Resource: LCA13 Name: George Grey Keynote Date: 04-03-2013 Speaker: George Grey Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWffRHlCPqw

1. Linaro Connect Asia 2013
George Grey
CEO

2. Welcome to Hong Kong
Membership
Announcements
Vision

3. Linaro Enterprise Group
• Formed in November 2012
• Working on core open-source
software for ARM servers
• Boot architecture – UEFI/ACPI
• ARM workload optimizations
• ARMv8 bringup & optimization
• LAMP, Hadoop, HipHop VM
• Reduces costs, eliminates
fragmentation, accelerates time
to market
• Members can focus on innovation
and differentiated value-add
http://www.linaro.org/engineering/leg
Group Founders

4. Linaro Networking Group
• Formed in February 2013
• Working on core open-source
software for networking equipment
• Leverages Linaro’s shared
engineering model
• Deliver Linux software for the next
generation of low-power hardware
• Real Time Support
• Virtualization for networking equipment
• Multi-core SoC Power management
• Data Plane interfaces & frameworks
• Mixed-endian legacy code support
http://www.linaro.org/engineering/lng
and
and 2 more (not yet public)
Group Founders

5. CORE
GROUP
CLUB
COMMUNITY

6. Announcements
• Linaro VP Engineering – Mark Orvek
• Open Compute Meeting

7. The ARM Community
• Together, the ARM community is a very strong force
• 8.7Bn ARM chips shipped in 2012
• Low power is in ARM’s DNA
• Mobile
• Data centers – alone 2.2% of US energy consumption
• Routers
• Set Top Boxes
• Differentiation and Innovation
• Driven by the ARM licensing model
• Opportunity for startups and established companies alike

8. The Way We Were
• 1+ Linux per vendor
• Clock drivers
• I2C drivers
• PinMux drivers
• Power Management
• Kernel Memory
Management
• Graphics & Multimedia
framework
• ...... more non-value
adding differentiation
ARM SoC Software – “A Waddle of Penguins?”
Fragmentation of core software = multiple patch sets + little upstreaming
+ high maintenance costs + wasted resources
+ delays to products

9. Linaro
• Formed in 2010 as an OSS Engineering Organization
• Place for ARM vendors to colloborate
• Delivery through upstreaming
• Work together on core software, enable differentiation & innovation
• A Work in Progress
• Dramatic improvements to ARM Linux kernel & contributions
• ARM-SoC tree, Devicetree, UMM (dmabuf & CMA), single zImage
• Linaro is now a major contributor to the Linux kernel and other open
source projects
Open Source Software for multiple vendor’s SoCs
Shared development of core Linux software
COMMUNITY

10. Hardware Vision
• Google glass, Phones, Tablets, Fitness monitors,
Health monitors, Embedded devices, Computers,
Intelligent cables, Thermostats, Routers, Switches,
Disk drives, Set Top Boxes, Cars, TVs, Digital
Cameras, Camcorders, Smart Meters, Microservers,
Hyperscale servers .....

11. Data Growth
Wireless Server DataCenter Photos IoT
low-power M2M 4G LTE HyperScalar Video
MicroServer Netflix BigData YouTube
Mobile Facebook Storage Energy SoC
Low-power HDTV multicore Exabytes
2,500,000,000,000,000,000

12. Industry Disruption
• Today – the entire industry is being disrupted
• Mobile - Phones, Tablets
• Embedded markets - TV, Cameras, Consumer electronics, Cars
• Networking - Routers, Switches, Cloud
• Servers - Micro, Hyperscale, HPC
• IOT - Huge future impact on cloud, data, analysis
• One size no longer fits all
• One vendor alone cannot compete
• ARM’s business model and partners are key
• SoCs and Open Source are agents of change

13. What does this mean for Linaro?
• Substantial opportunity for delivering value
• More companies see the benefit that Linaro’s approach brings
• Collaborating on core software and standards
• Increase in membership and resources
• Continuing our core focus areas
• Linux kernel, Power Management, Graphics & Multimedia,
Tools, Engineering Builds & Validation (LAVA)
• More Groups
• Working in specific areas where a group of companies wants to share
software development costs e.g. STB/TV, Embedded, Automotive
• Shift from consolidation to new technology
• From Devicetree and Pinmux to big.LITTLE and ARMv8

14. Technology Vision
• Work with new ARM Technology as it emerges
• ARMv7 – lower power, multicores, big.LITTLE, microcontroller
• ARMv8 – mobile to server
• Power Management
• Continue to drive and innovate power management architecture
and tools
• Software and tools for the whole SoC
• Boot architecture, Main cores, GPGPU, IO processors,
Security interfaces

15. Technology Vision
• Open source for the Internet of Things
• ‘Micro’ Linux or open source alternative
• Web communication with minimal or no UI
• Examples – Google Glass, Nest, WeMO, Withings,
Health & fitness monitors, cameras
• Open source is the way to have these millions of devices
speak a ‘common language’
• Security everywhere
• Trustzone interface, Secure OS, media, storage, IOT
• LAVA
• Establish as best practice for open source testing

16. Linaro Vision
• Core and Club members drive overall open source
agenda and core roadmap
• Comprised of ARM & key SoC vendors spanning multiple industry
sectors with strategic interest in open source software
• Group members drive sector roadmaps
• Also extend Linaro membership into the ecosystem – distributions,
equipment manufacturers, software partners & end users
• Build on the partnership with our members

17. Linaro Connect Asia – Hong Kong 2013
• Make this week matter
• Linaro is built on shared engineering for
common goals – Connect is the opportunity
to collaborate and work together