[opensolaris-summit] Summit Hardware

[Shawn Walker]

On 04/10/2007, Garrett D'Amore <gdamore at sun.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
>
> 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.)

I wouldn't call installation, packaging, upgrading, virtualisation,
laptop drivers, open sound, etc. "non-technical" -- but that all
depends on what you mean but "non-technical."

I'd be happy to see you there, as I know there are at least a few of
us that would like to pick your brains about driver development during
a breakout session. However, that's up to you.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it. " --Donald Knuth