[Mageia-dev] ARM summit at Plumbers 2011

Tue Aug 23 18:11:34 CEST 2011

On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 07:15:34PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
+>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/
+
+UPDATE: we've not had many people confirm interest in this event yet,
+which is a shame. If you would like to join us for this session,
+please reply and let me know. If we don't get enough interest by the
+end of Sunday (28th August), then we'll have to cancel the meeting.
+
+Cheers,
+-- 
+Steve McIntyre                                steve.mcintyre at linaro.org
+<http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
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