What topics will be covered at the LinuxBIOS Summit?
Will it be limited to technical issues and things that directly affect technical issues such as access to chip set specifications, NDA issues, new BIOS technologies and LinuxBIOS' competition, etc.?
Is making LinuxBIOS as popular and compelling as Linux and GNU/Linux distributions a reasonable and desirable goal?
Would support of operating systems other than Linux such as OpenSolaris, xBSD, Plan 9, and MS Windows 2000/XP be a reasonable goal? Perhaps, a payload similar to ADLO could be used for non-Linux OSes.
LinuxBIOS is now extremely well designed and all the core developers should get huge bonuses or well-deserved Kudos! However, sometimes various mainboard builds break and some mainboard ports remain incomplete. We need to support more chip sets and mainboards. How can we do this? How can we make porting to new chip sets and mainboards easier?
We might try to generate a generic flash image for each mainboard that people new to LinuxBIOS can download and use with minimal time and effort required. It could ask a few simple questions to customize the boot with the option to store the answers to NVRAM. This could be taken to the extreme of a single Live CD that boots Linux and runs a script that identifies the chip sets and mainboard and gives the user the option of flashing his BIOS device with an appropriate LinuxBIOS image (or one that at least supports all critical devices).
Will the LinuxBIOS Summit be rather open-ended like the above or will there be a defined agenda or both?
Sincerely,
Ken Fuchs kfuchs@winternet.com