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Why the ecosystem
is a wonderful thing,
warts and all
Andrew Wafaa
Software Director
Linaro Connect Hong Kong - March 2018

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Who am I and why would you care?
Andrew Wafaa
Software Director: Enterprise, Communities
Focus on upstream projects, *BSD, Linux distributions, ISVs based on open source
Bad choice in party outfits

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What is an Ecosystem?

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A biological community of interacting organisms and their
physical environment
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/ecology/intro-to-
ecosystems/a/what-is-an-ecosystem

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Ecosystems are made up of multiple communities

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A digital community of interacting components and their
physical environment

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What is Arm’s
Ecosystem?

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Sensors to Servers
With everything in between and on top of

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Arm and partners enable the ecosystem
Partners Enablement
Applications
Middleware
Driver & OS
Security
Tools
Models
100,000s
1,000s
100s
10s
10s
§ A collective effort from
ARM and partners
§ ARM focuses on enabling
key building blocks
§ The partnership ensures
the entire ecosystem is
enabled
§ is all about this
ARM enablement

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Arm and the ecosystem are engaged
Applications
Middleware / App
Platforms
Optimized
Libraries
Toolchain /
Languages
Virt /
Containers
/ Mgmt
OS
1’s
10’s
100’s
1000’s
Arm
• Architectural software
– Linux Kernel
– Arm Trusted Firmware
• Enterprise software
– Operating system (Incl containers and virt)
– Workloads (incl ceph, orchestration, big data, DB)
– Languages and tools (OpenJDK, LuaJIT, GoLang)
– Networking (ODP, OFP, DPDK, NFVi)
+ Linaro
• LEG (Server focus)
• LNG (Networking focus)
• LITE (IoT & Embedded focus)
+ Arm Partners

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All is good, so where
are the warts?

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A digital community of interacting components and their
physical environment

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Do we need open source hardware?
When we talk about open source hardware we must mean open source designs or plans
for H/W
• PCB layouts
• RTL for FPGA or IC
• Test benches
• Mask layouts
• Instruction-set architecture
• Instructions for 3-D printers…
• Mask data…

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96Boards to the rescue?
Close but no cigar
Pro
• Common design
• Low cost
• Easily accessible
Con
• Software not upstream
• Non standard components
• Not industry standard form factors

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There is hope!

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Thank You!
Danke!
Merci!
谢谢!
ありがとう!
Gracias!
Kiitos!
감사합니다
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