Re: C programming resource

2010-11-23 Thread Pavan Kandepet
You can follow the kernel C source better if you have a good idea of the GCC C extensions. It is used pretty much everywhere in the kernel. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C-Extensions.html Regards, Pavan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with unsubscribe kernelnewbies to

Kernel syscall reference

2010-07-01 Thread Pavan Kandepet
Found this neat Linux syscall reference (x86 only). http://syscalls.kernelgrok.com/ Regards, Pavan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with unsubscribe kernelnewbies to ecar...@nl.linux.org Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ

Re: Help needed for setup a simulation environment.

2010-03-06 Thread Pavan Kandepet
You can check out user mode Linux, it is well suited for this. http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ Regards, Pavan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with unsubscribe kernelnewbies to ecar...@nl.linux.org Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ

Re: Fwd: Embedded Linux development

2010-01-08 Thread Pavan Kandepet
Is there a list of known bugs for existing hardware or requests for new driver development that I can find somewhere? This would be a great starting point. -Pavan On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Shaz shazal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Robert P. J. Day

Embedded Linux development

2010-01-02 Thread Pavan Kandepet
Hello, I want to get involved and eventually get a job doing embedded Linux development. I had a couple of questions for folks who do this and could give me some advice. I am specifically interested in device driver development and embedded networking. I am competent in

Re: Bizarr shutdown hang behavior

2009-11-21 Thread Pavan Kandepet
Did you check /var/log/messages for anything unusual? Pavan On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 2:57 PM, roland r...@brahmaloka.net wrote: Hello all. I have a question on hangs on shutdown. I am running a 2.6.31.5 kernel. The machine is running an athlon64 processor and the motherboard is a MSI K8N Neo

Re: accuracy of the book essential linux device drivers?

2009-04-29 Thread Pavan Kandepet
I think that most of the changes are either new code for feature additions or bug fixes. Most of the ideas remain the same. Its a good book to understand how devices work and the code that makes them work with Linux. Pavan On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Leandro Dorileo ldori...@gmail.comwrote:

Patches applied to stock kernel

2008-06-08 Thread Pavan Kandepet
Hi, Is there anyway to know what patches have been applied to a stock kernel? I have a Fedora 9 on an x86 machine and I want to recompile the kernel, I'd like to know what patches have been applied so that I can apply them before recompiling. -thanks -Pavan -- To

Re: Patches applied to stock kernel

2008-06-08 Thread Pavan Kandepet
source are in kernel-source.src.rpm. But I am not sure. Thanks Pavan Kandepet 写道: Hi, Is there anyway to know what patches have been applied to a stock kernel? I have a Fedora 9 on an x86 machine and I want to recompile the kernel, I'd like to know what patches have been

Re: question about insmod

2007-11-15 Thread Pavan Kandepet
You can also try looking at /var/log/messages while inserting the module to see any messages. -Pavan On Nov 15, 2007 9:56 AM, Luís Henriques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Vichy! On Thursday 15 November 2007, vichy wrote: Dear all: I write a module and try to insert it by insmod. But the

Re: Recommendation for a dev system

2007-10-27 Thread Pavan Kandepet
Thanks for all the replies. -Pavan On 10/27/07, Mulyadi Santosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi.. Hello, I'm pretty new to kernel development and would like to setup a ideal dev system for playing around. I highly recommend Qemu. UML is nice, but you can consider itself as

Recommendation for a dev system

2007-10-26 Thread Pavan Kandepet
Hello, I'm pretty new to kernel development and would like to setup a ideal dev system for playing around. I've read most of the documents posted on kernelnewbies and I specifically would like to compile many kernels and play around with them. I'd like to know what an

Re: Need help in figuring out how the IP stack is implemented in the kernel.

2007-10-09 Thread Pavan Kandepet
Get a copy of the Linux network internals book. It has a very good coverage of networking implementation in Linux. -Pavan On 10/9/07, Alan Menegotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thippeswamy, Aravind escreveu: Hi, I am a typical newbie trying to get my bearings right in the