We have a FOSDEM DevRoom!

[Luc Verhaegen]

The kind FOSDEM organizers have given us a DevRoom on saturday the 6th 
of February, as requested.

We got room AW.124, in the AW building on the other side of the campus 
road from the main building. A "smallish" room at 60 seats, the perfect 
size for coreboot, and we will have like a window for ventilation and 
such, which is a nice luxury.

Some key european developers are already coming; Carl-Daniel Hailfinger, 
Peter Stuge and Rudolf Marek, and i hope many more will spend a bit of  
time and a bit of money (FOSDEM is all free, but travel costs money) on 
coming to the greatest open source event in europe.

We have a total of 6 slots available, two of which should be filled with 
an "introductory" talk about coreboot and one about flashrom. 
Introductory here means "this is what $project is, and now we dive 
straight into the gory details." So there are 4 more which i would like 
to see filled up in the next month.

The page where fosdem info will be kept for coreboot is:

http://www.coreboot.org/FOSDEM_2010

Hope to see many of you there!

Luc Verhaegen.

[ron minnich]

Wonderful work! I really envy you guys going to FOSDEM -- it is a
really great meeting.

ron

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 03:43:52PM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
> Wonderful work! I really envy you guys going to FOSDEM -- it is a
> really great meeting.
>
> ron

Ah, too bad that you're not able to make it this year. I watched your 
excellent talk there in 2007.

Oh, and how do people here feel about getting together with X.org folk 
in some great restaurant with belgian cooking (le mirabelle) 500ms from 
FOSDEM on saturday evening?

Luc Verhaegen

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 02.12.2009 00:36, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> The kind FOSDEM organizers have given us a DevRoom on saturday the 6th 
> of February, as requested.

Thanks a lot for organizing this, Luc!
> We have a total of 6 slots available, two of which should be filled with 
> an "introductory" talk about coreboot and one about flashrom. 
> Introductory here means "this is what $project is, and now we dive 
> straight into the gory details." So there are 4 more which i would like 
> to see filled up in the next month.

Possible topics from me (time requirements vary, I'm pretty flexible in
that regard):
- Writing a flashrom driver for your favourite programmer (can do in 15
minutes or less).
- Hands-on flash chip programming (one flash chip and one cheap
home-built programmer for interested participants). Could be combined
with the topic above for a "Total Flashrom Experience(tm)".
- Managing user emergency support and development (flashrom is one of
the most dangerous-to-working-computer projects out there). Mostly a
management talk about how to deal with desperate users and nonconforming
hardware without getting a black eye. Not really my favourite topic, but
if there is overwhelming demand, I can do.
- Using flashrom to detect BIOS rootkits and other nasty stuff living in
your BIOS chip (with demo and background).

I gave the BIOS rootkit detection talk at 0sec conference in Berne and
OpenExpo in Zürich (with quite a lot of audience participation each
time), tailored for the needs of each event. Depending on what the
audience expects, I will come up with some new stuff and adjust the main
focus of that talk on the security aspect or the real-world problems
faced by this task.

It would be great if someone else who is involved in flashrom
development right now could fill one of the slots. With Luc tackling the
flash enable stuff, I can either cover one of the topics I mentioned
above or give a general introductory flashrom talk. Cooperative talks
are an option for me as well.

Oh, and we need all the external programmers supported by flashrom for
display purposes. (Photos are also acceptable, but being able to show
the real stuff is so much more exciting for the audience.)

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 01:13:18AM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> On 02.12.2009 00:36, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> > The kind FOSDEM organizers have given us a DevRoom on saturday the 6th 
> > of February, as requested.
>
> Thanks a lot for organizing this, Luc!
> > We have a total of 6 slots available, two of which should be filled with 
> > an "introductory" talk about coreboot and one about flashrom. 
> > Introductory here means "this is what $project is, and now we dive 
> > straight into the gory details." So there are 4 more which i would like 
> > to see filled up in the next month.
>
> Possible topics from me (time requirements vary, I'm pretty flexible in
> that regard):
> Writing a flashrom driver for your favourite programmer (can do in 15
>
> minutes or less).
> Hands-on flash chip programming (one flash chip and one cheap
>
> home-built programmer for interested participants). Could be combined
> with the topic above for a "Total Flashrom Experience(tm)".
> Managing user emergency support and development (flashrom is one of
>
> the most dangerous-to-working-computer projects out there). Mostly a
> management talk about how to deal with desperate users and nonconforming
> hardware without getting a black eye. Not really my favourite topic, but
> if there is overwhelming demand, I can do.
> Using flashrom to detect BIOS rootkits and other nasty stuff living in
>
> your BIOS chip (with demo and background).
>
> I gave the BIOS rootkit detection talk at 0sec conference in Berne and
> OpenExpo in Zürich (with quite a lot of audience participation each
> time), tailored for the needs of each event. Depending on what the
> audience expects, I will come up with some new stuff and adjust the main
> focus of that talk on the security aspect or the real-world problems
> faced by this task.
>
> It would be great if someone else who is involved in flashrom
> development right now could fill one of the slots. With Luc tackling the
> flash enable stuff, I can either cover one of the topics I mentioned
> above or give a general introductory flashrom talk. Cooperative talks
> are an option for me as well.
>
> Oh, and we need all the external programmers supported by flashrom for
> display purposes. (Photos are also acceptable, but being able to show
> the real stuff is so much more exciting for the audience.)
>
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel

Well, i definitely want you to do the introductory flashrom talk. But on 
the other hand, the introductory part with flashrom is rather limited, 
after which you can go and delve deeper into one or several 
further topics that you mentioned.

Chances are that it gets filmed in HDTV and makes it onto phoronix.com.

And for showing off, maybe we should get a webcam along that we then can 
use to show hardware up close on the projector.

Luc Verhaegen.

[coreboot] We have a FOSDEM DevRoom!

On December 2, 2009 at 12:22 AM Luc Verhaegen  wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 01:13:18AM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > On 02.12.2009 00:36, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> > > The kind FOSDEM organizers have given us a DevRoom on saturday the 6th 
> > > of February, as requested.
> >
> > Thanks a lot for organizing this, Luc!

Yes this is a great oppritunity Luc.
I wish I could be there...
> Well, i definitely want you to do the introductory flashrom talk. But on 
> the other hand, the introductory part with flashrom is rather limited, 
> after which you can go and delve deeper into one or several 
> further topics that you mentioned.
>
> Chances are that it gets filmed in HDTV and makes it onto phoronix.com.
>
> And for showing off, maybe we should get a webcam along that we then can 
> use to show hardware up close on the projector.

According to the wiki it looks like you want to get into bios security a bit.
This may be an opritune time to introduce SerialICE???

Thanks - Joe