Linaro Connect Vancouver 2018
$50 eduMIP with 96Boards, BeagleBone, Raspberry Pi, with Thomas Bewley (UCSD Professor)
Sunday, September 16, 2018
UC San Diego Professor Thomas Bewley discusses his Segway-like educational robotics kit, eduMIP, based on the BeagleBone Blue at Linaro Connect Vancouver 2018. This inexpensive kit (available online, for $128,...
96Boards Mezzanine Initiative
Sunday, September 16, 2018
96Boards Mezzanine Initiative is a community-led, organized and maintained initiative. This initiative aims to expand the 96boards ecosystem and promote open-hardware. View 96Boards Mezzanine Community on Github: github.com/96boards/mezzanine-community
AI Industry Status in 2018, overview with Chris Benson AI Strategist
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Chris Benson is an AI & digital transformation strategist, solution architect, and keynote speaker / evangelist who specializes in deep learning – the neural computation technology that is driving the...
Android Treble on Texas Instruments Beagle-X15 at Linaro Connect
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Android Treble implemented on TI Beagle-X15 development board which is Arm Cortex-A15, making the upgrade process easier. So there is no need to communicate with the vendor to upgrade a...
Arm NN and the Linaro Machine Learning Initiative
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Jem Davies is the General Manager of the Machine Learning Group at Arm, he talks about the new Machine Learning Collaboration with Arm NN and Linaro, where Arm is donating...
Arm on Arm with David Rusling, Linaro CTO
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Linaro CTO David Rusling talks about some of the latest things Linaro is focusing on, to enable Arm development on Arm, working with companies to bring Arm Powered developer desktops...
Collecting power measurements in CI Loop
Sunday, September 16, 2018
At the Linaro Connect Vancouver 2018, Lisa Nguyen of the Power Management working group shows the work that they are doing to optimize power management.
EBBR: Embedded Base Boot Requirements at Linaro Connect
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Standard pre-boot environment and boot sequence for embedded platforms, featuring: Upstream support in U-Boot UEFI ABI Firmware-provided system description (DT) Boots generic OS images By standardizing the boot interfacei, platform...
Fujitsu A64FX Post-K Supercomputer: World's Fastest Arm Processor
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Fujitsu A64FX is the new fastest Arm processor in the world, built on 7nm it has 2.7 TFLOPS performance per chip suitable for high-end HPC and AI, they aim to...
Google IoT Demo for Zephyr RTOS With TF-M Secured on Musca
Sunday, September 16, 2018
In this demo, the Trusted Firmware M is providing the SPE and JWT sign, Zephyr is providing the NSPE and The Google IoT application is running on Zephyr using secure...
Internet of Tiny Linux, Google IoT on Arm Cortex-A5 memory constrained device
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Nicolas Pitre of Linaro and his team have worked to reduce the size of the Linux kernel and user space binaries to make them suitable for very small IoT applications...
Jon Masters of Red Hat talks Arm Servers, fixing Meltdown/Spectre, HPC, A64FX, Ampere
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Jon Masters is the Computer Architect, Chief Arm Architect with extensive experience at Red Hat with the deeper levels of CPU and Software optimization, adapting and preparing the ecosystem of...
KernKonzept Open-Source Automobile Safety
Sunday, September 16, 2018
KernKonzept talks Open-Source Automobile Safety: EB Corbo and the L4Re microhypervisor: Renesas R-Car3 H3 Platform Virtualized Cluster and IVI Based on AGL Graphic Virtualization with Imagination’s PowerVR Graphics
Kodi Playback with Standard V4L2 Stack at Linaro Connect Vancouver 2018
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Full upstream implementation of Hardware accelerated video decoding (mainly H264) with the generic V4L2 Mem2Mem API, Zero-copy rendering with DRM Atomic kernel Drivers, DMA-BUF transferred from V4L2 to DRM, FFmpeg...
Linaro’s Linux Kernel Functional Test framework (LKFT)
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Linaro LKFT build uses OpenEmbedded to build a userspace image, along with the kernel, for each board and branch combination under test. LKFT is Linaro’s Linux Kernel Functional Test framework....
Linux microPlatform, secure IoT updates with Foundries.io and Toradex
Sunday, September 16, 2018
At Linaro Connect Vancouver 2018, http://foundries.io and Toradex discuss Linux microPlatform, what microPlatform is and how it helps Toradex to build their next generation Software Platform. Linux microPlatform is an...
