Hi everyone,
I attended the Embedded Linux Conference earlier this month and have now returned home from the extended trip, so it seems like a good time to share my experience.
The event was a combination of ELC with the OpenIoTSummit, so it was huge with 800 participants and nine parallel tracks. Often enough there were multiple interesting topics at the same time, and as usual the "hallway track" -- meeting people in person to discuss further topics is the most important one.
Slides for most talks have now become available at http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference and videos were promised to get posted soonish. Some personal highlights include:
* Porting Linux to a new archicture by Joël Porquet http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/elc-2016.pdf I've talked about this topic before myself at previous conferences, and his talk was particularly well structured and easy to follow, covering all the important parts. Probably not what most of you need for your work though.
* Lessons from Ion by Laura Abbott http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/elc16.pdf Memory management for GPUs remains an interesting topic, and Laura gave an excellent retrospective of what happened with Google's Ion approach, what went wrong, and what problems remain to be solved. Unfortunately only about 10 people were in the room, as it was the very last session and it conflicted with Grant Likely's popular talk about "Hardware Design for Linux Engineers".
* Understanding a real-time system by Steven Rostedt http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/elc-understandin... Stephen's talks are always worth attending, even when there is little actual new information in them. See the video if you have anything to do with realtime systems
* OpenBMC by Tian Fang http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/OpenBMC_2016ELC.... Facebook are doing one of two projects to bring a proper open source and secure OS into the baseboard management controller. This is incredibly important work, and I'd recommend reading the LWN article about the talk at https://lwn.net/Articles/682944/. One outcome was that this article has triggered the other OpenBMC team (at IBM) to speed up working on their kernel patches to get support for the popular AST2xxx SoC family mainlined, we should see patches soon. Note that this is the same BMC that is used to manage most ARM servers, and it normally runs a closed-down ARM9 or ARM11 Linux distro itself.
I initially planned to attend without giving a talk myself because I could not think of a good topic, but Mark Brown had the idea that I could talk about my side project of fixing build warnings, and that worked out great in the end. There is even an LWN article about it at http://lwn.net/Articles/683476/ (for non-subscribers: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/683476/180f1aedcd1d0b5b/ ) and my slides are at http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/Static%20code%20... The room was almost full, and the topic was well received (though I still think my two presentations last year were much better).
I was talking at the same time as Mark Rutland and Karen Sandler, and I probably want to see both of their presentations once they become available for streaming.
Arnd
Hello all,
I also attended ELC a couple weeks ago. Here are my highlights. In general ELC didn't offer a huge amount of presented content or attendees relevant for my scheduler/power management interests, but there were still some interesting talks and opportunities to catch up with folks.
* Dirk Hohndel interviews Linus Torvalds
A couple fun comments - "something weasel" is reserved for "good kernels," small sensors will probably never run linux, Linus loves doing userspace because it's so easy and like a vacation - but "you can't spend your life doing that."
* kernelci.org BOF by Kevin Hilman
Kevin gave a great overview of kernelci.org - how it started, the current status and next steps. There was plenty of engagement from the audience along with interest from folks in contributing.
* Google ProjectARA Power Management Challenges by Patrick Titiano
Patrick's talk clearly explains how BayLibre are dealing with ARA's unique archicture from a power management standpoint.
* SCHED_DEADLINE: A Status Update by Juri Lelli
I especially enjoyed this talk as it was very detailed and also the most relevant to my work. The theory behind SCHED_DEADLINE was explained, including why earliest deadline first can be insufficient and how constant bandwidth server addresses that and why bandwidth reclaiming is useful. The future work for SCHED_DEADLINE was outlined.
* Static Code Checking in the Linux Kernel by Arnd Bergmann
This was an interesting look at Arnd's battle to eliminate warnings and errors. There's an assortment of useful bits of knowledge here such as things gcc doesn't like and what certain tools are best suited for.
* Securing Embedded Linux by Michael E. Anderson
A good introductory talk on security, with a little bit of embedded/IOT spin.
* Understanding a Real-Time System by Steven Rostedt
My first time attending a talk by Steven Rostedt - he reminded me of my favorite college professors due to his energy and enthusiasm for the material. Also, the talk was quite useful, describing the difference between real time and real fast along with all the sources of variation in execution speed in the system (bad for real-time/determinism).
