Call for participation in the U-Boot Mini Summit 2014

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

[1] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference-europe/program/cfp
[2] http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/MiniSummitELCE2014

Hello Detlev,

Quoted 19 lines · Detlev Zundel

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.

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Best wishes
Detlev

[1] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference-europe/program/cfp
[2] http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/MiniSummitELCE2014

Tomorrow is the last day of submitting the talk proposals for U-Boot Mini Summit, but there was no response for your e-mail and also there are no topics on the wiki site.

So, will be there only an open discussion?

I think there were a few other requests, off-list. Also, we might want to extend the deadline slightly as talks for the main event were just accepted/rejected so folks are now sorting out if they can go or not.

Hi.

2014-08-12 6:08 GMT+09:00 Tom Rini <[email protected]>:

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I think there were a few other requests, off-list. Also, we might want to extend the deadline slightly as talks for the main event were just accepted/rejected so folks are now sorting out if they can go or not.

I will be in U-Boot mini summit 2014.
I am thinking about giving a talk on Kbuild and Kconfig.

Kbuild - I think it is already stable enough, but I'd like to have a quick review of the big change we had in U-Boot in the past year.

Kconfig - We have just switched to Kconfig. I will explain how Kconfig was adjusted for U-Boot and why the current approach was chosen and then what will happen in the next phase.

BTW, I am not good at talking. Nor am I good at English. (I hope my presentation won't be a disaster...)

But I'd like to challenge a new thing.
Could you bear with me during a 20min slot?

Marek, thanks for pushing me to do it!

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Hi.

Hey, it's been a while :)

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2014-08-12 6:08 GMT+09:00 Tom Rini <[email protected]>:

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I think there were a few other requests, off-list. Also, we might want to extend the deadline slightly as talks for the main event were just accepted/rejected so folks are now sorting out if they can go or not.

I will be in U-Boot mini summit 2014.
I am thinking about giving a talk on Kbuild and Kconfig.

Kbuild - I think it is already stable enough, but I'd like to have a quick review of the big change we had in U-Boot in the past year.

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Kconfig - We have just switched to Kconfig. I will explain how Kconfig was adjusted for U-Boot and why the current approach was chosen and then what will happen in the next phase.

I absolutelly agree, this is a big topic and it should be certainly covered. Thank you for taking this up !

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BTW, I am not good at talking. Nor am I good at English. (I hope my presentation won't be a disaster...)

It's pretty OK, don't worry :)

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But I'd like to challenge a new thing.
Could you bear with me during a 20min slot?

If this was up to me, I'd be really happy if you got one slot for each of the topics ;-)

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Marek, thanks for pushing me to do it!

Not sure what I did, but you're welcome ;-)

Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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Hi Detlev,

I'd like to have a presentation at U-Boot mini summit 2014.

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Kbuild and Kconfig for U-Boot

Abstract:

U-Boot has had big changes on its build system in the past year.

Kbuild and Kconfig provide us a lot of benefites; however there have been various hurdles to overcome for switching over to the new infrastructure. Porting had to be done carefully, step by step so as not to break any exisiting features and boards.

This talk will explain how the migration was done, why the current approach was chosen and what will happen in the next phase.

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I will need about 30 minites for this talk including discussion.

btw. Tom etc., do we have some "list of talks" for the minisummit or some program for it available somewhere ? When is the deadline for CFP ?

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btw. Tom etc., do we have some "list of talks" for the minisummit or some program for it available somewhere ? When is the deadline for CFP ?

I would also like to pose this question. Is there any ongoing work on the minisummit schedule?

I will be in U-Boot mini summit 2014.

I am thinking about giving a talk on Kbuild and Kconfig.

Kbuild - I think it is already stable enough, but I'd like to have a quick review of the big change we had in U-Boot in the past year.

Kconfig - We have just switched to Kconfig. I will explain how Kconfig was adjusted for U-Boot and why the current approach was chosen and then what will happen in the next phase.

