Guys, A reminder for tomorrow's BOSUG meeting. Another item to add to the agenda - we will need to discuss plans for our involvement in FOSS.in.
See you guys there, Venky. On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 05:39:30PM +0530, Venky wrote: > Hi guys, > > The next BOSUG meeting will be held this Saturday (Oct 28 2006). > The main agenda is a talk on Device Drivers by Pavan T C. > > This is what Pavan has to say about the talk: > > "We will try and understand how a driver is attached to a device > at system boot up. We will be typically looking at a PCI based > system and PCI based protocols. If there is enough time and > interest, we will also take look at the different categories of > devices (USB and SCSI for example), the way they are managed in > Solaris and the frameworks present in the system to help the > driver writer. After an overview of all this, we can get into > DDI/DKI and specific interfaces of interest in each subsystem. > > I know, I know, thats a lot of things to talk about. If we > cannot complete it this time, we can have another session on the > next BOSUG meet, if you all like it." > > As usual, if any of you want to talk about something, just let me > know. > > Details of the meeting: > > When: Saturday, Oct 28 2006, 6:30pm - 8pm > Where: Himalaya Conference Room (Ground Floor) > Sun Microsystems, Divyashree Chambers > Off Langford Road, (Near Richmond Circle) > Bangalore - 25 > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/bosug/ > > Please feel free to invite your friends and colleagues. > > IMPORTANT: If you are planning on attending the meeting, could you > please drop me a note in reply to this mail so that we can have > the visitor badges ready? If this is the first time you are > registering, I'll also need the following information: > > First Name: > Last Name: > Company Name: (or college you are studying at) > > Cheers, > Venky.