Ann: East Side Meeting, Thursday, January 12th

[Alan Dayley]

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The PLUG East Side Meeting will be held Thursday, January 12th.

What: PLUG East Side Meeting
When: January 12th, 2006 @ 7:00pm
Where: Sequoia Charter School in Mesa
(See web site FAQ for directions
http://plug.phoenix.az.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=25)

Topics:
- - Brief report of LISA and information on LOPSA by Micheal Crusoe.
- - Main topic on porting Linux to a new ARM processor by Deepak Saxena.

LISA and LOPSA
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Did you know that there is a professional organization just for system
administrators? After a great kickoff at this year's LISA conference,
the League of Professional System Administrators is off to a great
start. Come hear a short presentation about their plans for improving
the profession through education, representation and outreach and find
out how you can help.

Bio:

Michael R. Crusoe is a system administrator and biometrics on GNU/Linux
expert. He currently administers the infrastructure for a local managed
information services company and is known to release free software from
time to time.

Porting Linux to ARM
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Over the last few years, ARM processors running Linux have been
appearing in a variety of applications including but not limited to
consumer electronics, telematics, industrial control, and network
processing. As the demand for ARM-based applications has increased, the
Linux community has been flooded with questions from those porting the
kernel to new systems for the first time due to a lack of clear
step-by-step HOWTO explaining how the task is done. While there is no
silver bullet and there is much to learn from simply attempting a new
board port, in this presentation I will provide an overview of the steps
needed to get a kernel booting on a new board to the point that you can
get a login prompt. Topics covered will include bootloader requirements,
IRQ setup, configuring memory, writing an MTD driver, PCI configuration
on ARM platforms, required platform-level hooks, MMU setup, system
timers, and other issues that need to be dealt with during the porting
process.

Bio:

Deepak Saxena is a software engineer at MontaVista Software whose main
role is porting and maintaining the Linux kernel on various ARM
platforms. Before working at MontaVista, he was at Intel and worked on
the I2O stack for Linux and unfortunately had to write some drivers for
some closed-source operating systems. He has been using Linux since 1993
and playing with the kernel since 1998. His favorite editor is vim and
his favorite email program is mutt. When not sitting in front of his
computers, he's usually cooking, out on a bike ride, or hunting down new
beers to quench his thirst. He once lived in Phoenix and currently
resides in Portland, OR.

Alan

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