Android Microconference Accepted into 2021 Linux Plumbers Conference

We are pleased to announce that the Android Microconference has been accepted into the 2021 Linux Plumbers Conference. The past Android microconferences have been centered around the idea that it was primarily a synchronization point between the Android kernel team and the rest of the community to inform them on what they have been doing. With the help of last year’s focus on the Generic Kernel Image[1] (GKI), this year’s Android microconference will instead be an opportunity to foster a higher level of collaboration between the Android and Linux kernel communities. Discussions will be centered on the goal of ensuring that both the Android and Linux development moves in a lockstep fashion going forward.

Last year’s meetup achieved the following:

Forward progress on GKI, where vendors have started contributing their core kernel changes upstream, and moving their core functionality to modules.
fw_devlink=on by default
ION dropped from staging in favour of dma-buf heaps
A couple of inline encryption patch series eMMC inline encryption support add support for inline encryption to device mapper
Forward progress on dm-user
Open development of the protected KVM project
More details about last years achievements

This year’s topics to be discussed include:

Alignment issues between Android and Cgroups v2: Issues in refactoring Android’s use of cgroups to utilize cgroups v2
Thermal: Issues around performance and thermal handling between the kernel and Android’s HAL
Fuse/device-mapper/other storage: Discuss out-of-tree dm/storage drivers and how they might go upstream or better align with upstream efforts
In kernel memory tracking: Tracking/account GPU (and other multi-device shared) memory and how it might fit with cgroups
fw_devlink: Remaining fw_devlink issues to resolve, now that its enabled by default.
Hermetic builds/Kbuild
GKI updates: Whats new this year in GKI and where its going next year
Rust in AOSP / Kernel / Binder: How Android is adopting rust for userland and potentially for kernel drivers
Android Automotive OS Reference Platform: Details on recent Android Automotive work
Community devboard/device Collaboration: Ways to better collaborate on enabling various devboard against AOSP, without needing close interlock with Google