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Re: Pass modules to Linux kernel without initrd

2020-12-08 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 10:24:08AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: > Dear Linux folks, > > Trying to reduce the boot time of standard distributions, I would like to > get rid of the initrd. The initrd is for mounting the root file system and > on most end user systems with standard distributions that me

Re: Pass modules to Linux kernel without initrd

2020-12-08 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 10:24 +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: Dear Linux folks, Trying to reduce the boot time of standard distributions, I would like to get rid of the initrd. The initrd is for mounting the root file system and on most end user systems with standard distributions that means loading t

Re: Pass modules to Linux kernel without initrd

2020-12-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 08.12.20 11:58, Paul Menzel wrote: > Thank you. I know this and do it myself. But, the requirement is to use > the distribution Linux kernel (package). I am sorry for being unclear. What about rebuilding the distro package ? Actually, I wonder why using a generic (bloated) full-blown distro w

Re: Pass modules to Linux kernel without initrd

2020-12-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Enrico, Am 08.12.20 um 10:38 schrieb Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult: On 08.12.20 10:24, Paul Menzel wrote: Similar to passing firmware and microcode update files to Linux or building these into the Linux kernel image, would it be possible to append the required modules to the Linux ker

Re: Pass modules to Linux kernel without initrd

2020-12-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 08.12.20 10:24, Paul Menzel wrote: > Similar to passing firmware and microcode update files to Linux or > building these into the Linux kernel image, would it be possible to > append the required modules to the Linux kernel image, and Linux would > load these? Indeed, yes it does. Just set the

Pass modules to Linux kernel without initrd

2020-12-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Linux folks, Trying to reduce the boot time of standard distributions, I would like to get rid of the initrd. The initrd is for mounting the root file system and on most end user systems with standard distributions that means loading the bus driver for the drive and the file system drive

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Expose KVM API to Linux Kernel

2020-05-18 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 1:50 AM Anastassios Nanos wrote: > > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 10:50 AM Marc Zyngier wrote: > > > > On 2020-05-18 07:58, Anastassios Nanos wrote: > > > To spawn KVM-enabled Virtual Machines on Linux systems, one has to use > > > QEMU, or some other kind of VM monitor in user

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Expose KVM API to Linux Kernel

2020-05-18 Thread Maxim Levitsky
On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 13:51 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 18/05/20 13:34, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > > > In high-performance configurations, most of the time virtio devices are > > > processed in another thread that polls on the virtio rings. In this > > > setup, the rings are configured to not ca

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Expose KVM API to Linux Kernel

2020-05-18 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 18/05/20 13:34, Maxim Levitsky wrote: >> In high-performance configurations, most of the time virtio devices are >> processed in another thread that polls on the virtio rings. In this >> setup, the rings are configured to not cause a vmexit at all; this has >> much smaller latency than even a l

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Expose KVM API to Linux Kernel

2020-05-18 Thread Maxim Levitsky
On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 13:18 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 18/05/20 10:45, Anastassios Nanos wrote: > > Being in the kernel saves us from doing unneccessary mode switches. > > Of course there are optimizations for handling I/O on QEMU/KVM VMs > > (virtio/vhost), but essentially what happens is re

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Expose KVM API to Linux Kernel

2020-05-18 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 18/05/20 10:45, Anastassios Nanos wrote: > Being in the kernel saves us from doing unneccessary mode switches. > Of course there are optimizations for handling I/O on QEMU/KVM VMs > (virtio/vhost), but essentially what happens is removing mode-switches (and > exits) for I/O operations -- is ther

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Expose KVM API to Linux Kernel

2020-05-18 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Anastassios Nanos writes: > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 11:43 AM Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> >> And this shows clearly how simple the user space is which is required to >> do that. So why on earth would we want to have all of that in the >> kernel? >> > well, the main idea is that all this functionalit

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Expose KVM API to Linux Kernel

2020-05-18 Thread Vitaly Kuznetsov
Anastassios Nanos writes: > Moreover, it doesn't involve *any* mode switch at all while printing > out the result of the addition of these two registers -- which I > guess for a simple use-case like this it isn't much. > But if we were to scale this to a large number of exits (and their > respec

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Expose KVM API to Linux Kernel

2020-05-18 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Anastassios Nanos writes: > To spawn KVM-enabled Virtual Machines on Linux systems, one has to use > QEMU, or some other kind of VM monitor in user-space to host the vCPU > threads, I/O threads and various other book-keeping/management mechanisms. > This is perfectly fine for a large number of rea

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Expose KVM API to Linux Kernel

