Re: kernel boot procedure

2012-03-04 Thread SaNtosh kuLkarni
I guess this is wot u r looking for ..not sure thou.. initial RAM filesystem is bsasically a ramfs which is loaded by the boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root before the normal boot procedure is done and is typically used to load modules needed to mount the original root f

Re: kernel boot procedure

2012-03-04 Thread Vladimir Murzin
Hi! Have a look at Coreboot project [1]. I think you'll find it interesting ;-) [1] www.coreboot.org Best wishes, Vladimir Murzin -Original Message- From: "beyond.hack" Sender: kernelnewbies-boun...@kernelnewbies.org Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 19:17:12 To: Subject: Re: kernel boot procedur

Re: kernel boot procedure

2012-03-04 Thread beyond.hack
So can i say that after the initiallisation that the bios do, the bios code can access all the peripherals completely??? 1..I mean that from the bios code only,, can i acess the harddisk completely..specifically the kernel bcz. If i have accessed the MBR in harddisk, so can i access the remaining

suspicious RCU usage?

2012-03-04 Thread Peter Senna Tschudin
Dear list, I'm running custom Fedora 17 Kernel 3.3.0-0.rc5.git3.1.yfkm2.fc17.x86_64, and the warning was shown on dmesg: [ 858.634304] [ 858.634324] === [ 858.634350] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ] [ 858.634375] 3.3.0-0.rc5.git3.1.yfkm2.fc17.x86_64 #1 Not tainted

Re: Does Linux use CLOCK-PRO to manage pages in the cache

2012-03-04 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 04:56, Zheng Da wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to understand how Linux manages the pages in the cache. It seems to > me it's very similar to CLOCK-PRO, but I don't think Linux uses non-resident > pages. Am I right? Can anyone confirm it? It seems that you're right...at least t