2019-05-23 LDCG SC Meeting Agenda/Minutes

• Organizational update
• POR update
• AOB
  • CXL
    • Member engagement
    • Linaro membership in CXL vote

Minutes Asia Meeting

• Organizational update
  • Dev-Ops lead to join Linaro on 17 June 2019. 
  • Gema Gomez-Solano is moving on 7 June 2019. Linaro appreciates her many contributions during her tenure at Linaro. 
  • LInaro has suspended Huawei membership and disengaged
    • Arm following a similar disengagement.
    • This is a fluid situation that continues to be understood.  
• Responses on US entity ban by other forums
  • Linux Foundation has not taken a restrictive policy.  They believe since all their work is in the open, they could still obtain the same information. 
  • Same goes for KubeCon summit in Shanghai in a couple weeks not restricting. 
  • CCIX has stopped all technical discussions while they decide how to respond.  
  • PCI-SIG has suspended Huawei and is continuing technical meetings without Huawei. 
  • UEFI has stopped all technical discussions while they decide how to respond.   
  • Openstack has stopped all interactions with Huawei. 
• CCIX Engagement by Members
  • Slow down especially due to the US entity ban with Huawei. 
• DCV
  • Continue or not?  
  • /wiki/spaces/LSA/pages/17615847441
    
    • Arm would like to see DCV to see it move forward.  He may have a person to assist. 
  • Projects to add?  
    • Arm:  Zlib
• CNCF
  • Arm has interest in CNCF.    Arm has Packet handling CI for all of CNCF. 
  • Arm suggests interest only in fixing specific projects
    • Kubernetes and ETCD is complete
    • Helm??  Andy to review and follow up with LDCG SC for specific guidance. 
• OpenBMC
  • Fujitsu:  does not need it. 
  • Socionext:  Kiyoshi will check with office
• CXL
  • Andy will defer to CXL.  Generally in favor of Linaro joining. 
  • Fujitsu and Socionext is not engaged with CXL. 
  • Vote on whether Linaro should join CXL to be done via email. 

Minutes US Meeting

• US ban of Huawei - new
  • Trusted Firmware is suspending all Huawei participation. 
  • Red Hat has disengaged. 
  • CCIX has suspended Huawei until further notice. 
  • Jon has escalated to LF about not restricting it. 
•  CCIX
  • Red Hat says CCIX has real challenges since the ban on Huawei. 
  • There are other unannounced interested parties. 
  • Marvell:  investment in CCIX at this time might not be the right time.  Suggest investing in anything else but this at the moment.  
  • LDCG SC to H
• CXL
  • Red Hat is joining.  Wants to see one interconnect and believes CXL will continue to get traction. 
  • Marvell is reviewing
  • As long as there is no cost to Linaro, we're not setup to do that.  Does not want to see a resource assigned yet. 
  • Elsie invite Dong to get Arm position. 
  • Jon would ask for a discount and support 
  • Marvell says if Linaro is to join that we really want to pursue it.  Determine strategy for accelerators.
  • Does it affect other teams in Linaro? Elsie follow-up with Andrea re: AI. 
• Does Packet have Huawei systems?
• DCV:  Sandbox for Aarch64
  • Marvell:  What is the tax on Linaro?  
  • Red Hat:  See's value if it's constrained to the sandbox. 
  • Linaro:  Talk to Arm - OSEC
• Larry @ Marvell - wants us to consider Valgrind.  Arm cannot work on it.   There were some discussions in the past.   

• Elsie Wahlig (Deactivated)  Send out email vote on whether Linaro should join CXL as a contributing member // 23-05-2019  
• Elsie Wahlig (Deactivated)  Queue Valgrind for future  meeting // 

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Recording Links

• Asia TZ Meeting: https://zoom.us/recording/share/A9fv9tiK_l4h4PU8mdqRHXgs7CjxXVkIZSsMoNv2MwSwIumekTziMw?startTime=1558615982000
• US/America TZ Meeting: