On 20 March 2013 23:30, G. Matthew Rice <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Alexandru Juncu <[email protected]> wrote: >> I know that the old topics included things like interrupts, ioports, >> ISA, alsa. I don't see mention of them in the current topics [0]. Then >> again I don't see mention of being removed either [1] (the removal of >> LILO was the only thing about hardware). >> >> So should these things be in a student course? I took the exam back in >> 2010, so I don't know how it looks now. > > Hi Alexandru, > > You're probably not looking far enough back in the change history to > see most of the dropped hardware: > > http://wiki.lpi.org/wiki/LPIC1AndLPIC2SummaryVersion2To3 > > They still need to know about the interrupts, ioports, etc files in > /proc but they aren't questioned on non-Linux specific areas like > "What is an interrupt?" > > As for how much about these topics to include in the course, I think > it really depends on the background you expect from the students. Are > they new to Linux or new to computers? > > PS - You'll get more, technical responses on the lpi-examdev list: > > http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
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