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Put together an index to issues, so that it's possible to see what's been covered and when. Resist the urge to do this in the wiki.

WOA: Linaro Enterprise Reference Platform

As seen on

https://www.linaro.org/blog/erp-17-08-release/

The Linaro Enterprise Group has worked closely with Linaro’s Core Technology & Tools teams to deliver the Linaro Enterprise Reference Platform with updates across the software stack (Firmware, Linux Kernel, and key server workloads) for Arm based Enterprise servers, and with a focus on QA testing and platform interoperability. OpenStack reference architecture is now available with ansible playbooks, allowing users to deploy an end to end Openstack reference on Arm servers. BigTop 1.2 stack of BigData components have been built and tested with OpenJDK 8. Bigtop 1.2 consists of Hadoop 2.7.3 (upgraded from 2.7.2), Spark 2.1 (upgraded from 2.0), Hive 1.2.1 and HBase 1.1.3 as core components. In this release all smoke tests have been verified running on Arm for Hadoop – HDFS, Yarn and MapReduce, Hive and Spark. ELK v5.4.1 stack of components (ElasticSearch, Logstash and Kibana) are also built as part of this release.

WOA 4 editorial calendar (Week 20, May 19)

Notes here on what to expect in the May 19, 2017 edition

math rounding issues
OpenStack report
ARM NAS kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/helios4/helios4-personal-cloud-the-worlds-1st-open-source
CNCF news
Java and OpenJDK

WOA 3 editorial calendar

Some ideas

More about math issues
Resin's "beast" cluster build https://forums.resin.io/t/some-beast-photos-120-and-144-piece-versions/329/2
More reporting out of Red Hat Summit

"Mailing list" signup

There should be a way for interested people to sign up to join a mailing list that will get news, in addition to all of the news I'm pushing out.

Either self-host this or put on a mailing list service (thinking about http://groups.io)

Google "glog"

W27 mentions a Mesos dependency on Google's glog that needed to be addressed. upstream does not yet have these patches.

Tracking:

google/glog#50 (symbol demangling)
google/glog#219 (signal handling)

Works on ARM 11 editorial calendar (W27, July)

Ideas go here for WOA 11.

ARM and HPC "building momentum" report out of Frankfurt https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/06/30/momentum-building-arm-hpc/ commentary on Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14673154
Odroid C2 mainline kernel https://twitter.com/armbian/status/880761002572357634
Armbian https://www.armbian.com/
Xen 4.9 release notes #35 https://blog.xenproject.org/2017/06/28/whats-new-in-the-xen-project-hypervisor-4-9/
Kubernetes 1.7 - how well does it work on ARM? New tutorial? #34 http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/06/kubernetes-1.7-security-hardening-stateful-application-extensibility-updates.html?m=1
Kubernetes 1.7 release notes, includes ARM binaries! #34 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/kubernetes-announce/NNVPGTyWAwg
ARM64 kernel speedups for AES-GCM crypto from Ard https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-crypto/msg26953.html

ODroid HC-1 (ARMv7 stackable w/metal case, SATA interface, based on XU-4)

Pity that this is an ARMv7 device because the case and stackability looks really nice.

Try "Gitbook"

It turns out that by adding a handful of files I can format this as though it were a book, sort of. See

https://vielmetti.gitbooks.io/works-on-arm-news/content/

for another view of Works on ARM News. This is a presentation that's a smidgeon easier to browse, which is nice.

Electron port to arm64

https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v1.8.0

support landed in electron/electron#10219

Works on ARM website: Kubernetes

Right now https://www.worksonarm.com/kubernetes/ is a blank page with two upvotes; fix it to include current 1.7 information, to link for WOA 11 news release. (#32)

To the extent that there's an ARM angle to it, write about Ayo.JS, a fork of Node.JS. One item of interest that makes it relevant for ARM users is the availability of a CI infrastructure in Ayo. See ayojs/ayo#25 for that open issue.

Works on ARM website: Xen

Current state: https://www.worksonarm.com/explore/xen is a 404 page with a helpful screen asking for input.

Desired future state: Xen gets a writeup, complete with the announcement of the 4.9 release and how well it works on ARM. Land this in WOA 11 (#32).

