[Haifux] [Fwd: Links from yesterday's lecture]

2011-06-28 Thread Eli Billauer
(On behalf of Baruch) Original Message Here are some links related to cross compiling on/for Linux. CodeSourcery - pre-compiled cross toolchains from a trusted source: http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite_edition.html Buildroot - cross filesystem and (optionally) toolchai

Re: [Haifux] Telling the kernel business is closed (my weekly riddle)

2011-06-28 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011, Eli Billauer wrote about "[Haifux] Telling the kernel business is closed (my weekly riddle)": > invocation of read(), write(), and other relevant methods. Maybe also > before returning a successful value. If the flag is set ( = problem > detected) return some -EDROPDEAD, so

Re: [Haifux] Telling the kernel business is closed (my weekly riddle)

2011-06-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 28/06/11 19:54, Nadav Har'El wrote: For ioctl(2), I don't know what to use - the manual page doesn't list EIO; Perhaps your ioctl(2) can return the failure announcement as part of its normal return value, and don't fail the actual ioctl? IOCTL are not documented, as they cannot be documented.

Re: [Haifux] [Fwd: Links from yesterday's lecture]

2011-06-28 Thread Rami Rosen
Hi, I had mentioned discussions held recently about the growth of the ARM kernel tree and about forking the ARM tree. Here are some interesting links about these topics: http://lwn.net/Articles/443510/ http://lwn.net/Articles/439314/ http://lwn.net/Articles/445417/ Regards, Rami Rosen On Tue,