Fedora Board meeting, 2007-01-16, 10AM EST

[David Malcolm]

On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 08:33 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On 1/17/07, Christopher Blizzard <blizzard at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Elliot Lee wrote:
> > > The biggest headache for me recently has seemed to be hardware support.
> > > So far, to get my new storage server working half-decently, I've had to
> > > recompile an lm_sensors chip driver with an experimental patch, and
> > > download an experimental network driver that works very poorly. I think
> > > in the past I underestimated the amount of pain people go through
> > > getting their hardware to work. I wonder if there is interest in
> > > creating a "Fedora Kernel" sub-project or something, to do things like:
> > >     - package up 3rd party drivers
> > >     - improve direct communications with driver developers
> > >     - create a distributed hardware test grid (participants would
> > > download a nightly LiveCD image, boot it on a system with questionable
> > > or untested hardware to automatically run a test suite, and report the
> > > results back)
> >
> > Yep.  I've basically been pushing for two big things:
> >
> > 1. Awesome hardware reporting.  Including statistics on suspend/resume
> > rates.  I attended mjg59's talk today about supporting suspend + resume.
> >   It was pretty eye opening and I think there are some interesting
> > things we could do there.
> 
> I've got the hardware profiler (smolt) up and ready for review, we
> should be able to add tons to it:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222959
> 
> If you come up with a clever way of detecting suspend / resume issues
> or successes let me know, we can get it in there.  I'd assume it'd
> would go something like "write file, suspend, resume delete file"  "on
> boot, look for written file, if it hasn't been deleted then the last
> resume failed" ?
> 
What's the relationship, if any, with the LHCP project also on
hosted.fedoraproject.org?   Compare:
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt
with:
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/LHCP

Both seem to be attempting roughly the same task; though LHCP code seems
to be purely client-side.  

LHCP has a way of "detecting" suspend/resume issues: it asks the
user :-)

Hope this helps
Dave