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Obsoleting support for old hardware
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http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2014/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/LPC2014_BOF_Obsoleting_support_for_old_hardware.txt
Certain hardware has not been available and probably not used for years. Finding hardware for testing when enhancing the code to use new APIs is becoming harder and harder.
Abstract
- Certain hardware has not been available and probably not used for years. Finding hardware for testing when enhancing the code to use new APIs is becoming harder and harder.
- Define a long term plan/process for how to obsolete drivers:
- Should we introduce a drivers/retirement tree and move drivers there slowly?
- How to mark infrastructure obsolete?
- How to deal with obsoleting userland APIs?
- How to get rid of the infamous obsolete wireless extensions?
Speakers
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Jes Sorensen
Red HatBiography
Jes Sorensen is a veteran Linux kernel developer since 1993. He has worked extensively in and around the Linux kernel; including areas such as Virtualization, high speed networking, and Linux/ia64. He has written more device drivers than he can remember as well as worked on the system libraries (glibc) and Virtualization for high end NUMA systems. Most recently he has been working on KVM/QEMU scalability and live snapshot support. Jes has been a frequent speaker and tutorial instructor at various Open Source related conferences. Today Jes works as a Principal Software Engineer for Red Hat Inc. (http://www.redhat.com), as part of the Red Hat Virtualization team. Prior to Red Hat, Jes has worked for Silicon Graphics, Wild Open Source, Linuxcare and the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (http://www.cern.ch).
Sessions
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- Title: Obsoleting support for old hardware
- Microconference: BoF Track
- Room: Room 2
- Time: 5:30 – 6:30pm
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One Line Summary:
Notes for this session:
http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2014/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/LPC2014_BOF_Obsoleting_support_for_old_hardware.txtCertain hardware has not been available and probably not used for years. Finding hardware for testing when enhancing the code to use new APIs is becoming harder and harder.
- Speakers: Jes Sorensen, Daniel Wagner
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Daniel Wagner
BMW Car IT GmbHBiography
- Maintainer of ConnMan
- GENIVI Networking WorkgroupSessions
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- Title: Obsoleting support for old hardware
- Microconference: BoF Track
- Room: Room 2
- Time: 5:30 – 6:30pm
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One Line Summary:
Notes for this session:
http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2014/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/LPC2014_BOF_Obsoleting_support_for_old_hardware.txtCertain hardware has not been available and probably not used for years. Finding hardware for testing when enhancing the code to use new APIs is becoming harder and harder.
- Speakers: Jes Sorensen, Daniel Wagner
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