[Lpc-announce] Android Microconference Accepted into 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference

[Jake Edge]

We are pleased to announce that the Android Microconference has been
accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! Android has a long
history at Linux Plumbers and has continually made progress as a direct
result of these meetings. This year's focus will be a fairly ambitious
goal to create a Generic Kernel Image (GKI) (or one kernel to rule
them all!). Having a GKI will allow silicon vendors to be independent
of the Linux kernel running on the device. As such, kernels could be
easily upgraded without requiring any rework of the initial hardware
porting efforts. This microconference will also address areas that have
been discussed in the past.

The proposed topics include:

 - Generic Kernel Image[1]
 - ABI testing tools 
 - Android usage of memory pressure signals in the userspace low memory
   killer[2]
 - Testing: general issues, frameworks, devices, power, performance,
   etc.
 - DRM/KMS for Android, adoption and upstreaming[3]
 - dmabuf heaps upstreaming
 - dmabuf cache managment optimizations
 - kernel graphics buffer (dmabuf based)
 - SDcardfs[4]
 - libcamera unification[5]
 - and more

Come and join us in the discussion of improving what is arguably the
most popular operating system in the world!

We hope to see you there[6]!

LPC[7] will be held in Lisbon, Portugal from Monday, September 9
through Wednesday, September 11.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/771974/
[2] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/master/lmkd/README.md
[3] https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2018/12/17/a-dream-come-true-android-finally-using-drm/kms/
[4] https://www.xda-developers.com/diving-into-sdcardfs-how-googles-fuse-replacement-will-reduce-io-overhead/
[5] http://libcamera.org/
[6] https://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/event/4/page/34-accepted-microconferences#android
[7] https://linuxplumbersconf.org