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The running agenda has four major sections: new, open, postponed and done.
I propose, we in each call discuss new items, walk through the open items and review postponed items where it makes sense. The last section will hopefully grow fast and give us the good feeling of actually getting something, well, done ;)
[edit] New
- check if we know each other, brief #introduction if needed
- review agenda
[edit] Open
[edit] team norms
- use git to share files. Susanne to set up git repo and share access.
- Jeff Garzyik git mini howto.
- Git Crash Course for SVN users
- share ssh public key with David Ames to get access
- bi-weekly call
- live on the list and in the wiki (btw: subscribe to the wiki recent changes rss feed)
- any mediawiki page history can be fed as rss feed by adding &type=rss to the history url
- wg calendar: how to share apptmt from google calendar? official LF
calendar? Susanne got first feedback from LF, will be ok.
- #driverbackports on freenode
Password reminder: the lower case place we are going to
[edit] Driver Life Cycle
- Ram Pai volunteers to contribute first draft
- will be in the wiki
2008-02-21 Ram waits for susanne's slides
[edit] OLS whitepaper
- Ram has submitted an abstract
- final submission date end of april
- milestone I: expand outline to Japan slides
- review 'hackfest' in austin on friday
- Dan Kohn suggested to plan a sequel at the plumbers conference?
milestones...
[edit] Glossary
2008-02-05 Susanne wants to start a glossary
[edit] backport source / patches
Susanne is examining symversion correlation between distro releases, kernel flavors and the mainline kernel releases.
She's got some Symbol.modversion files from Martin, Jon promised to proivde the same, needs to figure how to get them for the corresponding vanilla upstream kernels.
[edit] driver package / driver kit build
Jon said that he is attempting to bring kmod compatible to kmp in the rhel5.3 timeframe. Martin Wilck suggested a approach based on m4 macros. A idea based on having a different spec file and tools that converted it to the spec file format of the distros was discussed.
- rhel 5.3 timeframe: sorting out macros at the summit should be
sufficient to have it fit in rhel 5.3
2008-05-15 Ann Davis joined the group. She volunteered to work towards a common specfile:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/KMP_packaging_and_build#possible_common_solutions
[edit] driver package / driver kit selection, installation
regarding online driver database that Jon is developing, he expected the tool to be frowned upon by the community distro by Fedora since they did not have the concept of standardized ABI. But wants it to be pushed into Fedora so that it can easily make its way into RHEL6. Susanne was not clear if the tool will be incorporated into OpenSuse and later into SLES11.
Martin said he will have a working prototype of his driver management gui tool soon. Ram has volunteered Jon to help him progress faster. Jon will send Ram a mail with details on how/where to start.
Martin announced the first public version of Jockey, the driver management GUI tool for announcing and installing drivers. It landed in the current Ubuntu development release and replaces the old Ubuntu specific restricted-manager. Jon intends to have a port for Fedora/RedHat soon. Adoption by OpenSUSE is not determined yet.
2008-02-05 Jon intends to resurrect http://drivertool.org until monday for martin 2008-02-21 - kde frontend for Jockey available
- driver database stand-alone (like rhel 'satelite' or Novell stand-allone customer-center) comes 'later'.
Discussed wether this is a differentiator each company solves differently or wether it should have a connection to satelite/ncc while being a simple to use, simple to deploy standardized component.
Agreed that first we do the base technology so we fully understand the implications, then we address this.
[edit] workgroup announcement / publicity --- have something specific first
The group felt it was better to have something concrete before we further publicise the workgroup.
Jon revives the driver database and intends to have a working prototype of a RedHat port of Jockey soon.
Susanne is working on a self-serviceable build server for driver packages.
[edit] involve component vendors
We are discussing how driver authors of component vendors should work with system vendors and distributors. We don't have many active component vendors in this workgroup yet. So we need to get them aboard. We brainstormed who could contact whom:
- intel and qlogic: Jon Masters
2008-02-05 Jon intends to ping Arjan van de Ven at intel before the next call 2008-02-21 -"- qlogic: Andrew Vasquez
- LSI: Matt Domsch
intel: Kirsher, Jeffrey T [jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com] has joined the list already
- broadcom and ??? other: Greg Cymbalski, Ram Pai
- via: susanne
2008-02-08 Susanne invited via to the workgroup: 'interesting mid-term'
[edit] LF Japan Symposium (march 2008)
Susanne will present the workgroup at the symposium. She intends to share the slides beforehand for comments.
Good out of tree driver example: GPL webcam drivers (from the french guy. URL??)
2008-02-05 susanne wants to provide expanded outline in time for next call (done 2008-02-14) 2008-02-21 susanne wants to provide expanded outline in time for next call
[edit] LF Austin Collaboration Summit (april 8-10 2008)
Anticipated attendance:
- Susanne Oberhauser: 100% sure
- Matt Domsch: 100% sure
- Ram Pai: 90% sure
- Jon Masters: 80% sure
- Martin Pitt: 100% sure, flight in sat before, out friday afternoon
People to meet with / involve:
- Tim Gardner canonical kernel team
- Till Kamppeter debian LF printer driver workgroup
- Mario Limonciello ubuntu Dell ati drivers
- Dave Jones fedora kernel guy
Hotel: Dan Kohn suggested double tree
Schedule link:
2008-02-21 Susanne to share schedule here and on list as soon as available
Agenda:
- fermentation and purification (aka finish charter, discuss competing^wcomparable technologies, anything that benefits from face to face time) driver lifecycle
- BoF with other workgroups / initiatives: Greg KH's linuxdriverproject.org, Till Kamppeter's printer drivers
- briefly present lightning talk + 30' discussion --- who we are / what we do / charter
[edit] Ram's Notes on the Workgroup decisions and schedules
[edit] Ottawa Linux Symposium (july 2008)
[edit] Portland Kernel Summit and Plumbers Conference (september 2008)
[edit] Postponed
[edit] value of this workgroup for community distros
Fedora currently seems to favour updating to the current upstream kernel to add newly supported hardware, even if that may break some existing systems.
openSUSE seems to prefer security bugfix backports only, however potentially breaking the kABI in openSUSE releases. That keeps installed users in a tested environment yet requires some driver process for new hardware.
[edit] Done
[edit] workgroup focus area determination
The workgroup has three major focus areas:
- driver backporting source and patch management
- packaging and build of backported drivers to driver packages / driver kits
- installation and management of driver packages / driver kits
[edit] introduction
This is the currently active members of this workgroup:
Susanne Oberhauser, Novell, SUSE Partner Linux Driver Process
Jon Masters, Red Hat, upstream maintainer of module-init-tools, kmod packages, RH 3rd party driver efforts
Ram Pai, IBM, LTC driver currentcy work, driver backports
Matt Domsch, Dell, originator of dkms
Martin Wilck, Fujitsu-Siemens Computers, builds drivers for servers
Greg Cymbalski, IBM, driver packaging team
Martin Pitt, Canonical, Jockey driver management UI