[opensolaris-summit] OS Summit topic proposal

[Garrett D'Amore]

Stefan Teleman wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I would like to propose a topic for the OS Summit in October:
>
> C++ Standard Compliant: Sun Studio 12, BOOST and the Apache/RogueWave Standard 
> C++ Library
>
> This will be a presentation and discussion about Sun Studio 12, C++ Standards 
> Compliance [http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/], BOOST 
> [http://www.boost.org/] and the Apache/RogueWave Standard C++ Library 
> [http://incubator.apache.org/stdcxx/].
>
>
> --Stefan
>
>   

Btw, if other folks have any interest, I'd be happy to chat about device 
drivers and OpenSolaris.  My personal area of expertise is mainly 
networking (and lately GLDv3), but I have expertise elsewhere with 
drivers as well.   I don't mind doing a GLDv3 tutorial (either porting 
from GLDv2 or from pure DLPI) if there is interest.... although I sort 
of suspect there isn't enough interest.  (I can also talk sensibly about 
power management, dynamic reconfiguration, etc.)

I'm not *asking* for a topic, or *asking* to give a talk, but merely 
suggesting, that if there is sufficient demand from developers or 
developer-would-bes, then I'm happy to help.  I believe that developer 
adoption is critical for OpenSolaris' long term viability.

One of the areas that OpenSolaris as a group needs to address, IMO, is 
how we handle supporting various bits of hardware, and 3rd party 
drivers, even ones that Sun may not necessarily have an interest in.  
(For example, how does Sun deal with device drivers that are 
"competitive" to their own business... such as 10GbE adapters?)  So far 
its been handled pretty well, but the issues of device qualification, 
and sustaining support are of significant concern.

Another issue that I'd like to see dealt with is defect/CR tracking.  
Right now, it is impossible to get a bugster category, even as a Sun 
employee, for a product that does not have a Sun manager.  (For example, 
I was unable to get a category for issues relating to Tadpole platform 
support... because no manager at Sun owns this, apparently.  Now, my 
current manager has agreed to sign up as the owner for such a category, 
but that doesn't scale well... longer term we need a solution which 
accommodates 3rd party hardware better.)

    -- Garrett