On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 10:30 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 11:34:21PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > It might be worth putting together a list of do's and don'ts for the > > CPU architects if we have a panel again this year (and its usually > > a fairly popular session, so I'd be surprised if it got dropped). > > something along the lines of > > Count my vote for dropping the cpu panels session. It's been far > too marketing oriented, and all of the companies have far more interesting > meetings of their own where thos caring about a particular architecture > (and that includes much more than just the cpu!) can have usefull discussions.
Well, OK, but the next question is that is some form of panel of outsiders still a useful feature? Previous panels we've done have been: * Device Drivers - Inputs from vendors trying to get code into the kernel. I had feedback that this was reasonably useful; the problem is that it tends to be composed of vendors already making a big effort on the open source process and not the ones (like graphics) who aren't. * Customer Panel - inputs from various users deploying linux in their enterprises. This did tend to degenerate quickly to a list of requirements. The one everyone seems to want is chipsets, so is this the one we want to shoot for this year? James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/