CE Linux Forum
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The Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CE Linux Forum or CELF) was a
History
The forum was an outgrowth of a joint project between
Phillips and Samsung founded a group with similar aims in November 2004, promoting a universal home
By 2004, hardware from Renesas Electronics running software from Lineo was demonstrated at a CELF meeting.[11] In 2005, a meeting in San Jose, California drew about engineers from competing companies.[12] By the end of 2006, the competing Linux Phone Standards Forum had formed, to focus on mobile devices.[13] After other groups such as Linaro and the Limo Foundation formed, some questioned the fragmentation of the industry.[14] In 2010, the CE Linux Forum merged with the Linux Foundation, to become a technical work group of Linux Foundation.[15][2] The group planned to support the
Activities
CELF initiatives included:
- technical working groups, which produce specifications and implementations (usually patches against existing open source projects) to enhance Linux suitability for CE products
- hosting of conferences dedicated to embedded Linux (see below)
- providing hardware resources to open source developers
- funding for direct feature development, via contracting with a few Linux developers
- a test lab in San Jose, California was established in 2006[17]
Members submit technical output directly back to the relevant open source project (for example, by sending enhancements to the Linux kernel directly to the Linux kernel mailing list, or to an appropriate technology- or architecture-specific mailing list.) Collected information and forum output was primarily located on a wiki for embedded developers.[1] The content of CELF's wiki was included on another site called eLinux.org, created by Tim Riker in 2006.[18] As of 2007, CELF had the following technical working groups:
- Audio, Video and Graphics
- Bootup Time
- Digital Television Profile
- Memory Management
- Mobile Phone Profile
- Power Management
- Real Time
- Security
- System Size
The CE Linux Forum sponsors embedded projects. Amongst others the LinuxTiny patches and the LogFS and SquashFS flash file systems have been pushed to mainline Linux.
The forum sponsored the
CELF sponsored the Linux Symposium from 2004 to 2008, hosting sessions specific to embedded use of Linux and development of Linux capabilities for embedded use. In Japan and Korea, CELF organizes Technical Jamborees every two months. Jamborees are smaller, have a single track, and are held in the local language.
By 2009 CELF had about 30 members, consisting of consumer electronics manufacturers, semiconductor vendors, and Linux software companies:
See also
- Linux Foundation - parent organization
- Digital Living Network Alliance, another group from 2004 to 2017
References
- ^ a b "Front Page". CE Public Wiki. November 26, 2008. Archived from the original on July 28, 2010. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
- ^ a b Sean Michael Kerner (October 27, 2010). "Linux Foundation Merges with Consumer Electronics Linux Forum". Datamation. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
- ^ "Eight consumer electronic companies establish forum". Electronic Design News. July 31, 2003. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
- ^ "Eight firms form consumer electronics Linux Forum". Electronic Design News. July 1, 2003. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
- ^ Junko Yoshida (January 20, 2005). "'Uhapi?' asks new Philips Semiconductors CEO". EE Times. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
- ^ Jeroen Brouwer (January 26, 2005). "Universal Home API Proposal for Industry alignment" (PDF). Presentation to the CE Linux Forum. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
- ISBN 978-0-08-055849-3.
- ^ Pjotr Kourzanoff. "UHAPI4Linux: an open source implementation of UHAPI". Sourceforge. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
- ^ Michael Singer (November 3, 2004). "Companies Unite to Make UHAPI". Internet News.
- ^ "Supporting Companies". UHAPI Forum. Archived from the original on July 11, 2007. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
- ^ "Development Platform is Compatible with CE Linux Forum Specs". EE Times. January 8, 2004. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
- ^ Rick Merritt (January 31, 2005). "Culture clash can't keep Linux from consumers". EE Times. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
- ^ Stephen Shankland (November 13, 2005). "New Linux phone standards effort in the works". ZDNet. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
- ^ Rick Merritt (June 3, 2010). "Join the Conversation: Do we need another Linux group?". EE Times. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
- ^ "Linux Foundation and Consumer Electronics Linux Forum to Merge". Press release. October 27, 2010. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
- ^ Grant Likely (December 13, 2010). "Embedded Linux developers meet for a Yocto project summit". LWN.net. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
- ^ "Welcome to the Open Test Lab (Demo)". Archived from the original on September 6, 2006. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
- ^ "ELinuxWiki:History". eLinux.org. December 13, 2021. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
- ^ "Embedded Linux Conference". Promotional web site. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
- ^ CE Linux membership list
External links
- CELF Website