TSC Meeting, July 2021

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Minutes @ https://github.com/orgs/thesofproject/teams/steering-committee/discussions/25

TSC Meeting
Now that v1.8 is out let discuss the plans for v1.9 and discuss opens and agenda items.

Date: TBD
Doodle: https://doodle.com/poll/e5czm9qmzp5gbrn9
Meeting will be 1 hour, but may take longer if topics require more discussion and alignement.

Proposed Agenda

1. v1.8 release review. Feedback into process, what are we doing right, wrong and how can we improve. The v1.8 cycle was 3 months total, with 2 months feature development and 1 month stabilization.
2. v1.9 release planning. Proposed features.
   2.1 Upgrade multicore to support multicore pipelines (today multicore is component only).
   2.2 Dynamic pipelines.
   2.3 Codec adapter and module API updates
   2.4 IPC4 fundamental support.
   2.5 Topology 2 support.
   2.6 Next steps to reduce audio power. Any more low hanging fruit ?
   2.7 Maths library next features. What do we need next feature and SIMD.
   2.8 Audio processing components including any SIMD work.
3. SOF RTOS support
   3.1. XTOS - today fully supported.
   3.2. Zephyr - today supported as a Zephyr module and using all Zephyr services for v1.9
   3.3. Free RTOS - Not supported today, but could be abstracted.
4. Emulation Proposal to use Renode.io
5. Coding Style
   Proposal from @marc-hb to allign more with C99
   5.1 allow // C99 comments
   5.2 allow "in block" C99 variable declarations to get rid of uninitialized variables, see example in imx/sdma.c: silence "may be uninitialized" warnings with gcc10.2 -O1 #4448, testbench: improvements for valgrind and debug #4408, ll_schedule.c: fix "uninitialized task_take" warning in CONFIG_TRACEV #3944 and https://stackoverflow.com/a/4105334/317623
6. SOF Loadable Modules. Alignment of potential development during Google Summer Code with the Converge FW modules format and API.