Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub2 is merged

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 11.12.2013 12:51, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 12:47 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
> wrote:
>> I can't confirm for 100% now, but I'll be 90-95% at FOSDEM and if I'll
>> be ther I'm ok to give a talk. Is this offer still on the table?
> 
> I'm afraid the deadline for submissions has passed (IIRC it was 1
> December, at least for the virt devroom).
> 
Ok, np
> Ian.
> 
>> On 14.11.2013 09:37, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 19:25 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 13.11.2013 17:36, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 2013-11-09 at 21:52 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Hello, all. pvgrub2 has just became part of upstream grub as ports 
>>>>>> i386-xen and x86_64-xen.
>>>>>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git
>>>>>
>>>>> I was just talking to some folks here and we thought this might make an
>>>>> interesting topic for a talk at fosdem e.g. in the virt and iaas room.
>>>>> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-10/msg01824.html
>>>>> http://www.xenproject.org/about/events/viewevent/74-fosdem-2014-virtualization-and-iaas-devroom.html
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess you have some interesting war stories from doing a pv port and
>>>>> all the kexec/launching stuff?
>>>>>
>>>> Yes, I can give a talk. Even though it's not clear to me what yet what
>>>> the contents will be.
>>>
>>> AFAICT you did this port with only a pretty minimal amount of input from
>>> Xen developers, xen-devel, etc which is pretty impressive. I thought you
>>> might have some interesting insights into some of the murkier corners of
>>> the Xen PV architecture, things that were easier/harder than expected,
>>> perhaps some general thoughts or advice on doing a PV OS port etc.
>>>
>>>>  Does giving a talk gives right to stay at student
>>>> campus there? (it's the case for some conferences but not all)
>>>
>>> I can't find the reference but I seem to remember seeing somewhere that
>>> fosdem offer neither travel not accommodation subsidies.
>>>
>>> Also, this is a devroom rather than main track. When I've given a
>>> devroom talk in the past it was never suggested to me, but I also never
>>> asked.
>>>
>>> Ian.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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