Robert,
Perhaps you should get in touch with Craig. He's not on the list.
JN
On 2017-06-14 08:46 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jun 2017, Craig Lord wrote:
Hello,
My name is Craig Lord, I'm a reporter with the Ottawa Business
Journal. I'm working on a story right now about Toyota's decision to
use a Linux-based platform for its in-car infotainment platform as
opposed to local company BlackBerry QNX.
I'm wondering if anyone at the Ottawa Linux Users group could
suggest a local contact who could give me some context on the
benefits of Linux as an infotainment system and what the benefits
are of using it as an open-source solution for a company such as
Toyota.
by the way, understand that toyota is not just using a "linux-based
platform", they're implementing the "Automotive Grade Linux (AGL)"
standard, which defines a wide-sweeping software standard focused on
the automotive industry. that means that car makers don't have to
start from scratch -- the majority of the software platform is already
done for them, and they need only tweak appropriately for their
particular hardware, saving them literally months, if not years, of
work.
unsurprisingly (at least unsurprisingly to me), the software is
based on openembedded/yocto project, the downloadable S/W is here:
https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/agl-distro/source-code#download_master_branch
so anyone can peruse, download and build the code themselves.
rday