[Tech-board-discuss] Nominating myself for the TAB

[Tech-board-discuss] Nominating myself for the TAB

[Josh Triplett]

I'm standing for election to the Technical Advisory Board.

In addition to the tinification topic I presented today, I care about
issues across many different subsystems, as well as in the broader Linux
ecosystem.

- Josh Triplett

[Tech-board-discuss] Nominating Myself for the TAB

[Palmer Dabbelt]

[Sorry if this is too late, I wrote it on the plane and forgot to send it out.]

I'd like to nominate myself for the TAB elections after Plumbers.  My candidate
statement is:

I have a short history of open source development, largely tied to the RISC-V
software effort, which includes maintainership of various core system software
components including Linux.  Over the past two years as SiFive's software team
lead I've worked hard to ensure that we are good members of the community by
working to produce high quality implementations, both by converting common code
to generic shared code and by ensuring that our ports work for all RISC-V
vendors.  While there is a long way to go, I'm proud that we've managed to grow
a community around the RISC-V software stack as it stands and hope that
continuing to work upstream will ensure that community continues to grow.

In addition to my work on as a maintainer and lead of SiFive's software team,
I've held a handful of leadership positions: both within the RISC-V community
as vice-chair of the software working group and chair of the UNIX-class
platform specification working group, within the Linux Foundation as the silver
member board representative for the Zephyr project, and within the broader
software community as the co-chair of the Embench benchmark suite.

If elected to the TAB my primary goal would be to improve support for getting
the SOCs produced by silicon vendors supported by the upstream kernel.  While
there is some RISC-V drive behind this in that we expect RISC-V to enable a
significantly larger set of SOC vendors, my hope is that our work can improve
the situation for SOC vendors of all architectures.  We've had good luck
working to improve the general state of Linux as part of the RISC-V software
effort and I anticipate that will continue.

As far as actually going about doing this, there are a myriad of areas in which
it should be possible to ease the process of adding support for upstream SOCs.
While there are a host of technical issues ranging from simple issues like
sharing boot image formats between architectures to complex topics like
bringing device tree up to stuff for handling the dynamic nature of modern
embedded SOCs, I think there are a lot of hurdles imposed on SOC vendors that
we as a community could help to lower.

Sorry if that's a bit long, I'm stuck on a plane :)

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Nominating Myself for the TAB

[Chris Mason]

On 9 Sep 2019, at 9:55, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:

> [Sorry if this is too late, I wrote it on the plane and forgot to send 
> it out.]
>
> I'd like to nominate myself for the TAB elections after Plumbers.  My 
> candidate
> statement is:

Thanks for sending this Palmer, but Laura had already setup the CIVS 
poll before it came in.  I'm sorry, it didn't make the deadline.

-chris

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Nominating Myself for the TAB

[Palmer Dabbelt]

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No problem.

On Mon, Sep 9, 2019, 12:17 PM Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> wrote:

> On 9 Sep 2019, at 9:55, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>
> > [Sorry if this is too late, I wrote it on the plane and forgot to send
> > it out.]
> >
> > I'd like to nominate myself for the TAB elections after Plumbers.  My
> > candidate
> > statement is:
>
> Thanks for sending this Palmer, but Laura had already setup the CIVS
> poll before it came in.  I'm sorry, it didn't make the deadline.
>
> -chris
>

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