Hello,
To begin with, I find the expressions Insta party and Linux party
somewhat, uhhm, wrong. I've been in several such parties and for some
reason, it didn't look very jolly, for some reason. More like a lot of
pale faces staring on screens. How about meeting the gurus? ;)
Anyhow, I
Hello,
Did you attend attend Cathy Malmrose's lecture about Linux Hardware?
http://www.haifux.org/lectures/202/
I suppose not, because we had a discussion about culture differences
between the US and Israel. To make a long story short: Many of them see
a computer as a package you're not
Dan Shimshoni wrote:
The struggle must go on!
Sincerely, I don't know what for. The situation is not going to change
because a very small group of people starts to bother computer stores
with an unusual request. Asking to check the laptop for Linux
compatibility with a Live CD makes
Hello,
Somehow I had a feeling I was going to write another message in this
subject.
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
You mean: asking them to do what Dell already does today in Israel
(preload with FreeDOS) is too much?
If they're not doing so voluntarily, yes. A computer vendor, like any
Orr Dunkelman wrote:.
The only reason Microsoft cannot have the benefit of Buy us or
else... is the fact that they control too large portion of the
market. The moment they will go under 70%, they would be able to
actually say the above (70% may be country dependent).
I have to say that
This Monday, March 16th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to enjoy Orna Agmon
Ben-Yehuda's talk about
Introduction to openmp
Abstract
(Orna hasn't submitted an abstract... I'll improvise)
This meeting will be an introduction to OpenMP API, which is a
preparation lecture for openmp - from
On Monday, May 17th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Guy Keren's talk
gdb in Greater Depth
(which is part II of Guy's double lecture)
Abstract
gdb is one of the more powerful tools that you have as a programmer in
the UNIX environment. The previous talk was an introduction to gdb and
guy keren wrote:
so i just go there, say i want to buy a VIP entrance, pay X NIS in
cash, and they give me a yearly VIP pass on the spot?
Someone said VIP card? I got mine at the entrance of Makak (at Canada
dorms) because they are open until pretty late (after Haifux meetings,
in
On Monday, June 1st at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Revital Eres' talk
Compiling Effectively for Cell with GCC
Abstract (and slides?) to be published.
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I'm in.
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On Monday, June 1st at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Amy Chayun's talk
Arduino - Open Source Hardware and a Viewport to Micro Manufacturing
Abstract
Arduino (http://www.arduino.cc) is an open source hardware platform.
Since its launch it became much more than just a hobbyist playground.
(I got the date wrong in the previous mail -- sorry.)
On Monday, *June 15th* at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Amy Chayun's
talk
Arduino - Open Source Hardware and a Viewport to Micro Manufacturing
Abstract
Arduino (http://www.arduino.cc) is an open source hardware platform.
Since
This is offtopic.
Enclosing images is disallowed. I know. But trust me, I took this photo
myself today, and it's for real. And sorry about the quality. I took it
with my cellular.
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Hello,
In this context, I have two words in mind: GIMP and Hebrew.
Maybe the situation has become better since I downloaded my version 2.4,
but proper documentation and translation of the GUI may be in place.
Just an idea, if someone wants to pick it up.
Eli
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On Monday, July 27th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Gilad
Ben-Yossef's talk
How Time Flies: Jiffies, Hi-Res Timers and the Tickless Kernel:
Abstract
This lecture describes the Linux time keeping mechanism and related
features, covering:
* Jiffies and HZ: how the Linux kernel
On Monday, August 10th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Shachar
Shemesh' talk
GCC Profile Guided Optimization
Abstract
Compiler optimization is a crucial part of modern computerized systems.
This lecture will cover what optimization is, why it is necessary, as
well as go into more
Hello,
I'm trying to compile some code using gcc 2.96 (gcc 3.0.4 gets crazy on
some other issue. Haven't tried on gcc 4 yet, but that's a bit far
fetched right now).
