[opensolaris-summit] OS Summit topic proposal

[Garrett D'Amore]

I'm not normally in the Bay Area where Alan is, so such a collaborative 
effort would be 'challenging'.

If someone else in southern california wants to try to set something up, 
I'm willing.  The Sun office in San Diego is easily reachable to me, and 
I can get to the office in LA as well (although that's quite a bit 
longer drive for me... 3 hours instead of 1 hour.)

FWIW, I'm not entirely convinced that HD is necessary or even useful.  
Although a 640x480 presentation allowing code to be shown on-screen may 
be useful.

    -- Garrett

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