Automotive SIG Quarterly Report - 2024-Q1
https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup(2f)Automotive.html or https://sigs.centos.org/automotive/)
Automotive SIG (The Automotive SIG provides a center of gravity for CentOS automotive projects. The SIG produces three types of artifacts:
- AutoSD, a streaming distribution of CentOS designed for in-vehicle automotive use cases.
- An Automotive SIG RPM repository that allows the community to expand the content of AutoSD or experiment with some of its parts.
- Sample images, built using OSBuild, which provide examples of how to assemble production images based on AutoSD, customized for some hardware, including container images, based on CoreOS/ostree technologies.
AutoSD, or Automotive Stream Distribution, is a streaming distribution for automotive in-vehicle software development based on CentOS Stream. It is transparently the upstream project for Red Hat's eventual in-vehicle OS product. AutoSD has been downloaded and used by many organizations who have commented or asked for help, so we know it is getting some traction though of course we don't have exact metrics on usage.
Over the past year, we have done many things!
- The BlueChi project, a lightweight container management system, was developed in the automotive SIG and contributed to the Eclipse SDV Working Group.
- AutoSD documentation has been much improved.
- A new TI-based SOC (AM69) works with AutoSD.
- CentOS automotive folks spoke at a number of events last year, including Eclipse SDV Community Days at EclipseCon.
- Leo Rossetti's kubernetes spec (based on podman) was merged in the SOAFEE architecture repository for the 2.0 release
In addition, there is a great deal of work in progress:
- Adding BlueChi support for EWAOL in the upcoming SOAFEE 2.0 draft specification.
- Adding podman, quadlet and systemd in Linaro's TRS (Trusted Reference Stack)
- Further documentation upgrades, including an upcoming Getting Started Guide.
Meetings are the first Wednesday of each month - please send email to jefro@redhat.com to be included on the invite. We hope you will join us!