BTW, I am not good at talking. Nor am I good at English. (I hope my presentation won't be a disaster...) But I'd like to challenge a new thing.
Could you bear with me during a 20min slot?

Quoted 34 lines · Przemyslaw Marczak

Hello Detlev,

Quoted 19 lines · Detlev Zundel

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.

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Best wishes

Detlev

[1]
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference-euro
pe/program/cfp [2] http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/MiniSummitELCE2014

Tomorrow is the last day of submitting the talk proposals for U-Boot Mini Summit, but there was no response for your e-mail and also there are no topics on the wiki site.

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So, will be there only an open discussion?

I think there were a few other requests, off-list. Also, we might want to extend the deadline slightly as talks for the main event were just accepted/rejected so folks are now sorting out if they can go or not.

I got my talk, "Secure and flexible boot with U-Boot bootloader", accepted for the main track it seems. It's mostly about "use fitImage and use UBI on NAND" kind of talk, which covers introduction to fitImage and storing system components on UBI/UBIFS to prevent problems like silent data corruption on modern systems.

That being said, I believe I won't be able to cover the fitImage verified boot part properly, so I might as well cook a talk for the u-boot summit about this advanced topic.

Hi Marek,

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I got my talk, "Secure and flexible boot with U-Boot bootloader", accepted for the main track it seems. It's mostly about "use fitImage and use UBI on NAND" kind of talk, which covers introduction to fitImage and storing system components on UBI/UBIFS to prevent problems like silent data corruption on modern systems.

Excellent!

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That being said, I believe I won't be able to cover the fitImage verified boot part properly, so I might as well cook a talk for the u-boot summit about this advanced topic.

We had a talk about that exact topic last year on the main track by Simon and in the mini summit by Jagan Teki[1]. In what respect will your talk differ from that?

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Hi Marek,

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I got my talk, "Secure and flexible boot with U-Boot bootloader", accepted for the main track it seems. It's mostly about "use fitImage and use UBI on NAND" kind of talk, which covers introduction to fitImage and storing system components on UBI/UBIFS to prevent problems like silent data corruption on modern systems.

Excellent!

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That being said, I believe I won't be able to cover the fitImage verified boot part properly, so I might as well cook a talk for the u-boot summit about this advanced topic.

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We had a talk about that exact topic last year on the main track by Simon and in the mini summit by Jagan Teki[1]. In what respect will your talk differ from that?

I believe there is never enough advertising when it comes to fitImage, since we want to get rid of uImage. On the other hand, I see no point in artificially filling the talk slots, so consider my offer only as a backup solution.

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Quoted 19 lines · Detlev Zundel

Hi Marek,

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I got my talk, "Secure and flexible boot with U-Boot bootloader", accepted for the main track it seems. It's mostly about "use fitImage and use UBI on NAND" kind of talk, which covers introduction to fitImage and storing system components on UBI/UBIFS to prevent problems like silent data corruption on modern systems.

Excellent!

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That being said, I believe I won't be able to cover the fitImage verified boot part properly, so I might as well cook a talk for the u-boot summit about this advanced topic.

We had a talk about that exact topic last year on the main track by Simon and in the mini summit by Jagan Teki[1]. In what respect will your talk differ from that?

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I believe there is never enough advertising when it comes to fitImage, since we want to get rid of uImage. On the other hand, I see no point in artificially filling the talk slots, so consider my offer only as a backup solution.

Why do we want to get rid of uImage?

It's easier to work with than fitImage.

Or do you just mean get rid of legacy multi-image support?

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It's easier to work with than fitImage.

In which way?

On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 07:30:35PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:

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It's easier to work with than fitImage.

In which way?

