"Over the last 30 years RVL has diversified into a successful electronic design and manufacturing business, but we are still entirely customer-focused in everything we do."

Mark Leman, Director

Embedded Linux Distribution Build and Customisation

Utilising the versatile Yocto framework (https://www.yoctoproject.org), the RVL engineers have developed a custom embedded Linux distribution for many target processors, ensuring the resulting image not only contains the features needed by the customer but meets the performance and memory footprint required. Designing Linux distributions with tailored layers has proved effective in moving to later versions of the Kernel, BSP, and individual packages, providing the customer with flexibility to move their product on to the next design iteration. In some cases, these custom layers have been ported to an entirely different hardware platform with relative ease:

Uboot adaptations
Device tree adaptations
Driver development
Kernel configuration
Recipe creation
License management
Yocto Debugging

In today’s marketplace it is a real pleasure working with a truly caring supplier; one which does not just see the £ signs, but eagerly wants their customers to succeed and guides them to a greater result.

For a company like ours, in an area outside our own skill set, RVL demonstrates compassion, understanding and a desire to do the right thing which is simply fantastic. We are very proud to be working with such a trusted partner.”

Alan J Smith, Chairman, Commtel Ltd