Automotive Grade Linux All Member Meeting Europe 2026

Walt will provide an update of recent AGL Expert Group and UCB activities and provide an update of the roadmap.

In this presentation, Jerry will outline the evolution of Software-Defined Vehicles and highlight AGL’s key role in this dynamic landscape. He will share the latest updates from the AGL SDV Expert Group, including progress on VirtIO, Unified HMI and AGL SDV Referenece Platfrom "SoDeV".

Unified HMI is a software-defined display virtualization platform based on VirtIO-GPU that enables such cross-SoC and cross-OS multi-display integration. Unified HMI helps developers reduce development complexity and accelerate practical multi-display HMI development on AGL.

This session presents the evolution of Unified HMI for 2026, focusing on dynamic layout control and easy integration for developers and integrators.
We introduce updates to UHMI APIs that enable applications to be launched and dynamically moved in multi-display environments across AGL and Android, without complex configurations.

As software-defined vehicles expand the scope of automotive software, open source collaboration is rapidly extending beyond its traditional boundaries. This creates new opportunities, but also makes it harder for any single project or company to address the full set of challenges alone.

This session looks at the recent movement emerging around the AGL Japan community. Rather than treating AGL as a standalone project, the community is creating bottom-up synergy among engineers, companies, universities, and adjacent open source initiatives. By connecting people and knowledge across organizational and technical boundaries, it is becoming an important force for tackling larger SDV challenges that cannot be solved in isolation.

The talk examines why this movement is happening, how trusted relationships and local communities are turning into broader collaboration, and how such interaction can amplify technical incubation. It also explores what this experience may suggest for building a more harmonized global automotive open source ecosystem.

AGL SoDeV's reference Xen multi-domain architecture has so far been validated on the Renesas R-Car V4H Sparrow Hawk board. This session walks through our port of the same dom0less, multi-domain (DomA/DomD/DomU) architecture to the Raspberry Pi 5, a commodity board.
We'll cover: (1) the virtio-gpu/virgl fixes needed to get a working display pipeline without the V4H's dedicated GPU assumptions, (2) a root-cause playbook for DomA boot failures we hit along the way (autostart defaults, boot-variable regressions, partition-label mismatches), and (3) what generalizes — and what doesn't — when moving AGL SoDeV's Xen architecture from automotive-grade silicon to commodity hardware.

The ELISA example system was introduced in 2023 as a reference for the ELISA working groups and community members. It integrates Xen, Zephyr, and Linux, with the Linux flavor intentionally left flexible. It is a playground to experience ELISA deliverables, and to enable developers to understand the system components.

With the launch of AGL SoDeV, a similar system architecture has now been established under the AGL umbrella. This new iteration is characterized by a regular build process, clear use case, and a well-defined scope, all of which are actively maintained by the AGL community.

To prevent redundant efforts and ensure alignment between the ELISA and AGL ecosystems, this talk will outline the current setup of the ELISA example system, highlight areas for improvement, and explore viable options for its proper maintenance.

By tracing the origin of the ELISA example system, its evolution to date, and its integration with the AGL community, the talk aims for broader discussion. The goal is to identify e.g. effective ways to collaborate with and learn from AGL, to determine where to best maintain which SW layer, and how to establish a process for regular build execution.

As Europe’s automotive industry pivots toward Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs), open-source software (OSS) has become the core driver for innovation, powering Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), ADAS, and connected mobility. However, as automakers and Tier-1 suppliers transform into software developers, they face an increasingly complex patent landscape and rising exposure to Non-Practicing Entities (NPEs).

This session examines the practical utility of OIN 2.0, the newly updated framework for open-source patent non-aggression. We will explore how its expanded "Linux System" coverage shields the modern automotive, cloud, and IoT stacks. Focusing on utility, the talk addresses how European and global enterprises can leverage this community-driven, shared-responsibility model to clear patent risk royalty-free. Attendees will learn how to reduce legal overhead, secure multi-tier supply chains, and maintain freedom of action, ensuring that collaborative engineering remains safe and competitive in the next era of European mobility.

As vehicles evolve into software-defined platforms, application lifecycle management becomes as important as application development. In this session, we demonstrate how Eclipse Ankaios (https://eclipse-ankaios.github.io/ankaios/latest/) extends AGL SoDeV with dynamic workload orchestration capabilities. We present the integration architecture, discuss security and resource efficiency, and show how applications can be deployed and controlled on demand. The resulting platform enables new SDV capabilities such as adaptive AI services, flexible feature deployment, and efficient utilization of vehicle compute resources.