The offending rows are more or less (edited a bit for clarity):
/* count number of environment variables currently set
Hi,
Yes, it's C. The problem occurred when going through the standard
configure/make procedure for gphoto2-2.3.1, and I'm positive that the
attempt to compile was with gcc (and it blew on this problem). The file
is gp-params.c. The date on the file is December 2006 (so it should work
with an
Thanks, that's a great idea. Unless someone comes up with some magic
flag, I'll do that.
Now, please believe me that I wouldn't think about putting declarations
in the middle of code in my own sources. But obviously some people do,
and get away with it. And then I want to compile their code.
Hi,
Thanks, even though it didn't help. The same error message appeared,
despite the flag.
BTW, gcc version 3.0.4 compiled the *example* neatly with or without the
flag (but not the code I need to compile, because it has other
issues...). Surprise, surprise.
Eli
Vadim Eisenberg
Hello,
We are in the midst of the preparations for the next W2L. As it turns
out, there's a need for a few of you to occupy the following functions.
If you feel like doing any (or both), please email me *privately* (I see
no point in making a thread of this).
1. The FOSS Philosophy lecture
OK, I think this is a good time to express my view regarding the
Development tools lecture. It's purpose, as I see it, is to give the
students a nice start with the right tools for developing code, as
needed for their exercises. If their experience is good, they'll stay.
If not, they'll soon
guy keren wrote:
what - no valgrind?
I stand corrected. A quick demonstration of valgrind (show how it
detects memory leaks and access to unallocated/uninitialized memory) is
in place. It's definitely something handy for a student, and it's so
simple to use.
Eli
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Hello,
I'm glad to announce that we have a new flyer for the next Welcome to
Linux set of events.
Printing version: http://www.haifux.org/W2L-2009.pdf
Email version: http://www.haifux.org/W2L-2009.jpg
Hope you like it.
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09/11/09 (W2L) FOSS Philosophy: Orr Dunkelman
10/11/09
Hello,
I'm working on the short talk I'm going to give on Wednesday on the W2L
opening event.
I'd like to give some examples of well-known uses of GNU/Linux. Does
anyone have information, or even better, pointers to credible sources of
such information?
Does anyone have any credible
Hello again.
Thanks to those who gave me valuable examples. Some of those definitely
go on board.
My (lightning) lecture, as planned, is going to give the practical
perspective on why Linux should interest students here and now. I leave
the ideological part to Monday. There are millions of
Hello,
Since this issue is very related to my blitz lecture on Wednesday, I'll
tell you what my approach is.
I think that the you can do this on Linux but not on Windows claim
(along with its derivatives) is hopeless. When you compare upfront
features and differences, it's not really
On Monday November 16th (TODAY) at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear a
(rerun) talk by Eli Billauer:
Quick and Dirty Bash
Abstract
This lecture is a quick and informal guide to scripts and sophisticated
commands in Bash. The aim is to supply the listener with tools to use
the command
Hello,
I've been playing around with my new Fedora 12 computer (Intel i7 quad
core) for a few days, mainly for the purpose of making educated
decisions about how to virtualize two old computers, which I want to get
rid of. They are running Windows 2000 and Redhat 7.3. I only tested the
guy keren wrote:
with xen, i did manage to find some... driver(?) that made the mouse
pointer work much better then without it - did you look for something
similar for KVM?
QEMU addresses the mouse pointer on Windows issue by adding a touch
panel device. The result is still pretty
Sorana Fraier wrote:
which laptop you bought?
I cooked a desktop. 4 GB of RAM (to be expanded), 1 TB hard disk and a
Gigabyte motherboard.
why don't you try vmware workstation or ESXi? esxi is free.
http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/
Why should I? In particular, ESXi is for server
boazg wrote:
have you tried virtualbox? it's GPL, and i've had some
good experience with it.
As a matter of fact, I didn't even consider it before you suggested it.
So I gave it a try. I didn't let the company which is behind the project
turn me down. Neither was I stopped by the fact that
Shachar Raindel wrote:
A. VMware workstation used to be a GUI only program, but it is getting
much better scripting abilities lately, and it supports roll-backs
much better than how QEMU supports them (same back-end functionality,
much easier to use GUI). Their USB support used to be very
Hello,
I suppose that by now some of you have realized that I'm working on
setting up my new computer. ;)
The new question is whether I should encrypt the whole hard disk,
including the swap partition (minus, possibly, a read-only mounted
/boot). Just so I don't need to worry in case my
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Also, I do not run any virtual machine from the encrypted partition -
too much trouble.
