[opensolaris-summit] Summit Hardware

[Garrett D'Amore]

John Sonnenschein wrote:
> Apple actually published a fantastic set of docs on the filesystem,
> but more to the point OSX/darwin contains a CDDL compatible licensed
> implementation, but I'm not as attached to the particular idea as I am
> with the idea of having technical (rather than political or design )
> breakouts
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As we are quickly running out of time, and I'm still not clear what 
exactly is going to be discussed here.  I can't tell whether the summit 
is going to be folks presenting their ideas for future directions on 
topics like packaging and installation (both of which bore me, but I 
actually happen to *like* the SYSV packaging that we have today), or 
whether this going to be any multiway exchange of ideas going on.

The "drivers and laptop support" topic is potentially very germane to 
me, as that is my current focus (specifically drivers for SDcard, and 
laptop power management including suspend/resume), but I'm still not 
sure what is going to be discussed there... I don't recognize David 
Stewart from the laptop or device drivers communities, nor from the 
internal group at Sun that is focused on mobile platforms.  *So*, what 
will that topic be about, really?

I'm still afraid that the very non-technical focus of the topics means 
that a lot of potential participants like me might be turned off by the 
Summit.  This looks a lot more like a meeting of the Program Managers 
than of the Engineers.  (And maybe that is indeed necessary and is also 
the need the Summit is intended to fill, but if that is the case then 
there is approximately zero purpose in my attendance.)

    -- Garrett
> On 10/4/07, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
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>> "John Sonnenschein" <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> FWIW, I'd like to have more hard technical discussion as well. Eg, I'd
>>> like if a couple of us could get together and hack HFS+ support in to
>>> Solaris (this particular example is for purely selfish reasons
>>> involving my laptop, my ipod & my SPARC), or something
>>>       
>> Well, do you have a usable documentation for this filesystem?
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>> Do you expect to be able to read the additional meta data?
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>> Do you expect the additional meta data to be converted to the more general
>> Solaris extended attribute file interface?
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>> Jörg
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