2019-05-23 LDCG SC Meeting Agenda/Minutes

Meeting Date:  23 May 2019

Attendance

Committee Members 

Guests 

Agenda

• Organizational update

• POR update

• AOB

  • CXL

    • Member engagement

    • Linaro membership in CXL vote

Open

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?  

  • Developer Collaboration Vehicle

    • 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.   

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Recording Links

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

• US/America TZ Meeting: