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John Stultz (Google), Karim Yaghmour (Opersys inc.), Sumit Semwal (Linaro)
CFP ends on September 30th (CLOSED)
The Android Micro Conference brings the upstream community and Android systems developers together to discuss issues and changes to the Android platform and their dependencies and interactions with the Linux kernel, allowing for collaboration on solutions for upstream.
Some highlights of progress made since last year’s MC:
- Community...
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John Stultz (Google), Karim Yaghmour (Opersys inc.), Sumit Semwal (Linaro)
CFP ends on September 30th (CLOSED)
The Android Micro Conference brings the upstream community and Android systems developers together to discuss issues and changes to the Android platform and their dependencies and interactions with the Linux kernel, allowing for collaboration on solutions for upstream.
Some highlights of progress made since last year’s MC:
- Community...
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Mr Behan Webster (Converse in Code Inc.), Mr Frank Vasquez, Philip Balister (OpenEmbedded)
CFP ends on October 3rd (CLOSED)
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The Linux ecosystem supports a diverse set of methods for assembling complete, bootable systems, ranging from binary distributions to source-based systems, embedded platforms, and container-native environments. Despite differences in tooling and architecture, all of these systems face shared challenges: managing build complexity, ensuring security and... -
Mr Behan Webster (Converse in Code Inc.), Mr Frank Vasquez, Philip Balister (OpenEmbedded)
CFP ends on October 3rd (CLOSED)
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The Linux ecosystem supports a diverse set of methods for assembling complete, bootable systems, ranging from binary distributions to source-based systems, embedded platforms, and container-native environments. Despite differences in tooling and architecture, all of these systems face shared challenges: managing build complexity, ensuring security and... -
Dhaval Giani, Joerg Roedel (AMD)
CFP ends on September 30th (CLOSED)
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The Confidential Computing microconferences of the past years have been a significant catalyst for better supporting trusted execution workloads in the Linux virtualization and general software stack. Since the last occurrence of the microconference AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX support for KVM were merged into the mainline Linux kernel as well as support... -
Dhaval Giani, Joerg Roedel (AMD)
CFP ends on September 30th (CLOSED)
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The Confidential Computing microconferences of the past years have been a significant catalyst for better supporting trusted execution workloads in the Linux virtualization and general software stack. Since the last occurrence of the microconference AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX support for KVM were merged into the mainline Linux kernel as well as support... -
Adrian Reber (Red Hat), Mr Christian Brauner, Mike Rapoport, Stéphane Graber (Zabbly)
CFP ends on October 10th (CLOSED)
The Containers and Checkpoint/Restore micro-conference 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.
The microconference will be discussing recent advancements in container technologies with...
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Adrian Reber (Red Hat), Mr Christian Brauner, Mike Rapoport, Stéphane Graber (Zabbly)
CFP ends on October 10th (CLOSED)
The Containers and Checkpoint/Restore micro-conference 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.
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Adam Manzanares (Samsung Electronics), Dan Williams (Intel)
CFP ends on September 30th (CLOSED)
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The Device and Specific Purpose Memory Microconference is proposed as a space to discuss topics that cross MM, Virtualization, and Memory device-driver boundaries. Beyond CXL this includes software methods for device-coherent memory via ZONE_DEVICE, physical memory pooling / sharing, and specific purpose memory application ABIs like device-dax,... -
Adam Manzanares (Samsung Electronics), Dan Williams (Intel)
CFP ends on September 30th (CLOSED)
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The Device and Specific Purpose Memory Microconference is proposed as a space to discuss topics that cross MM, Virtualization, and Memory device-driver boundaries. Beyond CXL this includes software methods for device-coherent memory via ZONE_DEVICE, physical memory pooling / sharing, and specific purpose memory application ABIs like device-dax,... -
Bartosz Golaszewski (Qualcomm), Mr Krzysztof Kozlowski (Qualcomm)
CFP ends on September 14th (CLOSED)
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The Devicetree Microconference focuses on discussing and solving problems present in the systems using Devicetree as firmware representation. This notably is Linux kernel and U-Boot, but also can cover topics relevant to Zephyr or System Devicetrees. Systems using Devicetree are majority of embedded boards, mobile devices and ARM64 laptops (and many... -
Bartosz Golaszewski (Qualcomm), Mr Krzysztof Kozlowski (Qualcomm)
CFP ends on September 14th (CLOSED)
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The Devicetree Microconference focuses on discussing and solving problems present in the systems using Devicetree as firmware representation. This notably is Linux kernel and U-Boot, but also can cover topics relevant to Zephyr or System Devicetrees. Systems using Devicetree are majority of embedded boards, mobile devices and ARM64 laptops (and many... -
Jan Lübbe (Pengutronix), Stefan Schmidt
CFP ends on October 3rd (CLOSED)
The Embedded and IoT Micro-conference is a forum for developers to discuss all things Embedded and IoT. Topics include tools, telemetry, device drivers, protocols and standards in not only the Linux kernel but also Real-Time Operating Systems.Current Problems that require attention (stakeholders):
- Boot time optimizations (Tim Bird, Khasim Syed...
