Author Archives: Jake Edge

Wireless Workshop accepted into the 2016 Linux Kernel Summit and Linux Plumbers Conference

It might well be that wireless networking recently made the transition from an ubiquitous networking technology to the dominant networking technology, at least from the viewpoint of end-user devices. Part of this trend is the use of wireless in automobiles, and this workshop will look at Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE), also know as […]

Android/Mobile Microconference Accepted into 2016 Linux Plumbers Conference

Android continues to find interesting new applications and problems to solve, both within and outside the mobile arena. Mainlining continues to be an area of focus, as do a number of areas of core Android functionality, including the kernel. Other topics include efficient operation on big.LITTLE systems, support for HiKey in AOSP (and multi-device support […]

Tracing Microconference Accepted into 2016 Linux Plumbers Conference

After taking a break in 2015, Tracing is back at Plumbers this year! Tracing is heavily used throughout the Linux ecosystem, and provides an essential method for extracting information about the underlying code that is running on the system. Although tracing is simple in concept, effective usage and implementation can be quite involved. Topics proposed […]

Checkpoint-Restore Microconference Accepted into 2016 Linux Plumbers Conference

This year will feature a four-fold deeper dive into checkpoint-restore technology, thanks to participation by people from a number of additional related projects! These are the OpenMPI message-passing library, Berkeley Lab Checkpoint/Restart (BLCR), and Distributed MultiThreaded CheckPointing (DMTCP) (not to be confused with TCP/IP), in addition to the Checkpoint/Restore in Userspace group that has participated […]

Testing & Fuzzing Microconference Accepted into 2016 Linux Plumbers Conference

Testing, fuzzing, and other diagnostics have made the Linux ecosystem much more robust than in the past, but there are still embarrassing bugs. Furthermore, million-year bugs will be happening many times per day across Linux’s huge installed base, so there is clearly need for even more aggressive validation. The Testing and Fuzzing Microconference aims to […]

Device Tree Microconference Accepted into 2016 Linux Plumbers Conference

Device-tree discussions are probably not quite as spirited as in the past, however, device tree is an active area. In particular, significant issues remain. This microconference will cover the updated device-tree specification, debugging, bindings validation, and core-kernel code directions. In addition, there will be discussion of what does (and does not) go into the device […]

PCI Microconference Accepted into 2016 Linux Plumbers Conference

Given that PCI was introduced more than two decades ago and that PCI Express was introduced more than ten years ago, one might think that the Linux plumbing already did everything possible to support PCI. One would be quite wrong. One issue with current PCI support is that resource allocation is handled on a per-architecture […]

Call for Refereed-Track Proposals

We are pleased to announce the Call for Refereed-Track Proposals for the 2016 edition of the Linux Plumbers Conference, which will held be in Santa Fe, NM, USA on November 2-4 in conjunction with Linux Kernel Summit. Refereed track presentations are 50 minutes in length and should focus on a specific aspect of the “plumbing” […]

Live Kernel Patching Microconference Accepted into 2016 Linux Plumbers Conference

Live kernel patching was accepted into the Linux kernel in v4.0 in February 2015, so we can declare the 2014 LPC Live Kernel Patching Microconference to have been a roaring success! However, as was noted at the time, this is just the beginning of the real work. In short, the v4.0 work makes live kernel […]

Containers Microconference Accepted into 2016 Linux Plumbers Conference

The level of Containers excitement has increased even further this year, with much interplay between Docker, Kubernetes, Rkt, CoreOS, Mesos, LXC, LXD, OpenVZ, systemd, and much else besides. This excitement has led to some interesting new use cases, including even the use of containers on Android. Some of these use cases in turn require some […]