[systemd-devel] 2013 Plumber's CFP: Fastboot

[Lucas De Marchi]

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Lennart Poettering
<mzxreary at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 15.05.13 11:43, Jeremiah Foster (jeremiah.foster at pelagicore.com) wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Mehaffey, John <John_Mehaffey at mentor.com>wrote:
>>
>> > Hello All,
>> >
>>
>> Hey John!
>>
>>
>> > I am proposing a microconference on fastboot at the Linux Plumber's
>> > conference 2013 in New Orleans. The goal is to get to sub 1S boot times for
>> > a large (IVI) system using NAND flash. This pushes the state of the art,
>> > and will require innovative solutions in may areas of Linux plumbing,
>> > including bootloader, kernel init, UBI, and systemd.
>> >
>> > Note that fastboot improvements will (generally) help all architectures so
>> > I am not limiting this to automotive systems.
>> >
>> > Please visit http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2013:fastboot for more
>> > information or if you want to submit a topic.
>> >
>>
>> I've linked to your micrconference from the automotive microconference:
>> http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2013:automotive
>>
>> I'm a bit confused about the LPC format though. John, is it planned to have
>> the non-Android fastboot discussion as part of the automotive
>> microconference or is this separate (despite its automotive relevance.) I
>> ask because it might be nice to have the participants in both
>> microconferences and it would be a shame to lose attendees to one or the
>> other if they're competing tracks.
>>
>> Can someone clue me in to the microconference format as regards LPC?
>
>
> BTW, there's also this MC we proposed:
>
> http://wiki.linuxplumbersconf.org/2013:boot_and_core_os
>
> which sounds pretty close to fastboot?
>

What if we merge the proposals?

John, are you ok with proposing (some of) these topics in the "Boot
and Core OS" track? I could help with the module-related part, too.


Lucas De Marchi