From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marek Vasut Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 06:27:17 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] Call for participation in the U-Boot Mini Summit 2014 In-Reply-To: <1411030331.5289.7.camel@abrodkin-8560l.internal.synopsys.com> References: <54074834.7010003@samsung.com> <1411030331.5289.7.camel@abrodkin-8560l.internal.synopsys.com> Message-ID: <201409190627.17399.marex@denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 10:52:12 AM, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > Hi Detlev, > > On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 18:56 +0200, Przemyslaw Marczak wrote: > > Hello Detlev, > > > > On 08/11/2014 05:48 PM, Przemyslaw Marczak wrote: > > > Hello Detlev, > > > > > > On 01/13/2014 06:12 PM, Detlev Zundel wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> as already indicated, we are looking forward to our next U-Boot Mini > > >> Summit at Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2014 which will take place > > >> in D?sseldorf, Germany from October 13 - 15. > > >> > > >> The call for papers of the main conference is now open[1] and if you > > >> want to submit a talk for the main tracks, you should note the > > >> deadline of July 11. > > >> > > >> For our U-Boot Mini Summit, I'd like to get the schedule completed > > >> synchronized to the schedule release of the main event, which is > > >> August 12. So please submit talk proposals here with at least me on > > >> CC. > > >> > > >> To coordinate the event better, I have setup another wiki page[2] that > > >> can and _should_ be edited by the interested parties. Feel free for > > >> example to add yourself to the "interested participants" so that we > > >> get an idea of how many of the U-Boot developers will be there. > > >> > > >> Best wishes > > >> > > >> Detlev > > Sorry for my late input on this regard. > But if there's still a possibility to have another talk I'd like to > propose mine "ARC - new first-class citizen in U-Boot" (which was > declined for main ELCE2014 event). > > Abstract is in-lined below. > > =================== > U-Boot is a de-facto standard bootloader for Linux-driven embedded > systems. It provides flexible means for loading kernel and if required > image of filesystem from different media be it embedded non-volatile > memory, attached storage or even network share. Linux kernel was ported > to DesignWare ARC a while ago and starting from version 3.9 the port was > accepted upstream. Now to enable real-life device booting on custom > hardware decision was made to port U-Boot for ARC. This presentation > unveils reasons to start the project, highlights milestones passed > during porting process, touches some pitfalls and encourages more > engineers and companies to use and contribute to U-Boot project. > =================== > > I'm not sure if this kind of speech is of any interest for existing > U-boot developers, but I may indeed emphasize technical aspects now. > > Any feedback is more than welcome. If that's an introduction to porting U-Boot, it might bring to light some new ideas about the porting process and also point out some obstacles we were not aware of. I think it's a good idea to have such a war story ;-) Best regards, Marek Vasut