The 2009 Linux Kernel Summit
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The 2009 Linux Kernel Summit was held in Tokyo, Japan on October 19 and 20. Jet-lagged developers from all over the world discussed a wide range of topics. LWN's Jonathan Corbet was there, and has written the following summaries.
Day 1
The sessions held on the first day of the summit were:
- Mini-summit readouts; reports from
various mini-summit meetings which have happened over the last six
months.
- The state of the scheduler, the
kernel subsystem that everybody loves to complain about.
- The end-user panel, wherein
Linux users from the enterprise and embedded sectors talk about how
Linux could serve them better.
- Regressions. Nobody likes them; are
the kernel developers doing better at avoiding and fixing them?
- The future of perf events; a
discussion of where this new subsystem is likely to go next.
- LKML volume and related issues. A
session slot set aside for lightning talks was
really mostly concerned with the linux-kernel mailing list and those
who post there.
- Generic device trees. The device tree abstraction has proved helpful in the creation of generic kernels for embedded hardware. This session talked about what a device tree is and why it's useful.
Day 2
The discussions on the second day were:
- Legal issues; a lawyer visits the
summit to talk about the software patent threat and how to respond to
it.
- How Google uses Linux: the challenges
faced by one of our largest and most secretive users.
- Performance regressions: is the kernel
getting slower? How do we know and where are the problems coming
from?
- Realtime: issues related to the
merging of the realtime preemption tree into the mainline.
- Generic architecture support: making
it easier to port Linux to new processor architectures.
- Development process issues, including linux-next, staging, merge window rules, and more.
The kernel summit closed with a general feeling that the discussions had gone well. It was also noted that our Japanese hosts had done an exceptional job in supporting the summit and enabling everything to happen; it would not be surprising to see developers agitating for the summit to return to Japan in the near future.
See also: the obligatory kernel
summit group photo.
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The 2009 Linux Kernel Summit
Posted Oct 19, 2009 19:43 UTC (Mon) by jaymzh (subscriber, #57150) [Link]
The 2009 Linux Kernel Summit
Posted Oct 20, 2009 9:10 UTC (Tue) by leemgs (guest, #24528) [Link]
I also expect news of Day 2.
Thanks,
GeunSik Lim.
The 2009 Linux Kernel Summit
Posted Oct 21, 2009 9:15 UTC (Wed) by nettings (subscriber, #429) [Link]
The 2009 Linux Kernel Summit
Posted Oct 23, 2009 22:47 UTC (Fri) by dvhart (guest, #19636) [Link]