2020-05-18 Thread Marc Zyngier
On 2020-05-18 07:58, Anastassios Nanos wrote: To spawn KVM-enabled Virtual Machines on Linux systems, one has to use QEMU, or some other kind of VM monitor in user-space to host the vCPU threads, I/O threads and various other book-keeping/management mechanisms. This is perfectly fine for a larg

[PATCH 0/2] Expose KVM API to Linux Kernel

2020-05-17 Thread Anastassios Nanos
To spawn KVM-enabled Virtual Machines on Linux systems, one has to use QEMU, or some other kind of VM monitor in user-space to host the vCPU threads, I/O threads and various other book-keeping/management mechanisms. This is perfectly fine for a large number of reasons and use cases: for instance, r

Quotation request to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

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Quotation request to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

2020-05-11 Thread exporttogroup
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Re: Contribution to Linux Kernel.

2017-11-15 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Thank you for your answer. > > I've a Raspberry PI 3 and read that this device use it's own fork of the > Linux Kernel. > But do you think it would be useful to test linux-next on this device? Well, if you can get linux-next working there, yes, that would be nice. But this may be a bit t

Re: Contribution to Linux Kernel.

2017-10-25 Thread Javier Romero
Hi Pavel, Thank you for your answer. I've a Raspberry PI 3 and read that this device use it's own fork of the Linux Kernel. But do you think it would be useful to test linux-next on this device? Regards 2017-10-23 6:29 GMT-03:00 Pavel Machek : > Hi! >> >> Thank you very much for your time to

Re: Contribution to Linux Kernel.

2017-10-23 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Thank you very much for your time to answer. > Will create a VM and install all the enviroment needed to start testing. > Again, thanks for your suggestions! Using linux-next on some older (32-bit) machine for daily use would be very valuable. As most people went 64-bit these days, there

Re: Contribution to Linux Kernel.

2017-09-26 Thread Javier Romero
Ken / Kamil, Thank you very much for your time to answer. Will create a VM and install all the enviroment needed to start testing. Again, thanks for your suggestions! Regards, Javi El 26/09/17 a las 06:14, Kamil Konieczny escribió: On 25.09.2017 21:03, Javier Romero wrote: Hi, Last question

Re: Contribution to Linux Kernel.

2017-09-26 Thread Kamil Konieczny
On 25.09.2017 21:03, Javier Romero wrote: > Hi, > > Last question, it will be the same to do Kernel testing on a virtual machine, > or it will be better to do kernel testing over a no virtual machine? > > El 24/09/17 a las 17:25, Ken Moffat escribió: >> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 12:52:08PM -0300,

Re: Contribution to Linux Kernel.

2017-09-25 Thread Javier Romero
Hi, Last question, it will be the same to do Kernel testing on a virtual machine, or it will be better to do kernel testing over a no virtual machine? Regards, Javi El 24/09/17 a las 17:25, Ken Moffat escribió: On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 12:52:08PM -0300, Javier Romero wrote: Hi Ken, Tha

Re: Contribution to Linux Kernel.

2017-09-23 Thread Javier Romero
Hi people, Well, after reading those links provided by all of you, I'd like to start contributing as a Kernel tester. Have also read this link about testing the Kernel: http://m.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-kernel-testing-and-debugging?page=0,0 Which are the minimal hardware requirements to

Re: Contribution to Linux Kernel.

2017-09-22 Thread Javier Romero
Hi Jon, Thank you very much for your suggestion. Best Regards, Javi El 22/09/17 a las 16:15, Jonathan Corbet escribió: On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 18:16:12 -0300 Javier Romero wrote: My name is Javier, live in Argentina, and work as a Linux Server admin in the Network Operations Center of an IS

Re: Contribution to Linux Kernel.

2017-09-22 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 18:16:12 -0300 Javier Romero wrote: > My name is Javier, live in Argentina, and work as a Linux Server admin > in the Network Operations Center of an ISP. > > Would like to know, how can I start contributing to the Linux kernel. A good place to start is the documentation on

Re: Contribution to Linux Kernel.

2017-09-22 Thread Javier Romero
Hello Kamil, Thanks for your suggestions. I'll check those links to learn how can I start contributing. Best Regards, Javier Romero El 22/09/17 a las 07:02, Kamil Konieczny escribió: On 21.09.2017 23:16, Javier Romero wrote: My name is Javier, live in Argentina, and work as a Linux Serve

Re: Contribution to Linux Kernel.

2017-09-22 Thread Kamil Konieczny
On 21.09.2017 23:16, Javier Romero wrote: > My name is Javier, live in Argentina, and work as a Linux Server admin in the > Network Operations Center of an ISP. > > Would like to know, how can I start contributing to the Linux kernel. > > Sorry for the inconvenience. see https://kernelnewbies.

