Xen Summit 2016

The OpenXT Project is an Open Source community producing a Xen-based platform for client devices with a focus on providing strong security properties. The different primary use cases of this project versus server-based Xen systems have motivated notable technical differences and consequently OpenXT should be of interest to anyone seeking to understand the full set of capabilities on offer within the Xen ecosystem.

In this presentation, Christopher Clark will describe the technical architecture of OpenXT, its current status and development activity within the project and its engagement with the upstream OpenEmbedded and Xen projects. This will include an overview of OpenXT's differentiating features such as Measured Launch, Virtual TPMs, Linux-based stubdoms, a specialized input layer and a distinct PV USB stack for Windows and Linux.

As the number of contributions grow, reviewer bandwidth becomes a bottleneck; and maintainers are always asking for more help. However,
ultimately maintainers must at least Ack every patch that goes in; so if you're not a maintainer, how can you contribute? Why should anyone care about your opinion?

This talk will try to lay out some advice and guidelines for non-maintainers, for how they can do code review in a way which will effectively reduce the load on maintainers when they do come to review a patch.