Mailing List Archive: Re: Assistance with Stabilization Testing for Arm

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On 05/19/2014 07:53 PM, Yury German wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am currently part of the Security Team, and am undergoing the final approval for a full time member of the security team. I am also interested in arm development (RPI in particular (for now at least)). So I would like to offer my help in helping test stabilization for the ARM platform.
>
> I currently have a number of PI’s which I use distcc against 30+ cores, I have access to a number of computer systems (although currently Pi is the only one I have for Arm).
>

Our current policy is to stabilize only after testing on armv5, armv6,
and armv7. As such, you should consider getting access to some of the
gentoo shared resources available here:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/Developer_Machines.

I believe Steev is back from haitus shortly, and when he is, we are
planning on discussing the current stabilization policy and it's obvious
room for improvement.

Please see that you are subscribed to the gentoo-embedded mailing list
for further discussion.

Thanks,
Zero

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On 05/19/14 20:49, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote:
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> On 05/19/2014 07:53 PM, Yury German wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am currently part of the Security Team, and am undergoing the final approval for a
>> full time member of the security team. I am also interested in arm development (RPI in
>>particular (for now at least)). So I would like to offer my help in
helping test
>> stabilization for the ARM platform.
>> I currently have a number of PI’s which I use distcc against 30+ cores, I have
>> access to a number of computer systems (although currently Pi is the only
>> one I have for Arm).

Hello Yury,

This is Fantastic news. What I would suggest is to jump straight to the
cutting edge of ARM limited Technology and work on the 64 bit Arm
security issues, so you are 'ahead' of the big push in Arm64 deployment. [1]

www.linaro.org

Surely embedded-gentoo will deploy on Aarch64 [2]. If you master that,
you are going to become an extremely valuable player in the embedded arm
security space, imho. Perhaps you could even update the embedded gentoo
handbook and add a section for aarch64 (arm64) and security on the
gentoo-embedded arm releases. [3] Perhaps you would be interested in
the port of lilblue to arm64 ? [4] Below are a few links you may find
interesting. [5].

hth,
James

[1] http://www.linaro.org/news/linaro-forms-security-working-group/

[2]
http://armin762.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/new-aarch64arm64-stage3-available/

[3] https://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/

[4] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened_uClibc/Lilblue

[5]
https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AroPySpr4FnEdEwwZkhrZ1VYUEg2LTlQZzR0RlhzM3c#gid=3