2024-08-08 –, Red Hat (Main 1)
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.
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.