This is our current Covid-19 Statement:
Plumbers is currently taking place as planned; however, the LPC program committee is actively monitoring the situation with regard to Covid-19. The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently making no projections for the situation at that date, but there is hope that the spread of the disease will slow or stop entirely during the northern-hemisphere summer. Given the uncertainty, we are currently adopting a wait-and-see approach. Rest assured that we’ll be following precautions advised by both the WHO and the local health authorities in Halifax should they still be in effect by the time the conference starts.
We’ll post updates to the plumbers website as they become available.
The videos for all the talks in microconferences at the 2019 edition of Linux Plumbers are now linked to the schedule. Clicking on the link titled “video” will take you to the right spot in the microconference video. Hopefully, watching all of these talks will get you excited for the 2020 edition which we are busy preparing! Watch out for our call for microconferences and for our refereed track both of which are to be released soon. So now’s the time to start thinking about all the exciting problems you want to discuss and solve.
The new year is in full swing and so are the preparations for the Linux Plumbers Conference in 2020! Updates coming soon! Until then you can watch some videos.
Following up on our previous post, and as many of you have already noticed, the LPC 2019 videos have now been uploaded to our YouTube channel.
Over the coming days the LPC committee will be updating the 2019 site to incorporate links to the videos. At the same time, we will be getting ready to launch the 2020 site as well.
For now, you can access the videos in the following playlists:
You can access and promote the Linux Plumbers Conference YouTube channel here.
The videos have been uploaded to YouTube under the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY).
We know everyone is still waiting for the videos. Unfortunately, we’re
having a small production glitch, so until we can release them, several
MC leads have now sent us written summaries of their MCs which you can
see here:
If you’d like to see a summary of another MC, please bug the MC lead to
send us one (or send us your writeup).
The waiting list for this year’s Linux Plumbers Conference is now closed. All of the spots available have been allocated, so anyone who is not registered at this point will have to wait for next year. There will be no on-site registration. We regret that we could not accommodate everyone. The good news is that all of the microconferences, refereed talks, Kernel summit track, and Networking track will be recorded on video and made available as soon as possible after the conference. Anyone who could not make it to Lisbon this year will at least be able to catch up with what went on. Hopefully those who wanted to come will make it to a future LPC.
For those who are attending, we are just a few days away; you should have received an email with more details. Beyond that, the detailed schedule is available. There are also some tips on using the metro to get to the venue. As always, please send any questions or comments to “contact@linuxplumbersconf.org”.
We are pleased to announce that the System Boot and Security Microconference has been accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! Computer-system security is a topic that has gotten a lot of serious attention over the years, but there has not been anywhere near as much attention paid to the system firmware. But the firmware is also a target for those looking to wreak havoc on our systems. Firmware is now being developed with security in mind, but provides incomplete solutions. This microconference will focus on the security of the system especially from the time the system is powered on.
Expected topics for this year include:
Come and join us in the discussion of keeping your system secure even at boot up.
We hope to see you there!
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!
We are pleased to announce that the Android Microconference has been accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! Android has a long history at Linux Plumbers and has continually made progress as a direct result of these meetings. This year’s focus will be a fairly ambitious goal to create a Generic Kernel Image (GKI) (or one kernel to rule them all!). Having a GKI will allow silicon vendors to be independent of the Linux kernel running on the device. As such, kernels could be easily upgraded without requiring any rework of the initial hardware porting efforts. This microconference will also address areas that have been discussed in the past.
The proposed topics include:
Come and join us in the discussion of improving what is arguably the most popular operating system in the world!
We hope to see you there!