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Jan Lübbe (Pengutronix), Stefan Schmidt
CFP ends on October 3rd (CLOSED)
The Embedded and IoT Micro-conference is a forum for developers to discuss all things Embedded and IoT. Topics include tools, telemetry, device drivers, protocols and standards in not only the Linux kernel but also Real-Time Operating Systems.Current Problems that require attention (stakeholders):
- Boot time optimizations (Tim Bird, Khasim Syed...
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André Almeida (Igalia), David Vernet (Meta)
CFP ends on October 8th (CLOSED)
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The Gaming on Linux Microconference welcomes the community to discuss a broad range of topics around performance improvements for Gaming devices running Linux. Gaming on Linux has pushed the kernel to improve in several areas and has helped create new features for Linux, such as the futex_waitv() syscall, the Unicode subsystem, HDR support, and much more.... -
André Almeida (Igalia), David Vernet (Meta)
CFP ends on October 8th (CLOSED)
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The Gaming on Linux Microconference welcomes the community to discuss a broad range of topics around performance improvements for Gaming devices running Linux. Gaming on Linux has pushed the kernel to improve in several areas and has helped create new features for Linux, such as the futex_waitv() syscall, the Unicode subsystem, HDR support, and much more.... -
David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
CFP ends on September 30th (CLOSED)
Memory management keeps on being exciting. With a lot of activity on all different kinds of projects, some more controversial subjects that might be worth discussing this year:- Making Transparent Huge Pages more ... transparent (toggles, policies, khugepaged, ...)
- Making (m)THP/large folios a first-class citizen in MM
- What other improvements...
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David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
CFP ends on September 30th (CLOSED)
Memory management keeps on being exciting. With a lot of activity on all different kinds of projects, some more controversial subjects that might be worth discussing this year:- Making Transparent Huge Pages more ... transparent (toggles, policies, khugepaged, ...)
- Making (m)THP/large folios a first-class citizen in MM
- What other improvements...
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Arisu Tachibana
CFP ends on September 30th (CLOSED)
The Kernel Testing & Dependability Micro-Conference (a.k.a. Testing MC) focuses on advancing the current state of testing of the Linux Kernel and its related infrastructure.Building upon the momentum from previous years, the Testing MC's main purpose is to promote collaboration between all communities and individuals involved with kernel testing and...
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Arisu Tachibana
CFP ends on September 30th (CLOSED)
The Kernel Testing & Dependability Micro-Conference (a.k.a. Testing MC) focuses on advancing the current state of testing of the Linux Kernel and its related infrastructure.Building upon the momentum from previous years, the Testing MC's main purpose is to promote collaboration between all communities and individuals involved with kernel testing and...
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Breno Leitao (Meta), Guilherme Piccoli (Igalia), Jason Xing (Tencent), Usama Arif
CFP ends on October 10th (CLOSED)
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The Linux System Monitoring and Observability Track brings together developers, maintainers, system engineers, and researchers focused on understanding, monitoring, and maintaining the health of Linux systems at scale. This track addresses the needs of engineers managing millions of Linux servers, where proactive monitoring, rapid problem detection, and... -
Breno Leitao (Meta), Guilherme Piccoli (Igalia), Jason Xing (Tencent), Usama Arif
CFP ends on October 10th (CLOSED)
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The Linux System Monitoring and Observability Track brings together developers, maintainers, system engineers, and researchers focused on understanding, monitoring, and maintaining the health of Linux systems at scale. This track addresses the needs of engineers managing millions of Linux servers, where proactive monitoring, rapid problem detection, and... -
Alexander Graf, David Matlack (Google), Mike Rapoport, Pasha Tatashin
CFP ends on September 10th (CLOSED)
Live Update is a specialized reboot process where selected devices are kept operational and kernel state is preserved and recreated across a kexec. For devices, DMA and interrupts may continue during the reboot.The primary use-case of Live Update is to enable hypervisor updates in cloud environments with minimal disruption to running virtual...
