The State of the Linux Kernel Panel
summary
Panel reports Linux kernel has ~3,000 contributors with about 85 maintainers at the summit, and survives personnel changes by routing around people. Recent concrete work includes perf and KVM for profiling and testing, USB3 fixes and Bluetooth Low Energy support, a staging tree cleanup for vendor drivers, and volatile memory ranges borrowed from Android. Drivers get removed only when untestable and painful; version numbers are arbitrary (3.x → 4.0 is just a reset).
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 5:43What Was the First Thing That Got You Interested in Linux
- 16:07Next Big Thing for Linux
- 17:14Final Thoughts
- 22:09Kernel Irc
- 23:46What Are the Advantages of the Kernel Summit
- 26:00Volatile Memory Ranges
- 27:22Rename the Colonel
- 29:16When Is 4 0 Going To Be Released
- 41:12The Next Big Challenge in the Colonel
- 42:04Power Management
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