowdown: Bringing Fedora to Laptops
August 30th, 2023 | 1 hr 4 mins
fedora, fedora linux, floss, foss, lenovo, linux, open source, website
In this engaging episode, Mark Pearson, the Technical Lead for Lenovo's Linux PC team, joins Eric and Joseph to discuss Lenovo's partnership with Fedora, the process of bringing Fedora preloaded laptops to market, and Lenovo's sustainability initiatives.