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Alexander Graf, David Matlack (Google), Mike Rapoport, Pasha Tatashin
CFP ends on September 10th (CLOSED)
Live Update is a specialized reboot process where selected devices are kept operational and kernel state is preserved and recreated across a kexec. For devices, DMA and interrupts may continue during the reboot.The primary use-case of Live Update is to enable hypervisor updates in cloud environments with minimal disruption to running virtual...
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Daniel Lezcano (Linaro)
CFP ends on October 15th
The Power Management and Thermal Control microconference is about all things related to saving energy and managing heat. Among other things, we care about thermal control infrastructure, CPU, and device power-management mechanisms, energy models, and power capping.
This year has been mainly focused on the maintenance of the frameworks,...
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Daniel Lezcano (Linaro)
CFP ends on October 15th
The Power Management and Thermal Control microconference is about all things related to saving energy and managing heat. Among other things, we care about thermal control infrastructure, CPU, and device power-management mechanisms, energy models, and power capping.
This year has been mainly focused on the maintenance of the frameworks,...
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ATISH PATRA (Rivos), Björn Töpel (N/A), Palmer Dabbelt (Google)
CFP ends on September 29th (CLOSED)
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We’d like to propose bringing back the RISC-V Microconference at Linux Plumbers 2025. As the RISC-V ecosystem continues to grow, so does the importance of having a space where developers, hardware vendors, toolchain maintainers, and distro folks can come together to solve real-world problems. This microconference has always been a great venue for open,... -
ATISH PATRA (Rivos), Björn Töpel (N/A), Palmer Dabbelt (Google)
CFP ends on September 29th (CLOSED)
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We’d like to propose bringing back the RISC-V Microconference at Linux Plumbers 2025. As the RISC-V ecosystem continues to grow, so does the importance of having a space where developers, hardware vendors, toolchain maintainers, and distro folks can come together to solve real-world problems. This microconference has always been a great venue for open,... -
Miguel Ojeda
CFP ends on September 30th (CLOSED)
Rust is a systems programming language that is making great strides in becoming the next big one in the domain. Rust for Linux is the project adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel.Rust has a key property that makes it very interesting as the second language in the kernel: it guarantees no undefined...
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Miguel Ojeda
CFP ends on September 30th (CLOSED)
Rust is a systems programming language that is making great strides in becoming the next big one in the domain. Rust for Linux is the project adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel.Rust has a key property that makes it very interesting as the second language in the kernel: it guarantees no undefined...
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Kate Stewart (Linux Foundation), Philipp Ahmann (Etas GmbH (BOSCH))
CFP ends on October 5th (CLOSED)
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As Linux continues to be deployed in systems with varying criticality constraints, progress needs to be made in establishing consistent linkage between code, tests, and requirements, to improve overall efficiency and ability to support necessary analysis.
This MC addresses critical challenges in expectation management (aka requirements tracking),... -
Kate Stewart (Linux Foundation), Philipp Ahmann (Etas GmbH (BOSCH))
CFP ends on October 5th (CLOSED)
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As Linux continues to be deployed in systems with varying criticality constraints, progress needs to be made in establishing consistent linkage between code, tests, and requirements, to improve overall efficiency and ability to support necessary analysis.
