Hi Sri,
Replying to the list this time...
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Sri Ram Vemulpali
sri.ram.gm...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Dave,
Thanks for explanation, but is there any delay between interrupt handler
and softirq execution. Suppose say INT7 triggered and its handler got
executed. Now
These are great reads, especially if you are having trouble sleeping.
But seriously, if you can make it though them they are very useful.
- If you are interested in some low-level x86 details, go to developer.amd.com
, Docs Articles, Developer Guides Manuals, Manuals and look at
AMD64
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Michael Blizek
mic...@michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com wrote:
I would recommend to make yourself familiar with some topics (non
exhaustive):
- in Documentation/ read CodingStyle, ManagementStyle, SubmittingPatches
- locking: spinlock, mutex, atomic ops
-
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:08 AM, arshad hussain arshad.su...@gmail.comwrote:
I agree with Silesh 100% here.
Thanks.
Rather than agreeing with Silesh show some real suggestion to original
posters question.
I have a habit of understanding what other people ask and try to understand
what they
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Sri Ram Vemulpali
sri.ram.gm...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Dave,
Thanks for explanation, but is there any delay between interrupt handler
and softirq execution. Suppose say INT7 triggered and its handler got
executed. Now this handler raised the softirq and finished
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Tapas Mishra mightydre...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Paul-Ovidiu Dascalu
paul.dasc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Paul
/usr/bin/firefox is not an executable file to begin with.
Yes this thing I got in my search also it is not an executable.
Hi,
just Googled
http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntuchannel=fsq=Linuses+kernels+first+codeie=utf-8oe=utf-8
want to know if some one can point out the first version of kernel
code which Torvalds wrote.
--
Tapas
http://mightydreams.blogspot.com
hey
* http://lxr.linux.no/linux-old is very nice site -- all code of
versions 0.01 - 2.4.31 is linked/browseable/searchable
* little article on it (also has code in attachment)
http://kerneltrap.org/node/14002
ptr_
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Tapas Mishra mightydre...@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/10/2010 12:22 PM, Bond wrote:
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:08 AM, arshad hussain arshad.su...@gmail.com
mailto:arshad.su...@gmail.com wrote:
I agree with Silesh 100% here.
Thanks.
Rather than agreeing with Silesh show some real suggestion to original
posters question.
Do
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Manohar Vanga manohar.va...@gmail.com wrote:
This is probably what you're looking for:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/
Yeah right.But some other people have also given some links which are useful.
--
Tapas
http://mightydreams.blogspot.com
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 15:46, Tapas Mishra mightydre...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
just Googled
http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntuchannel=fsq=Linuses+kernels+first+codeie=utf-8oe=utf-8
want to know if some one can point out the first version of kernel
code which Torvalds wrote.
If you
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Mulyadi Santosa
mulyadi.sant...@gmail.com wrote:
If that's really what you need, try to head on to:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/yggdrasil/
That was great.
--
Tapas
http://mightydreams.blogspot.com
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:46 PM, John Mahoney jmaho...@waav.com wrote:
Actually, it is an executable, but not the actual firefox binary one
would expect. Instead it is a symbolic link to a wrapper script
which executes the first line of the file /bin/sh(a link to dash in
Ubuntu) which
Hi Dave,
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:16:07PM -0700, Dave Hylands wrote:
I've understood so far your explanations. But one thing I am
missing: I claim that I do not do an 64-bit division, but an 32-bit
division.
Why? I have run make tags to create an architecture dependent tags
file.
hi guys,
this may be out of the topic but it stuck me at this stage so i am asking.
i read that interrupt handler names start from do_X but what about __do
_X.
i mean, what do they show?
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:03 PM, mohit verma mohit89m...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:44 PM, mohit verma mohit89m...@gmail.com wrote:
hi,
i am debugging the same firefox program. it is showing 33 threads running
in my system .i switch to each thread and type the command bt to
Hi all,
I have modified a simple character device driver as an exercise from the
Cooperstein's Linux Device Drivers book.
It seems to work fine except that when I cat /dev/mycdrv it provides garbage.
This is a trimmed down version of the code:
#include linux/module.h /* for modules */
On Friday 10 September 2010 18:07:03 Daniel Baluta wrote:
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:51 PM, fabio de francesco fa...@metanix.org
wrote:
Hi all,
I have modified a simple character device driver as an exercise from the
Cooperstein's Linux Device Drivers book.
It seems to work fine
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:51 PM, fabio de francesco fa...@metanix.org wrote:
Hi all,
I have modified a simple character device driver as an exercise from the
Cooperstein's Linux Device Drivers book.
It seems to work fine except that when I cat /dev/mycdrv it provides
garbage.
This is a
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:51 AM, fabio de francesco fa...@metanix.org wrote:
Hi all,
I have modified a simple character device driver as an exercise from the
Cooperstein's Linux Device Drivers book.
It seems to work fine except that when I cat /dev/mycdrv it provides
garbage.
