[U-Boot] Call for participation in the U-Boot Mini Summit 2014

[Marek Vasut]

On Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 10:52:12 AM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> Hi Detlev,
> 
> On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 18:56 +0200, Przemyslaw Marczak wrote:
> > Hello Detlev,
> > 
> > On 08/11/2014 05:48 PM, Przemyslaw Marczak wrote:
> > > Hello Detlev,
> > > 
> > > On 01/13/2014 06:12 PM, Detlev Zundel wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >> 
> > >> as already indicated, we are looking forward to our next U-Boot Mini
> > >> Summit at Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2014 which will take place
> > >> in Düsseldorf, Germany from October 13 - 15.
> > >> 
> > >> The call for papers of the main conference is now open[1] and if you
> > >> want to submit a talk for the main tracks, you should note the
> > >> deadline of July 11.
> > >> 
> > >> For our U-Boot Mini Summit, I'd like to get the schedule completed
> > >> synchronized to the schedule release of the main event, which is
> > >> August 12.  So please submit talk proposals here with at least me on
> > >> CC.
> > >> 
> > >> To coordinate the event better, I have setup another wiki page[2] that
> > >> can and _should_ be edited by the interested parties.  Feel free for
> > >> example to add yourself to the "interested participants" so that we
> > >> get an idea of how many of the U-Boot developers will be there.
> > >> 
> > >> Best wishes
> > >> 
> > >>    Detlev
> 
> Sorry for my late input on this regard.
> But if there's still a possibility to have another talk I'd like to
> propose mine "ARC - new first-class citizen in U-Boot" (which was
> declined for main ELCE2014 event).
> 
> Abstract is in-lined below.
> 
> ===================
> U-Boot is a de-facto standard bootloader for Linux-driven embedded
> systems. It provides flexible means for loading kernel and if required
> image of filesystem from different media be it embedded non-volatile
> memory, attached storage or even network share. Linux kernel was ported
> to DesignWare ARC a while ago and starting from version 3.9 the port was
> accepted upstream. Now to enable real-life device booting on custom
> hardware decision was made to port U-Boot for ARC. This presentation
> unveils reasons to start the project, highlights milestones passed
> during porting process, touches some pitfalls and encourages more
> engineers and companies to use and contribute to U-Boot project.
> ===================
> 
> I'm not sure if this kind of speech is of any interest for existing
> U-boot developers, but I may indeed emphasize technical aspects now.
> 
> Any feedback is more than welcome.

If that's an introduction to porting U-Boot, it might bring to light some new 
ideas about the porting process and also point out some obstacles we were not 
aware of. I think it's a good idea to have such a war story ;-)

Best regards,
Marek Vasut