MRAA library with Mani of 96Boards
Sunday, September 16, 2018
MRAA github.com/intel-iot-devkit/mraa is a low level skeleton library for Linux based systems which provides userspace access to the peripherals on 96Boards Consumer Edition boards using multiple interfaces such as C,...
Open Source Academics (OSA) by 96Boards with Robert Wolff
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Open Source Academics (OSA) by 96Boards (https://github.com/osacademics) aims to facilitate and expand the educational experience on a global stage by providing scalable curriculum and standardized course materials through an open...
OpenCV Color Segmentation and Tracking on DragonBoard 820c
Sunday, September 16, 2018
This demo is based and tested on the DragonBoard 820c, but should be able to work on varying platforms. In summary, it counts objects by color passing in the same...
Standardizing software support for 96Boards with Mani
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Mani is an Applications Engineer at 96Boards team of Linaro. He works on improving the user experience with 96Boards by upstreaming it’s stadardized software support. He goes over the journey...
Start using Arm Servers now with Ed Vielmetti of Packet
Sunday, September 16, 2018
In this video, Ed Vielmetti (https://twitter.com/vielmetti), director of Works on Arm (https://twitter.com/worksonarm), discusses technical issues regarding integration, testing, Cloud Native and network workloads, and directions for the project for the...
System76 wants to make a high-end Arm Laptop and Desktop
Sunday, September 16, 2018
System76 is a computer manufacturer based in Denver Colorado specializing in laptops, desktops and servers running Linux. System76 talks about their upcoming efforts to move manufacturing in-house, and what that...
Testing Arm with Arm with LAVA and 96Boards
Sunday, September 16, 2018
This is a mini LAVA lab running on a Dragonboard 410c to test any other 96Boards, this is a way to use Arm to test Arm boards in a simple...
UEFI at Linaro Connect Vancouver 2018
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a specification for a software program that connects a computer’s firmware to its operating system (OS). UEFI is expected to eventually replace BIOS. Like...
World's Most Powerful Arm Desktop: Marvell ThunderXStation ThunderX2 Workstation
Sunday, September 16, 2018
www.gigabyte.com announces the industry’s first Armv8 workstation based on Cavium’s ThunderX2 Arm64 multi-core processor. This 4U workstation is called the ThunderXStation. GIGABYTE has designed and is manufacturing the ThunderXStation. The...
YVR18-101:BoF: Ask Arm Anything (MEMBERS ONLY)
Sunday, September 16, 2018
This session is closed to any non-members of Linaro. We will be monitoring attendance at the door. Thank you.
YVR18-102:LCG: Lightning Talks
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Linaro Consumer Group (erstwhile Linaro Mobile Group) presents Lightning talks - these are a collection of short talks around what the LCG has been upto, and areas that are interesting...
YVR18-103: Reliability Availability and Serviceability (RAS) on Arm64 status
Sunday, September 16, 2018
This presentation gives an updated RAS Software architecture on Arm64 base on RAS extension, SDEI, APEI, UEFI PI-MM. First of all, give a general introduction of all the software components...
YVR18-104:Arm Architecture Enhancements in 2018
Sunday, September 16, 2018
The Arm Architecture is continually evolving as new features and enhancements are developed to meet market demand. Arm, Linaro, and the wider ecosystem build on the foundations of the Architecture,...
YVR18-105:Keeping up with android mainline tracking kernel
Sunday, September 16, 2018
android-mainline-tracking kernel is an effort to provide a reference or experimental Android preview tree to member partners for their upcoming SoCs. It also help find/report/fix Android regressions or ABI breakages...
YVR18-106:The Networking of Edge Computing and Edge Stack on Arm Platform
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Edge computing is emerging technologies which demand lower latency and accelerated processing at the edge. Edge stack performs the data processing at the edge of the network, provides virtualized NFs...
YVR18-107:RAS Error Injection and Error Handling on Arm64 based platforms
Sunday, September 16, 2018
[To be rescheduled] Significant progress has been made in various software components such are SDEI, SPM, StandaloneMM and APEI driver that are required to put together support for RAS error...
YVR18-108:Trusted Firmware for M technical deep dive
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Trusted Firmware M is an open source implementation of Platform Security Architecture(PSA) for Arm M profile processors. It was publicly launched in Linaro Connect HKG18. It offers- Trusted Boot –...
YVR18-109:Mali packaging for distros
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Discussion on how best to support Mali in distros. There is now mali-midgard support in Debian from packaged drivers, but it is quite an old release (the last one supporting...
YVR18-110:OpenSDK OE builds in MMWG
Sunday, September 16, 2018
MMWG’s OE builds serve two goals: to provide the baseline for linux development in MMWG, and to present the results of MMWG’s work to the others. The topics to be...
