Hi,
We are working on the agenda for LinuxBIOS summit. Here is a draft
version. Please give us any suggestion and help you have.
We categorized the attendance into three parties, the vendors, the users
and the developers. We hope the three parties can each describe their
past experience, outstanding problems and future directions such that
these three parties can help each other.
The first day will be focus on current status report. We are going to
have
Oct. 11
Vendor Presentation
1. Richard Bruner from AMD will talk about
AMD's plan on LinuxBIOS and their roadmap
for their products.
2. LNXI will give us their experience on
integrating LinuxBIOS in their cluster
products.
3. Terra soft will give us their plan of
using LinuxBIOS in their PPC 970 products.
User Experience
Users from Sandia and Los Alamos will talk on
their experience of using LinuxBIOS in clusters.
Developer Status Report
Developers will give presentations and hands-on
demo of recent development. Topics includes:
1. Dual Core support for AMD K8
2. Cache As Ram support for Intel and
AMD processors.
3. Integrating VGA BIOS support in your
LinuxBIOS.
On the second day we will focus on making LinuxBIOS more friendly for
people of the three parties:
Oct. 12
User Friendly
1. User Interface: What kind of default payload
and/or user interface are we going to use?
Do we want it to be command line or menu
style?
2. User's Manual.
Developer Friendly
1. KConfig: Josaih England will show us his
work on using KConfig to replace the current
config tool.
2. Development Model: What is the svn commit
and release process?
3. Device Object Model: People still complain
about the complexity of the current device
model. Can we make it easier to work with?
What is the impact of a new config too like
#1 on the device model? How are we going to
generate PIRQ/ACPI etc. tables?
4. Programmer's Manual.
Vendor Friendly
1. We need to discuss the possibility of
signing N-party NDA with vendors for
their unreleased products.
2. How can we ensure 3rd party that our code
is clean and free of legal trouble?
3. Binary blob and EFI/Tiano Interface. How
are we going to play nice with Intel?
Hackathon
If anyone get inspired during the discussion,
start implement your idea immediately!!
On the third day we will look forward further into the future:
Oct. 13
Crazy Ideas
1. FreeFI: Possible name change and official
FSF sponsorship.
2. LinuxBIOS as Linux: Ron just doesn't give up
his old LinuxBIOS==Linux idea. He will show
how he is recycling it.
Homework Assignment
Hey, you had a good time. It is time to do your
homework now.
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Li-Ta Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Los Alamos National Lab
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