[LCA2019 Chat] OpenPOWER BoF Session

[Andrew Donnellan]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 at 21:41, Hugh Blemings <hugh at blemings.org> wrote:

> Hiya,
>
> We had a good amount of interest around the BoF we ran on OpenPOWER [0]
> in Sydney so I thought it would make sense to do one in Christchurch.
>
> Tentatively scheduled for Thursday [1]
>
> I'll bring along a pre-production micro-ATX "Blackbird" mobo from Raptor
> [2] for people to look at and some stickers or other OpenPOWER schwag :)
>
> If you're interested please add your name to the Wiki, should have room
> details etc. squared away shortly.
>

We have quite a few OpenPOWER people from IBM coming to LCA as usual, so
prepare your hardest questions about the OpenPOWER firmware stack :)

Question: what time does the Penguin Dinner start on Thursday? Will a
Thursday evening timeslot for the BoF give us enough time before those of
us heading to the dinner have to leave?


Andrew



>
> Cheers,
> Hugh
>
>
>
>
> [0] For those unfamiliar with OpenPOWER - it's one of if not the most
> open high performance platforms out there at present and a direct
> descendant of PowerPC.  On designs like the Blackbird you get an open
> hardware design and entirely open software stack BIOS to OS to Apps.
> Full disclosure - I work for the OpenPOWER Foundation :)
> https://openpowerfoundation.org
>
> [1] https://2019.linux.conf.au/wiki/OpenPOWER_BoF
>
> [2] https://secure.raptorcs.com/content/BK1B01/intro.html
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Andrew Donnellan
http://andrew.donnellan.id.au         andrew at donnellan.id.au
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