In the hallway track I was able to sync up with Mike Turquette from BayLibre to discuss immediate plans for schedutil (scheduler-guided CPU frequency). Also took the ARM guys to dinner at Stone Brewing, my favorite brewery and a rather good restaurant as well :) .
cheers, Steve
On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 08:42:05PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
Hi everyone,
I attended the Embedded Linux Conference earlier this month and have now returned home from the extended trip, so it seems like a good time to share my experience.
The event was a combination of ELC with the OpenIoTSummit, so it was huge with 800 participants and nine parallel tracks. Often enough there were multiple interesting topics at the same time, and as usual the "hallway track" -- meeting people in person to discuss further topics is the most important one.
Slides for most talks have now become available at http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference and videos were promised to get posted soonish. Some personal highlights include:
Porting Linux to a new archicture by Joël Porquet http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/elc-2016.pdf I've talked about this topic before myself at previous conferences, and his talk was particularly well structured and easy to follow, covering all the important parts. Probably not what most of you need for your work though.
Lessons from Ion by Laura Abbott http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/elc16.pdf Memory management for GPUs remains an interesting topic, and Laura gave an excellent retrospective of what happened with Google's Ion approach, what went wrong, and what problems remain to be solved. Unfortunately only about 10 people were in the room, as it was the very last session and it conflicted with Grant Likely's popular talk about "Hardware Design for Linux Engineers".
Understanding a real-time system by Steven Rostedt http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/elc-understandin... Stephen's talks are always worth attending, even when there is little actual new information in them. See the video if you have anything to do with realtime systems
OpenBMC by Tian Fang http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/OpenBMC_2016ELC.... Facebook are doing one of two projects to bring a proper open source and secure OS into the baseboard management controller. This is incredibly important work, and I'd recommend reading the LWN article about the talk at https://lwn.net/Articles/682944/. One outcome was that this article has triggered the other OpenBMC team (at IBM) to speed up working on their kernel patches to get support for the popular AST2xxx SoC family mainlined, we should see patches soon. Note that this is the same BMC that is used to manage most ARM servers, and it normally runs a closed-down ARM9 or ARM11 Linux distro itself.
I initially planned to attend without giving a talk myself because I could not think of a good topic, but Mark Brown had the idea that I could talk about my side project of fixing build warnings, and that worked out great in the end. There is even an LWN article about it at http://lwn.net/Articles/683476/ (for non-subscribers: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/683476/180f1aedcd1d0b5b/ ) and my slides are at http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/Static%20code%20... The room was almost full, and the topic was well received (though I still think my two presentations last year were much better).
I was talking at the same time as Mark Rutland and Karen Sandler, and I probably want to see both of their presentations once they become available for streaming.
Arnd _______________________________________________ Conf mailing list Conf@lists.linaro.org https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/conf
Arnd / Steve,
Thanks for sending out your notes from the recent ELC.
Mark
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Steve Muckle steve.muckle@linaro.org wrote:
Hello all,
I also attended ELC a couple weeks ago. Here are my highlights. In general ELC didn't offer a huge amount of presented content or attendees relevant for my scheduler/power management interests, but there were still some interesting talks and opportunities to catch up with folks.
Dirk Hohndel interviews Linus Torvalds
A couple fun comments - "something weasel" is reserved for "good kernels," small sensors will probably never run linux, Linus loves doing userspace because it's so easy and like a vacation - but "you can't spend your life doing that."
kernelci.org BOF by Kevin Hilman
Kevin gave a great overview of kernelci.org - how it started, the current status and next steps. There was plenty of engagement from the audience along with interest from folks in contributing.
Google ProjectARA Power Management Challenges by Patrick Titiano
Patrick's talk clearly explains how BayLibre are dealing with ARA's unique archicture from a power management standpoint.
SCHED_DEADLINE: A Status Update by Juri Lelli
I especially enjoyed this talk as it was very detailed and also the most relevant to my work. The theory behind SCHED_DEADLINE was explained, including why earliest deadline first can be insufficient and how constant bandwidth server addresses that and why bandwidth reclaiming is useful. The future work for SCHED_DEADLINE was outlined.
