schedular / NUMA projects to work on

2013-01-31 Thread Shraddha Kamat
I am interested to work on schedular/ NUMA projects but I don't have high end hardware to test the results - is there any way (like not sure but - virtualization etc.) I can do it on a quad core single socket machine that I have. -- Shraddha ___ Ker

Question: copy_process() and CLONE_NEWNS

2013-01-31 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hi all, question: In copy_process() we have: static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long stack_start, struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long

Re: Linux Kernel Networking document (free, 178 pages doc)

2013-01-31 Thread Rami Rosen
Hi, Have you considered to start with ext4? it seems that ext3, ext2 are a bit out of fashion, Regards, Rami Rosen http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:58 PM, shubham wrote: > Thanks Rami, > > I am also trying to understand ext3 and write some document for the same. > > R

Re: kernel driver vs userspace program

2013-01-31 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:38:07 -0500, Simon said: > Hi guys, > I'm building an electrical device which will be controlled by > computer. It will have an embedded microcontroller and will use USB > to communicate with the PC. I believe this calls automatically for a > device driver, correct? And

Re: Linux Kernel Networking document (free, 178 pages doc)

2013-01-31 Thread shubham
Thanks Rami, I am also trying to understand ext3 and write some document for the same. Regards Shubham On 31-Jan-13 12:51 AM, Rami Rosen wrote: > HI, > I will try to write something for Linux Filesystems (and maybe for > other subsystems) but this will probably take a lot of time. > > Regards,

Re: Android Kernel Compilation

2013-01-31 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:24:01 +0100, Matthias Brugger said: > 2013/1/30 Rahul Gandhi : > > I am trying to compile Kernel for my Android device. I am using the NDK > > Toolchain (arm-linux-androideabi-4.4.3). When I use the defconfig, the > > kernel compiles without any errors but when I flash it ont

Re: Android Kernel Compilation

2013-01-31 Thread Matthias Brugger
2013/1/30 Rahul Gandhi : > I am trying to compile Kernel for my Android device. I am using the NDK > Toolchain (arm-linux-androideabi-4.4.3). When I use the defconfig, the > kernel compiles without any errors but when I flash it onto my device, it > either gets stuck on the HTC logo or continuously

How to receive DAD notifications in userspace

2013-01-31 Thread Murali Annamneni
Hi, I'm trying to retrieve DAD(duplicate address detection) notifications in userspace using netlink sockets. The code snippet is - struct sockaddr_nl addr; sock = socket(PF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_ROUTE) addr.nl_family = AF_NETLINK; addr.nl_groups = RTMGRP_IPV6_IFADDR; I'm receiving notifi

Re: Kernel kallsyms

2013-01-31 Thread crayben
gre8 artical 发自我的 iPod 在 Jan 31, 2013,18:45,Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar 写道: > > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Shraddha Kamat wrote: >> What are kernel kallsyms - and why are they used ? > Please do google a bit before asking question. Any kernel book would give > explanation about kernel

Re: Kernel Config for Chromium Browser?

2013-01-31 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:15:45 +0100, Martin Kepplinger said: > I stripped down my .config for my kernel-compilation a bit, but thought > that I really just removed unnecessary stuff. But really, the > consequency was, that the Chromium Browser didn't load _any_ page. Not > even locally and no chrome

Kernel Config for Chromium Browser?

2013-01-31 Thread Martin Kepplinger
I stripped down my .config for my kernel-compilation a bit, but thought that I really just removed unnecessary stuff. But really, the consequency was, that the Chromium Browser didn't load _any_ page. Not even locally and no chrome:// page. It started, but just stayed at a white page. I didn't cha

Re: Needs Valuable Suggestions for Important Topics

2013-01-31 Thread rakesh Bhaskar
My kind suggestion would be try exploring Raspberry Pi, which opens the gate to explore real operating system internals and research. -Rakesh On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:29 PM, gaurav holey wrote: > Dear All, > > This is gaurav. I would like to thank you all for your valuable > contribution to t

Needs Valuable Suggestions for Important Topics

2013-01-31 Thread gaurav holey
Dear All, This is gaurav. I would like to thank you all for your valuable contribution to this community. I am in process of designing a introductory training module for my students at the university for that i want suggestions from everybody out there. As you people working on the real stuff in

Re: How to make a bootable hard disk image?

2013-01-31 Thread horseriver
Thanks! If I just only want to make a bootable hard disk image ,how can I do? thanks! ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Re: How to make a bootable hard disk image?

2013-01-31 Thread Paul Davies C
May I know how can I make the initrd image for a given kernel version in order to boot it using QEMU? On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar < chambilketha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:05 PM, horseriver wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 03:09:00PM +07

Re: How to make a bootable hard disk image?

2013-01-31 Thread Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:05 PM, horseriver wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 03:09:00PM +0700, Mulyadi Santosa wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:44 AM, horseriver > wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:51:36PM +0700, Mulyadi Santosa wrote: > > >> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:52 AM, horserive

Re: Kernel kallsyms

2013-01-31 Thread Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Shraddha Kamat wrote: > What are kernel kallsyms - and why are they used ? > > Please do google a bit before asking question. Any kernel book would give explanation about kernel symbols( I think Robert Love's book have good discussion about kallsyms). Here is thi

Kernel kallsyms

2013-01-31 Thread Shraddha Kamat
What are kernel kallsyms - and why are they used ? -- shraddha ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Re: How to make a bootable hard disk image?

2013-01-31 Thread horseriver
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 03:09:00PM +0700, Mulyadi Santosa wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:44 AM, horseriver wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:51:36PM +0700, Mulyadi Santosa wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:52 AM, horseriver wrote: > >> > hi:) > >> > > >> >I want to boot kernel fro

Re: How to make a bootable hard disk image?

2013-01-31 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:44 AM, horseriver wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:51:36PM +0700, Mulyadi Santosa wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:52 AM, horseriver wrote: >> > hi:) >> > >> >I want to boot kernel from hard disk image ,because i am using a >> > virtual machine . >> >How t