On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:48:45 -0600 James Bottomley wrote: > 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?
As usual, "it depends" on the content. Can we provide them with sufficient instructions/guidance so that the listeners get the content that is desired instead of just some pseudo-marketing or requirements list? Any of those panels (Customer or CPU) could have been good or bad. --- ~Randy - 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/