[opensolaris-summit] OS Summit topic proposal

[Brandorr]

On 9/21/07, Garrett D'Amore <Garrett.Damore at sun.com> wrote:
>
> 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,

There will be only be 60-100 attendees to the summit. I think your driver
presentations deserve a wider audience. Is there anyway you can work with
Alan to make videos and put additional course collaterals online? This way
they would be able to help existing driver developers, and would also enable
new vendors to contribute Solaris drivers. (Basically I think we should
start reaching out to vendors like 3Ware, and offer them unsolicited help
porting their drivers... wait a sec,, I just think I thought of a topic for
the Summit)..

"Expanding OpenSolaris hardware support, reaching out to hardware vendors
and helping them port."

Do you want to lead up this vendor/community outreach program? If so I could
see this as a much more powerful topic/initiative to present at the summit.

Cheers,
Brian

    -- Garrett
> >
> > Glynn
> >
>
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