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Usually I do not watch TV, but I traveled and saw a few of them in public food intake places and such. What caught my attention were ads for robotics companies, aimed at business customers. IIRC, the companies were called generic names like "Universal Robotics" and "Reach Robotics". Or so I recall, but on second thought, Reach Robotics is a thing, but it focises on gaming, not traditional robotics. But the ads depicted robots doing some unspecified stuff: moving objects from place to place. Not dueling bots. Anyway, what's up with this? Is there some sort of revolution going on? What was the enabler? Don't tell me, it's all the money released by end of the Moore's Law, seeking random fields of application.

P.S. I know about the "Pentagon's Evil Mechanical Dogs" by Boston Dynamics. These were different, manipulating objects in the environment.

17 Sep 2018 7:35pm GMT

The open nature of the RISC-V ecosystem has allowed contributions from both academia and industry to lead to an unprecedented number of new hardware design proposals in a very short time span. Linux support is the key to enabling these new hardware options.

The primary objective of the RISC-V microconference at Plumbers is to initiate a community-wide discussion about the design problems/ideas for different Linux kernel features that will lead to a better, stable kernel for RISC-V.

Topics for this microconference include:

• The State of RISC-V Software
• Multi-level interrupt design in RISC-V
• Power Management in RISC-V
• RISC-V Platform Specification Kick-Off
• RISC-V Hypervisor Spec - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Experiences from Andes Technology

If you're interested in participating in this microconference or have other topics to propose, please contact Palmer Dabbelt (palmer@sifive.com) or Atish Patra (atish.patra@wdc.com).

LPC will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from Tuesday, November 13 through Thursday, November 15.

We hope to see you there!

17 Sep 2018 4:16pm GMT

linuxdev-br second edition just happened end of last month in Campinas, Brazil. We have put a nice write-up about the conference on the link below. Soon we will start planning next year's event. Come and join our community!

linuxdev-br: a Linux international conference in Brazil

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12 Sep 2018 11:48am GMT