RE: Learning things

-Original Message- From: kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of Joris Bolsens Sent: Monday, April 06, 2015 10:07 AM To: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject: Re: Learning things -BEGIN PGP

Re: Learning things

On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 10:43:46AM -0700, Joris Bolsens wrote: Hey list, I'm working on trying to teach myself C and was wondering if you had any kernel specific recommendations. I started the eudyptula challenge but so far it seems to be mostly learning the standards and whatnot. Are there

Re: Learning things

I'm working on trying to teach myself C and was wondering if you had any kernel specific recommendations. I started the eudyptula challenge but so far it seems to be mostly learning the standards and whatnot. Are there any kernel/C books or online tutorials you guys think would help? As

packet_mmap: How to kernel address from user-space address

I'm trying to accelerate snort with a hardware Pattern Matching Engine. snort gets packets using libpcap which uses packet mmap. snort gets the mmap-ed address, it does all header parsing, now I want to offload the content detection to hardware. PME driver currently provides and ioctl interface to

cross-compiling kernel using a 32-bit toolchain on a 64-bit machine

Hi All, I'm having trouble compiling my kernel using a 32-bit toolchain (for ARM) on a 64-bit host (Ubuntu 14.10). The kernel version is 3.14.17. I understand that 32-bit binaries require ia32-libs (or equivalent) for compiling on 64-bit hosts. I installed the required packages (lib32z1

Re: Learning things

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Thanks for the suggestions, I'll look into those, hopefully ill find something I can help out with and learn at the same time xD - -Joris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2

Re: cross-compiling kernel using a 32-bit toolchain on a 64-bit machine

On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 03:50:41PM -0700, Mandeep Sandhu wrote: I'm having trouble compiling my kernel using a 32-bit toolchain (for ARM) on a 64-bit host (Ubuntu 14.10). The kernel version is 3.14.17. Any hints on how to get make to use the toolchain? after you export CROSS_COMPILE

VFS/driver core overhead

Greetings All, After reading through the code for the usb and vfs core infrastructure, I was wondering if after reading it if I am correct in my notion of there being very little overhead or none at all int these areas of the kernel. This is due to be noticing most drivers and file systems

Re: Learning things

[2015-04-07T00:08:10+0530]: Mike Thompson (mike-thompson): ,[ mike-thompson ] | As others mention, using the Linux kernel to come up to speed with C is the | wrong approach. If you have a strong desire to learn kernel programming | concepts while coming up to speed on C, I would suggest

Re: cross-compiling kernel using a 32-bit toolchain on a 64-bit machine

On 2015/4/7 6:50, Mandeep Sandhu wrote: Hi All, I'm having trouble compiling my kernel using a 32-bit toolchain (for ARM) on a 64-bit host (Ubuntu 14.10). The kernel version is 3.14.17. I understand that 32-bit binaries require ia32-libs (or equivalent) for compiling on 64-bit hosts. I

Hurr durr I'ma sheep

Hi, what does Hurr durr I'ma sheep mean in context to kernel version Linux 4.0? Regards, Kaushal ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Re: Hurr durr I'ma sheep

Thanks Alan for the reply. Regards, Kaushal On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Alan Braithwaite asbraithwa...@gmail.com wrote: Linus put up a poll for the 4.0 code name on google+ https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/TvigQqA9m3w That was the result. - Alan On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at

/sys/module/ info for pci driver

Hi After loading pci driver for proprietary ethernet card, i dont see the few module detail in in /sys/module/module-name/drivers/pci:module-name/net . Can someone tell what APIs should be used to get the ethernet interface name , mac address details . Thanks

RE: /sys/module/ info for pci driver

From: kernelnewbies-bounces+jharan=bytemobile@kernelnewbies.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces+jharan=bytemobile@kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of rahul b Sent: Monday, April 06, 2015 4:37 AM To: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject: /sys/module/ info for pci driver Hi After loading

Learning things

Hey list, I'm working on trying to teach myself C and was wondering if you had any kernel specific recommendations. I started the eudyptula challenge but so far it seems to be mostly learning the standards and whatnot. Are there any kernel/C books or online tutorials you guys think would help?

RE: Learning things

-Original Message- From: kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of Joris Bolsens Sent: Monday, April 06, 2015 10:44 AM To: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject: Learning things Hey list, I'm working on trying to teach myself

Re: Learning things

On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:43:46 -0700, Joris Bolsens said: I'm working on trying to teach myself C and was wondering if you had any kernel specific recommendations. Don't bother trying until you have an actual good working knowledge of C. Work in userspace where your screw-ups just take the

Re: Learning things

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 In that case do you have any general recommendations? Or is there some sort of project that covers most of the basics? I learn best by doing and most stuff I found online goes pretty slow and is a bit boring :/ Thanks a ton On 04/06/2015 10:02 AM,