Automotive Grade Linux: An Open Source Platform Evolving Toward Software-Defined Systems
- Time
- 2026-08-09 10:30 ~ 11:00
- Speaker
- Hiroyuki Ishii
- Room
- TR412-2
- Co-write
Abstract
Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) is a collaborative open source project hosted by the Linux Foundation, building a common Linux-based software platform for automotive systems. This session introduces AGL through its recent evolution. After a brief overview of the project and its community, the talk highlights key updates from the past year to show how AGL is expanding beyond its original scope.
Two initiatives illustrate this direction. SoDeV (Software Defined Vehicle reference platform) explores software-first development through virtualization and hardware abstraction, improving portability and enabling experimentation across environments by leveraging promising open source projects such as Xen, Zephyr, and VirtIO. AGL Assessment Automation (AAA) applies modern open source security and supply-chain practices—originating in the cloud-native ecosystem—to large and complex automotive supply chains, addressing challenges common across embedded systems industries worldwide.
Rather than focusing on industry-specific use cases, the session emphasizes the technical ideas and open source practices behind these efforts, and concludes with a look at where AGL is heading and how developers can get involved.
Speaker
Hiroyuki Ishii
Hiroyuki Ishii is a Senior Architect at Panasonic Automotive Systems with over 10 years of experience in Linux-based automotive software platform. He began contributing to open source in 2021 when he joined the Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) project as a member of the Steering Committee and the System Architecture Team. He is also active as a Linux Foundation Japan Evangelist, supporting open source collaboration and community growth across Japan, and helping bridge industry and OSS communities.