Kubernetes federated testing

Track progress of Kubernetes end-to-end testing on arm64.

One recent issue illustrates: kubernetes/kubernetes#25730

Federated testing info: https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/blob/master/docs/federated_testing.md

Tracking issue for Kubernetes multi-arch from @luxas kubernetes/kubernetes#38067

Towards deploying decommissioned mobile devices as cheap energy-efficient compute nodes Shahrad & Wentzlaff, HotCloud’17

As described in

WOA: DynamoRIO

DynamoRIO Release Candidate 1 for the 7.0 release, which now includes AArch64 support!

https://github.com/DynamoRIO/dynamorio/wiki/Downloads

"DynamoRIO is a runtime code manipulation system that supports code transformations on any part of a program, while it executes. DynamoRIO exports an interface for building dynamic tools for a wide variety of uses: program analysis and understanding, profiling, instrumentation, optimization, translation, etc. Unlike many dynamic tool systems, DynamoRIO is not limited to insertion of callouts/trampolines and allows arbitrary modifications to application instructions via a powerful IA-32/AMD64/ARM/AArch64 instruction manipulation library. DynamoRIO provides efficient, transparent, and comprehensive manipulation of unmodified applications running on stock operating systems (Windows, Linux, or Android) and commodity IA-32, AMD64, ARM, and AArch64 hardware. Mac OSX support is in progress."

For WOA W33.

Promote WOA 6

Videostrong has released a “VS-RD-RK3399” development kit built around the Rockchip RK3399.

Story at

Works on ARM website: Armbian

See http://worksonarm.com/explore/armbian - write up something about this Linux distribution for ARM development boards for the website and for WOA 11 (#32).

WOA 2 editorial calendar

Some notes for WOA 2

from @luxas a talk at Kubecon
from @luxas this kubeadm workshop tutorial https://github.com/luxas/kubeadm-workshop
from @vielmetti Red Hat Summit trip report
from @vielmetti @spf13 Hugo support for ARMv8 https://github.com/spf13/hugo/releases
from Scaleway new virtualized ARMv8 service

WOA 1: link to bugs in portability notes

Follow through with links on the portability bugs - Juju, Go, .NET CoreCLR

Go 1.9 release

Go 1.9 has been released (on Friday at noon, just in time to not make a Friday deadline for WOA). Gather up some reactions for W35.

Works on ARM website: Docker

Docker info on the WOA website at http://worksonarm.com/explore/docker is at least a month stale; update it with 17.06-ce info including build instructions/results.

WOA W34 due 8/25

Placeholder for checklist for next week's edition.

WOA 5 editorial calendar (week 21, May 26)

Put new news into next week, since WOA 4 is pretty full.

Falkor architecture from Qualcomm for W34

News from Qualcomm out of Hot Chips, collect some URLs and summarize.

DIY Falkor plush animal on Etsy:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hand-sewn-falkor-doll-etsy_us_569f9fa7e4b0875553c267ef

W33 release

Release checklist

Works on ARM website: Minio

https://www.worksonarm.com/minio/

Needs to be updated to reflect current Docker binaries published for ARMv8, and a latest version number. Existing update is from February 2017.

WOA 6 editorial calendar (week 22)

Some ideas for next week:

Operating systems:

Current Alpine Version 3.6.0 (Released May 24, 2017)
SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 plans

Works on ARM website: Apache Mesos

Reference MesosCon Asia 2017:

https://mesosconasia2017.sched.com/list/descriptions/

http://schd.ws/hosted_files/mesosconasia2017/5f/Running%20Mesos-Marathon%20on%20ARM%20servers.pdf

gnatsd port to ARMv8

With both Docker and native images, see nats-io/nats-server#567 for the PR (not yet merged).

WOA 7 editorial calendar (Week 23)

Some ideas for next week.

http://linuxgizmos.com/catalog-of-98-open-spec-hacker-friendly-sbcs/ - spreadsheet of single-board computers

Automotive Grade Linux

Announce Issue 1

Send out notice for Works on ARM News issue 1.

