The 2009 Linux Kernel Summit

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The 2009 Linux Kernel Summit was held in Tokyo, Japan on October 19 and 20. Jet-lagged developers from all over the world discussed a wide range of topics. LWN's Jonathan Corbet was there, and has written the following summaries.

Day 1

The sessions held on the first day of the summit were:

Day 2

The discussions on the second day were:

Legal issues; a lawyer visits the summit to talk about the software patent threat and how to respond to it.

How Google uses Linux: the challenges faced by one of our largest and most secretive users.

Performance regressions: is the kernel getting slower? How do we know and where are the problems coming from?

Realtime: issues related to the merging of the realtime preemption tree into the mainline.

Generic architecture support: making it easier to port Linux to new processor architectures.

Development process issues, including linux-next, staging, merge window rules, and more.

The kernel summit closed with a general feeling that the discussions had gone well. It was also noted that our Japanese hosts had done an exceptional job in supporting the summit and enabling everything to happen; it would not be surprising to see developers agitating for the summit to return to Japan in the near future.

See also: the obligatory kernel summit group photo.



