We are pleased to announce that the Power Management and Thermal Control Microconference has been accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! Power management and thermal control are important areas in the Linux ecosystem to help improve the environment of the planet. In recent years, computer systems have been becoming more and more complex and thermally challenged at the same time and the energy efficiency expectations regarding them have been growing. This trend is likely to continue in the foreseeable future and despite the progress made in the power-management and thermal-control problem space since the Linux Plumbers Conference last year. That progress includes, but is not limited to, the merging of the energy-aware scheduling patch series and CPU idle-time management improvements; there will be more work to do in those areas. This gathering will focus on continuing to have Linux meet the power-management and thermal-control challenge.

Topics for this year include:

• CPU idle-time management improvements
• Device power management based on platform firmware
• DVFS in Linux
• Energy-aware and thermal-aware scheduling
• Consumer-producer workloads, power distribution
• Thermal-control methods
• Thermal-control frameworks

Come and join us in the discussion of how to extend the battery life of your laptop while keeping it cool.

We hope to see you there!