This is a
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:02 PM, John Mahoney jmaho...@waav.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:51 AM, fabio de francesco fa...@metanix.org
wrote:
Hi all,
I have modified a simple character device driver as an exercise from the
Cooperstein's Linux Device Drivers book.
It seems to work
Hi...
2010/9/10 loody milo...@gmail.com:
Is it the limitation of kernel source debugging?
( cannot print out the value of variable)
Ehm..not sure, but one thing for sure: debugger can only see as much
information as the ones that exists inside the kernel image. In this
case: symbol table, a
On Friday 10 September 2010 19:16:31 John Mahoney wrote:
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:02 PM, John Mahoney jmaho...@waav.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:51 AM, fabio de francesco fa...@metanix.org
wrote:
Hi all,
I have modified a simple character device driver as an exercise from the
On Friday 10 September 2010 19:02:09 John Mahoney wrote:
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:51 AM, fabio de francesco fa...@metanix.org
wrote:
Hi all,
I have modified a simple character device driver as an exercise from the
Cooperstein's Linux Device Drivers book.
It seems to work fine
Hi...
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 21:58, mohit verma mohit89m...@gmail.com wrote:
hi guys,
this may be out of the topic but it stuck me at this stage so i am asking.
perhaps better if you start new thread, with subject like blah blah
(was: blah blah) :)
i read that interrupt handler names
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.sant...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi...
2010/9/10 loody milo...@gmail.com:
Is it the limitation of kernel source debugging?
( cannot print out the value of variable)
Ehm..not sure, but one thing for sure: debugger can only see as much
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 00:55, Venkatram Tummala venkatram...@gmail.com wrote:
Removing -O flag in the kernel makefile doesn't work. the kernel refuses to
boot if the optimization flag is disabled for kernel compilation. Till now,
nobody has been able to answer this correctly in this mailing
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 05:51:41PM +0200, fabio de francesco wrote:
static ssize_t
mycdrv_read (struct file *file, char __user * buf, size_t lbuf, loff_t * ppos)
{
int nbytes, maxbytes, bytes_to_do;
maxbytes = KBUF_SIZE - *ppos;
bytes_to_do = lbuf = maxbytes ? lbuf : maxbytes;
On Friday 10 September 2010 20:23:13 Josh Cartwright wrote:
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 05:51:41PM +0200, fabio de francesco wrote:
static ssize_t
mycdrv_read (struct file *file, char __user * buf, size_t lbuf, loff_t *
ppos) {
int nbytes, maxbytes, bytes_to_do;
maxbytes =
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:30 PM, fabio de francesco fa...@metanix.org wrote:
On Friday 10 September 2010 19:16:31 John Mahoney wrote:
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:02 PM, John Mahoney jmaho...@waav.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:51 AM, fabio de francesco fa...@metanix.org
wrote:
Hi all,
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:39 PM, John Mahoney jmaho...@waav.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:30 PM, fabio de francesco fa...@metanix.org wrote:
On Friday 10 September 2010 19:16:31 John Mahoney wrote:
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:02 PM, John Mahoney jmaho...@waav.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 10,
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 08:38:34PM +0200, fabio de francesco wrote:
On Friday 10 September 2010 20:23:13 Josh Cartwright wrote:
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 05:51:41PM +0200, fabio de francesco wrote:
static ssize_t
mycdrv_read (struct file *file, char __user * buf, size_t lbuf, loff_t *
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.sant...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 00:55, Venkatram Tummala venkatram...@gmail.com
wrote:
Removing -O flag in the kernel makefile doesn't work. the kernel refuses
to
boot if the optimization flag is disabled for
Hi...
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 02:58, Venkatram Tummala venkatram...@gmail.com wrote:
As far as I remember, -O0 -O1 didn't work for me. I think O2 worked but
things were not radically different when GDB was attached when compared to
O3
Kernel must need something that are enabled inside -O2
Hi Sri...
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 09:19, Sri Ram Vemulpali
sri.ram.gm...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I have a question on MMU. Memory management is used to segregate the
memory between process and make sure no process steps on each other. Also,
it provides abstraction to whole available
I cloned the 2.6 latest kernel tree on my system and in my home
directory made a folder named btc
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
linux-2.6
then compiled as
yes ' ' | make 0=$HOME/btc/ oldconfig
worked well.
Then
make 0=$HOME/btc
this also worked
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:19:27PM -0400, Sri Ram Vemulpali wrote:
Hi all,
I have a question on MMU. Memory management is used to segregate the
memory between process and make sure no process steps on each other. Also,
it provides abstraction to whole available memory in a conceptual
Hi!
On 22:19 Fri 10 Sep , Sri Ram Vemulpali wrote:
Hi all,
I have a question on MMU. Memory management is used to segregate the
memory between process and make sure no process steps on each other. Also,
it provides abstraction to whole available memory in a conceptual way called
On 9/11/2010 8:04 AM, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
Hi Sri...
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 09:19, Sri Ram Vemulpali
sri.ram.gm...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I have a question on MMU. Memory management is used to segregate the
memory between process and make sure no process steps on each other. Also,
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