Converting Intel intrinsics to NEON

from ARM-HPC, Geraint North (ARM)

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/arm-hpc/eh16dum4LkY

Works on ARM 10 editorial calendar (W26, June 30)

Any ideas for WOA 10 news go here.

ARM HPC Users Group http://arm-hpc.gitlab.io/
Ask Ubuntu: Running 32-bit ARM on 64-bit systems https://askubuntu.com/questions/928249/how-to-run-armhf-executables-on-an-arm64-system
SUSE Linux (SLES) http://worksonarm.com/suse
Ubuntu on Raspberry Pi 3 compute module https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/06/27/canonical-supports-ubuntu-core-on-the-raspberry-pi-compute-module
Linuxkit (from mort) http://mort.io/blog/2017/06/02/arming-linuxkit/
Gitlab Omnibus edition via elraro, pending testing https://github.com/elraro/gitlab-ce-omnibus-armv8
EFI and U-Boot on Dragonboard 410c http://bloggingthemonkey.blogspot.fi/2017/06/long-overdue-update.html
24-core Socionext server http://armdevices.net/2017/06/27/socionext-24-core-arm-server-synquacer-sc2a11-60-lower-power-than-intel-at-same-performance/
The Register snarky story http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/23/packet_to_demo_qualcomm_arm_server_cpu_centriq_2400/

WOA 3 publicity

post to internal slack
post to external slack
email to partners
post to Twitter

Set up "Buffer" to post to Twitter

Set up Buffer - https://buffer.com - to post to Twitter on a schedule for the @WorksOnArm Twitter account.

confirm password configuration
test post
schedule some posts

WOA 8 editorial calendar (week 24)

Copied over from not fitting in the last issue:

If I can squeeze it in, LinuxKit development report has ARM64 news.

https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit/blob/master/reports/2017-06-03.md

Oh, if there's room, mention http://linuxgizmos.com/development-board-unlocks-10nm-snapdragon-835/ (Snapdragon 835 dev board from Intrinsyc)

Ceph on ARM (via Jeff) - may be for WOA 8 - http://ceph.com/arm/

UEFI on ARM - also WOA 8 - http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170606005502/en/UEFI-Forum-Appoints-ARM-Board-Directors-Fortifying

more on UEFI on ARM for WOA 8 http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/Dong%20Wei%20-%20UEFI_What%20is%20it.pdf

MacchiatoBIN for WOA 8 - said to support UEFI - http://blogs.marvell.com/2017/06/community-platform-allows-easy-adoption-of-arm-64-bit-in-data-center-networking-and-storage-ecosystems/

WOA: Does self-compile count?

Hi,

I couldn't find a description of the criteria for listing. Does it need to be pre-packaged and with repos or is it OK if one needs to i.e. dpkg-buildpackage?

Two large-scale infra projects I love work well on ARM64 (and even older):

The Cloud Management solution OpenNebula (www.opennebula.org) works fine on ARM. I've tested it with LXC running Debian Containers. But Xen and KVM should work alike. LXC was an addon, so using a widespread hypervisor instead of LXC is just more likely to be OK out of the box.
With LXC the footprint is so low that I got a "full-blown cloud thing" running on an ODROID C2.
One of my next weekend projects is to document how to cloudburst from that single mini puter to a nice cloud made up from packet.net 's 96core boxes.
(It's possible, just needs a writeup)
The config management + continuous compliance project Rudder (www.rudder-project.org) also has slightly inofficial ARM clients since some time. I've tested from ARMv6 up to ARM64 without issues.

If you got any questions, please reach out!

WOA 9 editorial calendar (2017-W25)

For a future issue, special edition on storage.

For this issue, definitely more about cloud-native - Go, Docker, Kubernetes, and other packages that are written in Go - related to the Go 1.9 beta that's out now.

As always, links of general interest are welcomed, here and on Twitter to the attention of @WorksOnArm .

Preview posts to Packet Slack
Posts to Slack channel
Email to partners
Noonish post to Twitter

Release W26

work in a branch, and squash all commits when merged to master
preannouncement on internal Slack
correct any typos that come up
announce on external Slack
post to Twitter
schedule a few extra posts with Buffer?
make note of Gitbook version
compose email intro
post to email

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