In most developer work flows at least zImage then uImage then fitImage are the easiest to work with, in that order, for ARM. For ARM64 Image in the next release will probably release uImage as the easiet to work with.

fitImage seems useful in a lot of deployment scenarios. Having to craft up a good skeleton device tree in most cases is an annoying to overcome barrier for a development workflow.

Hi Tom,

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On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 07:30:35PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:

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It's easier to work with than fitImage.

In which way?

In most developer work flows at least zImage then uImage then fitImage are the easiest to work with, in that order, for ARM. For ARM64 Image in the next release will probably release uImage as the easiet to work with.

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fitImage seems useful in a lot of deployment scenarios. Having to craft up a good skeleton device tree in most cases is an annoying to overcome barrier for a development workflow.

I wonder if we could easily address that by building in the functionality to mkimage? For the common case of a kernel, FDT and ramdisk I don't see why anyone needs to write a .its file. It's just boilerplate.

On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 07:30:35PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:

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It's easier to work with than fitImage.

In which way?

In most developer work flows at least zImage then uImage then fitImage are the easiest to work with, in that order, for ARM. For ARM64 Image in the next release will probably release uImage as the easiet to work with.

fitImage seems useful in a lot of deployment scenarios. Having to craft up a good skeleton device tree in most cases is an annoying to overcome barrier for a development workflow.

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Hello Detlev,

Quoted 28 lines · Detlev Zundel

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

[1]
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference-europe/program/cfp
[2] http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/MiniSummitELCE2014

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Tomorrow is the last day of submitting the talk proposals for U-Boot Mini Summit, but there was no response for your e-mail and also there are no topics on the wiki site.

So, will be there only an open discussion?

I think there were a few other requests, off-list.

Also, we might
want to extend the deadline slightly as talks for the main event were just accepted/rejected so folks are now sorting out if they can go or not.

Hello Detlev,

Quoted 19 lines · Detlev Zundel

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.

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Best wishes
Detlev

[1]
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference-europe/program/cfp

[2] http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/MiniSummitELCE2014

Tomorrow is the last day of submitting the talk proposals for U-Boot Mini Summit, but there was no response for your e-mail and also there are no topics on the wiki site.

So, will be there only an open discussion?

Some time ago I've send a RFC:
http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2014-May/179241.html

It was about PMIC/POWER framework rework - but I didn't have a time to work on it.

Simon Glass has done a lot of work by introducing driver model to serial and gpio last time, and I would like to rework PMIC drivers and pmic framework using the DM.

So, can I reserve about 30min slot for a discussion?

Best Regards,

Hello Detlev,

Quoted 24 lines · Przemyslaw Marczak

Hello Detlev,

Quoted 21 lines · Detlev Zundel

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

Hi Detlev,

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Hello Detlev,

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Hello Detlev,

Quoted 23 lines · Detlev Zundel

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.

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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.

On Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 10:52:12 AM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:

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 ;-)

Do you guys want to get my presentation beforehand or I may just bring it with me?

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

[1]
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference-europe/program/cfp
[2] http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/MiniSummitELCE2014

I'd like to share with the u-boot mailing list the proposal of my talk for u-boot's Mini summit in the ELCE2014.

__Mainline u-boot for Tizen 3.0 - ?war story?__

Abstract:

Utilization of u-boot bootloader at Samsung's Linux powered platforms has a long history. For Tizen 3.0 the reference devices for mobile profile (RD_PQ and Odroid U3/X2) are due to run with u-boot developed with open source philosophy applied. It means that the code was developed, reviewed and tested first in the open source and then reused in Tizen.

Introduced changes to mainline code were minimal and only necessary for assuring backward compatibility. In his presentation Lukasz will briefly cover history and future plans of u-boot development for Tizen (as e.g. ongoing work on single binary for Odroid U3 and M0), explain key aspects of persuading community to accept solutions tunned for mobile devices, present remarkable u-boot's ?war stories? and give a handful of tips for successful cooperation with community.

I would need around 25 minutes for talk and 5 more for discussion.