Jun 24, 2024 ‐ 15:00 UTC - elisa-tech/wg-systems GitHub Wiki

Host:

• Philipp Ahmann

Participants:

• Alfred Strauch
• Steven Carbno
• Nicole Pappler
• Walt Miner
• Oussama

Regrets:

• ...

Attended Recently

• Guy Lunardi
• Andreas Bartelt
• Thomas Mittelstädt
• Stewart Hildebrand
• Kate Stewart
• Olivier Charrier

Topics & Notes:

Check past action items

• none from last meeting

Tiny Linux Config

• Discussed to start the core part of the kernel with tiny kernel
• Systems WG to document where to start and how to build it.
• Systems WG to add it to the ELISA CI/CD system
  • Informed Sudip about the topic and that his support may be needed some time "after summer break"
• First discussion can be found in tsc wiki
• Discussions from LFSCS: https://github.com/elisa-tech/wg-lfscs/blob/main/lfscs-meetings/resources/20240611-LFSCS-Meeting.pdf
• Want to go for qemu as reference hardware
  • AGL has ARM qemu images. See: http://download.automotivelinux.org/AGL/release/quillback/17.1.0/qemuarm64/

Documentation OSS CI/CD & contribution process

• Systems WG process & tools initial commit in Systems WG Wiki

System BOM

• Enhancement ongoing on DRAFT - ELISA SBOM Generation document.
• Schedule a meeting next week to continue.
• Settle the time during SPDX Safety meeting on Friday 16:00 UTC.

AoB

• Mail from Elinux-discuss mailing list (via lists.elinux.org). Subject: [Elinux-discuss] How to start multi-entity embedded work on specific topics? (boot time, for example)
  • While boot time may not be a good use case, the overall idea is great.
  • There is no umbrella project compared to LF Networking, Energy, CNCF.
  • Overlap between Emdedded verticals.
  • Embedded is an own world in the Linux ecosystem. Embedded projects are often also more constraint compared to cloud.
  • Examples for an umbrella are: Xen, Zephyr, CIP, AGL, ELISA, Yocto. The projects going to Embedded world is another example.
  • The Systems WG also had/has the intention of creating a place to meet and be an umbrella for embedded Systems.
    • A Linux in Embedded is typically not isolated. It interacts with other system elements like RTOS on µCs.
  • It makes sense to figure out a good "business case" for creating an umbrella organisation.
  • Many things are done over and over again. This could be something to improve.