Jeffrey "Jefro" Osier-Mixon
Jefro is a serving CentOS board member and chair for the CentOS Automotive SIG. He works at Red Hat as an open source strategist and community architect for automotive and edge communities as well as RISC-V. Prior to Red Hat, he spent two years at the Linux Foundation working on RISC-V and LF Energy; eight years at Intel where he helped launch and run the Yocto Project, Zephyr Project, OpenBMC, project ACRN, and a number of other communities; and 20 years as a technical writer, mostly focused on embedded systems and open source.
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Sessions
This presentation introduces the CentOS Automotive SIG, which provides an automotive-specific version of CentOS - the Automotive Stream Distribution - along with very lightweight container management via BlueChi. We will go over why the SIG was formed and what it provides, its ties to Fedora and RHEL, and the vibrant community forming around Linux in the automotive industry.
This session reviews the growth and evolution of the RISC-V ISA and the business drivers behind Red Hat's decision to start the process of supporting the ISA as an 'official' platform in the future. This session is explicitly not technical but more of a discussion about the market, business, economic and political drivers for adoption.