On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 03:20:05PM -0500, Prasanna Gautam wrote: > how about developer's workshop? esp kernel development... or driver > development... so that we can discuss about driver building and maybe make > some ourselves than bitching about how the driver support in linux sucks...
Yes Prasanna is right I think. Developer's workshop dinu lai Nepalinux core developers would need to give -some- sort of training or DYI methods so that people wishing to improve Nepalinux (and hence add drivers to it) would be able to do so and also be able to give that back to international oss community. Moreover, for this to happen foss nepal needs programmer who can code in kernel (at the least device driver programmer) or at the least an experienced C hacker. Having said that, there are free resources on the web one can read (ldd 2nd edition found easily on the web if one wants to build drivers). The only requisite I believe is good knowledge about C programming. Not so long ago, I was directed to kernelnewbies.org mailing list by one of the Guru in Nepali kernel hacking scene - Mr. Manish Regmi so I think his expertise would be really welcomed in initiating such workshop. I think Ujwal has already started coding driver for his web camera. He can provide helpful hints to newcomers to that arena as well. -- Cheers, Bikal. GPG: 0x5DAE3BE5 "Rule 6: There is no Rule 6." - Rob Pike
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