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 […]
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 low memory killer [1], dynamically-allocated Binder devices [2], kernel namespaces [3], EAS [4], userdata filesystem checkpointing and DT [5]. We […]
Use of Linux on battery-powered systems continues to grow, and general energy-efficiency concerns are not going away any time soon. The Power Management and Energy-awareness micro-conference therefore continues a Linux Plumbers Conference tradition of looking into ways to improve energy efficiency. In spite of significant progress made over the last year on multiple fronts, including but not limited to the […]
Testing and Fuzzing Microconference Accepted into 2018 Linux Plumbers Conference Testing, fuzzing, and other diagnostics have greatly increased the robustness of the Linux ecosystem, but embarrassing bugs still escape to end users. Furthermore, a million-year bug would happen several tens of times per day across Linux’s installed base (said to number more than 20 billion), […]
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