count me in. On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 16:59, Steve McIntyre <steve.mcintyre@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all! > > [ tl;dr - we're trying to organise a sprint - see the end ] > > Due to the Linux on Arm meetup this week, quite a few of our DT > community happened to be in Cambridge together last night. We took the > opportunity to get together for food and beer, and we naturally ended > up mulling over a whole range of things, not least the ongoing System > DT design work. > > As is the nature of this kind of gathering, we had a whole range of > opinions and ideas, much more than I can faithfully recall to share > here in great detail. Grant has been keen to try and keep system-dt > compatible with Linux DT usage if that's possible, and Stefano has > been working with that in mind. Rob is concerned about how things > might scale with lots of domains, for example. Olof is keen to talk > about a higher-level design to make it easier to express complex > layouts. And so on. > > There is one thing that *did* stand out: we agreed that it's probably > time to try and get all of the interested people in a room together > for a few days with a whiteboard, to really thrash out what's needed > and how to achieve it. With the right people, we can go through all > our needs, pick up the ideas we have and hopefully get some prototypes > ready to evaluate. > > So, who's interested? I believe all the people in CC here are likely > keen to be involved. Anybody else? > > Although we have Linaro Connect in Budapest at the end of March, > that's really *not* a good place to try and meet up, for a couple of > reasons: not everybody will be there, and we'll have too many > distractions to be able to focus on this. Let's *not* do that. > > AFAICS we're geographically roughly split between US/Canada and > Europe, so I'm thinking a week in either the US or Europe, some time > in the next 2-3 months: > > * Would a week before or after Connect work, in Europe (16th-20th > March, or 30th March to 3rd April)? I can look for options in the > UK easily, with maybe either Arm or Linaro hosting. > > * Alternatively, a week's meeting in the US, deliberately avoiding > the Connect week so we don't wipe people out with travel: Maybe 2-6 > or 9-13 March? Or push back into April if that's too short notice, > of course. Would Xilinx be able to host something for us, maybe? Or > another possibility might be the Linaro office in Nashua? > > I'm open to other suggestions for time and venue. Let's try to make > something work here? > > Cheers, > > Steve > > -- > Steve McIntyre steve.mcintyre@xxxxxxxxxx > <http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs > > -- François-Frédéric Ozog | Director Linaro Edge & Fog Computing Group T: +33.67221.6485 francois.ozog@xxxxxxxxxx | Skype: ffozog
