Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 is pleased to host the Compute Express Link Microconference Compute Express Link is a cache coherent fabric that is gaining a lot of momentum in the industry. Hardware vendors have begun to ramp up on CXL 2.0 hardware and software must not lag behind. The current software ecosystem looks promising with […]
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Microconferences at Linux Plumbers Conference: RISC-V
2022-06-05 – 18:41
Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 is pleased to host the RISC-V Microconference The RISC-V software ecosystem continues to grow tremendously with many RISC-V ISA extensions being ratified last year. There are many features supporting the ratified extensions that are under development, for instance svpbmt, sstc, sscofpmf, cbo. The RISC-V microconference is to discuss these issues with […]
Microconferences at Linux Plumbers Conference: Zoned Storage Devices (SMR HDDs & ZNS SSDs)
2022-06-02 – 13:08
Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 is pleased to host the Zoned Storage Devices (SMR HDDs & ZNS SSDs). The Zoned Storage interface has been introduced to make more efficient use of the storage medium, improving both device raw capacity and performance. Zoned storage devices expose their storage through zone semantics with a set of read/write rules […]
Microconferences at Linux Plumbers Conference: Service Management and systemd
2022-05-29 – 11:34
Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 is pleased to host the Service Management and systemd Microconference. The focus of this microconference will be on topics related to the current state of host-level service management and ideas for the future. Most of the topics will be aroind the systemd ecosystem as the most widely adoped service manager. The […]
Microconferences at Linux Plumbers Conference: Containers and Checkpoint/Restore
2022-05-26 – 09:55
Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 is pleased to host the Containers and Checkpoint/Restore Microconference The Containers and Checkpoint/Restore Microconference focuses on both userspace and kernel related work. The micro-conference targets the wider container ecosystem ideally with participants from all major container runtimes as well as init system developers. Potential discussion topcis include : User namespace improvements […]
Microconferences at Linux Plumbers Conference: Kernel Testing & Dependability
2022-05-23 – 09:23
Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 is pleased to host the Kernel Testing & Dependability Microconference The Kernel Testing & Dependability Microconference focuses on advancing the state of testing of the Linux kernel and testing on Linux in general. The main purpose is to improve software quality and dependability for applications that require predictability and trust. The […]
Microconferences at Linux Plumbers Conference: linux/arch
2022-05-20 – 08:48
Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 is pleased to host the linux/arch Microconference The linux/arch microconference aims to bring architecture maintainers in one room to discuss how the code in arch/ can be improved, consolidated and generalized. Potential topics for the discussion are: reducing code duplication and generalizing the common code in arch/ making headers in include/asm […]
Microconferences at Linux Plumbers Conference: Confidential Computing
2022-05-17 – 14:56
Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 is pleased to host the Confidential Computing Microconference. The Confidential Computing Microconference brings together plumbers enabling secure execution features in hypervisors, firmware, Linux Kernel, over low-level user space up to container runtimes. Good progress was made on a couple of topics since the last year, but enabling Confidential Computing in the […]
Welcome to the 2022 Linux Plumbers Conference
2022-01-20 – 17:55
Planning for the 2022 Linux Plumbers Conference is well underway. The hope is to be in Dublin co-located with OSS EU (although with hopefully non-overlapping dates). However, the Linux Foundation is still negotiating for a suitable venue so we can’t fully confirm the location yet. There is an outside (and hopefully receding) chance that we […]
