Feb 17, 2025 ‐ 16:00 UTC

Host:

• Philipp Ahmann

Participants:

• Patrick Uven
• Sebastian Hetze
• Daniel Weingaertner
• Nicole Pappler
• Leonardo Rossetti
• Gabriele Paoloni
• Troy Sabin

Regrets:

• ...

Attended Recently

• Walt Miner
• Rinat Shagisultanov
• Steven Carbno
• Karen Bennet
• Roberto Paccapeli
• Alfred Strauch
• Kate Stewart
• Thomas Mittelstädt
• Stewart Hildebrand
• Olivier Charrier

Topics & Notes:

Check past action items

• Previous meeting notes: https://github.com/elisa-tech/wg-systems/wiki/Nov-25,-2024-%E2%80%90-16:00-UTC
• AI-Sebastian: Involvement of DIN can also be interesting. Sebastian will take a first contact.
  • Communication started. Another meeting scheduled in Feb.
• AI-Philipp: Invite the epam people to tell a bit about their work and planned activities (specifically Pi5).
  • No feedback from epam so far. Need to follow up.
  • Will check, if someone from epam at FOSDEM (no speaker seen)
• AI-Philipp: Reach out to Thomas M. and Andreas B. for enabling Pi5 with Xen and Zephyr
  • No chance by Andreas B. to contribute currently.
• AI-Philipp: Response to new Railway WG idea from Sebastian.
  • Mail dropped to interested participants. Invited to TSC.
  • Create a meeting poll.
  • Sebastian created a first draft, but someone from railway should propose it.
  • Some may attend TSC on Wednesday.

Standards Atlas

• Next Deep-dive session to be scheduled
• Take it like last time. Sebastian proposes 4 slots. Philipp will use them to create a nuudel.

Reference Hardware considerations

• Discussion with ZAL last week.
  • Options they propose where i.mx95 SMARC modules
  • pointing to 3 potential vendor for "community friendly" hardware
  • ZAL offered to lend one hardware in case we want to experiment.
  • i.mx95 has a good support for xen when building with yocto-full version.
  • microchip also has a potential hardware based on RISC-V supporting Xen
• Dropped a mail to microchip representative (as they have been in some meetings recently)
  • Question internally forwarded to microchip.
• Gen5 of R-Car as a central HPC ECU could be an option
  • not available to wider community
  • more expensive
  • decent features
  • unclear which GPU vendor is used.
• For Nvidia xen couldn't be used in the past and KVM was the option judges as slightly less safe and secure.
• native ARM-qemu also still in discussion.

Good Quality Practices in Open Source [cont.]

• Worked on gdoc draft to work for the LFE requests: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Uzp4-mAAOd9uMhyKx5Vaa0C8Mq5w1IxhHFAgyE0I9p0
• Next steps:
  • Need to prepare questions for the survey to come with LF press release. -> Press release should be out by e/o Feb?!
    • https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qSJ_tixVK2ZkwyTNBK-Hk4trOZwitca-v3xPwFaQepA
  • Submit to OSS NA happening June 23rd -> Standards & Specifications -> Standards for Critical and Emerging Technology
    • Joint submission by Philipp & Gab done.
  • Check if it is possible to promote project as part of OSS NA.

AoB

• Philipp-AI: Add architecture picture to Systems-WG repo for better clarity.