Since that's exactly what I want to do, could you be more specific about
what kind of trouble? Just slow? Or other issues?
And when you say dual core, how many CPUs does the
Hello,
Maybe this is a boker-tov-eliyahu thing, but still. I've installed
Fedora 12, just to find out that it warns me about kernel oopses. In my
remote memories, I recall that a kernel oops usually meant that my
hardware was cooking (in those days when Linux was rock solid and
hardware
Thanks, but it looks like I wasn't clear about it: My issue is not to
solve the specific problem. The question is that if I should bother, or
just wait.
In ancient times, an oops meant I had no choice. The computer was dead.
But judging by how the interface communicates with me (something
Thanks for your answers (on this one and on my other issues).
I realize that the oops is still an oops, only nowadays nobody want to
stop the whole show, just because some kernel code misbehaved. If the
general idea is that the worst thing a kernel can do is to crash, why
crash now? Kill the
Kohn Emil Dan wrote:
No, it isn't. Crashing is one of the best of the options in some
situations. Imagine a bug in the filesystem that writes a zero byte at
random places on the filesystem or even funnier, on the neighboring
partitions where you have installed another operating system. (yes
Hi,
Just to wrap the story up: I checked the source code. The offending
oops comes from a line 390 in hpet.c, which is the WARN_ON_ONCE call
below:
kernel code
/*
* We need to read back the CMP register to make sure that
* what we wrote hit the chip before we compare it to the
join in...
On Friday, 15 בJanuary 2010 16:27:34 Eli Billauer wrote:
Now I get an oops warning every now and then, but nothing really
happens. And I wonder what is going on? Has the dreaded oops become
something one can live with?
Nothing really changed that much. An Oops is caused
Hi,
Among other things I did while installing my new computer (did you know
I bought one? ;) was to check the repository for additional packages.
Skimming through the yum list available I found gnaughty. The name
sounded interesting, and the project is indeed remarkable:
Hello,
First and foremost: I have a workaround for my problem. I'm asking this
for the sake of elegance, and possibly for patching an existing package
(see http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/)
The problem is running a winmodem (for use as a fax) with precompiled
binaries on
Hello all,
This message is relevant only for those who want to attend Haifux' next
lecture about Genetic Algorithms.
The Genetic Algorithm lecture is currently scheduled on April 12th. This
happens to be Yom Hasho'a, or to be precise, the evening after the day
of the ceremonies. So formally,
Hello,
It looks like I should have clarified a few issues:
1. Voting on Doodle does NOT require any subscription whatsoever. You
MAY leave your name, which will not be published, nor your vote. Names
will help us, of course.
2. Details about Haifux meetings (location, time, etc) can be found
Hello all,
The poll is now closed. It showed clearly that most of you have no
issues with that date. Thanks to those who participated.
For those who voted against, sorry, but I can only say that you're in
very good company. But yet, you were a clear minority.
See you!
Eli
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On Monday, April 12th (TOMORROW) at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear
Omer Boehm talk about
Towards One-Class Pattern Recognition in Brain Activity via
Neural Networks
Abstract
I would like to present the work done regarding how one-class
recognition of cognitive brain functions
Hello all,
I hoped that this thread would die out sooner or later, but I realize
that people have a lot on their minds.
To the plain user, the critical difference between free software and the
one you pay for, is that you don't have a number to call when something
goes wrong. I know, there
On Monday (TODAY), June 21st at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Asaf
Bartov talk about:
Challenges in the Ben Yehuda Project
Abstract (in Hebrew, the topic justifies it...)
פרויקט בן-יהודה הוא מיזם התנדבותי אשר בונה ומתחזק מאגר חופשי של יצירה
עברית שאינה מוגנת בזכויות יוצרים.
המהדורות
Hello all,
I know this was just announced, but not loud enough, in my opinion, for
this short notice:
Shachar's talk is postponed to Monday, July 26th, 18:30 (same place and
hour, next week) due to July 19th being 9th of Av.
