Greetings from the LinuxBIOS symposium in Hamburg!
We're on our second day, and things have been going very well. We've been having some very interesting sessions, and even started doing some (late-night) hacking. We got an OLPC demo - booting openfirmware and linux kernel payloads! The folks from AMD gave an interesting talk about AMD's linuxBIOS roadmap. We've talked about payloads, and about how to rework the configuration system. Lots of interesting stuff.
The slides from the talks should be online soon - hopefully in a couple or days or so.
Some pictures are already linked to from here:
http://linuxbios.org/index.php/LinuxBIOS_Symposium_2006_Photos
We'll post more links there as we upload more photos.
Now; this morning we had a discussion about the creation of a Programmer's manual. The idea is to create much more documentation for people who want to start hacking on LinuxBIOS. People who contribute code would ideally also write documentation about that code - but there might be other contributors too, of course.
The consensus of the discussion was that we need a coordinator for the Programmer's manual. Ideally someone who is *not* yet very familiar with the codebase, or even with low-level programming. Such a person would basically oversee the creation of the manual, encouraging (pestering?) coders to also contribute documentation, etc. It would be a great way to dive into LinuxBIOS programming - the coordinator is pretty much guaranteed to learn a lot as this manual takes shape.
The question is - anyone here who would be interested in taking on this role?
Thanks, Ward.