YVR18-111: Lock-free read-write concurrency in rtehash
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Recent patches have tried to address the reader-writer concurrency in rte_hash library. However, these fall short on solving the problem on multiple use cases. These solutions result in further significant...
YVR18-113:Where did my storages speed go
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Vendors steadily provide faster and faster storage, evidently meeting a demand for higher speed and lower latency. Yet Linux easily throws most of this speed away, in all use cases...
YVR18-114:Auto-deployment of Ceph cluster with Rook on top of Kubernetes
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Rook is an open source project hosted by CNCF to orchestrate the distributed storage system such as Ceph with cloud native primitives. In this presentation, Dennis will first introduce the...
YVR18-115: Using Device Tree with Zephyr
Sunday, September 16, 2018
This round table session is to focus on current topics of discussion for device tree work on Zephyr. The session will be broken up into short presentations to introduce the...
YVR18-116:The HPC Lab
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Discussion on the design decisions of the HPC lab: goals, implementation, automation. Current and future plans to grow in size and scope: more different hardware, supporting more communities (OpenMPI, etc)....
YVR18-117:SWG updates since HKG18
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Security Working Group has been working with a couple of interesting features the last couple of months. In this presentation we would like to give a short introduction and updates...
YVR18-118:My Other Machine is Virtual
Sunday, September 16, 2018
When working with new architectures there is often a scramble for getting access to hardware. However hardware comes with its own problems - especially when it is new. It’s hard...
YVR18-119:52 shades of VA (Virtual Address Space)
Sunday, September 16, 2018
On 64-bit Arm kernels we currently support up to 48-bits of virtual address space. However, Armv8.2-LVA introduces the capability to have 52-bit virtual addresses. In this talk I aim to...
YVR18-200K2: Jilayne Lovejoy An open source developer and a lawyer walk into a bar
Sunday, September 16, 2018
The very nature of open source software inevitably brings lawyers and developers together (like it or not). In this talk, Jilayne will provide some observations, lessons learned, and advice for...
YVR18-201:Introducing the OpenDataPlane SIG
Sunday, September 16, 2018
The OpenDataPlane project provides technology that enables portable and scalable network applications that transparently use whatever hardware acceleration technology is available wherever they run. This Connect the ODP project is...
YVR18-202: BoF: IOT Security with Arm OSS
Sunday, September 16, 2018
This is an open forum to discuss various aspects of connected device’s security. There are various PSA specifications addressing different aspects of security lifecycle, this session aims to provide a...
YVR18-203:HPC compiler optimisations
Sunday, September 16, 2018
The HPC group has been working on a number of HPC focused optimisations in LLVM and collaborating with TCWG to agree on benchmarks and results analysis. LLVM has reached a...
YVR18-204: drmhwcomposer
Sunday, September 16, 2018
This talk will cover some background and history on the Android graphics stack and the HardwareComposer HAL, then talk about recent work done with the drm_hwcomposer implementation. It will also...
YVR18-205:Evolution of Load tracking mechanism in Linux scheduler
Sunday, September 16, 2018
For the last couple of years, the linux scheduler is trying to get an always better view of the utilization of the CPUs in order to optimize its resources. This...
YVR18-206:OpenDataPlane: Evolution of Continuous Integration Systems for Open Source Projects
Sunday, September 16, 2018
OpenDataPlane is open source project hosted on github. It supports various architectures, build environments and toolchain levels. This talk is about the evolution of the CI system to support ODP...
YVR18-207:Practical use of treble on devboards
Sunday, September 16, 2018
The session explain the process followed to enable Treble on devboards. We would be sharing our experiences on enabling treble on HiKey/HiKey960 and Juno. The session also discusses the treble...
YVR18-208:WALT vs PELT
Sunday, September 16, 2018
An updated comparison of WALT vs. PELT load trackers on the latest big.LITTLE mobile platforms and EAS baselines.
YVR18-209:Building Accurate BOMs: Open Source Tooling Options
Sunday, September 16, 2018
When creating reference builds of open source projects that others can use, being able to accurately document what was included is increasingly important to determine if a security vulnerability may...
YVR18-210:Bringing Armv8-a Scalable Vector Extension into OpenJDK
Sunday, September 16, 2018
SVE (Scalable Vector Extension) is the next generation SIMD instruction set for Armv8-a which looks to be promising for Java use cases like web applications and big data applications. We...
