About the Linaro Enterprise Group Steering Committee

The Linaro Enterprise Group (LEG) was established in November 2012 as the first segment focused group within Linaro. The group was established to accelerate Linux ARM server ecosystem development and it extended the list of Linaro members beyond ARM silicon vendors to Server OEM’s and commercial Linux providers.

LEG leverages and extends Linaro’s existing shared engineering, legal and open source collaboration structures. This joint collaboration focuses on identifying and addressing gaps/optimizations in the ARM Linux server software ecosystem, enabling SoC support upstream to meet LEG requirements, agreeing LEG requirements for SoC software standardization and upstreaming all relevant output.

The LEG steering committee defines the high level tasks – be it heavy lifting “mighty” projects or quick “low hanging fruit” optimizations – and the corresponding priorities and timelines as “cards”. The technical leaders in the engineering team then analyze each card and break it into multiple smaller and more detailed tasks, each one with a clear requirement and acceptance constrains for completion. Once the engineers are assigned, work enters the development phase. Each card is fully visible to Linaro members in JIRA.

The Committee Members 

Current Engineering Activities

• Common development center for the ARM Enterprise ecosystem

• Eliminates fragmentation, reduces cost and accelerates time to market

• Members can focus on innovation and differentiated value-add

• Working on core open-source software for ARM servers

• • Boot architecture – UEFI/ACPI

  • ARMv8 bringup & optimization

  • OpenJDK, Hadoop and Spark

  • Software Defined Infrastructure, such as OpenStack, Ceph and DPDK

  • Developer Cloud for wider ecosystem deployment