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.