> 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.
> He is simply a non-target and he needs to stop pretending that the DMCA affects him.
So when did you guys[1] pass the law that not all are equal before the law?
You didn't? Then I can understand why Alan does not follow you line of reasoning...
[1] Yes, I am making a crass assumption that you (the poster) is an American.
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The people running Linux 2.newest.release
on boxes with more than 2 processors seems
to have better things to do than to read
slashdot;) so requiring people to actually
have seen/done it themselves in order to be
allowed to speak up is not fair.
That aside there is regularily postings on
linux-kernel with people testing on 8-way
intel boxes. There have also been posted a
dmesg (by Peter Rival, I think) of Linux
booting successfully on a Alpha Wildfire
with 31 processors.
I cannot recall anything concrete from the
SGI people, but I think that they also are
running Linux on more than 4 processors.
*That* aside, I think that you are right
in your belief that Sun/Solaris is much
better for the enterprise currently. Unless,
of course, that you need serious iron and
have a bunch of loosely coupled services.
AND have money and need for scalability.
Then Linux on IBM's z-series will make a
SUN setup to shame.
Because this is not stable kernel per se,
but "merely" a decision by Linus that there
is no more major shakeups or (binary) interface
changes in this kernel series.
Thus he released 2.4.0 in order to enlarge the
user base and get the (inevitable) bugs sorted
out. He wrote as much in his release note.
Uh... What study are you referring to? A link, please. And could you elaborate on the specific areas where *BSD smokes Linux? Not that I doubt that e.g. the BSD MMU is currently better than the Linux MMU, but I recently saw some netstats that one of my friends ran on identical HW with linux (2.2.x) and FreeBSD (3.3?) and linux smoked FreeBSD's ass. And that ran somewhat contrary to my understanding of things as I had gathered by word-of-mouth.
To sum up: Please supply links and be specific.
Thank you for listening,
Rasmus
PS: And yes, I know that Im being as whooly as Mr. DestructioN, but I dont have the numbers here. Sorry:)
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> 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
> He is simply a non-target and he needs to stop pretending that the DMCA affects him.
So when did you guys[1] pass the law that not all are equal before the law?
You didn't? Then I can understand why Alan does not follow you line of reasoning...
[1] Yes, I am making a crass assumption that you (the poster) is an American.
The people running Linux 2.newest.release ;) so requiring people to actually
on boxes with more than 2 processors seems
to have better things to do than to read
slashdot
have seen/done it themselves in order to be
allowed to speak up is not fair.
That aside there is regularily postings on
linux-kernel with people testing on 8-way
intel boxes. There have also been posted a
dmesg (by Peter Rival, I think) of Linux
booting successfully on a Alpha Wildfire
with 31 processors.
I cannot recall anything concrete from the
SGI people, but I think that they also are
running Linux on more than 4 processors.
*That* aside, I think that you are right
in your belief that Sun/Solaris is much
better for the enterprise currently. Unless,
of course, that you need serious iron and
have a bunch of loosely coupled services.
AND have money and need for scalability.
Then Linux on IBM's z-series will make a
SUN setup to shame.
Because this is not stable kernel per se,
but "merely" a decision by Linus that there
is no more major shakeups or (binary) interface
changes in this kernel series.
Thus he released 2.4.0 in order to enlarge the
user base and get the (inevitable) bugs sorted
out. He wrote as much in his release note.
Regards,
Rasmus
Uh... What study are you referring to? A link,
:)
please. And could you elaborate on the specific
areas where *BSD smokes Linux? Not that I doubt
that e.g. the BSD MMU is currently better than
the Linux MMU, but I recently saw some netstats
that one of my friends ran on identical HW with
linux (2.2.x) and FreeBSD (3.3?) and linux
smoked FreeBSD's ass. And that ran somewhat
contrary to my understanding of things as I had
gathered by word-of-mouth.
To sum up: Please supply links and be specific.
Thank you for listening,
Rasmus
PS: And yes, I know that Im being as whooly as
Mr. DestructioN, but I dont have the numbers
here. Sorry