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) > 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, -- Joe
