EuroBSDcon-2017 Paris report
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This year the annual EuroBSDcon event took place in Paris (September 21st-24th).
There were BSD summits, tutorials and talks, including NetBSD & pkgsrc ones.
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<h1>Tutorials</h1>
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I came to Paris on Wednesday in order to participate in tutorials:
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<li>Thursday - DTrace for Developers: no more printfs - by George Neville-Neil</li>
<li>Friday - How to untangle your threads from a giant lock in a multiprocessor system - Taylor R Campbell</li>
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<h1>The NetBSD Summit</h1>
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On Friday there was a NetBSD summit that gathered around 15 developers.
I have not participated in it myself because of the tutorial on SMP. There were three presentations:
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<li>News from the version control front - by joerg,</li>
<li>Scripting DDB with Forth - by uwe,</li>
<li>NetBSD on Google Compute Engine - by bsiegert.</li>
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<h1>Talks</h1>
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During Saturday and Sunday there were several NetBSD and pkgsrc related presentations:
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<li>A Modern Replacement for BSD spell(1) - Abhinav Upadhyay</li>
<li>Portable Hotplugging: NetBSD's uvm_hotplug(9) API development - Cherry G. Mathew</li>
<li>Hardening pkgsrc - Pierre Pronchery</li>
<li>Reproducible builds on NetBSD - Christos Zoulas</li>
<li>The school of hard knocks - PT1 - Sevan Janiyan</li>
<li>The LLDB Debugger on NetBSD - Kamil Rytarowski</li>
<li>What's in store for NetBSD 8.0? - Alistair Crooks</li>
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During the closing ceremony there was a speech by Alistair Crooks on behalf of The NetBSD Foundation.
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<h1>LLDB</h1>
At the conference I presented my work on "The LLDB Debugger on NetBSD":
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<li><a href="http://netbsd.org/~kamil/eurobsdcon2017.html">slides</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNuJXjD9veQ">video</a></li>
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<h1>Plan for the next milestone</h1>
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Resume porting tsan and msan to NetBSD with a plan to switch back to the LLDB porting.
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<h2>This work was sponsored by The NetBSD Foundation.</h2>
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