Static Code Checking in the Linux Kernel by Arnd Bergmann
This was an interesting look at Arnd's battle to eliminate warnings and errors. There's an assortment of useful bits of knowledge here such as things gcc doesn't like and what certain tools are best suited for.
Securing Embedded Linux by Michael E. Anderson
A good introductory talk on security, with a little bit of embedded/IOT spin.
Understanding a Real-Time System by Steven Rostedt
My first time attending a talk by Steven Rostedt - he reminded me of my favorite college professors due to his energy and enthusiasm for the material. Also, the talk was quite useful, describing the difference between real time and real fast along with all the sources of variation in execution speed in the system (bad for real-time/determinism).
In the hallway track I was able to sync up with Mike Turquette from BayLibre to discuss immediate plans for schedutil (scheduler-guided CPU frequency). Also took the ARM guys to dinner at Stone Brewing, my favorite brewery and a rather good restaurant as well :) .
cheers, Steve
On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 08:42:05PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
Hi everyone,
I attended the Embedded Linux Conference earlier this month and have now returned home from the extended trip, so it seems like a good time to share my experience.
The event was a combination of ELC with the OpenIoTSummit, so it was huge with 800 participants and nine parallel tracks. Often enough there were multiple interesting topics at the same time, and as usual the "hallway track" -- meeting people in person to discuss further topics is the most important one.
Slides for most talks have now become available at http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference and videos were promised to get posted soonish. Some personal highlights include:
- Porting Linux to a new archicture by Joël Porquet
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/elc-2016.pdf
I've talked about this topic before myself at previous conferences, and his talk was particularly well structured and easy to follow, covering all the important parts. Probably not what most of you need for your work though.
Lessons from Ion by Laura Abbott http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/elc16.pdf Memory management for GPUs remains an interesting topic, and Laura gave an excellent retrospective of what happened with Google's Ion approach, what went wrong, and what problems remain to be solved. Unfortunately only about 10 people were in the room, as it was the very last session and it conflicted with Grant Likely's popular talk about "Hardware Design for Linux Engineers".
Understanding a real-time system by Steven Rostedt
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/elc-understandin...
Stephen's talks are always worth attending, even when there is little actual new information in them. See the video if you have anything to do with realtime systems
- OpenBMC by Tian Fang
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/OpenBMC_2016ELC....
Facebook are doing one of two projects to bring a proper open source and secure OS into the baseboard management controller. This is incredibly important work, and I'd recommend reading the LWN article about the talk at https://lwn.net/Articles/682944/. One outcome was that this article has triggered the other OpenBMC team (at IBM) to speed up working on their kernel patches to get support for the popular AST2xxx SoC family mainlined, we should see patches soon. Note that this is the same BMC that is used to manage most ARM servers, and it normally runs a closed-down ARM9 or ARM11 Linux distro itself.
I initially planned to attend without giving a talk myself because I
could
not think of a good topic, but Mark Brown had the idea that I could talk about my side project of fixing build warnings, and that worked out great in the end. There is even an LWN article about it at http://lwn.net/Articles/683476/ (for non-subscribers:
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/683476/180f1aedcd1d0b5b/ ) and my slides are
at
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/Static%20code%20...
The room was almost full, and the topic was well received (though I still think my two presentations last year were much better).
I was talking at the same time as Mark Rutland and Karen Sandler, and I probably want to see both of their presentations once they become
available
for streaming.
Arnd
Conf mailing list Conf@lists.linaro.org https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/conf
Great! thanks again.
Yadi
On 2016年04月18日 05:43, Mark Orvek wrote:
Arnd / Steve,
Thanks for sending out your notes from the recent ELC.
