Resource: LCA14 Name: LCA14-302: LSK Overview and Status update Date: 05-03-2014 Speaker: Mark Brown Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2iXPqSIxic Website: http://www.linaro.org/ Linaro Connect: http://connect.linaro.org/ Slide: https://www.slideshare.net/linaroorg/lca14-302-lskoverviewstatusupdate

1. Wed 5 March, 10:05am, Mark Brown
LCA14-302: LSK overview & status
update

2. • Goals
• Current features
• How to use
• Roadmap/Process
Overview

3. • Provide a basis for product development
• Share the load of backporting and integration common
features ahead of upstream
• Extended support time for features
• Provide feedback from production to development
• Balance upstream first and production needs
Goals

4. Patch flow
-next Linus LSKLTS
Backport

5. • Lates kernel.org v3.10 LTS kernel
• ARMv8 enablement
• Fixes, enhancements, topology support
• big.LITTLE support
• GTS and IKS on ARMv7
• GTS on ARMv8
• Android patch set
• Interactive scheduler enhancements for big.LITTLE
• ARMv8 support
• Power efficient workqueues
• GATOR
• QA on a range of platforms
• Primary platforms are TC2 and ARMv8 fast models
• Full test spec available via https://wiki.linaro.org/LSK and in LAVA
Current features

6. • Maintained as fast forward branches for ease of merging
• Main release
• git pull git://git.linaro.org/linux-linaro-stable.git lsk-14.02
• Android release
• git pull git://git.linaro.org/linux-linaro-stable.git lsk-android-14.02
• New features can be requested by speaking to LSK
team
• There is a more formal process, we will guide you through it
Using LSK

7. • Continuing ARMv8 enhancements
• KVM
• Big endian
Active Roadmap

8. More information, including the test plans, can be found
at https://wiki.linaro.org/LSK
Any questions?

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