Hi folks,
Following on from the founding of the cross-distro ARM mailing list, I'd like to propose an ARM summit at this year's Linux Plumbers conference [1]. I'm hoping for a slot on Thursday evening, but this remains to be confirmed at this point.
We had some lively discussion about the state of ARM Linux distros at the Linaro Connect [2] event in Cambridge last week. It rapidly became clear that some of the topics we discussed deserve a wider audience, so we're suggesting a meetup at Plumbers for that bigger discussion. The initial proposed agenda is:
* ARM hard-float + What is it and why does it matter? + How can distributions keep compatible (i.e. gcc triplet to describe the port)?
* Adding support for ARM as an architecture to the Linux Standard Base (LSB) + Does it matter? + What's needed?
* FHS - multi-arch coming soon, how do we proceed?
* 3D support on ARM platforms + Open GL vs. GLES - which is appropriate?
but I'm sure that other people will think of more issues they'd like to discuss. :-)
If you wish to attend, please reply to the cross-distro list and let us know to expect you. Make sure you're registered to attend Plumbers Conf, and get your travel and accommodation organised ASAP.
[1] http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2011/ [2] http://connect.linaro.org/
Cheers, -- Steve McIntyre steve.mcintyre@linaro.org http://www.linaro.org/ Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs