Automotive Grade Linux All Member Meeting Europe 2026

As automotive software moves toward SDV, decoupling hardware and software and using independently evolving upstream open source projects become increasingly important. While traditional BSP-centered integration remains essential for product development and long-term maintenance, it is not sufficient for continuously combining and validating upstream projects such as Linux, Xen, Zephyr, and Yocto. Drawing on our OSS integration work on R-Car SparrowHawk, this talk introduces “Upstream Integration” as a complementary model to BSP integration and explains how AGL can serve as a shared integration platform for validating upstream technologies, building reusable reference implementations, and contributing improvements back to their communities. SparrowHawk is primarily an automotive reference, with reuse potential in IoT and industrial domains.