{"id":167,"date":"2020-07-14T12:10:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T12:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.linuxplumbersconf.org\/blog\/2020\/?p=167"},"modified":"2023-03-08T07:03:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T07:03:46","slug":"linux-arch-microconference-accepted-into-2020-linux-plumbers-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/2020\/07\/14\/linux-arch-microconference-accepted-into-2020-linux-plumbers-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"linux\/arch\/* Microconference Accepted into 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that the linux\/arch\/* Microconference has<br \/>\nbeen accepted into the 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference!<\/p>\n<p>Linux supports over twenty architectures.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In many cases, code in one architecture was copy-pasted from another, leaving for a lot of unnecessary code duplication. This makes it harder to fix, update and maintain functionality relying on the architecture specific code.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s room to improve, consolidate and generalize the code in these<br \/>\ndirectories, and that is the goal of this microconference.<\/p>\n<p>Topics to discuss include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reducing code duplication and generalizing the common code in arch\/<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lore.kernel.org\/kvm\/20190919150314.054351477@linutronix.de\/\">Moving syscall processing to C<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/789304\/\">Memory models<\/a> (FLAT, DISCONTIGOUS and SPARSE)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/elinux.org\/Device_Tree_Reference\">Devicetree<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Future of highmem<\/li>\n<li>Identifying old machine support:\n<ol>\n<li>Still in active use<\/li>\n<li>Only in hobbyist\/retro-computing <\/li>\n<li>Completely obsolete and broken<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Come join us and participate in the discussion to bring Linux architectures closer together.<\/p>\n<p>We hope to see you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linuxplumbersconf.org\/event\/7\/page\/80-accepted-microconferences#arch-cr\">there<\/a>!<br \/>\n_______________________________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}