PRAGUE and SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 23,
2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Civil
Infrastructure Platform (CIP), which aims to provide a base layer
of industrial grade open source software components, tools and
methods to enable long-term management of critical systems, today
announced the release of the CIP Core. The CIP Core, a reference
minimal file system that offers a customizable environment that
developers can use to test the CIP kernel and core packages, will
be on display at Embedded Linux Conference Europe with planned
workshops, demos and Q&A sessions.
CIP aims to speed implementation of Linux-based civil
infrastructure systems, build upon existing open source foundations
and expertise, establish de facto standards by providing a base
layer reference implementation, and contribute to and influence
upstream projects regarding industrial needs.
Hosted by The Linux Foundation, CIP addresses the needs of
long-term software for the power generation and distribution,
water, oil and gas, transportation and building automation
industries. CIP members such as Codethink, Hitachi, Plat'Home,
Renesas, Siemens and Toshiba are working to create a reliable and
secure Linux-based embedded software platform that can be sustained more than 10 years and up to
60 years.
"CIP is committed to creating, testing and maintaining an open
source software foundation needed to deliver essential services for
civil infrastructure and economic development on a global scale,"
said Yoshitake Kobayashi, Chair of
CIP's Technical Steering Committee and the Senior Manager of Open
Source Technology Department at Toshiba. "The CIP Core is a major
milestone that will provide a platform for developers to easily
build a reference file system and quickly test the CIP kernel with
specific application and use cases. This customizable testing will
eventually became a part of the product solution."
CIP Core features include:
- Creating reference file system images to test and demonstrate
use of the CIP kernel and core packages, a selected set of open
source software components that require super long-term
support.
- Achieving its first milestone after releasing reference file
system images for the Beaglebone Black, the iWave RZ/G1M Qseven
Development Kit, QEMU x86_64 and the DE0-Nano-SoC development
kit.
- Consolidating the CIP kernel and core packages into a minimal
reference file system that can be tested and used for further
development.
- Leveraging released file system images that were generated with
Deby, a reproducible and maintainable embedded Linux distribution
currently based on poky and Debian LTS source code.
Board at Desk v1.0:
CIP also recently launched Board
AT Desk (B@D) v1.0, a customized and easy to deploy instance of the
kernelci and LAVA projects that should allow
developers to test Linux kernels on boards connected to their own
development machines using the tooling provided by one of the most
successful Open Source testing projects, kernelci.org. B@D v1.0 is
provided as a vagrant virtual machine (VM) image/recipe and as a VM
image, known as a Vagrant box.
With this release, CIP is moving towards a "shared and trusted
testing" target for not just those directly involved in maintaining
the CIP kernel but any kernel developer that has physical access to
a board. It reduces the deployment, configuration and maintenance
costs. B@D introduces a "local" approach to kernelci.org which is a
distributed service centrally managed. In addition, CIP intends to
increase the number of developers and organizations willing to
participate in kernelci.org by providing a simple mechanism to
evaluate the technologies developed by that community (LAVA and
kernelci) which CIP considers upstream. For more information about
the B@D v1.0, read this blog post.
CIP at Embedded Linux Conference Europe:
Live
demonstrations of the CIP kernel and LTS will be on display at the
Embedded Linux Conference Europe taking place on October 23-25, 2017. The CIP booth (Booth M17)
will be filled with innovative member solutions from Codethink,
Plat'Home, Renesas, Siemens and Toshiba.
CIP members Agustin Benito
Bethencourt, Principal Consultant at FOSS and Codethink, and
Ben Hutchings, developer at
Codethink and CIP lead maintainer, will also share insight, tips
and experience about maintaining a Linux kernel over a long period
of time on Tuesday, October 24 at
4:55 p.m. This session will describe
the kernel maintenance challenges CIP is facing, the plans to
overcome them and what additional measures will be taken in the
near future to walk towards maintaining the CIP kernel for 30 years
or more.
Additionally, Yoshitake Kobayashi
and Urs Gleim, head of the Research
Group of the Smart Embedded Systems at Siemens Corporate Technology
and chair of the CIP governing board, will provide a CIP overview
on Wednesday, October 25 from
9:50–10:10 a.m.. They will introduce attendees to the project's
strategy, use cases, technical roadmap, policies and
milestones.
CIP is also hosting open workshops and a developer meeting
before and during the show for Linux developers and maintainers. On
Sunday, October 22, CIP members will
lead three workshops for testing, collaboration and Q&A
sessions in the Athens room at the
Hilton Prague. The workshop schedule is below. For more information
or to register for a session, visit the CIP wiki.
Workshops on Sunday, October
22:
2 p.m.: AGL Testing
& B@D Collaboration Discussion
4 p.m.: B@D 101
5:30 p.m.: CIP Kernel
Maintenance Q&A
Additionally, CIP members will host a Q&A session on
Tuesday, October 24 at 1 p.m. The meeting is open to any and all
developers interested in CIP, LTS, Linux maintenance and Debian.
For more information, visit the CIP wiki.
About CIP
The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) is
an open source project hosted by The Linux Foundation. The project
is focused on establishing an open source base layer of industrial
grade software to enable the use and implementation of reusable
software building blocks that meet the safety, reliability and
other requirements of industrial and civil infrastructure. For
additional information, visit https://www.cip-project.org/.
About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the
organization of choice for the world's top developers and companies
to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and
commercial adoption. Together with the worldwide open source
community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by
creating the largest shared technology investment in history.
Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools,
training and events to scale any open source project, which
together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one
company. More information can be found at
www.linuxfoundation.org.
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