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[Debconf-team] [andreas@schuldei.org: follow up info: [michael.jennings@intel.com: RE: DebConf Paper submission]]

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Hello Andreas,

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andreas Schuldei [mailto:andreas@schuldei.org] 
>Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 1:49 AM
>To: Jennings, Michael
>Subject: Re: DebConf Paper submission
>
>* Jennings, Michael <michael.jennings@intel.com> [2006-02-15 09:33:55]:
>> Here's another e-mail that I believe was missed from a 
>couple weeks ago.
>> We'd like to submit our proposal for a talk, but it appears 
>the window
>> has closed via the registration web site. Are there *any* timeslots
>> available? We'd rather have a presentation than a Birds of a Feather
>> discussion.
>
>We (the people reading and discussing this late proposal) have
>an additional question regarding this:
>
>will this be about free drivers? i understand that not all the
>firmware will be free (eventhough we would welcome that), but
>what about the drivers? Will they be more then glorified firmware
>loaders? Will the drivers be distributed in source or binary
>form?

This will all be about Linux drivers. While Intel may be helping to fund
this project it's not designed to be an Intel initiative. This will be a
framework that the entire Linux ecosystem would contrbute to... HP, AMD,
Debian, Red Hat, Novell, etc.  If ATI or NVIDIA wants to add knowledge
and informationa about their drivers on Linux systems, they would be
welcome to. There is currently no knowlegebase that explains how every
driver works on every board, chipset or peripheral. That is what this
goal is.

Thanks,
Mike

>this is in our oppinion an important aspect for evaluating the
>value of the talk.
>
>> Topper: An Open Source Driver Framework
>>  
>> Max Alt, Intel Corporation
>> Dario Rapisardi, Junta de Extremadura
>>  
>> The discussion will center on two common hardware support issues that
>> affect Debian and Debian-derived distributions: how to easily install
>> and configure drivers for a given set of hardware and how to ensure
>> hardware devices will function correctly once that software is
>> installed. The presentation will survey questions and issues that
>> Intel's customers have faced when deploying an ever-growing number of
>> Debian derived distributions and will present a number of interesting
>> analogies related to hardware support. This will segue into 
>a discussion
>> about an open source prototype application named "Topper", which is
>> designed to maintain key knowledge on hardware and software
>> dependencies. The application definition, scope, design and 
>goals will
>> be discussed along with Topper user interface and interface to
>> validation environment. At the conclusion the speakers will 
>demonstrate
>> the prototype, in which a Q & A with the audience will be offered. 
>
>
>



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Anreas,

I think Mike answered very well, but just wanted to add and help clarify
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andreas Schuldei [mailto:andreas@schuldei.org] 
>Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 1:49 AM
>To: Jennings, Michael
>Subject: Re: DebConf Paper submission
>
>* Jennings, Michael <michael.jennings@intel.com> [2006-02-15 09:33:55]:
>> Here's another e-mail that I believe was missed from a 
>couple weeks ago.
>> We'd like to submit our proposal for a talk, but it appears 
>the window
>> has closed via the registration web site. Are there *any* timeslots
>> available? We'd rather have a presentation than a Birds of a Feather
>> discussion.
>
>We (the people reading and discussing this late proposal) have
>an additional question regarding this:
>
>will this be about free drivers? i understand that not all the
>firmware will be free (eventhough we would welcome that), but
>what about the drivers? Will they be more then glorified firmware
>loaders? Will the drivers be distributed in source or binary
>form?

The talk isn't about free/non-free drivers and firmware, nor their
loaders or installers. The talk is about providing generic framework and
tools to help locate appropriate hardware and software dependencies when
need to support certain hardware features.
This targets audience of debian and debian-derived distribution
builders, and actual debian-based solution integrators. "Topper" is
prototype of a tool that captures system requirements on software and
extends known approaches/concepts of PDK (Progeny) and CDD (Ubuntu) to
configure/install optimal set of OSS packages tailored to support given
set of hardware. Think of a "PDK" that contains data on hardware
devices...
"What do I need to do to make my 3d accel features to work or suspend to
RAM to work if I'm using LinEx based off 2.6.14 kernel ?" This are the
questions you may be able to answer with ther Topper.

Please let me know if you have any questions.
Max.



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