Re: academia contribution to the kernel

2011-05-31 Thread bodhimonk
Hello! My question is very noobish and I hope Linus would not laugh at this but I am now near my wits end on this issue especially that our creative team keeps on using a Mac computer and would not migrate to gimp in order to make my life easier. On that note, my question is will Linux

Re: academia contribution to the kernel

2011-05-31 Thread bodhimonk
I mean precious time. Sorry for the typo. Thanks. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: bodhim...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 06:43:34 To: Greg KHg...@kroah.com; kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org; Javier Martinez Canillasmartinez.jav...@gmail.com Reply-To:

Re: Can i allocate 4GB virtual addresses (more than a certain limit) using vmalloc?

2011-05-31 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi... I am not ARM guy, but I'll see what I can share here. hold your breath :) On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:54, sandeep kumar coolsandyfor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The following link gives the memory map for the arm architecture. http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/memory.txt I have

questions for Linus

2011-05-31 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi Greg.. I came with these questions for Linus, hope you're kind enough to collect it and forward it to Linus in LinuxCon: 1. When will Linux 2.8.x start? and what are the plans regarding the development model? do we back in dual 2.4.x/2.5x era? personally I think that model is nice makes

Re: questions for Linus

2011-05-31 Thread Stéphan Gorget
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.sant...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Greg.. I came with these questions for Linus, hope you're kind enough to collect it and forward it to Linus in LinuxCon: 1. When will Linux 2.8.x start? and what are the plans regarding the development

Re: academia contribution to the kernel

2011-05-31 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 06:43:34AM +, bodhim...@gmail.com wrote: On that note, my question is will Linux Kernel 3.0 finally solve the issues with Macintosh's HPS+ filesystem and finally support it or at least have a full integration between the two OS? What is wrong with Linux's current

Re: academia contribution to the kernel

2011-05-31 Thread bodhimonk
Hi! Thanks for the speedy reply. My problem is that I can't read and copy the files within the said filesystem. I searched the net and the forums but there seem no final guide or resolution to it. Is there? If so, pls. advice. In my office I use Debian 6 for both server and workstation.

Re: Can i allocate 4GB virtual addresses (more than a certain limit) using vmalloc?

2011-05-31 Thread sandeep kumar
Hi all, The following link gives the memory map for the arm architecture. http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/memory.txt I have the following doubts.. 1) Any chipset(based on arm) manufacturer(qualcom,samsung..) should follow the same memory map. Is it hardly constrained or can be changed?

Re: questions for Linus

2011-05-31 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
Hi! On Die, 2011-05-31 at 14:12 +0700, Mulyadi Santosa wrote: [...] I came with these questions for Linus, hope you're kind enough to collect it and forward it to Linus in LinuxCon: Well, just reads the announcement thread and you will find the answers there. 1. When will Linux 2.8.x start?

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] KGDB problem at first breakpoint

2011-05-31 Thread Prabhu nath
No luck. Atleast, I am interested to know, if it is working for anyone or there is a bug in kgdb implementation in the kernel. If so, I can cool off for some more days until it gets rectified. Thanks, Prabhu On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Dongdong Deng libfet...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri,

Re: academia contribution to the kernel

2011-05-31 Thread Ronnie Collinson
Quite generic, but over the last N months or year what feature or some form of milestone has excited and/or pleased you the most, excluding 2.3 numbering. Could be intersting. ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org

Re: academia contribution to the kernel

2011-05-31 Thread Pierre Vorhagen
Hello, in the light of this discussion, there is a question which has been bugging me for quite a while about higher academia and Linux. I'm currently completing a Bachelor in Computing and Systems[1] in Belgium, which is very focused on programming. (Mainly C, but also C++, C#, Java...) It

Re: academia contribution to the kernel

2011-05-31 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 08:09:31AM +, bodhim...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! Thanks for the speedy reply. My problem is that I can't read and copy the files within the said filesystem. I searched the net and the forums but there seem no final guide or resolution to it. Is there? If so, pls.

