Linaro, the not-for-profit engineering organization developing open source software for the ARM architecture, has announced the formation of the Linaro Networking Group (LNG) with 12 founding member companies including Applied Micro Circuits, ARM, Enea, Freescale Semiconductor, LSI, MontaVista, Nokia Siemens Networks and Texas Instruments (TI).
With ARM-based SoCs at the heart of the transformation occurring in cloud and mobile infrastructure applications such as switching, routing, base-stations and security, Linaro's members are collaborating on fundamental software platforms to enable rapid deployment of new services across a range of converged infrastructure platforms. Developing the base platform for diverse and complex networking applications requires a significant amount of software that addresses common challenges. LNG will deliver this as an enhanced core Linux platform for networking equipment.
Linaro has been providing common core software for ARM-Powered, Linux-based mobile devices since June 2010, and is now building on the collaborative working model that it has created to form special groups focusing on the server and networking segments.
An interim steering committee for LNG has been meeting since the end of 2012, and has agreed on four initial areas of work: Virtualization support with considerations for real-time performance, I/O optimization, robustness and heterogeneous operating environments on multi-core SoCs; real-time operations and the Linux kernel optimizations for the control and data plane; packet processing optimizations that maximize performance and minimize latency in data flows through the network; and dealing with legacy software and mixed-endian issues prevalent in the networking space.
Linaro expects initial software deliveries from the new working group during the first half of 2013 with on-going monthly releases thereafter.
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