[Mageia-dev] ARM summit at Plumbers 2011

Tue Aug 9 20:15:34 CEST 2011

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 at linaro.org
+<http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
+
+