On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Jon Masters jcm@redhat.com wrote:
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IRC: #linaro-armhf (irc.freenode.net) Time: 8pm Pacific tonight.
I have had a special line setup on the Red Hat Conference system.
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Thanks for setting this up Jon, very generous. I can't call in but hope to lurk in the IRC channel.
(Steve already sent out a comprehensive agenda)
To Steve's other point around topics for tonight, I agree that the only things (being brutally honest also here) I really care about is hardfloat and standardization.
These topics are interesting to me too. Is there going to be some minutes or notes from the session? I'd like to read them.
Topics I would like to specifically include in the discussion:
- Agree that all the distros want hard float. And what that means (just
refer to the AAPCS stuff we all already know). Basically a statement "we the assembled Linux community will be supporting a common definition of hardfloat in our distributions", etc. I have people asking me on and off about hardfloat thinking every distro is doing its own thing...which actually is far worse than reality. So, let's fix this with a generic fluffy media-friendly statement.
- Cross standardization. Not just LSB but how are we going to keep
these discussions going? There is the hardfloat IRC channel, etc. but I think this is bigger than HF. I want an ongoing cross-distro discussion around ARM standards. That can be cross-distro, but it *must* actually have some agreed framework, with regular syncups. I would go as far as to say we need a regular phone call (can be once a month) just to force us all to keep this collective ball rolling.
What is wrong with this email list? I think it is a pretty good cross-distro forum. A regular phone call might be good but needs coordination across time zones which is painful. Plus calls sometimes seem less productive than mailing lists and IRC to me. A lot of people on this list are on #meego-arm, #debian-arm, and #ubuntu-arm. Is there a similar Fedora/Red Hat channel? (Too lazy to check.) Should there be a #cross-distro-arm channel?
Regards,
Jeremiah