YVR18-211: Trusted Firmware - Project Updates and Topics
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Update on Community Project trustedfirmware.org and new features and plans for TF-A and TF-M
YVR18-212:Network switches and TSN configuration
Sunday, September 16, 2018
An increasing number of vendors are including TSN support on their hardware. There’s a great diversity in the ecosystem for configuring switches and their respective features as many vendors rely...
YVR18-213: Xen on Arm for embedded and IoT: from secure containers to dom0less systems
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Hypervisors are becoming increasingly widespread in embedded environments. Their use-case is different from server virtualization, and so are their requirements. The ability to run containerized applications is often a requirement....
YVR18-214:Open CI for Trusted Firmware
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Discussion on design principles and challenges in implementing a fully open source continuous integration system. The CI needs to able test and verify, two or more binaries, of different privilege...
YVR18-215:Update on OpenCDM
Sunday, September 16, 2018
OpenCDM is a Content Decryption Module (CDM) which Linaro promote for the playback of encrypted multimedia content within web browsers for the Arm ecosystem leveraging TrustZone technology and using OP-TEE...
YVR18-216:The end of time 19 years to go
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Software that uses a 32-bit integer to represent seconds since the Unix epoch of Jan 1 1970 is affected by that variable overflowing on Jan 19 2038, often in a...
YVR18-217:Lightweight flows for fine-grain packet order processing
Sunday, September 16, 2018
A flow aware scheduler is introduced based on application requirements to support millions of flows. This feature will provide the ability for applications to create flows on the fly without...
YVR18-218:Trusted Firmware M: Current Topics
Sunday, September 16, 2018
This round table session is to focus on current topics of discussion for the Trusted Firmware-M project. The session will be broken up into short presentations to introduce the background...
YVR18-219: Cleaning up kernel licensing: subsystem by subsystem
Sunday, September 16, 2018
The Linux kernel has over 26 years of development, and in that time a rather large number of licenses as well as license header variants have accumulated in it. Scanners...
YVR18-220:The Linux Kernel Scheduler (For Beginners)
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Present the organisation of Linux kernel scheduler and how it works at the very basic level. The same presentation was done in one of the previous connects and the response...
YVR18-221:Linux Kernel Power Management Features - An Overview
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Similar to the training session at Linaro Connect HongKong 2018, this training session is meant to be an overview of power management frameworks and features targeted for newbies to linux...
YVR18-222:Testing Arm-with-Arm with LAVA and 96Boards
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Everyone knows the importance of validation and automated testing in software development cycle but it often means complex software and hardware setup, especially for individual people. This session is a...
YVR18-223:How to build a C processing tool using the Clang libraries
Sunday, September 16, 2018
The difficulty of parsing C++ has presented a high barrier to entry for developers wanting to write tools that process C++ code. The Clang libraries such as libclang and libtooling...
YVR18-224:Writing Better Function Tests with GCOV
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Gcov and lcov gives you to check the coverage of test cases. This means you can make better test which has wider coverage with gcov. This presentation introduces how to...
YVR18-225:Hardware Trace on Linux - tools techniques and future directions
Sunday, September 16, 2018
The presentation will cover recent developments in hardware trace support on Arm linux platforms to include:- 1) AutoFDO - Optimising production code using trace sampling as feedback. A description of...
YVR18-300K1: Jem Davies Enabling Machine Learning to Explode with Open Standards and Collaboration
Sunday, September 16, 2018
YVR18-300K2: Chris Benson - Artificial Intelligence Strategy: Digital Transformation Through Deep Learning
Sunday, September 16, 2018
If the last decade was about mobile first, the next decade will be about AI first. Within the worlds of artificial intelligence and machine learning, deep learning is where a...
YVR18-301: Kselftest framework roadmap and discussion
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Review the kselftest roadmap and areas that could use more tests in addition to framework improvements.
YVR18-302:EB corbos and the L4Re microhypervisor: Open-Source Automotive Safety
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Autonomous driving, Car-to-X connectivity and new vehicle E/E architectures are driving demand for increasing compute capacity and software complexity in vehicles. This complexity is at odds with the safety and...
YVR18-303:Managing customized FPGA accelerators with SDSoC!
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Using Xilinx SDSoC and HLS as a model, this presentation, will discuss the merits and abilities of customized hardware accelerators involved with performance aspects of embedded systems. Using a designed...
YVR18-305:Getting the best from the Ultra96 in the IoT and Embedded Vision Arena without being a FPGA Expert
Sunday, September 16, 2018
The Ultra96 is unique among 96boards, as it combines Arm cores with programmable logic. To create the most efficient system a high level OS is needed such as Linux however,...
