The 2013 Kernel Summit

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The 2013 Kernel Summit was held October 23-25 in Edinburgh, UK. Following the pattern set in recent years, the 2013 summit was divided into a minisummit day (the 23rd), followed by a core-kernel, invitation-only session; a plenary day finished things out on the 25th. What follows is LWN's coverage from the event, supplemented in places with information posted by others.

The minisummit day

Several minisummits were held on the first day. Naturally, your editor was only able to attend one of them, being:

Power-aware scheduling: how to improve CPU power management and tie it more firmly into the CPU scheduler.

Other minisummits held that day include:

Media; notes posted by Mauro Carvalho Chehab.

ARM architecture maintainers (Notes by Grant Likely).

The core day

The second day of the summit was attended by 70 or so invited developers. Topics covered this day include:

The plenary day

A larger group met for the final day of the kernel summit. Among the topics discussed there were:

[Your editor would like to thank the Linux Foundation for assistance with his travel to Edinburgh to attend the Kernel Summit].

