The Linux driver model was created over a decade ago with the goal of unifying all hardware drivers in the kernel in a way to provide both consitant device naming and properly power management control. This talk will go into how well those goals were reached, how the...
The PREEMPT_RT patch turns Linux into a hard Real-Time designed operating system. But it takes more than just a kernel to make sure you can meet all your requirements. This talk explains all aspects of the system that is being used for a mission critical project that...
About 5 years ago I was at a big conference on the topic of what’s needed for upstream graphics. I spent a lot of time apologizing for and ranting about the various horror shows in the DRM graphics subsystems. And eventually some engineer from a hardware vendor asked:...
cgroup has seen a lot of activities recently especially with the v2 effort. This talk goes over the v2 interface and discusses the recent developments and what’s to come in...