September 2, 2016 – 2:12 pm
The deadline for submitting refereed track proposals for the 2016 Linux Plumbers Conference has been extended until September 8, 2016 at 11:59PM CET. The refereed track will have 50-minute presentations on a specific aspect of Linux “plumbing” (e.g. core libraries, media creation/playback, display managers, init systems, kernel APIs/ABIs, etc.) that are chosen by the LPC committee to be given during the four days of the conference.
Registration for the conference has largely sold out at this point, but accepted talks for the refereed track will receive one free pass to the conference.
August 30, 2016 – 2:15 pm
All of the regular and early bird registrations for the 2016 Linux Plumbers Conference have now sold out. There will be a very limited number of late registrations available starting on October 1.
Those interested in attending the conference should also note that each refereed track talk gets one free pass to the conference. The deadline for refereed track proposals is Thursday September 1.
We hope to see you at LPC 2016!
August 29, 2016 – 6:40 pm
It has been more than a decade since CPU core clock frequencies stopped doubling every 18 months, which has shifted the search for performance from the “hardware free lunch” to concurrency and, more recently, hardware accelerators. Beyond accelerating computational offload, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and programmable logic devices (PLDs) have long been used in the embedded space to provide ways to offload I/O or to implement timing-sensitive algorithms as close as possible to the pin.
Regardless of how they are used, however, there exists a common class of problems which accompany the use of FPGAs, accelerators, and PLDs on Linux. Perhaps most important are the probing, discovery, and enumeration of these devices, which can be a challenge given the wide variety of interconnects to which they may be attached.
The purpose of this microconference is to discuss these problems, and figure out what it would take to make these devices first-class citizens on Linux. We will be looking at important use cases, including the much-maligned network-offload case as well as the more general topic of workload acceleration.
For more details on coherent accelerators, FPGAs, and PLDs, please see this microconference’s wiki page.
We hope to see you there!
August 28, 2016 – 5:16 pm
Although trusted platform modules (TPMs) have been the subject of some controversy over the years, it is quite likely that they have important roles to play in preventing firmware-based attacks, protecting user keys, and so on. However, some work is required to enable TPMs to successfully play these roles, including getting TPM support into bootloaders, securely distributing known-good hashes, and providing robust and repeatable handling of upgrades.
In short, given the ever-more-hostile environments that our systems must operate in, it seems quite likely that much help will be needed, including from TPMs. For more details, see the TPM Microconference wiki page.
We hope to see you there!
August 10, 2016 – 11:05 pm
The refereed talk deadline for Linux Plumbers Conference is only a few weeks off, September 1, 2016 at 11:59PM CET. So there is still some time to get your proposals in, but time is growing short.
Note that this year’s Plumbers is co-located with Linux Kernel Summit rather than LinuxCon, so the refereed track is all Plumbers this year. We are therefore looking forward to seeing your all-Plumbers refereed-track submission!
As you might have noticed, earlybird registration has closed, but normal-rate registration will be opening up on August 27th—however, accepted refereed speaking proposals will receive a free pass.
The conference itself is in Santa Fe, New Mexico on November 1-4, 2016. Looking forward to seeing you there!
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 IEEE 802.11p. In addition, the bufferbloat problem is starting to focus on the more difficult wireless environment, and to that end, this workshop will discuss FQ/Codel integration, testing, and development. As usual, the workshop will encompass the full 802.11 stack, not just the kernel portions, and therefore wpa_supplicant will also be on the agenda.
Please join us for a timely and important discussion!
As of today, we only have 25% of the places remaining out of our quota of 140 for earlybird registration. Once this fills up, general registration will close until 27 August when we’ll add 50 more slots at the regular rate.
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 in general), and the upcoming migration to Clang for Android builds.
Android continues to be a very exciting and dynamic project, with the above topics merely scratching the surface. For more details, see the Android/Mobile Microconference wiki page.
Early bird rate is available until our quota of 140 runs out (or we reach 26 August). Please click here to register.
A while ago, we decided to combine the Kernel Summit Open Day with Linux Plumbers, meaning that Plumbers itself runs now from 1-4 November (as you can see from the updated site banners). Unfortunately, we neglected to test that the registration system was ready for this change, so we’re scrambling now to fix it and we should have registrations open by Monday. Sorry for the Delay.
