[opensolaris-summit] OS Summit topic proposal

[Alan DuBoff]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

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

Well, sure his presentation was not intended to do that, he had to dumb it 
down as it was and was constrained to about 45 minutes. A big round of 
applause for Seth in being able to work around those contraints and 
requests from Intel to dumb it down.

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

Absolutely agreed.

> 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.

That would be excellent, where would you do that? Not for the summit, is 
it? I mean, that really doesn't fit in with the topics at the summit, the 
summit will most likely be discussing how we could incorporate drivers 
that are not in OpenSolaris today, not write new ones, but maybe I'm 
mistaken.

> 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.

I think preparing a session on that would be good to have for the 
appropriate venue, certainly.

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group