CIP Technical Steering Committee Meeting

Date: 9 January, 2018

TSC members

• Noriaki Fukuyasu (The Linux Foundation)
• Annie Fisher (The Linux Foundation)
• Agustin Benito Bethencourt (Codethink)
• Hidehiro Kawai (Hitachi)
• Mine (Hitachi)
• SZ Lin (MOXA)
• Masato Minda (Plat’Home)
• Takehisa Katayama (Renesas)
• Chris Paterson (Renesas)
• Jan Kiszka (Siemens)
• Wolfgang (Siemens)
• Daniel Sangorrin (Toshiba)
• Yoshi Kobayashi (Toshiba)

• No major update this week. Ben H. has been busy upstream.

• At this moment the impact of Spectre and Meltdown in modern architectures is incomplete as this table shows.
• The initial fixes are stating to land upstream and being backported, as GKH stated in his post.
• It is early yet to fully understand the strategy towards fixes backports beyond what upstream is doing. Once the current fixes are settle upstream, a discussion should be opened about what to do with the fixes that has not landed to 4.4, especially those related with ARM.
• The original idea is to have a statement about Meltdown/Spectre issue from the CIP kernel maintainer next week.
  • Given the communication needs, the goal is to have a software statement by the end of the current week. TODO: Agustin

• CIP RT kernel (Linux 4.4.105-cip15-rt10) was released on 2nd January by Daniel W.
  • https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rt-users/msg18226.html
• Renesas would like to know more about the RT testing (and potentially contribute) and will contact Daniel for more information.

• Direction about CIP testing (Bold items are potential options for testing.)
  • Maintain current B@D
    • Ben and Daniel Wagner are using B@D.
  • Enhancing the feature for B@D
    • Could be later
  • Collaboration with AGL to setting up test case repository
  • Collaboration with KernelCI in CIP side (in LF IT infrastructure)
    • Budget is approved to setup KerneCI infrastructure
      • LAVA master in LF
      • CIP member can test on the LAVA master

• Any plans for a F2F TSC meeting? If so how long and when?
  • Candidate plan for Next TSC F2F meeting
    • 11th March, 2018 (Sunday), 9am to 4pm (Lunch around noon-1pm)
    • Note: ELC session 12-15
• Any plans for a technical workshop?
  • Any proposal?
• Other meetings
  • Edgex

• SZ will introduce CIP in a local event in Taiwan.
  • Link to presentations from the website.