Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub2 is merged

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 12:47 +0100, Vladimir 'Ï-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:
> I can't confirm for 100% now, but I'll be 90-95% at FOSDEM and if I'll
> be ther I'm ok to give a talk. Is this offer still on the table?

I'm afraid the deadline for submissions has passed (IIRC it was 1
December, at least for the virt devroom).

Ian.

> On 14.11.2013 09:37, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 19:25 +0100, Vladimir 'Ï-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
> > wrote:
> >> On 13.11.2013 17:36, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 2013-11-09 at 21:52 +0100, Vladimir 'Ï-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Hello, all. pvgrub2 has just became part of upstream grub as ports 
> >>>> i386-xen and x86_64-xen.
> >>>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git
> >>>
> >>> I was just talking to some folks here and we thought this might make an
> >>> interesting topic for a talk at fosdem e.g. in the virt and iaas room.
> >>> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-10/msg01824.html
> >>> http://www.xenproject.org/about/events/viewevent/74-fosdem-2014-virtualization-and-iaas-devroom.html
> >>>
> >>> I guess you have some interesting war stories from doing a pv port and
> >>> all the kexec/launching stuff?
> >>>
> >> Yes, I can give a talk. Even though it's not clear to me what yet what
> >> the contents will be.
> > 
> > AFAICT you did this port with only a pretty minimal amount of input from
> > Xen developers, xen-devel, etc which is pretty impressive. I thought you
> > might have some interesting insights into some of the murkier corners of
> > the Xen PV architecture, things that were easier/harder than expected,
> > perhaps some general thoughts or advice on doing a PV OS port etc.
> > 
> >>  Does giving a talk gives right to stay at student
> >> campus there? (it's the case for some conferences but not all)
> > 
> > I can't find the reference but I seem to remember seeing somewhere that
> > fosdem offer neither travel not accommodation subsidies.
> > 
> > Also, this is a devroom rather than main track. When I've given a
> > devroom talk in the past it was never suggested to me, but I also never
> > asked.
> > 
> > Ian.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 



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