YVR18-306:libddssec: Securing DDS with OP-TEE
Sunday, September 16, 2018
In this session we will present the DDS Security library project: an open source library that isolates the DDS security operations and key management under a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)....
YVR18-307:Detecting Binary Black Hole Mergers through LIGO Gravity Wave Measurements with Ultra96
Sunday, September 16, 2018
The late physicists John Wheeler and Albert Einstein would have been overjoyed to see the recent confirmations of their hypothesis: gravity waves and black holes are out there, real and...
YVR18-308:Kernel Bugs and Regressions Debugging Best Practices
Sunday, September 16, 2018
This demo will be based on real work done for real bug cases. It will show some of my best practices in putting together an environment ready for bug resolution:...
YVR18-310:The Linux Desktop: Arms Final Frontier
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Arm has conquered the mobile world and competed in the server market, but the desktop, especially the Linux desktop remains elusive. What does Arm need to succeed on the desktop?...
YVR18-311:A Call to Action: Accelerating Python with FPGAs
Sunday, September 16, 2018
The Python community can strongly benefit from the immense and flexible computing power of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). FPGAs are composed of memories, various logic and math hardware units...
YVR18-312: Edge AI with Linaro
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Including an overview of how to create IoT devices for rapid deployment, Gumstix CEO, Gordon Kruberg, will demonstrate how to create a device running a DNN and show remotely performed...
YVR18-313:What is LKFT and how does it improve the Linux kernel overall quality
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Introduction to Linaro’s Linux Kernel Functional Test (LKFT) framework, which performs functional regression testing on upstream Linux kernels. Thousands of tests are run across a variety of boards, architectures, and...
YVR18-314:Containers in Embedded
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Toradex is an embedded module provider. We plan to adopt containers as a main architectural component for future product offerings. Using LMP (Linux microPlatforms) as a starting point this presentation...
YVR18-315:How to build affordable panoramic Camera product with Bubblegum96
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Bubblegum-96 with Actions S900 SoC inside, connected with 2 lanes of MIPI-CSI fisheye cameras, was used in this case, to build affordable panoramic camera. With special algorithm and GPU acceleration,...
YVR18-316:Validate your personal kernel tree using LKFT
Sunday, September 16, 2018
LKFT is run on select upstream Linux branches, but wouldn’t it be great to detect regressions (or fixes) before they reach upstream? Using LKFT’s new Developer Testing tool, kernel engineers...
YVR18-317:BOF: The Works on Arm Cluster project
Sunday, September 16, 2018
The Works on Arm cluster is run by Packet for Arm to provide test, development, and data center CI/CD resources for community projects to build on arm64. The project also...
YVR18-318:BoF: bootstrapping a SQUAD community
Sunday, September 16, 2018
This session is a gathering of all of those interested in SQUAD, which is the application that powers qa-reports.linaro.org. SQUAD is being developed in the open since day 0, and...
YVR18-319:PHP HHVM Optimization for AARCH64
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Arm developer participation in PHP and HHVM optimization work has seen quite a bit of improvements over the past few years. When looking to contribute better AARCh64 support, it is...
YVR18-320:OpenJDK Optimizations for AARCH64
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Over the past several months, we have been working with OpenJDK and SpecJBB for profiling on AARCH64. The purpose of this BoF session is to share common ideas and approaches...
YVR18-329 Arm NN intro
Sunday, September 16, 2018
An overview of the Arm NN design and codebase, what interfaces exist and why, and how people are using it today. We’ll also discuss upcoming features that Arm are contributing...
YVR18-332: TVM compiler stack and ONNX support
Sunday, September 16, 2018
As an open source deep learning compiler driven by the community, TVM is evolving quickly and well received by the industry. In this session, the architecture of the TVM stack...
YVR18-333: ONNC (Open Neural Network Compiler) for Arm Cortex-M
Sunday, September 16, 2018
The Open Neural Network Compiler (ONNC) project aims to provide a compiler to connect Open Neural Network Exchange Format (ONNX) to every deep learning accelerator (DLA). ONNX is a standard...
YVR18-334: AI Alive: On Device and In-App
Sunday, September 16, 2018
ThunderSoft has been working on AI for recent years. This presentation will share some results of AI work. First of all, give a general introduction about the current status of...
YVR18-335: Xilinx: AI on FPGA and ACAP Roadmap
Sunday, September 16, 2018
A review of the Xilinx AI processors, AI framework support and problems to collaborate on.
