Alper Nebi Yasak

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github profile: https://github.com/alpernebbi

A weirdo from Turkey who likes to learn things thoroughly and to do things "the right way". Working on making Debian and Debian Installer support Chromebooks' native boot mechanisms, and became a Debian Maintainer on the installer team through that effort. On the other end, working on replacing their firmware with FOSS alternatives like coreboot and U-Boot to make them more Linux-friendly through more standard boot mechanisms.

Accepted Talks:

Debian on Chromebooks: The Final Steps?

I have been working on improving Debian’s kernel and installer support for Chromebooks (Google’s very non-standard laptops) during the last years. At DebConf24 I have presented another talk titled Debian on Chromebooks: What’s New and What’s Next? where I gave an overview of what problems remain unsolved. I have managed to fix almost all of those, and with luck the low-level side of it will be finally complete by the time I hold this talk, so I’d like to give another status report on it.

You Too Can Fix That Bug on That Weird Architecture

Some time last year, I worked on upgrading Debian’s PulseAudio package to the upstream version 17.0 for improved hardware support on devices I care about. However, it depended on a new upstream version of the WebRTC Audio Processing library, which hadn’t been updated for years in the Debian archive, and would fail to build on the mips64el architecture. Being somewhat familiar with running foreign-architecture programs through emulation for ARM systems, I decided to try fixing it without knowing anything about MIPS…

So, this talk is about ways to build, run, test, investigate and fix foreign-architecture programs and packages on your ordinary AMD64 system, from an advanced beginner, with a real-life example. Maybe even mentions of other common problems that might come up, tricks and solutions you can use. But the main point is, architecture-specific bugs are not arcane magic that only wizards can comprehend. Probably.

Debian Installer Workshop

In this workshop I’ll try to do a live demonstration of the process of developing for, testing and debugging the Debian Installer. I would prefer to do that by implementing a feature or fixing a bug as suggested by the audience, so it may end up being a mostly improvised interactive work session.