Thursday is approaching! On July 16th at 8am PST / 11am EST / 3pm GMT the Kernel Report talk by Jon Corbet of LWN will take place on the LPC Big Blue Button platform! It will also be available on a YouTube Live stream. Please join us at this URL: https://linuxplumbers.lwn.net/b/LPC-kernel-report. The Linux kernel is […]
Author Archives: Steven Rostedt
linux/arch/* Microconference Accepted into 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference
2020-07-14 – 12:10
We are pleased to announce that the linux/arch/* Microconference has been accepted into the 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference! Linux supports over twenty architectures. Each architecture has its own sub-directory within the Linux-kernel arch/ directory containing code specific for that architecture. But that code is not always unique to the architecture. In many cases, code in […]
Android Microconference Accepted into 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference
2020-07-12 – 23:42
We are pleased to announce that the Android Microconference has been accepted into the 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference! A few years ago the Android team announced their desire to try to set a path for creating a Generic Kernel Image (GKI) which would enable the decoupling of Android kernel releases from hardware enablement. Since then, […]
GNU Tools Track Added to Linux Plumbers Conference 2020
2020-07-11 – 12:11
We are pleased to announce that we have added an additional track to LPC 2020: the GNU Tools track. The track will run for the 5 days of the conference. For more information please see the track wiki page. The call for papers is now open and will close on July 31 2020. To submit […]
Systems Boot and Security Microconference Accepted into 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference
2020-07-10 – 21:16
We are pleased to announce that the Systems Boot and Security Microconference has been accepted into the 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference! Computer-system security is an important topic to many. Maintaining data security and system integrity is crucial for businesses and individuals. Computer security is paramount even at system boot up, as firmware attacks can compromise […]
Testing and Fuzzing Microconference Accepted into 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference
2020-07-06 – 12:12
We are pleased to announce that the Testing and Fuzzing Microconference has been accepted into the 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference! Testing and Fuzzing is crucial to the stability the Linux Kernel demands. Last year’s meetup helped make Kernel CI a Linux Foundation hosted project, collaboration between Red Hat CKI and KernelCI. On the more technical […]
Kernel Dependability and Assurance Microconference Accepted into 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference
2020-06-22 – 10:52
We are pleased to announce that the Kernel Dependability & Assurance Microconference has been accepted into the 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference! Linux is now being used in applications that are going to require a high degree of confidence that the kernel is going to behave as expected. Some of the key areas we’re seeing Linux […]
Real-time Microconference Accepted into 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference
2020-06-15 – 11:19
We are pleased to announce that the Real-time Microconference has been accepted into the 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference! After another successful Real-time microconference at LPC last year, there’s still more to work to be done. The PREEMPT_RT patch set (aka “The Real-Time Patch”) was created in 2004 in the effort to make Linux into a […]
Scheduler Microconference Accepted into 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference
2020-06-11 – 11:11
We are pleased to announce that the Scheduler Microconference has been accepted into the 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference! The scheduler is an important functionality of the Linux kernel as it decides what gets to run, when and for how long. With different topologies and workloads this is no easy task to give the user the […]
Containers and Checkpoint/Restore Microconference Accepted into 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference
2020-05-19 – 13:19
We are pleased to announce that the Containers and Checkpoint/Restore Microconference has been accepted into the 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference! After another successful Containers Microconference last year , there’s still a lot more work to be done. Last year we discussed the intersection between the new mount api and containers, various new vfs features including […]