YVR18-337: BoF: JIT vs offline compilers vs deploying at the Edge
Sunday, September 16, 2018
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YVR18-400K1: Toshiyuki Shimizu A new powerful general purpose CPU complements and accelerates Arm ecosystem prosperity in high performance servers
Sunday, September 16, 2018
A new Fujitsu designed powerful Arm general purpose CPU will be presented. It supports Armv8-A and 512-bit SVE, scalable vector extension, ensuring binary compatibility amongst other Arm processors. It also...
YVR18-400K2: Long Wang Smart communities: Challenge Solution and Cooperation
Sunday, September 16, 2018
YVR18-401:96Boards OpenHours - Live in Vancouver
Sunday, September 16, 2018
96Boards OpenHours – Sponsored by Linaro welcomes you to participate in the ultimate community driven experience. This special LIVE broadcast will take place over the BlueJeans video conferencing tool, in...
YVR18-402:LAVA Users Forum
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Continuing our regular Users Forum, for all your questions about LAVA.
YVR18-403:Improving the interoperability between Linux and UEFI using LUV
Sunday, September 16, 2018
This presentation will give an overview of the Linux UEFI Validation (LUV) project; its motivations and objectives. LUV creates a Linux validation OS which can be used by Linux kernel...
YVR18-404:BoF Device Tree: Json-schema for DeviceTree bindings and Connector bindings
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Devicetree (DT) is the dominate hardware description language for embedded systems. While well established, there is a gap in validation of DT data as dtc (the DT compiler) has limited...
YVR18-405:To JDK 11 and Beyond!
Sunday, September 16, 2018
OpenJDK has been changing at an accelerate rate in the past year. In this presentation I will take the audience through the changes since JDK9 and look forward to the...
YVR18-406:EAS for Android mainlining update
Sunday, September 16, 2018
The Arm/Linaro Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) has made big strides towards mainline during 2018. Thanks to closer alignment with upstream, a new release process enables ‘EAS for Android’ to appear...
YVR18-407: WarpDrive Progress
Sunday, September 16, 2018
As a Common Accelerator Framework for Linux user space applications was brought up at the Connect SFO 2017 by Kenneth Lee, we have done a series of work to enable...
YVR18-408:Open Source Academics and other 96Boards initiatives
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Open Source Academics (OSA) aims to facilitate and expand the educational experience on a global stage by providing scalable curriculum and standardized course materials through an open source platform. The...
YVR18-409:Suspend time compensation for Linux kernel
Sunday, September 16, 2018
On some hardware with multiple clocksources, we have coarse grained clocksources that support the CLOCK_SOURCE_SUSPEND_NONSTOP flag, but which are less than ideal for timekeeping whereas other clocksources can be better...
YVR18-410:Envoy: an L3L4L7 proxy and communication bus designed for large modern service
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Envoy is an L3/L4/L7 proxy and communication bus designed for large modern service oriented architectures.It is famous as the load-balancer as kubernetes & service mesh. It support L3/L4 filter, HTTP...
YVR18-411:MCUboot: Multi-Image Support
Sunday, September 16, 2018
2017 saw the release of the first version of the MCUboot project. This bootloader seeks to be a collaborative effort to solve the issues of securely booting and upgrading embedded...
YVR18-412:Standard Embedded Boot with EBBR
Sunday, September 16, 2018
EBBR (Embedded Base Boot Requirements) is a new specification to define firmware behaviour for embedded systems. It is intended to ensure interoperability between embedded hardware, firmware projects, and operating system...
YVR18-413:Qualcomm Kernel Upstream BoF
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Continuation of discussion from HKG18. QC kernel upstream status, issues, roadblocks, planning.
YVR18-414: Keymaster and Gatekeeper
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Keymaster and Gatekeeper implements a set of security features in AOSP that leverages hardware-backed security like TrustZone. In this presentation we are going to give an overview of the concepts...
YVR18-415:LEDGEAutomotive reference platform
Sunday, September 16, 2018
In attempt to provide unified platform for IoT, EDGE networking and Automotive use cases LSS team prepared an OE based build with support for containers and OTA updates. Initial effort...
YVR18-416:Using perf On Arm platforms
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Perf is a powerful tool for profiling and debugging for Linux kernel. In addition to being the main window into the performance counters, it also provides support for different backends...
YVR18-417:Struck entropy! Finding true randomness from sensor data
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Generating random numbers is essential to cryptography and providing a source of true randomness is an important feature for modern systems. The kernel provides a software implementation but this often...
YVR18-418:UEFI on HiKey
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Introduce the latest progress on HiKey UEFI. Some new changes in upstream.
