Hi Hans,
I would to give a talk (more an intro to a group wide discussion) on how to get (more) manufacturers engaged in upstreaming their work / working directly with upstream from day one.
This is very welcome indeed, thanks!
My own experience in this lies with the Allwinner sunxi support, where Allwinner themselves are shipping a quite old u-boot, which is not even fully functional as it gets chainloaded by a custom loader which sets up RAM first. Thanks to the work of various people in the community we've a fully functional u-boot (replacing the custom loader) for sun4i, sun5i and sun7i. But we are still e.g. waiting for someone to get sun6i support in place.
This is not good, so I would like to give a talk with some proposals to (try to) get more manufacturers working with upstream, and then have a discussion on this.
Sounds very good to me.
Biography: Hans has been a Linux developer since 1996, working on a wide variety of projects, lots of Fedora packaging work, writing various hwmon kernel drivers, (re)writing many webcam drivers, writing libv4l, various usb kernel work, libusb maintainership, Allwinner sunxi kernel and u-boot work.
Since 2008 Hans works for Red Hat, besides continuing all the FOSS work he did before, at Red Hat he has worked on anaconda the Fedora / Red Hat installer, parted (the partition tool), Spice and usb-redirection under qemu, and currently he works on the input stack for wayland and new touchpad support for the kernel.
I reserved a 30 minutes time slot for you on our wiki[1].
Best wishes Detlev
[1] http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/MiniSummitELCE2014