Thank you all for the extremely strong interest in participation to the 2018 Linux Plumbers Conference this year. At this point, all of the regular registration slots for LPC 2018 have sold out. There will be a very limited number of registrations available on a first come first serve basis going forward. Those interested in […]
As the energy density of computer systems has increased, thermal issues have become an increasingly hot topic across the spectrum from hand-held systems to internet datacenters. Because the need for thermal management is relatively new, there is a wide variety of hardware and firmware mechanisms, to say nothing of a wide variety of independently developed software to interact with these […]
The open nature of the RISC-V ecosystem has allowed contributions from both academia and industry to lead to an unprecedented number of new hardware design proposals in a very short time span. Linux support is the key to enabling these new hardware options. The primary objective of the RISC-V microconference at Plumbers is to initiate […]
The LPC 2018 program committee would like to reiterate that the Kernel Summit is going ahead as planned as a track within the Linux Plumbers Conference in Vancouver, BC, November 13th through 15th. However, the Maintainers Summit half day, which is by invitation only, has been rescheduled to be colocated with OSS Europe in Edinburgh, […]
If you missed the refereed-track deadline and you have a kernel-related topic (or, for that matter, if you just now thought of a kernel-related topic), please consider submitting it for the Kernel Summit. To do this, please use a separate email for each topic with each subject line tagged with [TECH TOPIC], and send these […]
We are pleased to announce the the Devicetree Microconference has been accepted into the 2018 Linux Plumbers Conference! Devicetree provides hardware description for many platforms, such as Linux [1], U-Boot [2], BSD [3], and Zephyr [4]. Devicetree continues to evolve to become more robust and attempt to provide the features desired by the varied users. Some of the overlay […]
Happy Labor Day to those celebrating today! We have had great response to our call for 2018 Linux Plumbers Conference refereed-track submissions. However it would seem that we are attracting a lot of procrastinators given the number of emails we have received requesting for an extension. With the long weekend in North America, we are […]