Opening Keynote - George Grey, Linaro CEO
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Speaker: George Grey
Date: February 9, 2015
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★ Session Summary ★
Keynote Topic: Welcome to Linaro Connect and an update on the latest Linaro developments
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★ Resources ★
Pathable: https://hkg15.pathable.com/meetings/250753
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aAFNCUUVj4
Etherpad:
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★ Event Details ★
Linaro Connect Hong Kong 2015 - #HKG15
February 9-13th, 2015
Regal Airport Hotel Hong Kong Airport
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http://www.linaro.org
http://connect.linaro.org
3. Our Mission
Linaro collaborates, develops and delivers
upstream technology on member products,
to benefit Linaro members and the ARM
ecosystem
4. The Value of Membership
● Leadership in Linux on ARM
● Collaboration on shared technology
● Working with the world’s experts
● Applying OSS to member products
● Time to market for upstream technology
6. Linux is everywhere
Image: Linux Foundation
Linux Kernel
● 17M lines of code
● 3.7M comment lines
● >550K commits
● >13,500 contributors
● 5500 man years
Source: openhub.net
9. ● Year of ARMv8
● Development of ARM Server Ecosystem
● ODP - the road to adoption
● 96Boards will make an impact
Predictions
10. Kernel & Power WGs EAS, IPA, CoreSight,
UEFI & UBoot64
Security OP-TEE, AArch64
Virtualization KVM, Xen, QEMU,
Containers
Linaro in 2015 - Core teams
11. LEG Server ecosystem - Productizing workloads
LNG ODP delivery and ecosystem development
LHG RDK, Android TV, Wayland, Secure media
LMG Android optimization, Chrome
Segment Groups
12. ● LEG Member Cavium
● ARMv8 ThunderX SoC
● OpenJDK SPECjbb2013
Andrea Gallo Snr. Director, LEG
Ed Nevill Linaro OpenJDK lead
LEG Demonstration
16. Located in Austin TX
● Applied Micro X-Gene Servers
● AMD Seattle Overdrive Development Systems
● Bare-metal and OpenStack instances
More member hardware this year:
www.linaro.org/leg/servercluster/
Developer ARMv8 Server Cluster
17. ● OpenStack validation
● Debian build
○ 64 bit ARM SoCs officially supported in Debian 8 “jessie” as a result
● Ceph testing on Ubuntu & Fedora
● Spark big data analytics testing
● ARM virtualization development
● Linaro B&B team for native builds
Use Cases
18. ● DevCon 2
● Open Source release
○ Firmware
○ Greybus
○ Android
● Spiral 2 Development Boards and Phones
Project Ara
Image Credit: Google
19. Project Ara work will deeply influence Linux,
Android and other open source projects
● Device hot swap
● Dynamic applications
● Dynamic devices
Modularity
24. 1. Open hardware platform specifications
2. A developer community program
What is 96Boards?
25. ● To encourage software development using low
cost community boards
○ Linaro, Universities, OSS Community
● To lower cost and accelerate availability of maker
and embedded products based on ARM SoCs
Why is Linaro doing this?
26. Two Open Specifications
● Low cost - target ~$100
● Mobile/Embedded/Media SoCs
● For software developers, makers,
universities/research and OEMs
● Low cost - target <$300
● Media/Enterprise/Networking SoCs
● For software developers,
universities/research, build/test
farms and SoC evaluation
Available today
Board Specifications
Available Q2
27. Two Open Specifications
Minimum Functionality
● RAM
● Boot flash or eMMC
● microSD
● 1 OTG, 2 USB Type A/C hosts
● WiFi, Bluetooth
● LS and HS expansion
Minimum Functionality
● 2-16GB RAM
● Storage - eSATA, flash, SD
● UART port for debug/console
● USB
● 1Gbit Ethernet
● LS expansion
28. Web Site - launched today
Where to buy
Documentation
Downloads
Forums
Hardware Ecosystem
Mezzanine boards and modules
96Boards Community
Twitter #96Boards
Facebook 96Boards
Google+ 96Boards
29. A new Linaro Group for SoC vendors and
ecosystem companies working on 96Boards
● Low cost of membership
● No access to Linaro Core/Group engineering
● No assignees
Steering Committee
● 96Boards Specification
● Ecosystem development
Linaro Community Board Group (LCG)
31. Benefits
● Faster time to market - less design effort required
● Leverage a single hardware ecosystem for expansion
boards & modules for all 96Boards compliant products
● Leverage a single software developer community,
community website, software downloads and software
maintenance for all 96Boards compliant products
● Vendors can add to minimum functionality to differentiate
and demonstrate unique SoC features
96Boards Benefits
32. 96Boards Consumer Edition Specification v1.0
96Boards Community web site
www.96Boards.org
Available Today
33. ● CircuitCo Inc. announces HiKey
○ The first 96Boards compliant board
○ Uses Linaro member HiSilicon’s Kirin620
ARMv8 Octa-core 64 bit A53 SoC
○ Available for pre-order at $129
Another 96Boards announcement ….
34. ▣ 8-core 64-bit Cortex-A53 CPU @ 1.2GHz
◆ Over 10,000 Dhrystone VAX MIPS
total performance
▣ ARM Mali 450-MP4 GPU
▣ 1GB 800MHz LPDDR3 DRAM
▣ 4GB eMMC Flash Storage
▣ USB, SD, HDMI, Expansion connectors
35. Demonstration
Today we are announcing early access - our
goal is upstream support and we have a way to
go - we need your help! ☺
Debian “jessie” build on Linux 3.18 kernel
Android Lollipop from AOSP
36. Software
● Early Access Builds available tomorrow
○ Preliminary documentation & schematics
○ Buildable 3.18 kernel source code tree
○ ARMv8 pre-release Debian 8 “jessie” build
● Coming very soon
○ Bootloader source - ARM Trusted Firmware, PSCI & UEFI
○ Andoid L from AOSP
○ Mali Graphics acceleration
○ And more ...
37. ● Tomorrow, 15 boards will be set up in the room next
door for the rest of the week
● A number of early access boards are available to Linaro
Connect attendees
● If you want one, tell us what you will do with it and
subject to demand we’ll arrange for you take one home
with you …
www.96Boards.org/I-want-one
Getting a Board