[opensolaris-summit] OS Summit topic proposal

[Garrett D'Amore]

Glynn Foster wrote:
> Alan DuBoff wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Again, my biggest question/concern is, how many people will be in
>>> attendance that the gory details of driver/kernel programming will
>>> appeal to?  I know you've voted, so that's one... are there more?
>>>       
>> I'm sure there are more, but the problem is that most of the people that 
>> are interested, are spread out more globally, as a whole, so targeting 
>> specific venues will be hit/miss at best in most cases.
>>
>> We need this information online, with the ability to stream in any 
>> location, so that the right people will have easy access to it.
>>     
>
> "Writing Device Drivers for Solaris - Seth Goldberg provided a whirlwind tour of
> a week-long class on how to write a driver.  Seth touched on the DDI/DKI
> interface, which provides terrific interface stability from generation to
> generation, the device tree and tips and tricks.  There was a demonstration
> driver source presented as well, and all of the commands to try it out.  I'll
> have to do that when I get home!"
>
> http://softwareblogs.intel.com/2007/09/19/opensolaris-at-fall-idf-2007/
>
> Sounds like the information is there (though possibly not GLDv3?), would
> probably be good to highlight it more?
>   

Seth didn't cover GLD (neither v2 nor v3) nor STREAMs drivers at all 
(all NIC drivers are STREAMs drivers).

What I saw convinced me of the utter foolishness of trying to cram a 
week's worth of teaching material into one hour.

However, I could probably present a simple GLDv2->v3 presentation 
class.  That can be done in an hour if the attendees have at least a 
tiny inkling of kernel programming.

I don't mind covering other topics, and one could probably do a 
whirlwind tour of kernel/driver APIs in a day, if one had the entire day 
to do it.

    -- Garrett
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> Glynn
>