ELISA

ELISA Workshop
2021-11-08 - 2021-11-10
Join the ELISA technical community on November 8-10 to continue advancing on topics and work relevant to functional safety and Linux applications. The ELISA Workshop series is focused on the exchange of ideas and feedback from the Linux kernel and Safety communities, as productive collaboration to make tangible progress toward achieving the mission and goals of the ELISA Project. The workshops also provide an informative overview for new and interested community members.
The event is free to attend. Register and check out the schedule here: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/elisa-workshop/.

Linux Security Summit (Seattle, Washington + Virtual)
2021-09-29 - 2021-10-01
The Linux Foundation is hosting its Linux Security Summit on September 29 – October 1 in Seattle, Washington, as well as virtually. This is a technical forum for collaboration between Linux developers, researchers, and end users. Its primary aim is to foster community efforts in analyzing and solving Linux security challenges.
Elana Copperman, an ELISA Project Ambassador and System Safety Architect at Mobileye (part of Intel), will be giving a presentation titled “Where do Security and Safety Meet?” on Thursday, September 30 at 11:05-11:50 am PDT.
System security and safety have common goals, yet often follow divergent development paths. We are taking a look at the Linux kernel configuration features, many of which were originally designed for security, which can be used to enable safety critical applications. In this talk, we will give an overview of our recent work researching existing kernel features important to enable safety critical applications. The kernel configurations are mapped onto Common Weakness Enumerations, but more significantly we demonstrate how they are specifically relevant to support basic safety features such as kernel memory or avoiding race conditions. The work is in the context of ELISA (https://elisa.tech), striving to promote the acceptance of Linux in industries such as avionics, medical devices, and automotive, for which safety is an essential requirement. Our goal is to discuss our work with the Linux kernel developers engaged in the Linux Self-Protection Project and others interested in this area. Add this to your schedule here.
This year’s event will be held in a hybrid format. Registrants can choose to attend in-person in Seattle or virtually. To learn more or to register, visit the main event website.

Embedded Linux Conference (Seattle, Washington + Virtual)
2021-09-27 - 2021-09-30
Embedded Linux Conference will be held on-site in Seattle, Washington as well as virtually on September 27-30. It is the leading conference for developers, architects and other technologists – as well as open source community and industry leaders – to collaborate, share information, learn about the latest technologies and gain a competitive advantage by using innovative open solutions. To learn more about the event, which is co-located with Open Source Summit, or to register, visit the main event website.
ELISA will be represented at the event in a few sessions including:
September 27 at 3:50 – 4:40 pm (PDT): How has Covid-19 Impacted the kernel Development over the Last Year? – Daniel German, University of Victoria & Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation
Using the version control history of Linux, is there evidence that covid-19 has impacted the kernel development process during the last year? In this presentation we will discuss the trends of growth in the source code and contributors (including maintainers) of Linux over the last year and how they were different from the trends reported in the Linux Kernel History Report 2020 report. Add this to your schedule here.
September 28 at 11 – 11:50 am (PDT): A Maintainable, Scalable, and Verifiable SW Qualification Approach for Automotive in Linux – Daniel Bristot de Oliveira & Gabriele Paoloni, Red Hat
Over the last years, many discussions took place in Linux Foundation’s ELISA working groups (elisa.tech) about possible approaches to qualify Linux for safety-critical systems. To achieve this goal, an architectural description of the Linux kernel is required. The challenge though is to find the adequate granularity for description: It must be precise enough to support safety analyses, but it cannot be too fine-grained to the point of being unmanageable. A promising approach is to leverage the ISO26262-6 and ISO26262-8 together, in a hierarchical incremental approach. Optimizing the amount of produced documentation and collaterals. In this session, the foundations of this approach will be presented. It will be discussed why this approach is suitable for safety application as well as out-of-context using assuming safety requirements and why it provides natural scalability across different use-cases. Finally, considerations will be made with respect to available tools and mechanisms already implemented or proposed in Linux that can significantly help with the above-mentioned approach. Including a detailed discussion about how to cross verify, and monitor, the documentation and the kernel using the Runtime Verification subsystem ( https://lwn.net/Articles/857862/). Add this to your schedule here.
September 29 at 9:45 – 9:55 am: Keynote – Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation
To register or learn more about the event, visit the Embedded Linux Conference website.

RISC-V FORUM (Embedded Technologies)
2021-07-21
RISC-V Forum Embedded Technologies, which will be hosted virtually on July 21 (China Standard Time), bring together experts for 3 hours of deep-dive presentations, hands-on learning, and networking with technical enthusiasts in the RISC-V ecosystem.
Itai Yarom, VP of Sales & Marketing at MIPS, is giving a presentation focused on the ELISA Project titled, “Automotive Linux for RISC-V.” With the time difference, look for this session on Tuesday, July 20 at 5:25-5:45 pm PDT.
ELISA (Enabling Linux in Safety Applications) is an organization that includes Automotive companies like BMW, Toyota, Suzuki, just to name few of the companies. The goal of ELISA is to enable the usage of Linux in safety critical applications, like Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Vehicles (AV). Last year, the ELISA forum have reported on the first usage of Linux in the automotive critical [1]. RISC-V as being an open source ISA is a great candidate for future automotive platform, and therefore ELISA have started to work on RISC-V support. In this talk, we will present the ELISA and the method that have been used to enable open-source SW (like Linux) to achieve safety certification (based on ISO 26262), and discuss the RISC-V timeline for Automotive Linux support. Reference: 1. https://www.mobileye.com/blog/mobileye-leads-the-industry-in-embracing-linux-for-safety-related-applications/
Learn more about the event or register for free here: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/riscv-forum-embedded-technologies/.

ELISA Workshop
2021-05-18 08:00 - 2021-05-20 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
May 18-20, 2021
Virtual Experience
Once again the ELISA technical community will gather virtually to continue advancing on topics and work relevant to functional safety and linux applications. The ELISA Workshop series is focused on the exchange of ideas and feedback from the Linux kernel and Safety communities, as productive collaboration to make tangible progress toward achieving the mission and goals of the ELISA Project. The workshops also provide an informative overview for new and interested community members.