There will be no Haifux talk tomorrow (July 19th).
Eli
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Zemereshet
Zemereshet is an Emergency Project for the Rescue and Electronic
Documentation of Early Hebrew Music. It is a volunteer association of
enthusiasts who have assumed the mission of preserving the
It's not like I really have something to do with this, since I run the
Cygwin full desktop for quite a few years, but I did manage to download
some Xming version from the SourceForge site. Does it help?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/
Eli
boazg wrote:
the donor password thing is
TOMORROW, August 15th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Tzafrir
Rehan talk about:
HTML5 - The next generations of the web - Tzafrir Rehan
Since 2004, the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group
(WHATWG) has been working on the next generation of HTML, the markup
that makes up
TOMORROW, August 30th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Ohad Lutzky
talk about:
Packaging in Debian
Debian is one of the more popular Linux distributions, well-known for
its excellent package management. Debian has also been known to be the
base for many other distributions, such as
Hello everybody,
Unfortunately, there will be no Haifux lecture today (Packaging in Debian).
Sorry about the very short notice.
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Hi,
Thanks, but it looks like we're not on the same page. I'm not looking
for double protection. And I know that in theory, what I want to do is
OK, and that the ciphers are theoretically strong (hoping we don't have
a Debian fiasco II buried somewhere).
My concern in about kernel
benchmark) on your
loopback partition and see if anything goes wrong.
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote:
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Hi and thanks to those who answered.
Since nobody stood forward and told me I'm going to do something stupid,
I took some courage, and pulled my little stunt. As one could expect, it
worked like a clockwork. I never did an exhaustive test, but settled for
what I really needed to do, which was
Hello,
As expected, all three kernels are represented in /boot and in grub.conf.
And I hope not to upgrade my computer in the next three-four years at
least. I happen to like when things work.
Eli
Rami Rosen wrote:
Hi, Eli,
So
obviously there *are* updates to the kernel made by
Hello Oron.
Thanks for your lengthy answer. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to find
what I was looking for.
What I tried to figure out was whether there's something stupid about
just downloading the lastest kernel regardless of rpm packages, compile
and install it. Like in the good old times
Oron Peled wrote:
My conclusion -- either join the ride (I'm doing it for years) or look for
one of the slower alternatives I mentioned in my earlier post.
Thanks for your input, Oron, even though my conclusion was the opposite:
I just jumped off the ride, before it reaches its final
Hello,
Some of you have heard me complaining about bad system response when
making massive writes to the disk. I thought it was the software RAID,
or maybe the disk encryption, but it turns out it was a kernel bug. If
you have a fairly recent kernel (released during the last year or so)
but
Hello,
The alert reader may have noticed that I've upgraded to 2.6.36. Which
has caused a weird behavior with Fedora 12.
I should start with sating, that after a couple of minutes, all weird
things described below are over and forgotten, and everything runs as a
clockwork. So let's see what
Hi,
PAM did indeed cross my mind as a suspect. Unfortunately, I have no
/var/log/auth* logfiles. As a matter of fact, I don't have any log
messages related to authentication. In my very old Redhat 7.3, I had
pam_unix messages in /var/log/messages telling me who has changed user
ID. On Fedora
guy keren wrote:
why not strace sshd and find what it's doing?
That turned out to be a brilliant idea. I was more aggressive in my
approach than you suggested, since I need to know what happens before I
can log in, so I injected an strace into the service startup script
(with a nomination to
wrote:
On 28/10/10 17:59, Eli Billauer wrote:
Hi,
PAM did indeed cross my mind as a suspect. Unfortunately, I have no
/var/log/auth* logfiles. As a matter of fact, I don't have any log
messages related to authentication. In my very old Redhat 7.3, I had
pam_unix messages in /var/log
Maxim Kovgan wrote:
1) I hope I didn't miss a sentence in one of the emails I've searched the google
for 48 hours for similar problem...
I always check Google first. Just to find out that it's adapting itself
to common people. For example, looking for pts, I get hits on the
word points.
