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-<h1>DebConf 2013</h1>
+<h1>DebConf 2014</h1>
 <h2>What's new in the Linux kernel</h2>
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 <h1>What's new in the Linux kernel</h1>
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+<h2>and what's missing in Debian</h2>
 <h3>Ben&nbsp;Hutchings</h3>
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       Regular Linux contributor in both roles since 2008
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     <li>
-      Maintaining a net driver in my day job, plus core networking
-      and PCI code as necessary
+      Working on various drivers and kernel code in my day job
     </li>
     <li>
       Debian kernel team member, now doing most of the unstable
@@ -83,10 +83,15 @@
     <li>
       Linux is released about 5 times a year (plus stable updates
       every week or two)
+      <ul>
+	<li>
+	  ...though some features aren't ready to use when they firat
+	  appear in a release
+	</li>
+      </ul>
     </li>
     <li>
-      For 'wheezy' we chose to freeze with Linux 3.2, which was
-      getting pretty old by the time of release
+      Since my talk last year, Linus has made 6 releases (3.11-3.16)
     </li>
     <li>
       Good news: we have lots of new kernel features in testing/unstable
@@ -109,7 +114,7 @@
       needs new tools - <tt>teamd</tt>, <tt>teamnl</tt>, etc.
     </li>
     <li>
-      Want to make it work?  See
+      Make it work: see
       <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/695850">http://bugs.debian.org/695850</a>
     </li>
   </ul>
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       configuration
     </li>
     <li>
-      Want to make it work?  See
+      Make it work: see
       <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/454795/">https://lwn.net/Articles/454795/</a>
-      and mail debian-kernel
+      and send proposal to debian-kernel
     </li>
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       are disabled for now
     </li>
     <li>
-      Want to make it work?  Join the X Strike Force and package the
-      new X drivers
+      Make it work: join the X Strike Force and package the new X
+      drivers
     </li>
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       restrictions when booted in this mode
     </li>
     <li>
-      Want to make Secure Boot work?  Come to the meeting on Tuesday
+      Make Secure Boot work: come to the meeting on Tuesday
     </li>
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       Must be explicitly enabled, but d-i doesn't do this by default
     </li>
     <li>
-      Want to make it work?
-      See <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/690977">http://bugs.debian.org/690977</a>
+      Make it work: fix <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/690977">http://bugs.debian.org/690977</a>
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-  <h1>User namespaces [3.7]</h1>
+  <h1>More support for containers</h1>
   <ul class="incremental">
     <li>
-      One of the last missing pieces for OpenVZ-like containers
+      Containers are lightweight VMs - run on the same kernel as host,
+      but with limited privileges and resources
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Previously done by OpenVZ and Linux-VServer; gradually being
+      reimplemented upstream
     </li>
     <li>
-      Each user namespace has its own <tt>root</tt> user with
-      privileges over the users and processes in that namespace - but
-      not the whole system
+      User namespaces (added in 3.7) support the existence of a
+      <tt>root</tt> user inside the container that is unprivileged
+      outside the container
     </li>
     <li>
       Currently somewhat experimental, and requires filesystem
-      changes which haven't been done for NFS or XFS
+      changes which haven't been done for XFS
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Make user namespaces work: send patches to upstream XFS
+      developers (this one's hard)
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>bcache [3.10]</h1>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      Turns a fast block device into a cache for a larger, slower
+      device (see also: dm-cache, EnhanceIO)
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Needs its own set of userland tools
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Make it work:
+      see <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/708132">http://bugs.debian.org/708132</a>
+      (maybe just needs a sponsor)
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>ARMv7 multiplatform</h1>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      Until recently, each ARM kernel image could support only a small
+      set of different chips
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Debian 'armmp' kernel now supports ARMv7 SoCs from Calxeda,
+      Freescale and Marvell, and others should be supported soon
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Debian could run on a much larger range of ARM hardware - but we
+      need installer and boot loader support to make this easy
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Make it work: join the ARM porters and d-i team
     </li>
     <li>
-      Want to make it work?  This needs upstream work to make those
-      filesystems compatible
+      Make the GPUs work: join a reverse-engineering project
     </li>
   </ul>
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