This document summarizes the topics and goals for the upcoming Connect Engineering conference. It outlines several technical challenges for the ARM ecosystem, including consolidating vendor kernel trees, improving graphics drivers, enabling serious audio functionality, and optimizing big.LITTLE scheduling. It also discusses the importance of automated validation testing and making open source tools ready for the growing ARM mainstream. The document encourages attendees to help advance these efforts to establish ARM as the new computing standard.

1. Unorthodox
Connect Engineering
Christian “kiko” Reis
kiko@linaro.org
February 2012

2. Why computing is a safe career
● Though we love to ignore it..
Computing platforms move on
● We gladly send them to their graves

3. 1980s cutting edge

4. What happened to them

5. 2010s

6. See what I mean?

7. The World Will End Soon
● Linaro started off worrying about unified
kernel source trees
● While we were distracted fixing that..
● Reality happened!

8. ARM, the new mainstream
● The real job Linaro needs to do
● This is actually not news
● But is the open source world ready?
● The Big Questions
● What pieces are missing?
● How should they look?

9. Problems for This Connect
● big.LITTLE Madness
● Scheduling and Power Management
● Testing
● Testing Open Source
● Unified Memory Management
● A15 & v8 into Servers and Beyond

10. Tracks and Themes
● Kernel
● Toolchain
● Power Management
● Graphics
● Multimedia
● Android
● Ubuntu and beyond
● Board Support
● Server and Future
Architectures

11. Kernel
● Consolidating vendor trees
● Next-generation storage
● Merging Android
● ARM Maintainers
● Device Tree
Deepak Saxena

12. Toolchain
● GCC performance
● KVM and QEMU
● Development
benchmarkingMichael Hope

13. Graphics
● Memory management
● Display and Video APIs
● Using dma-buf
● GPU testing and
introspection
● Visualizing activity
● Platforms
Jesse Barker

14. Multimedia
● Serious Audio enablement
● Advanced features
● Broad platform support
● Android Audio
● UCM & tinyalsa
● Future NEON work
Tom Gall

15. Platform: Android
● Taking over the world
● Complete enablement
● Multimedia
● Binary blobs
● Consolidating Android
● Codebase
● Community
Zach Pfeffer

16. Power Management
● The Kernel Scheduler
● Lower power SMP
● big.LITTLE
● CPUIdle
● ThermalAmit Kucheria

17. Platform: Ubuntu and beyond
● Extending validation of Linaro images
● Enablement
● Kernel Stress testing
● Toolchain CI & Validation
● Linaro kernel
product maintenance Ricardo Salveti

18. LAVA: Automated Validation
● Using LAVA everywhere
● Making LAVA easy to use
● Device health checks
● Admin tools
● Scalability
Paul Larson
(really)

19. Enjoy Connect
● Move to a world where ARM rules
● Make the most of the opportunity
● Our technical challenges planned
● Consensus built where it is missing
● Welcome each other into the community