On 10/2/19, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On 10/2/19 11:35 PM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
>> On Wed, 02 Oct 2019 21:47:42 -0400, Ruben Safir said:
>>
>> I'm willing to bet that there's very few PhD's in CS listed in
>> MAINTAINERS. And
>> those that are, are probably coincidental...
>
> I can't testify to
On 10/2/19 9:42 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
General plumbing is not needed, but predictive trees, and crypto
certainly do and some hardware problems need calc, or even integration.
Those sound like hyper specific things and decidedly specif subsets of
the kernel.
I believe that there is a LOT of
Guys,
It would be more helpful if everybody states their own experience with
respect to kernel development.
It sounds more like a fight now.
:)
The question was originally asked by "CRISTIAN ANDRES".
He is nowhere in the conversation now.
Let's see if he has some specific query with respect to the
On Thu, 03 Oct 2019 06:55:50 -0400, Ruben Safir said:
> I wouldn't call that C code basic. Regardless, showing an example of a
> driver that doesn't need math, and it might if you understood the high
> level math, and your not aware of it, but predictive branching would
> need it.
See the
On 10/3/19 3:00 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> USB4
> spec, and the patches posted to start adding support for that to the
> kernel. No "math" in there at all other than very simple stuff.
>
> And no one can say that USB for is not "serious", so I agree with
> Vladis, a deep mathmatical background is not
On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 11:42:04PM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On 10/2/19 11:35 PM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> >> If you hope to do anything that is not elementry, you need serious math
> >> for the algorithms, not to mention to complete the jobs being done.
> >>
> >> Knowing math is the real key
On 10/2/19 11:35 PM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Oct 2019 21:47:42 -0400, Ruben Safir said:
>
>> I've heard this for years and when I went back for my PhD and Masters
>> degree in comp sci, I found out, low and behold, this is just not true.
>
> The question was specific to *kernel*
On Wed, 02 Oct 2019 21:47:42 -0400, Ruben Safir said:
> I've heard this for years and when I went back for my PhD and Masters
> degree in comp sci, I found out, low and behold, this is just not true.
The question was specific to *kernel* development.
Look around. Does Linus have a PhD? How
On 9/30/19 1:06 AM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 17:48:43 -0500, CRISTIAN ANDRES VARGAS GONZALEZ said:
>
>> Hello good morning, to be developed from the kernel do I need to have good
>> math bases? I want to help in the ram memory subsystem and I have that
>> doubt thank you.
>
On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 17:48:43 -0500, CRISTIAN ANDRES VARGAS GONZALEZ said:
> Hello good morning, to be developed from the kernel do I need to have good
> math bases? I want to help in the ram memory subsystem and I have that
> doubt thank you.
Depends what you mean by "strong math basics".
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