We are pleased to announce that the Android Microconference has been accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! Android has a long history at Linux Plumbers and has continually made progress as a direct result of these meetings. This year’s focus will be a fairly ambitious goal to create a Generic Kernel Image (GKI) (or one kernel to rule them all!). Having a GKI will allow silicon vendors to be independent of the Linux kernel running on the device. As such, kernels could be easily upgraded without requiring any rework of the initial hardware porting efforts. This microconference will also address areas that have been discussed in the past.

The proposed topics include:

• Generic Kernel Image
• ABI testing tools
• Android usage of memory pressure signals in the userspace low memory killer
• Testing: general issues, frameworks, devices, power, performance, etc.
• DRM/KMS for Android, adoption and upstreaming
• dmabuf heaps upstreaming
• dmabuf cache managment optimizations
• kernel graphics buffer (dmabuf based)
• SDcardfs
• libcamera unification
• and more

Come and join us in the discussion of improving what is arguably the most popular operating system in the world!

We hope to see you there!