Re: academia contribution to the kernel

2011-05-31 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 09:44:25PM +1200, Ronnie Collinson wrote: Quite generic, but over the last N months or year what feature or some form of milestone has excited and/or pleased you the most, excluding 2.3 numbering. Could be intersting. Ah, yes, you were not the first one to think of this

Re: academia contribution to the kernel

2011-05-31 Thread bodhimonk
Thanks, Greg! I will do it. Thanks again! :) --Original Message-- From: Greg KH To: Brian Augustus Pepino Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas Cc: kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org Cc: kernelnewbies Subject: Re: academia contribution to the kernel Sent: May 31, 2011 20:58 On Tue, May 31,

Re: academia contribution to the kernel

2011-05-31 Thread Javier Martinez Canillas
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Greg KH g...@kroah.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 09:44:25PM +1200, Ronnie Collinson wrote: Quite generic, but over the last N months or year what feature or some form of milestone has excited and/or pleased you the most, excluding 2.3 numbering. Could be

Re: Can i allocate 4GB virtual addresses (more than a certain limit) using vmalloc?

2011-05-31 Thread Peter Teoh
To answer your subject: I think the straight answer is no. Many reason, among them: ARM is still 32-bit, at least at the present moment: http://www.google.com/search?q=does+arm+have+64bitnum=100 so with hardware 32-bit based, doing MMU at the 64-bit level is still not possible (without the

Re: academia contribution to the kernel

2011-05-31 Thread Rik van Riel
On 05/31/2011 05:45 AM, Pierre Vorhagen wrote: But I really wonder which type of Master (if any?) would maximize my chances of being hired by a company working on kernel development and related matters. Surely, a MSc in Computer Engineering would be more on-topic than a traditional MSc in

Implementing RFC 6056

2011-05-31 Thread Arjun S R
Hi, I would like implement RFC 6506 in linux kernel. It seems no one has implemented it. Its mainly about Transport protocol port randomisation. The fixed order[sequence of predictable randomness] of allocation of ephemeral port to application on request can cause malicious users to hijack

Re: Implementing RFC 6056

2011-05-31 Thread Arjun S R
Link to the RFC -- http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6056.txt -- Arjun S R ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Re: academia contribution to the kernel

2011-05-31 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 04:30:15PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Greg KH g...@kroah.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 09:44:25PM +1200, Ronnie Collinson wrote: Quite generic, but over the last N months or year what feature or some form of

Re: academia contribution to the kernel

2011-05-31 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Greg KH g...@kroah.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 04:30:15PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Greg KH g...@kroah.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 09:44:25PM +1200, Ronnie Collinson wrote: Quite generic, but over

Re: questions for Linus

2011-05-31 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 08:44, Greg KH g...@kroah.com wrote: I think it will be posted online in video form soon, so check the linux foundation web site for the link if you are interested. greg k-h thanks a ton, Greg! Wow, hopefully I really got answer from Linus :) -- regards, Mulyadi

Re: questions for Linus

2011-05-31 Thread Pei Lin
2011/5/31 Greg KH g...@kroah.com: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 02:12:36PM +0700, Mulyadi Santosa wrote: Hi Greg.. I came with these questions for Linus, hope you're kind enough to collect it and forward it to Linus in LinuxCon: 1. When will Linux 2.8.x start? and what are the plans regarding the

Re: Can i allocate 4GB virtual addresses (more than a certain limit) using vmalloc?

2011-05-31 Thread sandeep kumar
Yes peter you r right.. But my main concern(which i dint convey properly in subject) is whether virtual memory allocation has a limit or not. I got it answered. Thank you .. On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Peter Teoh htmldevelo...@gmail.com wrote: To answer your subject: I think the

How DMA transfers 2MB are being performed?

2011-05-31 Thread sandeep kumar
Hi all A very limited (1-2MB) address space is mapped to dma_alloc() in ARM architecture..what if a DMA transfer of 2MB is needed at a time? As DMA transfer starts asynchronously..CPU relinquishes data buses..so CPU cant control. So the excess data which is 2MB will be overflown or lost..So how

Re: questions for Linus

2011-05-31 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:32:55AM +0800, Pei Lin wrote: As the newbie, look at here, suddenly one thought rush in my brain. After twenty years development, the kernel became bigger and bigger. The cost time for building the kernel becomes much more. Sure, more code that does more and more

Re: Disabling nagle algorithm

2011-05-31 Thread Anupam Kapoor
yet another option would be to setup point-to-point ethernet device (^^) via tun/tap drivers. you can have a userland program receiving data from the said device, and then use whatever options you want there. anupam On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Anupam Kapoor anupam.kap...@gmail.com wrote: