EuroBSDcon-2017 Paris

This year the annual EuroBSDcon event took place in Paris (September 21st-24th). There were BSD summits, tutorials and talks, including NetBSD & pkgsrc ones.

Tutorials

I came to Paris on Wednesday in order to participate in tutorials:

• Thursday - DTrace for Developers: no more printfs - by George Neville-Neil
• Friday - How to untangle your threads from a giant lock in a multiprocessor system - by Taylor R. Campbell

The NetBSD Summit

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:

• News from the version control front - by joerg,
• Scripting DDB with Forth - by uwe,
• NetBSD on Google Compute Engine - by bsiegert.

Talks

During Saturday and Sunday there were several NetBSD and pkgsrc related presentations:

• A Modern Replacement for BSD spell(1) - Abhinav Upadhyay
• Portable Hotplugging: NetBSD's uvm_hotplug(9) API development - Cherry G. Mathew
• Hardening pkgsrc - Pierre Pronchery
• Reproducible builds on NetBSD - Christos Zoulas
• The school of hard knocks - PT1 - [anonymous]
• The LLDB Debugger on NetBSD - Kamil Rytarowski
• What's in store for NetBSD 8.0? - Alistair Crooks

During the closing ceremony there was a speech by Alistair Crooks on behalf of The NetBSD Foundation.

LLDB

At the conference I presented my work on "The LLDB Debugger on NetBSD":

• slides
• video

Plan for the next milestone

Resume porting tsan and msan to NetBSD with a plan to switch back to the LLDB porting.

This work was sponsored by The NetBSD Foundation.

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