LCE13: Closing Keynote: David Rusling

Linaro
Connect,
Hong Kong
March 2013
June 2013
Linaro – Where Next?

www.linaro.orgSlide 2
Overview
 Linaro reflections
 Trends / Chrystal ball gazing

Linaro – Past, Present and Future
 Why Linaro?
 The ARM partnership needs a place to do collaborative engineering
 Common engineering problems need solving efficiently
 ARM partnership needs to get better at ‘open source’
 The game is evolving, getting broader
 Now have 24 members of Linaro
 Industry groups LEG and LNG, and being asked to form more
 Wide member expertise and experience

Linaro – Past, Present and Future
Problems, always problems...
 Consolidation / preventing fragmentation
 New technologies
 Kernel frameworks supporting diversity
 Standards driving disaggregation
 Segment specific technologies, code bases
 Testing and validation

Oh, and a Common Threat
 Linaro was also formed as a response to a common threat
 You all know who I mean, Intel
 They haven’t stood still for 3 years
 Driving markets vertically via distributions (versus ARM’s horizontal,
‘enable everyone’ play)
 Was MeeGo, now Tizen (also Android)
 Very active in power management (‘race to idle’) and all market
segments

Oh, and a Common Threat
 The competition is not really between technologies, it’s
between business models
 Can many collaborating companies win against the monolith?
 What does this mean for software?
 Drives efficient collaboration
 A lot of software frameworks do not support ARM’s diversity
 Outside of mobile, software not always well tuned for ARMv7-A

Trends
 Climbing the gravity well
 Disaggregation
 Standards
 Community

Climbing out of the Gravity Well
 Much progress
 Used to play in /arch/arm/{mach-foo, platform-bar}
 Moved up into /arch/arm
 Now discussing how to implement / partition the scheduler changes
needed to support sophisticated power management subsystems, such
as ARM’s big.LITTLE technology
 Still...
 Many ARM system patches still not upstream / upstreamable
 Need more maintainers that have access to ARM hardware and are
knowledgeable about the ARM architecture
 ARM Community still small (although ARM system engineering is
probably larger than Intel’s)

Trends: Disaggregation
 dis·ag·gre·gate
 v. dis·ag·gre·gat·ed, dis·ag·gre·gat·ing, dis·ag·gre·gates
 To divide into constituent parts, to break up or break apart.
 Unbundle
 break apart proprietary components, sandwiching with open source
components
 Supported by open standards
 Driven by end customers
 OpenStack is a good example...

OpenStack
 OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large
pools of compute, storage, and networking resources
throughout a datacenter.
 http://www.openstack.org

Why is OpenStack Important to Linaro?
 Drives engineering activities in Linaro:
 Java
 PHP
 Python
 Virtualization
 Gives us a framework for testing
 Stresses the components that we’re engineering
 Gives us a framework for benchmarking
 Looking for areas to improve performance of the overall system

Standards
 Standards driving ARM systems
 Change from mobile, where standards are few (although you could think
of Android as a standard)
 Established markets demand standards (need to avoid a ‘me too’
approach)
 Closed standards
 Extend the status quo (and who wants that?)
 Driven by the technology producers
 Open standards support disaggregation
 Tend to be driven by the end customers
 Encourage many vendors and competition

HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture)
 http://hsafoundation.com
 GP GPU
 using the right compute engines to execute software
 shared, coherent caching model

Which Standards?
 Open source software can quickly adopt standards
 Google any standard and someone’s implemented it for Linux
 Open source often used to prove standards
 Which standard should we choose?
 Generally, driven by members, especially the groups
 Example #1: Networking – Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)
 Should we adopt this for ARM based networking?
 Better ‘kit of parts’, such as openEM (open event machine)?
 Example #2: STB – Comcast RDK
 Invent our own standards?
 If needed, but generally see Linaro as the implementers of standards

Community
 Who is the ARM open source community?
 Systems engineers versus end users
 (Probably) more ARM engineers working on ARM platforms than Intel
has working on Intel platforms
 Availability of ARM platforms opens up
 Distribution support
 Community projects
 University research
 Maker community
 Love ARM platforms
 Busily inventing new things
 Raspberry pi cat feeder

Finally
A huge thank you to everyone who has helped make the past 3
years successful ... and fun

Linaro
Connect,
Hong Kong
March 2013
Questions?

Standards versus Groups
 Graphics and Multimedia
 UMM, OpenGLES, CDF, HSA
 LEG
 OpenCompute, LAMP, OpenStack, Hadoop, HipHop VM
 LNG
 DPDK
 openEM
 STB
 Comcast RDK / Android / ??
 Automotive
 Genivi

 Strategy
 Start working with the LLVM community (support ARM buildbots etc)
 Grow effort based on member’s input / groups
 LLVM versus GCC
 LLVM will grow in importance
 LLVM is being used to build Android
 Linaro is benchmarking LLVM and has made some fixes
 LLVM important for GP GPU:
 OpenCL
 HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture)
LLVM Strategy

The Competition
 Intel are still the competition
 Their strategy is vertical, ARM’s is horizontal (and Linaro fits into
that horizontal play)
 Drive an x86 distribution into markets via top player
 Was Nokia, now Samsung
 Was Meego, now Tizan
 Subsidize the engineering effort
 Hardware is approaching ARM’s for power efficiency, but the
competition is not really between technologies, it’s between
business models
 Hardware and software
 Success and Failure
 Intel has not had a great deal of software success (MeeGo(ne))
 ARM
 A lot of great stuff has happened (reference the consolidation of the kernel)
 Outside of Linaro, companies still upstreaming a lot of duplication
 Need to avoid complacency
 Server is their turf, so expect trouble
 Gloves off in networking, clear choices

 Intel:
 Thermal Monitoring Technologies
 Idle States Intel® Smart Idle
 Intel® SpeedStep® Technology
 Intel® Demand Based Switching

Security
 Standards
 Secure OS
 GlobalPlatforms – system architecture / client API
 Trusted Computing Group (TCG)
 ARM standards (initially Server, but roll out to all ARMv8)
 SMC calling convention
 Power State Coordination Interface(PSCI)
 Trusted Board boot requirements
 Trusted Boot Server Architecture
 Kernel
 Will track hardening / security via the kernel group and LKS
 Need access to all components to test the boot architecture
 Currently, missing the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)
 Get Trustonic involved (support in LAVA etc)
 Open source TEE contemplated

More about Linaro: http://www.linaro.org/about/
More about Linaro engineering: http://www.linaro.org/engineering/
How to join: http://www.linaro.org/about/how-to-join
Linaro members: www.linaro.org/members

Humility
 Who are we?
 Let’s not get carried away by an open source agenda
 Remember that members pay for our efforts
 We are the ‘tip of the iceberg’, the 1% of a company’s efforts.
Members succeed, so do we.
 Concentrate on the common problems
 It’s (still) all about collaboration
 Avoid ‘crank the handle’ patch shuffling
 Remember that members pay us a lot of money to be part of
this
 For example, companies spending money on Linaro as they restructure

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