:
On 29/10/10 17:04, Eli Billauer wrote:
/* find a device that is not in use. */
printk(KERN_ALERT 34: pty_open to lock\n);
tty_lock();
printk(KERN_ALERT 35: pty_open locked\n);
snip
Set a global variable right before the tty_lock call, and clear it
immediately after. Inside
On Monday, December 6th (TOMORROW) at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear
Dalit Ken-Dror talk about
Creative Commons Licenses, Open Source Software Licenses the
new Israeli Copyright Act of 2007
Abstract
Not available yet. Isn't the title a bit of an abstract?
Hello everyone.
As some of you have noticed, there has been some problems with Haifux'
site recently, due to a transfer of the site's server. The most recent
one was because the two authoritative nameservers didn't agree on which
IP address haifux.org has.
Don't blame your ISP or
(On behalf of Amihay)
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Hello everyone.
I wanted to find out if someone from the club comes to the defcon group
meeting in Tel Aviv next Tuesday,
And if I can go with him there and back.
I live in Atlit, but I also know some residents of Haifa who need a ride.
Hello,
The slides for tomorrow's lecture (which is part II) are available here:
http://haifux.org/lectures/247/haifux-cc-lecture.pdf
The lecture was originally planned for one session, but the subject is
so deep in our region of interest, so we had questions, she had good
answers, and so we
On Monday, January 3rd (TOMORROW) at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear
Raz Ben Yehuda talk about
From VxWorks To Linux
Abstract
Preempt RT is a growing hard real time linux OS. In this session I will
present Preempt RT basics and uniqueness, provide a Live demo, present a
benchmark
Hello all,
I've been doing some sound editing lately on my FC12, just to discover
that there is a new annoyance in town, namely Pulseaudio.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PulseAudio
I discovered it when Audacity failed to play back files or made choppy
noises. Other applications also seem
pulseaudio fedora as suggested. That was a good
lead. Maybe I'll find something interesting there)
Eli
Maxim Kovgan wrote:
hi.
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il
mailto:e...@billauer.co.il wrote:
Hello all,
I've been doing some sound editing lately on my
Nadav Har'El wrote:
But I now use Fedora 14, and all the glitches appear to be gone,
That tempted me to believe that I can just upgrade pulseaudio and forget
all about it.. As a matter of fact, I went for that approach. Time will
tell if that was really a quick fix.
The truth is that the
Hello,
I'm running Fedora 12, and since I don't intend to upgrade, I thought I
should make a copy of the yum repositories, just so I will be able to
install whatever I'll need easily even in the longer term future. All
examples I've seen talk about saving internet bandwidth, not endurance
Thanks, Nadav.
Even though this didn't put me off 100%, your remark is valuable indeed.
Since my choice of distribution and unwillingness to upgrade becomes an
issue all the time, I'll put it short: I prefer to stick to a certain
distro and solve its problem over upgrading all the time
On Monday, January 17th (TOMORROW) at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear
Boaz Goldstein talk about
A FOSS Yankee in Microsoft's court - Boaz Goldstein
Abstract
A year ago I started working for a small multi-national software giant
named Microsoft. What I found is a company with rather
At times, we do record Haifux lectures, but I don't think that has been
done for a while.
This one will not be recorded for obvious reasons.
Eli
Mordecha Behar wrote:
Wow. This looks like a fascinating talk.
But unfortunately I can't be there. Are the Haifux talks regularly
recorded?
Yet another sign that Linux is turning into a don't-touch-me kind of
system. How many times did they tell me I don't really want to compile
my kernel?
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel
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Nadav Har'El wrote:
When was the last time you compiled gcc on your own? When was the last time
you compiled the X Window System? For me, the answers to both questions is
1995. If you answered similarly (or even, never), why should the kernel be
any different - i.e., why do you need to compile
Hi,
To put it short: I never was much into the ideals of freedom. My
preference of free software always was because I could alter it to meet
my own needs. It was easy enough to do for real. And I had this feeling
that the system was meant to be hacked. It belonged to me. And that's
fading
Sounds good to me. Even though I was somewhat confused by the Alice and
Bob thing, which I tend to relate to cryptography.