This MC addresses critical challenges in expectation management (aka requirements tracking),... -
Mr Joel Fernandes (NVIDIA), Mr Daniel Hodges (Meta), Changwoo Min (Igalia), Andrea Righi (NVIDIA)
CFP ends on September 30th (CLOSED)
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sched_ext[1] is a Linux kernel feature which enables implementing safe task schedulers in BPF, and dynamically loading them at runtime. sched_ext enables safe and rapid iterations of scheduler implementations, thus radically widening the scope of scheduling strategies that can be experimented with and deployed, even in massive and complex production... -
Mr Joel Fernandes (NVIDIA), Mr Daniel Hodges (Meta), Changwoo Min (Igalia), Andrea Righi (NVIDIA)
CFP ends on September 30th (CLOSED)
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sched_ext[1] is a Linux kernel feature which enables implementing safe task schedulers in BPF, and dynamically loading them at runtime. sched_ext enables safe and rapid iterations of scheduler implementations, thus radically widening the scope of scheduling strategies that can be experimented with and deployed, even in massive and complex production... -
Vincent Guittot (Linaro)
CFP ends on September 30th (CLOSED)
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For Linux Plumber 2025, we propose a joint microconference for Real Time and Scheduler as in the past. These two areas have always been tightly linked and continue to generate cross functional changes especially after PREEMPT_RT has been merged. The scheduler is at the core of Linux performance; With different topologies and workloads, giving the user... -
Vincent Guittot (Linaro)
CFP ends on September 30th (CLOSED)
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For Linux Plumber 2025, we propose a joint microconference for Real Time and Scheduler as in the past. These two areas have always been tightly linked and continue to generate cross functional changes especially after PREEMPT_RT has been merged. The scheduler is at the core of Linux performance; With different topologies and workloads, giving the user... -
Daniel Kiper, Piotr Król (3mdeb)
CFP ends on September 30th (CLOSED)
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The System Boot and Security Microconference has been a critical platform for
enthusiasts and professionals working on firmware, bootloaders, system boot,
and security. This year, once again, we want to focus on the challenges that
arise when upstreaming boot process improvements to the Linux kernel and
bootloaders. Our experience shows that the... -
Daniel Kiper, Piotr Król (3mdeb)
CFP ends on September 30th (CLOSED)
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The System Boot and Security Microconference has been a critical platform for
enthusiasts and professionals working on firmware, bootloaders, system boot,
and security. This year, once again, we want to focus on the challenges that
arise when upstreaming boot process improvements to the Linux kernel and
bootloaders. Our experience shows that the... -
Jose E. Marchesi (GNU Project, Oracle Inc.)
CFP ends on October 10th (CLOSED)
The goal of the Toolchains micro-conference is to hold discussions about toolchain related topics that are relevant to the Linux kernel. This covers both the GNU toolchain and the Clang/LLVM toolchain.In the last years we have had either a micro-conference or a complete track to discuss about Toolchain topics during LPC, and along with LSFMMBPF they...
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Jose E. Marchesi (GNU Project, Oracle Inc.)
CFP ends on October 10th (CLOSED)
The goal of the Toolchains micro-conference is to hold discussions about toolchain related topics that are relevant to the Linux kernel. This covers both the GNU toolchain and the Clang/LLVM toolchain.In the last years we have had either a micro-conference or a complete track to discuss about Toolchain topics during LPC, and along with LSFMMBPF they...
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Alex Williamson, Bjorn Helgaas (Google), Joerg Roedel (AMD), Krzysztof Wilczyński, Lorenzo Pieralisi
CFP ends on September 30th (CLOSED)
The [PCI][1] interconnect specification, the devices that implement it, and the system IOMMUs that provide memory and access control to them are nowadays a de-facto standard for connecting high-speed components, incorporating more and more features such as:- Address Translation Service (ATS)/Page Request Interface (PRI)
- [Single-root I/O...
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Alex Williamson, Bjorn Helgaas (Google), Joerg Roedel (AMD), Krzysztof Wilczyński, Lorenzo Pieralisi
CFP ends on September 30th (CLOSED)
The [PCI][1] interconnect specification, the devices that implement it, and the system IOMMUs that provide memory and access control to them are nowadays a de-facto standard for connecting high-speed components, incorporating more and more features such as:- Address Translation Service (ATS)/Page Request Interface (PRI)
- [Single-root I/O...
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Boris Petkov, Dave Hansen
CFP ends on October 13th (CLOSED)
x86-focused material has historically been spread out at Plumbers. This will be an x86-focused microconference. Broadly speaking, anything that might affect arch/x86 is on topic, except where there may be a more focused discussion occurring, like around Confidential Computing or KVM.This microconference would look at how to address new x86 processor...
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Boris Petkov, Dave Hansen
CFP ends on October 13th (CLOSED)
x86-focused material has historically been spread out at Plumbers. This will be an x86-focused microconference. Broadly speaking, anything that might affect arch/x86 is on topic, except where there may be a more focused discussion occurring, like around Confidential Computing or KVM.This microconference would look at how to address new x86 processor...
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