Sessions at The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit with slides

Tuesday 3rd April 2012

• The Clouds are Coming - Are We Ready?

  by Gerrit Huizenga

  • Cloud

  At 4:15pm to 5:30pm, Tuesday 3rd April

  Coverage video slide deck

Wednesday 4th April 2012

• Integrating X and Wayland

  by Keith Packard

  While Wayland offers improved performance and the ability to create interesting new user experiences, the need to support legacy X applications will remain with us for a long time to come. Integrating X applications into the Wayland environment is a key requirement for the successful implementation of many X to Wayland migration plans. This presentation will describe the existing X environment, then describe how X works in Wayland and discuss the performance implications of the transition.

  • Wayland
  • X Window System

  At 2:00pm to 3:00pm, Wednesday 4th April

  Coverage slide deck write-up

• Resource Over-Commitment for KVM Virtualization Environments

  by Karl Rister

  • KVM

  At 3:00pm to 4:00pm, Wednesday 4th April

  Coverage slide deck

• DTrace on Linux

  by Elena Zannoni and Kris Van Hees

  DTrace is a tracing tool that was originally implemented for the Solaris operating system. We now have started the work of porting the tool to Linux. While still a work in progress (at version 0.2 currently), it already implements some of the most important providers that are useful for kernel debugging, such as the syscall provider, the profile provider, and statically defined tracing. The goal of the project is to maintain as much compatibility with the Solaris version as possible, allowing easy migration of existing scripts. The talk will cover some implementation details, and future direction of the work.

  • DTrace
  • Linux Kernel

  At 4:30pm to 4:30pm, Wednesday 4th April

  Coverage slide deck write-up video

• Upcoming Technologies: Wayland & oFono

  by Jesse Barnes and Marcel Holtmann

  • Linux
  • oFono
  • Telephony
  • Tizen
  • Wayland

  At 4:30pm to 5:30pm, Wednesday 4th April

  Coverage slide deck slide deck video

Thursday 5th April 2012

• LLVM Toolchain - Update and State of Building Linux with LLVM

  by Mark Charlebois

  • Compilers
  • Linux
  • Linux Kernel
  • LLVM

  At 10:00am to 11:00am, Thursday 5th April

  Coverage slide deck video

• Supporting UEFI With Linux

  by Matthew Garrett

  UEFI is a cross-vendor industry standard that replaces the traditional BIOS on x86 hardware. It is becoming increasingly popular, and is likely to be near-ubiquitous in new hardware by the end of 2012. The transition isn't transparent - Linux must adapt to the changes. But what does UEFI give us? This presentation will cover the differences between UEFI and BIOS, the advantages that it brings to Linux and the problems posed by certain aspects of the specification, such as secure boot. The presentation will be a fairly high level overview of UEFI, discussing the recent work carried out with Linux to provide high-quality integration and functional advantages. The audience will not need a strong familiarity with the existing PC boot mechanisms or any understanding of kernel code.

  • Linux
  • Linux Kernel

  At 10:00am to 11:00am, Thursday 5th April

  Coverage slide deck