On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 12:39:05AM +0100, Rudolf Marek wrote:
Hi again,
Btw what is the duration of the talk?
Aim for 45 minutes. Slots are 1h, but people move in and out on the hourly edges anyway, and then there is some time to resync, and get stuff set up for the next talk, etc. So aim for 45 minutes, if it is a bit more, then no problem, you will get stopped at the hour.
Rudolf Marek - ACPI and Suspend/Resume under coreboot
Ever wanted to know more about ACPI? The aim of the talk is to introduce the software part of ACPI as well as provide the necessary hardware details to get the bigger picture. The tour through Coreboot ACPI implementation will be given. Suspend and resume procedure will be presented with all nifty parts explained.
Thats it. I think I need like hour or hour and half for this. Do you like it?
What sort of audience should I expect?
Developers and advanced users, i think full house easily (in this case 50 people), everyone is very friendly and helpful on fosdem.
Perhaps it could even start with a question - what OS needs to know about the hardware -> and then show how it is connected to the ACPI (irq routing, PM, PCI buses). When done, one could show how this is implemented in Coreboot/what files and what does it do. Plus perhaps some hints how to port ACPI to some new board. At the end I would like to describe the suspend/resume with some details and pitfalls.
Maybe some "a" or "the" is missing in the abstract. We don't use them in Czech language so I don't have big "sense" for them.
Thanks, Rudolf
I know, SUSE has a prague office :)
All sounds good, but you will have to tone it down to ~45 minutes.
Luc Verhaegen.