Microchip Embedded Linux Support

Customize, secure and maintain the Linux software in your Microchip-based product with engineering support from Lynx.

Lynx helps teams adapt Microchip Linux BSPs to their products, implement platform security, manage software vulnerabilities and maintain the software after deployment. Start with the board and BSP you already have, then focus on the work your product needs next.

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Embedded Linux Support Across Microchip Platforms

Lynx provides embedded Linux engineering, security, and lifecycle support for Microchip's SAMA5, SAMA7, and SAM9 processor families. We work with existing board support packages (BSPs), development environments, and custom hardware to help teams adapt, secure, and maintain Linux-based products.

Microchip processor families and platforms

  • SAMA5: SAMA5D2, SAMA5D3, SAMA5D4
  • SAMA7: SAMA7G5, SAMA7D65
  • SAM9 / AT91: SAM9X60, SAM9X75, legacy AT91SAM9 platforms

Linux distributions, BSPs, and development tools

  • Linux4SAM / Linux4Microchip and legacy Atmel BSPs
  • Yocto Project and Buildroot
  • U-Boot, AT91Bootstrap, Linux kernel, and device tree configurations

Whether you're starting with a Microchip evaluation kit or maintaining a custom production board, Lynx can work with your existing software baseline to support development, security, and long-term maintenance.

Find Support for the Work in Front of You

Adapt the BSP to Your Hardware and Application

Get help with Yocto BSP customization, board bring-up, bootloader and kernel changes, drivers and product integration. Work from your existing source and customizations so the next release addresses the actual product baseline.

If development began on an evaluation kit, identify what changed on the product board and which hardware behaviors need to be validated with each software update.

Implement the Product's Security Controls

VigiShield helps integrate secure boot, storage protection, hardening and secure updates into your product's Linux BSP. Scope the controls around the processor's capabilities, your key-management design and the product's update and recovery requirements.

Keep Software Inventory and Vulnerability Work Connected

Vigiles helps maintain SBOMs, match CVEs to software components and track remediation decisions across releases. Use your build information or SBOM to prioritize findings and support security reporting for the Microchip product you ship. Use the findings to guide your team's remediation work or a scoped Lynx engineering or maintenance engagement.

Maintain the Linux BSP After Deployment

Lynx helps maintain Linux OS and BSP baselines through updates, patches, vulnerability review and hardware validation. Define the work around the software branches you own, local changes, regression constraints and field-update requirements.

Explore Linux OS and BSP Maintenance

For a broader view of product ownership after first boot, including the Linux-capable, RISC-V-based PolarFire SoC FPGA context, see our Microchip lifecycle article.

Read Beyond First Boot: Maintaining Embedded Linux on Microchip Platforms

Discuss Your Microchip Project

Share the processor and board identifiers, the BSP/build environment and the work you need to resolve. Any known boot, update, recovery or field-support constraints will help frame the discussion; you do not need every answer before contacting us.

Lynx will help identify the relevant engineering or support path and next steps for your product.