Difference between revisions of "LinuxBIOS Symposium 2006"

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Time and Date

The LinuxBIOS Symposium 2006 took place in Hamburg, Germany from October 1st to October 3rd 2006.

Agenda

The agenda is available here.

Talks & Discussion

Stefan Reinauer

• Opening

Peter Stuge

• Slides from Peter's Talk

Hardware

We were having a real Hacker's Paradise at the Symposium, amongst others:

Uwe Hermann

• 3 USB-to-PS2 converters
• ca. 10 PLCC chips of various brands/sizes
• ca. 5 DIP chips of various brands/sizes
• a test laptop (SIS 650/691) with socketed PLCC chip:
• Maybe one or two motherboards, if there's room left

Ron Minnich

• usb to serial (2)
• 1M flash parts 49lf008a
• 512K flash parts. 49lf004
• epia that works
• digital logic msm800sev that is in progress
• lippert frontrunner that is in progress.
• serial and ethernet cables.
• several enet switches.
• outlet strips
• CF cards
• IDE->CF adapters
• USB storage dongles
• RUMBA board for burning flash parts.
• PCMCIA->CF
• USB->CF
• several IBM power warts
• 3 OLPC

Richard Smith

• 1 OLPC
• USB -> 3.5 IDE HD
• a couple of 3.5 IDE HD's
• USB CDR/DVD burner.
• ASUS P2B i440bx mother board
• 4 in 1 screwdriver.
• Small screwdriver for pulling DIPs
• Several 29F040b PLCC, Some DIPs I pulled from old motherboards
• ATX powersupply
• USB mouse.
• Small PS/2 keyboard
• USB -> PS/2 adapter.
• several cheap not surge protected powerstrips. (If they blow up no loss)
• serveral EU to US plug adapters.

Stuff I was bringing but decided not to

• 500W 220 -> 110V transformer. (this thing is a cavity search waiting to happen)
• USB -> 2.5 IDE HD (Needs above)
• Max Speed Max Term motherboard (needs above)

Peter Stuge

• mostly working EPIA-MII with 6-26v 60w atx picoPSU
• a spare samsung 256mb ddr ram
• ide2cf
• pcmcia2cf
• cf cards
• soekris net4801
• soekris net4826
• prism2/atheros minipci/pci/pcmcia abg/bg/b wifi cards
• pci 1394a without rom
• old agp/pci vga cards with rom
• pci aha-2940au scsi with rom
• 8x100 ethernet switch, some 10m cables, parts for making cables
• usb2serial
• sata/ata/usb/1394/nullmodem cables
• usb flash drive if I can find one
• some plcc 512k am29lf040b and one 256k sst39sf020a
• plcc remover tool
• miniature screwdrivers (aka diy plcc remover tool)
• usb2sata 3.5" case
• usb fdd
• usb hub(s)
• ac-12v 1.5a psu
• ac-12v 2.5a psu
• ac-3/5/9/12v 2.5a psu
• ac-power-over-ethernet injector
• a dumb euro power strip or two
• a 5m extension cord or two
• cd-r/dvd-r media
• flashlight
• 10" gray vga crt
• ps/2 .se keyboard

Stefan Reinauer

• Via Epia-M
• GBit Switch
• WIFI Routers
• Galep IV Flash burner for DIL and PLCC
• some power strips
• CE power chords
• remote power switch
• USB->CF
• Bios Savior+USB control
• chip pullers
• a USB keyboard
• some serial cables (nullmodem)
• usb2serial converter
• usb debug device
• usb flash stick + usb hard drive
• usb hub
• (multimeter+soldering iron)
• Beamer

Ward Vandewege

• Bios Savior (512KB)
• plcc removal tool
• Serial cable (DB9 female/DB9 female)
• USB to serial cable (DB9 male)
• USB -> 2.5 IDE case with 2.5" IDE drive
• IDE 3.5" -> 2.5" converters
• couple of EU -> US plug converters
• lots of anti-drm and GNU/linux stickers