Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Aaron Borden <adborden@××××.com>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] ARM summit at Plumbers 2011
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:59:34
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In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] ARM summit at Plumbers 2011 by John Poole
1 On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 15:14 -0700, John Poole wrote:
2 > I live in Napa, just 45 minutes away, and work at Redwood Shores, a bit
3 > further.
4 >
5 > But, it is the lack of expertise/knowledge in this highly focused area and
6 > the $400 fee that keeps me from considering attendance.
7 >
8 > I've been a big on running Gentoo on the SheevaPlug and (after a very
9 > arduous effort) OpenRD. It's when they have power failures and memory on
10 > the USBs fail that I become discouraged.
11 >
12 > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
13 >
14 > > On Tuesday, August 09, 2011 14:15:34 Steve McIntyre wrote:
15 > > > Following on from the founding of the cross-distro ARM mailing list,
16 > > > I'd like to propose an ARM summit at this year's Linux Plumbers
17 > > > conference [1]. I'm hoping for a slot on Thursday evening, but this
18 > > > remains to be confirmed at this point.
19 > > >
20 > > > We had some lively discussion about the state of ARM Linux distros at
21 > > > the Linaro Connect [2] event in Cambridge last week. It rapidly became
22 > > > clear that some of the topics we discussed deserve a wider audience,
23 > > > so we're suggesting a meetup at Plumbers for that bigger
24 > > > discussion. The initial proposed agenda is:
25 > >
26 > > i guess i'll be there to help represent the Gentoo/Chrome OS side :)
27 > >
28 > > there any other Gentoo peeps in the SF area ?
29
30 gentoo user here in SF, but won't be making it to Plumbers and Santa
31 Rosa is a long trek.
32
33 -Aaron