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Kernel Hacker Keith Owens On kbuild 2.5, XFS, More

Posted by timothy on from the informative-stuff dept.

Jeremy Andrews writes: "Kerneltrap interviews Keith Owens this week, an experienced kernel hacker who has long contributed to the Linux kernel. His contributions include updating ksymoops and modutils, both of which he maintains. He also works on kbuild 2.5. Earlier, he built the original Integrated Kernel Debugging patch. He's also working on kdb and XFS. Check out the interview." Lots of good information in here about things to expect in 2.5.

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  1. Re:This is so cool by rasmus_a · · Score: 3, Informative

    > I have often wanted to have a go at kernel programming. I want to try and write some device drivers, but I am always
    >too scared of this 'black art'. Its good to see someone taking time out to make it a bit more comprehensible for 'the rest of us'.

    Try www.kernelnewbies.org. Esp. look in the book section for Linux Device Drivers v.2 and the online version.

    Wrt. debugging, prinks are still used alongside everything else. I do not think that debugging is done with vmware or plex86 yet but there is a port of the kernel to userland (User-Mode Linux) which is used by some.

    Rasmus