Re: Live patching MC at LPC2020?

[Alice ferrazzi <alicef@alicef.me>]

hello everyone,

> 2020/04/08 19:23、Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>のメール:
> 
> On 4/1/20 2:22 AM, Joe Lawrence wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 02:20:52PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>> oh well, it sounds a bit awkward to be talking about any conference plans
>>>> for this year given how the corona things are untangling in the world, but
>>>> LPC planning committee has issued (a) statement about Covid-19 (b) call
>>>> for papers (as originally planned) nevertheless. Please see:
>>>>   https://linuxplumbersconf.org/
>>>>   https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/7/abstracts/
>>>> for details.
>>>> Under the asumption that this Covid nuisance is over by that time and
>>>> travel is possible (and safe) again -- do we want to eventually submit a
>>>> livepatching miniconf proposal again?
>>>> I believe there are still kernel related topics on our plate (like revised
>>>> handling of the modules that has been agreed on in Lisbon and Petr has
>>>> started to work on, the C parsing effort by Nicolai, etc), and at the same
>>>> time I'd really like to include the new kids on the block too -- the
>>>> userspace livepatching folks (CCing those I know for sure are working on
>>>> it).
>> Hi Jiri,
>> First off, I hope everyone is riding out COVID-19 as well as possible,
>> considering all that's happening.
>> As for LPC mini-conf topics, I'd be interested in (at least):
>> - Petr's per-object livepatch POC
>> - klp-convert status
>> - objtool hacking
>> - Nicolai's klp-ccp status
>> - arch update (arm64, etc)
> 
> Hi Jiri,
> 
> I hope everyone is keeping safe. I would be interested in the topics listed
> by Joe and in userspace patching.


I'm also interested in userspace patching.

> 
>>> So, please if you have any opinion one way or the other, please speak up.
>>> Depending on the feedback, I will be fine handling the logistics of the
>>> miniconf submission as last year (together with Josh I guess?) unless
>>> someone else wants to step up and volunter himself :)
>>> (*) which is totally unclear, yes -- for example goverment in my country
>>>   has been talking for border closure lasting for 1+ years ... but it
>>>   all depends on how things develop of course).
>> Hmm, all good points.  Some conferences have gone virtual to cope with
>> necessary cancellations, but who knows what things will look like even
>> at the end of August.  Perhaps we can still do something remotely if the
>> conditions dictate it.  But my vote would be yes, and let's see what
>> topics interest folks.
> 
> Regards,
> Kamalesh

thanks,
Alice