Re: How does a newbie find work?

2014-01-06 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 12:53 +0530, Gideon D'souza wrote: > So I was thinking of this hideous project (don't laugh!) at tearing > out the CFS scheduler and then rewriting a very dumb scheduler in it's > place. What do you guys think? This is of course just to understand > the scheduler better. >

Re: How does a newbie find work?

2014-01-05 Thread Gideon D'souza
So I was thinking of this hideous project (don't laugh!) at tearing out the CFS scheduler and then rewriting a very dumb scheduler in it's place. What do you guys think? This is of course just to understand the scheduler better. I just don't know how large or ridiculous this is though :) On Mo

Re: How does a newbie find work?

2014-01-05 Thread One Thousand Gnomes
> I've made small contributions to other OSS projects before but now I'm > at a loss for how to study the kernel code base, what to try to > break/change to study how the kernel works. LXR is useful for finding code and where it goes, but the kernel is a big project. Don't assume anyone knows how

Re: How does a newbie find work?

2014-01-05 Thread Bruno Prémont
On Sun, 05 January 2014 "Gideon D'souza" wrote: > Thanks so much Geert and Bruno for your replies: > > > >>don't forget to subscribe to the specific mailing lists! > Didn't know about this, this link is the right one? > http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#cpufreq There isn't a list for > the s

Re: How does a newbie find work?

2014-01-05 Thread Gideon D'souza
Thanks so much Geert and Bruno for your replies: >>don't forget to subscribe to the specific mailing lists! Didn't know about this, this link is the right one? http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#cpufreq There isn't a list for the scheduler though? >A better start, and at least as useful is t

Re: How does a newbie find work?

2014-01-05 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Bruno Prémont wrote: >> Is there some simple work a newbie like me can take up? Any maintainer >> need some grunt work done? Or perhaps someone could suggest a pet >> project I could try to understand things better? (Should I be learning >> how to write device drive

Re: How does a newbie find work?

2014-01-04 Thread Bruno Prémont
Hi Gideon, On Sat, 04 January 2014 "Gideon D'souza" wrote: > I've been looking to hacking at the kernel for a long time now. > > I've managed to have a good setup, build the latest stable kernel and > boot from it. I've read some of the docs, Coding Styles etc and > watched GregKH's talks on you

How does a newbie find work?

2014-01-04 Thread Gideon D'souza
Hey Guys, I've been looking to hacking at the kernel for a long time now. I've managed to have a good setup, build the latest stable kernel and boot from it. I've read some of the docs, Coding Styles etc and watched GregKH's talks on youtube. I'm also reading Robert Love's Linux Kernel Developmen