Category Archives: Uncategorized

Persistent Memory Microconference Accepted into 2015 Linux Plumbers Conference

The topic of persistent memory is back to the future for those of us old enough to have used core memory, but today’s persistent memory boasts densities, speeds, latencies, and capacities that are well beyond the scope even of science fiction back in the core-memory era. However, with extreme densities, speeds, latencies, and capacities come […]

Performance and Scalability Microconference Accepted into 2015 Linux Plumbers Conference

Core counts keep rising, and that means that the Linux kernel continues to encounter interesting performance and scalability issues. Which is not a bad thing, since it has been well over ten years since the “free lunch” of exponential CPU-clock frequency increases came to an abrupt end. This microconference will therefore look at futex scaling, […]

Networking Microconference Accepted into 2015 Linux Plumbers Conference

In the past, this has been called the Network Virtualization Microconference, but this year’s instance is branching out to include IPv6 and Security. Network-virtualization topics include networking for multi-tenant container clusters, reducing network-namespace load on the system, intelligent processing at the edge of the data center, programmable datapath (as in fun with eBPF, OVS, nft, […]

Extending the Early Bird Rate through June 5th 2015

We have decided to extend the Early Bird rate through June 5th 2015, to match LinuxCon North America’s dates and to allow more time for people to register, after authors notifications and schedule announcements. The regular rate will now start on June 6th.

Extending the Earlybird deadline to 29 May

Somewhere along the way, the deadline for notifications to Authors of the Shared LinuxCon/Plumbers track got pushed out by a week to 25 May.  In the light of that, we’re extending the deadline for Earlybird registration to Friday 29 May to allow anyone who doesn’t get a talk accepted but who still wishes to attend […]

Deadline for Refereed Talks Is May 12

The deadline for submission of the refereed talks is now Tuesday, May 12, 2105. The Authors Notification date has been moved to May 26th. Get your proposals in! See details on the Participate page.

Device Tree Tools, Validation, and Troubleshooting Microconference Accepted into 2015 Linux Plumbers Conference

There have been more than a few spirited discussions on the topic of device trees (described here) over the past few years, and we can probably expect a few more at this year’s Device Tree microconference. The main focus is on programs, scripts, techniques, and core support to help create correct device trees, validate existing […]

LLVM Microconference Accepted into 2015 Linux Plumbers Conference

This microconference will cover all things LLVM related to Linux. Discussions will range from progress in compiling the Linux kernel (and changes in clang/LLVM) to support of clang in yocto, and even to compiling an entire distro with clang (while also using the “musl” replacement for glibc and uclibc). The topics will also include LLVM […]

Android/Mobile Microconference Accepted into 2015 Linux Plumbers Conference

As with 2014 and several years prior, 2015 is the year of the Linux smartphone. There are a number of mobile/embedded environments based on the Linux kernel, the most prominent of course being Android. One consequence of this prominence is a variety of projects derived from Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which raises the question […]

Development Tools Tutorial Accepted into 2015 Linux Plumbers Conference

In a departure from prior Plumbers tradition, we are pleased to announce not a Development Tools Microconference, but rather a set of Development Tools tutorials, including interactive tutorials, demos, and short presentations. Topics include Coccinelle (Julia Lawall), testing and debugging tools (Shuah Khan), issues with copying and pasting Linux kernel code (Michael Godfrey), and LLVM/clang […]