In 2022, Red Hat announced plans to extend RHEL to the automotive industry through Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System (providing automakers with an open and functionally-safe platform). And this week Red Hat announced it achieved ISO 26262 ASIL-B certification from exida for the Linux math library (libm.so glibc) — a fundamental component of that Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System.From Red Hat’s announcement:
This milestone underscores Red Hat’s pioneering role in obtaining continuous and comprehensive Safety Element out of Context certification for Linux in automotive… This certification demonstrates that the engineering of the math library components individually and as a whole meet or exceed stringent functional safety standards, ensuring substantial reliability and performance for the automotive industry. The certification of the math library is a significant milestone that strengthens the confidence in Linux as a viable platform of choice for safety related automotive applications of the future…By working with the broader open source community, Red Hat can make use of the rigorous testing and analysis performed by Linux maintainers, collaborating across upstream communities to deliver open standards-based solutions. This approach enhances long-term maintainability and limits vendor lock-in, providing greater transparency and performance. Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System is poised to offer a safety certified Linux-based operating system capable of concurrently supporting multiple safety and non-safety related applications in a single instance. These applications include advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), digital cockpit, infotainment, body control, telematics, artificial intelligence (AI) models and more. Red Hat is also working with key industry leaders to deliver pre-tested, pre-integrated software solutions, accelerating the route to market for SDV concepts. “Red Hat is fully committed to attaining continuous and comprehensive safety certification of Linux natively for automotive applications,” according to the announcement, “and has the industry’s largest pool of Linux maintainers and contributors committed to this initiative…” Or, as Network World puts it, “The phrase ‘open source for the open road’ is now being used to describe the inevitable fit between the character of Linux and the need for highly customizable code in all sorts of automotive equipment.”
