2019-10-24 LDCG SC Meeting Agenda/Minutes

Meeting Date:  24 October 2019

Attendance

Committee Members 

Name

Present 



Alternate 

Present 


Elsie Wahlig, Linaro

  (tick)   



  

Andy Wafaa, ARM

  (tick)   


Tony Chen

 (error)

Kouichi Hirai, Fujitsu

  (error)


Takeharu Kato

 (error)

Li Wan, FutureWei

  (tick)   


Kangkang Shen

  (tick)   

Larry Wikelius, Marvell

  (tick)   


Zi Shen Lim

 (error)

Jon Masters, Red Hat

  (tick)   



  

Satoru Okamoto, Socionext

  (error)


Kiyoshi Owada

  (tick)   




Guests 

NamePresent 
Mark Orvek, Linaro(error)
Andrea Gallo, Linaro

(tick)   

David Rusling, Linaro

(error)

Tom Gall, Linaro

(error)

Vicky Janicki. Linaro(error)
Graeme Gregory, Linaro (tick)   
Ganesh Raju, Linaro (tick)   
Jammy Zhou, Linaro (tick)   
Baptiste Gerondeau, Linaro(error)
Kevin Zhao, Linaro (tick)   
Paul Isaac's, Linaro (tick)   
David Lai, Futurewei(tick)   
Peter Liu, Futurewei(tick)   
Paul Isaac's (tick)   
   

Live meeting notes will be <<here>>    

Agenda

  • LDCG representative in TSC
    • Once a year, we have a vote for the TSC representative. It's that time of year again.
    • Jon Masters has held his position for many years
    • The essential duties are:
  1. Represent the LDCG groups interest (versus their own representatives company) at the TSC.
  2. Pass down information from the TSC to the group.
  3. Attend TSC meetings (Wednesdays) and F2F member meetings (normally held in late January and late July)  Next one is January 21-23 in Austin, TX, USA
  • Accelerator Frameworks project proposal
    • Debrief of smartnic's meeting in San Jose
  • AOB
    • Update on CNCF Proposal from David Lai

Minutes

  • Accelerator Frameworks and SmartNic's
    • Jon:  There is a compelling justification to a standardized interface. 
    • Paul:  was there smartnic to smartnic discussion?   
      • Graeme: Yes, but ran out of time.  Device to device is a critical feature using CCIX, CXL. 
    • Larry:  Are there official notes or meeting 
    • Kangkang:  There is a card that falls into this category. 
    • Jon:  This can be a collaboration for Linaro with ServerAC
    • WG Meeting week of November 4th.  Interested parties are Marvell, FutureWei
  • CNCF proposal update (David Lai)
    • JenkinsX is the umbrella, and understood not to be ported to Arm64
    • AndyW:  Concerned about overlap with work that Packet is already doing
    • Action Required:   Andy to discuss internally, 
  • TSC representative election
    • Larry Wikelius was nominated by Kangkang and Jon.  Larry is considering, but concerned about time commitment. 
    • Operational meeting is always the 1st Wednesday of the month.  Next is 6 November 2019.
    • Strategic meeting is the 3rd Wednesday of the month.  Next is 20 November 2019. 

Action Items