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

[Mehaffey, John]

> From: Lucas De Marchi [lucas.de.marchi at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 7:04 AM
>  
> 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

Hi Lucas, Lennart,
I am fine with merging the two boot related sessions.  I did not want to have it be a topic in the automotive microconf, as I believe there is enough material for a couple of hours on fastboot alone.

It was not clear to me what topics might be in the boot and core os microconf, so I proposed fastboot as separate.

Jeremiah, you bring up a good point about overlapping interest, probably when a proposal is accepted, we will need to point out potential scheduling conflicts with other accepted microconfs to the program committee.

Sincerely,
John Mehaffey
Senior System Architect (Automotive)
Mentor Graphics Corporation