YVR18-421: Enabling a secure data center with Arm64 architecture
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Secure boot helps to plug security vulnerabilities for servers in the data center. The primary requirement to implement secure boot using UEFI is the support for secure storage on the...
YVR18-422: Tiny IoT running Linux
Sunday, September 16, 2018
It is often assumed that tiny IoT systems are too limited to run Linux, and a small operating systems like Zephyr is a better choice. However, using a small OS...
YVR18-422: Tiny IoT running Linux
Sunday, September 16, 2018
It is often assumed that tiny IoT systems are too limited to run Linux, and a small operating systems like Zephyr is a better choice. However, using a small OS...
YVR18-500K1: Thea Aldrich Putting Principle into Practice: A case study on building a diverse open source technical community
Sunday, September 16, 2018
YVR18-500K3: Kato Shinpei Autoware on Board
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Autoware is becoming a common software platform for research and development of autonomous driving technology. So many prototypes of autonomous vehicles are built on top of Autoware. In this talk,...
YVR18-501:Using VPN implementation from upstream kernel in Android
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Till now Android is using its own L2TP/PPTP protocols implementation from Android kernel. The same functionality is available in upstream kernel. In order to make Android kernel closer to upstream...
YVR18-502:Java on Arm: Theory Applications and Workloads
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Although Arm processors are almost always viewed as having been designed for the embedded market, several vendors are making a bet and building server CPUs that contend with Intel in...
YVR18-503:Diary of a Drive by Coder: Tips and Tricks for Working with Upstream
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Most of the community talks emphasize how to join the community and become an ongoing part of it, but what if you simply want to get a feature upstream and...
YVR18-504: Notes from porting and booting Ubuntu Core on iMX6 with secure boot enabled
Sunday, September 16, 2018
The presentation is sharing the observations and notes from porting and booting Ubuntu Core with secure boot enabled on NXP’s i.MX6 SoC. Ubuntu Core is one of the OSes for...
YVR18-505:LLVMClang and Arm 32-bit
Sunday, September 16, 2018
With 4.18 upstream Linux now has basic Arm 32-bit LLVM/Clang support. This presentation will show current state of affairs and discussing potential directions/benefits to push support further (e.g. should there...
YVR18-506:IoT TLS: Why Its Hard
Sunday, September 16, 2018
TLS (formerly SSL) is fairly well known, and most people are familiar with it through the ‘s’ at the end of the ‘https’ in web URLs. Securing communication is also...
YVR18-507:Maintaining Old Arm Systems
Sunday, September 16, 2018
This presentation from one of the Arm kernel contributors will tell you a bit about the old 32 bit Arm systems we are maintaining, when we have deleted systems, when...
YVR18-508:System Firmware and Device Firmware Updates using Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Capsules
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Firmware is responsible for low-level platform initialization, establishing root-of-trust, and loading the operating system (OS). Signed UEFI Capsules define an OS-agnostic process for verified firmware updates, utilizing the root-of-trust established...
YVR18-509:Redox OS: A modern microkernel based open source OS written in the Rust safety and concurrency themed language - Now also on Arm!
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Rust is a modern systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety. Redox is a Unix-like Operating System written in Rust, aiming to bring the...
YVR18-510:From Zero to Zero-Copy: Accelerating Your Embedded Media Player
Sunday, September 16, 2018
In this presentation you will learn how to accelerate your embedded multimedia application using Video 4 Linux 2, the Linux DRM subsystem, and OpenGLES. Zero-copy is a method that describes...
YVR18-511: SBSA QEMU
Sunday, September 16, 2018
There is a QEMU machine type ‘virt’ for Arm, but it has some constrains, so a new machine type ‘enterprise’ is created. This session introduces features of QEMU ‘enterprise’ machine,...
YVR18-PMWG01: Idle injection and cpu power topology description
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Now that The idle injection library has been queued, discuss idle injection next step and power topology description
YVR18-PMWG02: Thermal Range governor and hierarchical thermal zone
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Discuss solutions to extending step_wise to deal with temperature ranges (low temperatures) and finding solutions for nested thermal zones
YVR18-PMWG03: Idle loop reordering : what does it solve and how to get benefit
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Discuss the power consumption improvement gained with the backport of the Idle loop reordering onto ACK v4.14, the limitations and the special cares linked to the current implementation and the...
