Learning harware ...

2010-10-16 Thread Abu Rasheda
Trying once more. It did not show up in my mail box. Any suggestions ? Kernel newbies list has seen hardware related questions and good explanation by Dave, Stephan Greg. What I want is some directions. I know C well and have done kernel programming and feel comfortable with many of kernel

Re: multiboot compliancy of vmlinuz-2.6.34

2010-10-16 Thread Tapas Mishra
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Prabhu nath gprabhun...@gmail.com wrote: Then, what is the interface specification to which both Linux and Grub comply to. How does Grub load the linux kernel to the memory and initiate execution of the Kernel code. Thanks, Prabhu On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at

Re: Learning harware ...

2010-10-16 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 23:01, Abu Rasheda rcpilot2...@gmail.com wrote: Trying once more. It did not show up in my mail box. Any suggestions ? I am not the guy in this field, but have you considered doing FPGA hacking? -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog:

Re: Tools Device Drivers

2010-10-16 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi... On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 20:15, Linux Kernel Explorer mylinux...@gmail.com wrote: Since Ubuntu came with 'gedit' I didnt care to install any other ID on it however, I have installed Vim 7.3 on Windows XP. Are there any other / more tools that I need to instal ? cscope and/or ctags I

Re: Learning harware ...

2010-10-16 Thread Himanshu Chauhan
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 09:01:47AM -0700, Abu Rasheda wrote: I want to learn hardware intimately. I am interested in MIPS and Intel (i386) platforms. What would be a good way to start ? With this line, it seems you are interested in the above architectures. If so, for MIPS See MIPS Run Linux

Re: Tools Device Drivers

2010-10-16 Thread Bond
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.sant...@gmail.com wrote: Also, I want to study Device Drivers.What should be my starting point.I know,I should peep into the drivers folders and thats what I did ...but the kernel world is so vast deep that I got confused. Buddy who so

Re: Learning harware ...

2010-10-16 Thread StephanT
HI Abu, What I want is some directions. I want to learn hardware intimately. If you mean H/W design this is not the good place to ask. If you mean programming H/W (aka firmware) then I would start by building some H/W basic knowledge and I would want to practically implement and

lspci listing of nouveau controlled device

2010-10-16 Thread Jim Cromie
Im trying to figure out how to control the fan speed on my GPU, it runs full-speed under nouveau, and is noisy. along the way, I noticed a discrepancy in lspci output, the mapped memory is smaller than whats on the card. Shouldnt the mapping expose *all* the video ram, or is it something else