Mark
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org mailto:steve.muckle@linaro.org> wrote:
Hello all, I also attended ELC a couple weeks ago. Here are my highlights. In general ELC didn't offer a huge amount of presented content or attendees relevant for my scheduler/power management interests, but there were still some interesting talks and opportunities to catch up with folks. * Dirk Hohndel interviews Linus Torvalds A couple fun comments - "something weasel" is reserved for "good kernels," small sensors will probably never run linux, Linus loves doing userspace because it's so easy and like a vacation - but "you can't spend your life doing that." * kernelci.org <http://kernelci.org> BOF by Kevin Hilman Kevin gave a great overview of kernelci.org <http://kernelci.org> - how it started, the current status and next steps. There was plenty of engagement from the audience along with interest from folks in contributing. * Google ProjectARA Power Management Challenges by Patrick Titiano Patrick's talk clearly explains how BayLibre are dealing with ARA's unique archicture from a power management standpoint. * SCHED_DEADLINE: A Status Update by Juri Lelli I especially enjoyed this talk as it was very detailed and also the most relevant to my work. The theory behind SCHED_DEADLINE was explained, including why earliest deadline first can be insufficient and how constant bandwidth server addresses that and why bandwidth reclaiming is useful. The future work for SCHED_DEADLINE was outlined. * Static Code Checking in the Linux Kernel by Arnd Bergmann This was an interesting look at Arnd's battle to eliminate warnings and errors. There's an assortment of useful bits of knowledge here such as things gcc doesn't like and what certain tools are best suited for. * Securing Embedded Linux by Michael E. Anderson A good introductory talk on security, with a little bit of embedded/IOT spin. * Understanding a Real-Time System by Steven Rostedt My first time attending a talk by Steven Rostedt - he reminded me of my favorite college professors due to his energy and enthusiasm for the material. Also, the talk was quite useful, describing the difference between real time and real fast along with all the sources of variation in execution speed in the system (bad for real-time/determinism). In the hallway track I was able to sync up with Mike Turquette from BayLibre to discuss immediate plans for schedutil (scheduler-guided CPU frequency). Also took the ARM guys to dinner at Stone Brewing, my favorite brewery and a rather good restaurant as well :) . cheers, Steve On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 08:42:05PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I attended the Embedded Linux Conference earlier this month and have now > returned home from the extended trip, so it seems like a good time to > share my experience. > > The event was a combination of ELC with the OpenIoTSummit, so it was > huge with 800 participants and nine parallel tracks. Often enough there > were multiple interesting topics at the same time, and as usual the > "hallway track" -- meeting people in person to discuss further topics > is the most important one. > > Slides for most talks have now become available at > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference > and videos were promised to get posted soonish. Some personal > highlights include: > > * Porting Linux to a new archicture by Joël Porquet > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/elc-2016.pdf > I've talked about this topic before myself at previous conferences, > and his talk was particularly well structured and easy to follow, > covering all the important parts. Probably not what most of you need > for your work though. > > * Lessons from Ion by Laura Abbott > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/elc16.pdf > Memory management for GPUs remains an interesting topic, and Laura > gave an excellent retrospective of what happened with Google's > Ion approach, what went wrong, and what problems remain to be > solved. Unfortunately only about 10 people were in the room, as it > was the very last session and it conflicted with Grant Likely's > popular talk about "Hardware Design for Linux Engineers". > > * Understanding a real-time system by Steven Rostedt > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/elc-understanding-rt-system-2016.pdf > Stephen's talks are always worth attending, even when there is little > actual new information in them. See the video if you have anything to > do with realtime systems > > * OpenBMC by Tian Fang > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/OpenBMC_2016ELC.pdf > Facebook are doing one of two projects to bring a proper open source > and secure OS into the baseboard management controller. This is > incredibly important work, and I'd recommend reading the LWN article > about the talk at https://lwn.net/Articles/682944/. > One outcome was that this article has triggered the other OpenBMC team > (at IBM) to speed up working on their kernel patches to get support for > the popular AST2xxx SoC family mainlined, we should see patches soon. > Note that this is the same BMC that is used to manage most ARM servers, > and it normally runs a closed-down ARM9 or ARM11 Linux distro itself. > > I initially planned to attend without giving a talk myself because I could > not think of a good topic, but Mark Brown had the idea that I could talk > about my side project of fixing build warnings, and that worked out great > in the end. There is even an LWN article about it at > http://lwn.net/Articles/683476/ (for non-subscribers: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/683476/180f1aedcd1d0b5b/ ) and my slides are > at http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/Static%20code%20checking.pdf > The room was almost full, and the topic was well received (though I still > think my two presentations last year were much better). > > I was talking at the same time as Mark Rutland and Karen Sandler, and I > probably want to see both of their presentations once they become available > for streaming. > > Arnd > _______________________________________________ > Conf mailing list > Conf@lists.linaro.org <mailto:Conf@lists.linaro.org> > https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/conf-- Mark Orvek
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