[opensolaris-summit] Summit Hardware

[Garrett D'Amore]

Stephen Lau wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore 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?
>>   
> FWIW, if its the David Stewart I'm thinking of - he's from Intel, and 
> works on the OpenSolaris Intel platform enhancement.

OH, I should have put two-and-two together!  Doh.

I still am wondering though... is this just going to be presentation of 
road-maps, 10,000 foot views,  political discussions, and pretty 
slides?   Will there be any hard core discussion of *how* we close 
various feature gaps (those *not* related to packaging/install, anyway), 
at a technical level?

To put this bluntly, for folks contributing code to the core (but not 
necessarily related to packaging or installation or building 
distributions), will our limited energies be better spent attending 
here, or continuing to work on the actual code?

I don't build a distribution, I don't work as a release engineer, and I 
stopped administering systems other than my own years ago, so ultimately 
the target discussions listed on the web page, while they are probably 
interesting for a large audience of participants, don't necessarily have 
the "technical" appeal to the hard-core kernel code monkeys like myself.

Its really too bad, IMO, because there is a lot happening in hardcore 
technical arenas where group discussion, and face-time between Sun and 
non-Sun folks would be really useful.  Think Crossbow.  Think power 
management.  Think 10G networking.  Think Bluetooth.  Think WiMAX.  
Think Intel's new bus architectures (QuickPath or whatever it is 
called).  Think new filesystem support.  Think PCI-IOV (both S/R and 
M/R).   Think .... the list goes on.

And *yet*, the focus/intent seems to be really all about 
packaging/installation/patching and moving the GNU applications to 
/usr/bin.  These are, no doubt, topics that people are very passionate 
about, and it is appropriate to have them discussed here.

Maybe, the reality is, all those other topics I'm most interested are 
just best handled via e-mail.  I just had hoped to get some face-time 
with the other core developers in these communities.

    -- Garrett

>
> cheers,
> steve