The transition to software-defined vehicles (SDVs) demands a robust, scalable, and safety-compliant software foundation.
While the industry has long debated whether open-source software (OSS) is ready for safety-critical use, there is growing evidence that it can be — given the right components, processes, and engineering discipline.
What is still needed are concrete integration demonstrations that go beyond individual components.

Oliver Pajonk presents a working integration of the Eclipse S-CORE platform and EB corbos Linux for Safety Applications — a complete, open-source software stack for ISO 26262-compliant automotive systems.
Going beyond architectural concepts, this talk walks through an end-to-end integration demonstration: a running system that combines both components into a coherent stack on representative hardware.

The result is a concrete data point: an open-source, functionally safe software stack is achievable, and the remaining challenges are engineering problems rather than fundamental blockers.

■  Co-Author: Lutz Reinhardt, Elektrobit Automotive GmbH

Short Bio:

Dr. Oliver Pajonk is a Senior Expert for HPC and Linux Systems at Elektrobit Automotive GmbH. With more than 20 years of experience in software engineering across multiple industries, he has built deep expertise in high‑performance computing, Linux systems, and the complete software development lifecycle. He has been an active user and advocate of open-source technologies since the late 1990s.