Re: Desktop miniconf @ Linux Plumbers Conference

[Arun Raghavan <arun accosted net>]

On 10 May 2018 at 03:47, Christian Hergert <christian hergert me> wrote:
> On 05/09/2018 02:59 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> > So If there is sufficient interest, I will volunteer my time to run the
> > miniconf this year.  Those of you who have items worth discussing can
> > think of talks we can present to a diversified audience.
>
> Some avenues of discussion/talks that come to mind, that vary in terms
> of how much kernel-space they involve.
>
>  - Audio
>    - Real-time/low-latency (pipewire/jack/gstreamer/etc)
>    - Sandboxing audio APIs (pipewire/pulse)
>  - Video
>    - Difficulties and challenges in ensuring hardware decoding
>    - Ensuring frame-synchronization for applications (wayland
>      presentation protocol, etc).
>  - Firewalling/restricted network to sandboxed applications
>  - Securing devices from malicious peripherals (USB, t-bolt, etc)
>  - How to take advantage of new file-system features in applications
>    (xfs/btrfs reflink)
>  - Graphics
>    - Profiling graphics performance in compositors and toolkits
>      (GL/Vulkan/drm/etc)
>    - Virtualized GPU for sandboxes/VMs?
>  - Scheduler performance related to desktop workloads
>  - Debugging battery/acpi/suspend/etc
>  - IPC/messaging (kdbus/bus1/varlink/dbus/binder)
>  - A11y/Input Methods in early boot (full-disk encryption on a tablet?)
>  - Sandboxed device access (device-tree, capabilities-based access)

I'm happy to see a renewed focus on the plumbing aspects. I could try
to make it this year, especially if there are topics around
audio/video to discuss and work on.

Cheers,
Arun