Advogato blog for kroahAdvogato blog for kroah30 Aug 2002- August 30, 2002 PCI Finally got out lots of PCI core patches today. Problem was they touched all of the different archs code, so it took quite some time trying to fix up everything, luckily I didn't have to do the majority of the work :) 65 patches in 48 hours, I think I need a rest this weekend away from the computer... updated later... goingware I think you might be referring to my entry here. Advogato likes replacing old entries with the latest one and that entry was for yesterday :) sigh Make...http://www.advogato.org/person/kroah/diary.html?start=48 30 Aug 2002- August 30, 2002 Ahh goingware is looking at doing embedded work. I started out doing embedded programming, and over the years realized that I was doing OS programming (right on the hardware, size restrictions, dealing with nasty, undocumented electronics, etc.) and started playing with Linux drivers as I saw somewhere I could help out. Flash forward to today, and I'm doing pure kernel work (but still dealing with the same constraints of embedded work.) In short, if you're comfortable writing kernel driver..http://www.advogato.org/person/kroah/diary.html?start=47 29 Aug 2002- August 29, 2002 Bleah, I've not posted in forever, I'll try to do better next time... Some things in the past: OLS 2002 and the Kernel Summit I went there all nervous about a proposal that Pat Mochel and I were making about driverfs and sbinhotplug. Basically we are wanting to move all of the existing device naming policy out into userspace. Well, our worse nightmare happened, everyone loved it and wants it right now :) So now we're madly scrambling to get this done by 2.6. The main driverfs changes...http://www.advogato.org/person/kroah/diary.html?start=46 |