Anyhow, I'm in.
Eli
c...@actcom.co.il wrote:
In this story, we'll follow the life story of alice - a
file-systemized I/O request, and bob - a raw-device I/O
On Monday, January 31st (TOMORROW) at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear
Eli Billauer talk about
Root on NFS: Running Linux on a diskless computer
Abstract
A motherboard, a CPU, and a memory stick. Add a fan and a power supply,
and you have a little computer which boots from network
On Monday, February 14th (TOMORROW) at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear
Amichay Peretz Klopshtock talk about
Encryption - Alice, Bob and Co.
Abstract
In this lecture I'll talk about the encryption methods that were common
through history, how to use them, what their weaknesses are and
Hi all,
These days I'm working on making a PCI Express interface in hardware
(FPGA) and writing a Linux driver for it. When I'll be done with that, I
suppose I'll know a thing or two about the PCI bus.
Now, not that it's something to happen in the near future, but I just
wondered: What's
OK, thanks, I got the hint. :)
As for the taking a double slot: I know the tradition of going into the
small details, so yes, including how to write a driver down to the code
level would indeed take two slots at least. This was not my intention,
since I've learned that all these details are
On Monday, March 28th (TOMORROW), at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear
Guy Keren talk about
The story of alice and bob - the I/O requests (part II)
Abstract
In this story, we'll follow the life story of alice - a file-systemized
I/O request, and bob - a raw-device I/O request, from their
On Monday, April 11th (TOMORROW), at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear
Guy Keren talk about
The story of Alice and Bob - the I/O requests (part III and last)
Abstract
In this story, we'll follow the life story of alice - a file-systemized
I/O request, and bob - a raw-device I/O request, from
Hello all,
I'm implementing a Linux device driver for a piece of hardware I'm
working on. It's important for me that it will behave in a classic UNIX
way, whatever that means.
Now the dilemma: Suppose that the read() method was called with a
requested byte count of 512. The driver checks
it can't fulfill the entire request. I mean,
strictly speaking, O_NONBLOCK only tells the driver not to block, but it
doesn't say give me what you have. Even though I would make the latter
interpretation.
Eli
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 01:31:02PM +0300, Eli Billauer
Hello Guy,
guy keren wrote:
first - it does not seem that you have a notion of end of file for
your input - is there?
As a matter of fact there is: An extra line (in hardware) will say no
more data from hardware which will cause an end of file condition on
the Linux side. This is not
Shachar Raindel wrote:
Note that if you have already implemented the give away the CPU while
no input, until input arrives, adding the delay bit becomes
relatively simple (storing the jiffies value when writing the first
byte in the buffer, comparing it to now, if smaller than minimum,
going
Attendance is free, and you are all invited!
Future Haifux talks include:
16/5/2011 The anatomy of a PCI/PCI Express (Linux) kernel driver by Eli
Billauer
30/5/2011 How to Spread Knowledge Throughout the World While Wearing
Only Your Slippers by Tomer Ashur.
13/6
On Monday, May 16th (TOMORROW), at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Eli
Billauer talk about
The Anatomy of a PCI/PCI Express Kernel Driver
Abstract
Very few will ever need to write a PCI driver from scratch, and even
when apparently doing so, the kernel API parts can (and should
Hi all,
There were a couple of issues you asked about, and I didn't address
fully during the talk, so here we go:
Q: How do you detect a PCIe peripheral?
A: The answer is embarrassingly simple: lspci -vv gives you everything
you wanted to know (and a lot you didn't). In particular, in the
include:
13/6/2011 The anatomy of a PCI/PCI Express (Linux) kernel driver by Eli
Billauer
27/6/2011 GPIO, SPI, and I2C Control from Userspace, the True Linux Way
by Baruch Siach
11/7/2011 SSD fundamentals by Amit Berman
We are always
Hi,
During my PCIe lecture (there's another one on Monday, right?) I was
asked if the geographical address (Bus /Device / Function) implies a
physical position on the board. In other words, if one can recognize
which card is which by virtue its assigned bus ID, as given by BIOS
during
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