MSR Len Brown Sept 12, 2012

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> Presented "ACPI 5.0 in Linux" at Linux Plumber's Conference:

http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2012/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/LPC2012-ACPI5.pdf

There was some hallway discussion about ACPI for ARM, but none in
the forum.  Notably, Grant Likely, the Linaro developer responsible
for ACPI/ARM, was stuck in the UK.

OTC has a reactive stance on ACPI/ARM.  We maintain Linux/ACPI,
and will thus accept patches from the Linux community if they want Linux to
support ACPI/ARM.  As yet, we've received no such patches or RFCs.

I do see a lot of activity from Linaro on cpuidle, and very high
interest in thermals and cpufreq.

> Participated in Linux Kernel Summit, LPC, took some photos:

https://picasaweb.google.com/106626681355613318425/2012SanDiego

Linus valued Rafael's regression tracking summary e-mail.
Rafael doesn't do this anymore.  Volunteers are burnt out on it
and SuSE no longer pays Rafael to do it.

Linus doesn't use bugzilla because it is poor for initial sightings.
More information is usually needed before an issue can be worked.
Further, many submitters produce low signal/noise and an intelligent
maintainer must work with them to get the needed info.

Unfortunately, the community tends to translate this into
"Linus thinks bugzilla is bad, so we should ignore it."

Google stated that their useful testing is done with
"internal applications", and that "available benchmarks
tend to be out of date"

Fengguang's automated build & test setup is well regarded.

cpuidle BOF had Scheduler people (PeterZ) stating that
the Scheduler should do the idle prediction logic
and it makes no sense to duplicate it in cpuidle governor.
This is a very promising prospect.

My raw KS and LPC notes are attached, for those interested.

> 2-week vacation at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico:

https://picasaweb.google.com/BSA157/Philmont2012#5784140983380897058

All survived.  Only one minor physical injury (I broke a toe).

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