The Linux Plumbers 2016 Android/Mobile track focuses on finding solutions for kernel changes and other plumbing related issues that Android and other mobile solutions make use of but are not yet upstream.

The MC is about Checkpoint-Restore technology in Linux and everything about it. Attendees represent the CRIU, the DMTCP, BLCR and OpenMPI developer communities.

We’ve planned talks about the C/R technology itself, about its exact implementations, about real-life usage of C/R (special guest — C/R in distributed workloads) and demoes.

The Linux Plumbers 2016 containers track is focusing on Linux containers, both kernel space and user space.

The structure will be the usual set of quick project updates, followed by more topical discussions (devices, security, …)

The Linux Plumbers 2016 Device Tree track is organized around the current pain points surrounding Device Tree.

Attendees are welcome to discuss issues related to overlays, but some key overlay developers will not be present.

The Linux Plumbers 2016 FPGAs and Programmable Logic Devices track intends to facilitate discussions surrounding the use of coherently attached accelerators, FPGAs, and other programmable devices (oh my!) as first class citizens on Linux.

This session will be loosely structured in the following order.

1. Intro
2. Use cases for FPGAs
3. FPGA mgr
4. Enumeration
5. Config and assignment
6. Orchestration
7. Next steps

Please see: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/LPC2016_FPGA
and help us take notes in the session.

The structure will be … loose. A few short presentations, Q&A, and open discussions.

The main purpose of the Linux Plumbers 2016 Live kernel patching track is to involve all stakeholders in open discussion about remaining issues that need to be solved in order to make Live patching of the Linux Kernel (more or less) feature complete.

The Linux Plumbers 2016 PCI track will focus on promoting discussions on improvements for the Linux kernel PCI subsystem which include a status update on PCI firmware interfaces (DT/ACPI) management, unification of PCI support for multiple architectures, current developments in PCI virtualization and finally brainstorming of implementation for recent PCIe features into the kernel.

The Linux Plumbers 2016 Power Management and Energy-awareness track focuses on topics related to power management frameworks, task scheduling in relation to power/energy optimization, and platform power management mechanisms. The goal is to facilitate cross framework and cross platform discussions that can help improve power and energy-awareness in Linux.

The Linux Plumbers 2016 Testing & Fuzzing track is focusing on advancing the current state of testing in the Linux Kernel.

The Linux Plumbers 2016 TPM track will focus on promoting discussions on integrating TPM support into mainstream distributions, from boot through to userspace. It will describe the issues that need to be rectified before TPMs can be depended upon in general, along with why this is so important (helping resist firmware-based attacks, increased protection of user keys and so on.

This will require discussion of kernel components along with early boot, system-wide infrastructure and the tooling necessary to tie this into desktop sessions.

Further TPM discussions about PCRS et al.

The Linux Plumbers 2016 Tracing track is focusing on the various tracing infrastructures in Linux today and how various people and companies use them.