Status report in more detail: https://wiki.linaro.org/OfficeofCTO/WeeklyReport

Last meeting minutes: https://wiki.linaro.org/OfficeofCTO/2011-10-11

== Highlights ==

- Considering what would be the next catalyst area to open a path towards from OCTO + Platform architecture/UEFI/ACPI and its relation to the arm server area: what does it take to move on from the embedded marketplace to the commodity HW market place. What happens before the kernel is given a chance to run. + Better education on how to work with SMP especially on the application level.

- ARMHF: runtime linker initial implementation ready to do some benchmarking with, to be improved later. Also the ARMHF build machines are now under DSA should start getting packages building soon. Still one blocking issue is lack of disk space from the central server (ftp master) for Debian + The HF archive is ready in the sense of having userspace parts which can be put together manually to create a rootfs, but we do not have the kernels in debian built for platforms other than i.mx51/3.

- Boot Architecture / UEFI: Long term issue related to ACPI and UEFI processes: feedback is gauged from the Linux mailing lists (Grant initiated the discussion already) + For the short work items, they have been discussed and initial priorities set - focusing on support for zImage, usage of GPT for partition booting, exploration of ACPI issues among other items. Possibly will start some OCTO prototyping booting traditional and Android systems via UEFI + Based on the discussion the existing blueprints for Boot Architecture and UEFI will be revised accordingly

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro/+spec/linaro-kernel-o-bootarchitectu... https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro/+spec/linaro-kernel-o-uefi

- Other work:

+ Validation on SMP presentation (Invited lecture on validating parallel programs for China Linux Kernel developers conference), working on a whitepaper for ARM memory barriers and atomic operations. Ongoing full-up documentation of Linux's RCU implementation including also review of a user-level library that includes RCU and other concurrent algorithms (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-octo/+spec/linaro-octo-rcudocumentat...)