YVR18-PMWG04: Status about cluster idling
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Status and discussion about the cluster idling patchset and how to move forward on the topic
YVR18-PMWG05: Multiple PM domain: How to use it
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Description of the support of multiple power domain per device that has been recently merged
YVR18-PMWG06: On-chip interconnect API (aka bus scaling framework)
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Status report and discussion about upcoming features of the On-Chip Interconnect API.
YVR18-PMWG07: Status product codeline
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Give a status of the product codeline activity.
YVR18-PMWG08: CPU utilization tracking
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Follow up of the session “YVR18-205:Evolution of Load tracking mechanism in Linux scheduler” and discussion about the next steps and what still remain
YVR18-PMWG09: Thermal capping
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Discuss the thermal capping solution for which the first version of patches have been posted. Also discuss tests petaining to thermal capping.
YVR18-PMWG10: Adeb: A chroot-based adb shell for Android
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Android systems and kernel developers need a more mainstream and a typical Linux userspace for development/debugging. Adeb (or androdeb) is a tool I wrote to make this possible. This talk...
YVR18-PMWG11: Scheduler Debug a Lisa Love story
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Brief introduction to LISA (https://github.com/Arm-software/lisa) Using LISA for system analysis For writing patches (misfit patch-set) For platform tuning Testing with LISA Scheduler “unit-tests” Android power/perf testing (wltests)
YVR18-PMWG12: Setting up boards in farm: About what do we have to take care
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Feedback about all issues that we faced when enabling power consumption measurements in PMWG farm. How to get stable figures across boards and iterations ?
YVR18-PMWG13: Farm status and next step
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Give the current status of the PMWG Farm and discuss next steps to improve it.
YVR18-PMWG14: DVFS Support
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Review discussion on DVFS Support in the kernel. https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-clk/msg27587.html
YVR18-SWG01 Hacking: Documentation in OP-TEE
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Currently the OP-TEE documentation is spread among different gits and op-tee.org? I would like to have a discussion how to shape up our documentation a bit. Markdown vs rst? Sphinx...
YVR18-SWG02 Hacking: Timer API for TAs
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Some Trusted Applications need periodic secure timers (CAS for instance). The current GP Internal Core API specification does not support this requirement. I would like to discuss our options regarding...
YVR18-SWG03 Hackin: OP-TEE in AOSP and KeymasterGatekeeper
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Might have some repeated info in tomorrow’s session Updates/progress since HKG18 General discussions and questions or inputs from audience Upstreaming strategies Running as non-root user Stable release(s)?
YVR18-SWG04 Hackin: Status of lorcs virtualization patches
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Pull request #2370 Review ongoing Some easy patches already merged
YVR18-SWG05 Hacking: RPMB device ID in U-Boot vs Linux
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Device ID in U-Boot and Linux can sometime get out of sync, this has happened on the Poplar board OP-TEE uses hardcoded CFG_RPMB_FS_DEV_ID to select RPMB device and this is...
YVR18-SWG06 Hacking: BigNumber library in OP-TEE
Sunday, September 16, 2018
The current library libmpa is not and have never been maintained. We have had a couple of security flaws there and lately we have noticed that modular expansion etc is...
YVR18-SWG07 Hacking: Using OP-TEE from boot-loaders
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Accessing OP-TEE services via static TA like RNG to fetch random seed for KASLR feature etc?
YVR18-TCWG01: Arm FDPIC ABI support in the GNU Toolchain
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Arm FDPIC ABI: MMU-less Linux, shared objects: pick both. Soon upstream for the smallest IoT devices.
YVR18-TCWG02: Round-robin CI with auto-bisection of several moving targets
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Overview of Jenkins-based CI approach to regression detection and automated bisection of several moving targets (e.g., LLVM:master building Linux:master)
YVR18-TCWG03: Use of sample and instrumented profiling to enable code-size optimizations
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Present results of investigation into selectively compiling functions for code-size if profile feedback determines that functions are cold.
YVR18-TCWG04: Coremark regression approaches
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Summary of different approaches I tried to resolve the regression and challenges in modeling register pressure on TREE level.
YVR18-TCWG05: String Optimizations in glibc
Sunday, September 16, 2018
A walkthrough of the various string optimizations that I did in glibc over the last year or so, ranging from the relatively obvious str{n,}cmp improvements to the slightly more quirky...
YVR18-TCWG06: Overview of sign- and zero-extension elimination
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Talk about the redundant zero/extension problem in gcc and briefly talk about the approaches we have tried and the issues faced in getting an upstream acceptable solution.
YVR18-TCWG07: FileCheck numeric expressions: features and implementation
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Interface and implementation presentation of existing FileCheck variables feature and the upcoming new numeric expressions feature.
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