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| − | = LinuxBIOS Summit = | + | === LinuxBIOS Symposium 2006 Europe === |
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| − | Expect more information, such as papers and presentations held at the LinuxBIOS summit 2005 soon.
| + | The LinuxBIOS Symposium will take place on October 1-3, 2006 in Hamburg, Germany. |
| − | | + | For more details visit http://www.linuxbios.eu/. |
| − | LinuxBIOS Summit was Oct. 11-13, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. See the [http://www.linuxbios.org/data/LB_Summit.pdf agenda] for more information.
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| − | Richard Bruner, AMD Fellow, was be a featured speaker. We had a number of interesting speakers lined up, and were be describing new developments, such as the use of Linux Kconfig for LinuxBIOS configuration.
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| − | Title: AMD's Roadmap for Free Firmware (as in Beer)
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| − | Speaker: Rich Brunner, AMD Fellow
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| − | Abstract: This will be a discussion of the upcoming AMD Processor
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| − | roadmap, AMD plans for supporting LinuxBIOS, and AMD's
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| − | directions for the future of firmware.
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| − | Speaker BIO:
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| − | Richard A. Brunner is the Software Architect for Advanced Micro
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| − | Devices' AMD64 Architecture. He is an AMD fellow and is responsible
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| − | for operating systems, device drivers, compilers, libraries, OS/firmware
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| − | interaction, performance optimizations, and 3rd party tools. Richard
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| − | led AMD's initial involvement into the Unified Extensible Firmware
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| − | Interface (UEFI) forum.
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| − | Richard holds a Masters of Science degree in Computer Engineering from
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| − | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Bachelor of Science degree in
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| − | Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University. He holds
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| − | patents in computer architecture and has presented
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| − | extensively including Hot Chips, Siggraph, WinHec,
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| − | Linux Kernel Summit, Linux World, Ottawa Linux Symposium.
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| − | == Invitation ==
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| − | Ronald G. Minnich writes:
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| − | Just hold these dates: october 11-13, 2005
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| − | We've arranged for the lacsi symposium, in santa fe:
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| − | http://lacsi.rice.edu/symposium/ to set up 2.5 days
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| − | for a linuxbios summit. The info on the linuxbios track,
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| − | hotels, etc. should be on that web page later today
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| − | or tomorrow. We hope to have vendor talks, and
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| − | discussions on where we as a community are going
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| − | with linuxbios.
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| − | The time of year is nice in santa fe, new mexico is
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| − | beautiful, the food is great, the hotel is very
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| − | pleasant: do consider coming! We'd like to see all of
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| − | you folks out here.
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| − | Vendors on this list, if you have something you'd like
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| − | to talk about, please get back to me.
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| − | thanks
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| − | ron
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| − | == Agenda ==
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| − | We are working on the agenda for LinuxBIOS summit. Here is a draft
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| − | version. Please give us any suggestion and help you have.
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| − | We categorized the attendance into three parties, the vendors, the users
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| − | and the developers. We hope the three parties can each describe their
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| − | past experience, outstanding problems and future directions such that
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| − | these three parties can help each other.
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| − | === Oct. 11th ===
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| − | The first day will be focus on current status report. We are going to
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| − | ==== Vendor Presentation ====
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| − | 1. Richard Bruner from AMD will talk about AMD's plan on LinuxBIOS and their roadmap for their products. | |
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| − | 2. LNXI will give us their experience on integrating LinuxBIOS in their cluster products.
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| − | 3. Terra soft will give us their plan of using LinuxBIOS in their PPC 970 products.
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| − | ==== User Experience ====
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| − | Users from Sandia and Los Alamos will talk on their experience of using LinuxBIOS in clusters.
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| − | ==== Developer Status Report ====
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| − | Developers will give presentations and hands-on demo of recent development. Topics includes:
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| − | 1. Dual Core support for AMD K8
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| − | 2. Cache As Ram support for Intel and AMD processors.
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| − | 3. Integrating VGA BIOS support in your LinuxBIOS. | |
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| − | === Oct. 12th ===
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| − | On the second day we will focus on making LinuxBIOS more friendly for
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| − | ==== User Friendly ====
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| − | 1. User Interface: What kind of default payload and/or user interface are we going to use? Do we want it to be command line or menu style?
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| − | 2. User's Manual.
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| − | ==== Developer Friendly ====
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| − | 1. KConfig: Josiah England will show us his work on using KConfig to replace the current config tool.
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| − | 2. Development Model: What is the svn commit and release process?
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| − | 3. Device Object Model: People still complain about the complexity of the current device model. Can we make it easier to work with?
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| − | What is the impact of a new config too like #1 on the device model? How are we going to generate PIRQ/ACPI etc. tables?
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| − | 4. Programmer's Manual.
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| − | ==== Vendor Friendly ====
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| − | 1. We need to discuss the possibility of signing N-party NDA with vendors for
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| − | their unreleased products.
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| − | 2. How can we ensure 3rd party that our code is clean and free of legal trouble?
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| − | 3. Binary blob and EFI/Tiano Interface. How are we going to play nice with Intel?
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| − | ==== Hackathon ====
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| − | If anyone get inspired during the discussion, start implement your idea immediately!!
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| − | === Oct. 13th ===
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| − | On the third day we will look forward further into the future:
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| − | ==== Crazy Ideas ====
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| − | 1. FreeFI: Possible name change and official FSF sponsorship.
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| − | 2. LinuxBIOS as Linux: Ron just doesn't give up his old LinuxBIOS==Linux idea. He will show how he is recycling it.
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| − | ==== Homework Assignment ====
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| − | Hey, you had a good time. It is time to do your homework now.
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| − | == Registration ==
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| − | The registration fee is Registration is $350 until September 5, then $400 until October 5 or on-site.
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| − | To register for the LinuxBIOS summit, please go to
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The LinuxBIOS Symposium will take place on October 1-3, 2006 in Hamburg, Germany.
For more details visit http://www.linuxbios.eu/.
