Update: ARM Sub-Architecture Maintainers workshop at Kernel Summit 2011

[Bryan Wu]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> Updated attendee list:
> Confirmed:
> 1) Nicolas Pitre - arm-soc tree maintainer
> 2) Arnd Bergmann - arm-soc tree maintainer
> 3) Olof Johansson - tegra maintainer
> 4) David Brown
> 5) Marek Vasut - Various pxa boards maintainer
> 6) Ohad Ben-Cohen
> 7) Sascha Hauer
> 8) Paul Walmsley
> 9) Catalin Marinas
> 10) Kukjin Kim - Samsung SoC maintainer
> 11) Kyungmin Park - Samsung SoC maintainer
> 12) Mark Brown - ASoC maintainer
> 13) Grant Likely
>
> Waiting for confirmation:
> 14) Pavel Machek
> 15) Eric Miao - pxa/mmp maintainer

I guess Eric won't come, since he and I have to attend UDS in US just
the week after ELC-E and KS.

I suggest Barry Song (CSR SoC maintainer) to join the party and share
some information to us when he come back to Shanghai.

Thanks,
-Bryan

> 16) Haojian Zhuang - pxa/mmp maintainer
> 17) Nicolas Ferre - Atmel maintainer
> 18) Will Deacon - ARM engineer
>
> Nominates, but haven't responded personally:
> 19) Russell King
> 20) Lennert Buytenhek
> 21) Marc Zyngier
> 22) Linus Walleji
>
> We're pretty close to filling up.  Is there anyone else I should include?
>
> Agenda proposals (Thanks to Nicolas and Olof):
> - DT bindings for GPIO and pin mux
> - the pin mux subsystem from linusw (especially if it is still RFC by
>  then)
> - progress with the single zImage work
> - presentation/status of the DMA and memory management work wrt CMA
>  (some SOC specific hacks should go away once this is available)
> - DT porting progress
> - boot architecture status
> - Report from Arnd on experiences from first arm-soc merge window
>  - what worked well and where's room for improvement?
>  - Any particular SoC workflow that should be tuned to make his life easier?
>  - Where are the gaps where he needs help right now?
>  - How did it work out for the SoC maintainers?
>
> Still accepting more proposals.  Send me the topics you are burning to discuss.
>
> g.
>
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> It looks like there is definitely enough interest on this, so we're
>> going ahead and scheduling a workshop for the first day of kernel
>> summit.  Space is limited however, so I need to assemble a confirmed
>> attendee list.  It looks like we've got room for about two dozen
>> people.
>>
>> So, if you are an ARM subarchitecture maintainer (or generally
>> involved with ARM maintainership) and you want to attend, then please
>> email me ASAP.  Attendance confirmation will be first come, first
>> serve.  Here is the list of people that I'm holding a space for
>> because they have already expressed interest.  If you are on this list
>> then please let me know in the next week whether or not you are still
>> able to attend.  Also, if you think of anyone who really needs to be
>> there, but isn't on this list, then email me to nominate them.  I'll
>> add any nominations to this list and contact them individually.
>>
>> Nicolas Pitre
>> Arnd Bergmann
>> Olof Johansson
>> Eric Miao
>> David Brown
>> Mark Vasut
>> Ohad Ben-Cohen
>> Sascha Hauer
>> Paul Walmsley
>> Pavel Machek
>> Catalin Marinas
>>
>> I'm also collecting a topic list, but I'll email that out later when
>> I've had a chance to collate it.  Please continue to send me topics
>> you would like to see on the agenda.
>>
>> g.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
>>> As many of you know, Kernel Summit this year will be a three day
>>> event, with the first day dedicated to kernel subsystem workshops[1].
>>> Since Kernel Summit will be co-located with ELC-E which my arm
>>> developers will be attending, it is the perfect opportunity to have an
>>> ARM maintainers meeting.  Arnd Bergmann, Nicolas Pitre and I talked
>>> about it at Linaro Connect this past week and we're going to work on
>>> organising something.
>>>
>>> However, for it to be successful we need to put together a draft
>>> agenda quickly.  Kernel summit is only 80 days away, and people need
>>> time to get approval and organise travel.  So, if you're interested in
>>> attending, then we need to know ASAP.  Reply to this email if you're
>>> interested.
>>>
>>> We also need proposals for discussion topics relevant to ARM,
>>> particularly if it relates to all arm sub-architectures or the
>>> maintainership process.  I'll collate the list of proposals that I
>>> receive and try to put together an agenda.
>>>
>>> As already mentioned, the first day (Sunday Oct 23) is dedicated to
>>> workshops, and I think that most of the discussion topics will be
>>> covered on that day.  The invite-only core developers meeting is on
>>> the second day (Oct 24) which a few people will be involved with.  For
>>> the rest of the group I'm considering organizing it as a hacking day
>>> to start sorting out problems identified/discussed on the first day.
>>> The third and final day will be plenary sessions open to participants
>>> of all workshops.
>>>
>>> [1] https://sites.google.com/site/kernelsummit2011/announcements/kickoff
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> g.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
>>> Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
>> Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
>>
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