On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 09:14:13PM +0200, guy keren wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > > Howdy, folks, > > > > I'll be giving a talk on the Linux kernel in the February 9th > > meeting (Ron and me switched). The question is, which would you rather > > hear at that time? > > > > - What's new in Linux Kernel 2.6 (loosely based on > > http://www.mulix.org/lectures/kernel_two_five/kernel_two_five.pdf), or > > - Introduction to writing Linux device drivers > > device drivers in _which_ kernel, exactly? 2.4 or 2.6? is there a > difference, at all, in the basic API?
2.6. I don't play with 2.4 anymore if I have a choice. Yes, there are quite a lot of differences, but they are spread over a lot of functionality, so you are unlikely to meet all of them in a given driver. See lwn.net's driver porting series (http://lwn.net/Articles/driver-porting/) for details. My talk is more of an introduction to the basic concepts of writing "software" device drives for Linux, and thus while the code is based on 2.6, it should be fairly easily portable to 2.4. > i prefer the kernel 2.6 overview, actually. Noted. I think that's 2 for Drivers, 1 for kernel 2.6 so far. I don't mind either way. Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ "the nucleus of linux oscillates my world" - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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