[opensolaris-summit] Summit Hardware

[Randy Fishel]

> 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.
> 

  Also FWIW, I am going mostly due to proximity (plus, my son goes to 
UCSC, and it would be nice to know what he is up to).  But there are 
some things we have talked about "talking about".  I would be more 
than happy to turn this into a technical discussion there if the 
others topics are less interesting.

	---- Randy