Contribution to Linux Kernel.

2017-09-21 Thread Javier Romero
Hello, My name is Javier, live in Argentina, and work as a Linux Server admin in the Network Operations Center of an ISP. Would like to know, how can I start contributing to the Linux kernel. Sorry for the inconvenience. Regards, Javier Romero

Re: lock-free data structure library ported to Linux kernel

2016-05-31 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 31 May 2016 12:07:13 +0300 admin wrote: > I am the author of a lock-free data structure library, liblfds, which > has now my first attempt at a port to the Linux kernel, which is to say, > I have a Kbuild file which produces a static library. > > I'm posting as I thought it might be of s

lock-free data structure library ported to Linux kernel

2016-05-31 Thread admin
Hi, everyone. This is my first post to the linux-kernel list. I am the author of a lock-free data structure library, liblfds, which has now my first attempt at a port to the Linux kernel, which is to say, I have a Kbuild file which produces a static library. I'm posting as I thought it might be

[GIT PULL v4.6] Add MDB Kernel Debugger to Linux Kernel v4.6

2016-02-29 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
The following changes since commit 45ba5b3e8f91384e652e8c61572bbe06b44a502a: Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux (2016-02-28 13:57:50 -0700) are available in the git repository at: https://github.com/jeffmerkey/linux.git tags/mdb-v4.5-rc6

Re: GRSecurity Closes Stable Patch to Linux Kernel. How do you feel about this?

2015-10-04 Thread Pavel Machek
the linux kernel, > except this time they are not even distributing source (like RedHat does) but > not the binaries, the source itself is restricted. What do these stable > patches consist of? It is a diff > that is created by linux kernel + grsecurity changes to linux kernel + >

GRSecurity Closes Stable Patch to Linux Kernel. How do you feel about this?

2015-09-15 Thread Verivel Enix
stributing source (like RedHat does) but not the binaries, the source itself is restricted. What do these stable patches consist of? It is a diff that is created by linux kernel + grsecurity changes to linux kernel + backports of security patches to the linux kernel. 200 dollars a month if you want i

GRSecurity Closes Stable Patch to Linux Kernel. How do you feel about this?

2015-09-14 Thread Verivel Enix
stributing source (like RedHat does) but not the binaries, the source itself is restricted. What do these stable patches consist of? It is a diff that is created by linux kernel + grsecurity changes to linux kernel + backports of security patches to the linux kernel. 200 dollars a month if you want i

[PATCH V3 2/7] Documentation: arm64: add SCU dts binding documentation to linux kernel

2015-01-07 Thread Feng Kan
This add documentation for the SCU system clock unit device tree binding to the kernel. Signed-off-by: Feng Kan --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/apm/scu.txt | 17 + 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/

[PATCH V2 2/7] Documentation: arm64: add SCU dts binding documentation to linux kernel

2014-11-13 Thread Feng Kan
This add documentation for the SCU system clock unit device tree binding to the kernel. Signed-off-by: Feng Kan --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/apm/scu.txt | 17 + 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/apm/scu.txt di

[PATCH RESEND 2/7] Documentation: arm64: add SCU dts binding documentation to linux kernel

2014-10-27 Thread Feng Kan
This add documentation for the SCU system clock unit device tree binding to the kernel. Signed-off-by: Feng Kan --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/apm/scu.txt | 17 + 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/apm/scu.txt di

[PATCH 2/7] Documentation: arm64: add SCU dts binding documentation to linux kernel

2014-10-23 Thread Feng Kan
This add documentation for the SCU system clock unit device tree binding to the kernel. Signed-off-by: Feng Kan --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/apm/scu.txt | 17 + 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/apm/scu.txt di

[PATCH RESEND V9 3/6] Documentation: arm64: add SCU dts binding documentation to linux kernel

2014-09-30 Thread Feng Kan
This add documentation for the SCU system clock unit device tree binding to the kernel. Signed-off-by: Feng Kan --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/apm/scu.txt | 17 + 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/apm/scu.txt di

[PATCH V9 3/6] Documentation: arm64: add SCU dts binding documentation to linux kernel

2014-07-31 Thread Feng Kan
This add documentation for the SCU system clock unit device tree binding to the kernel. Signed-off-by: Feng Kan --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/apm/scu.txt | 17 + 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/apm/scu.txt di

[PATCH V8 3/6] Documentation: arm64: add SCU dts binding documentation to linux kernel

2014-07-08 Thread Feng Kan
This add documentation for the SCU system clock unit device tree binding to the kernel. Signed-off-by: Feng Kan --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/apm/scu.txt | 17 + 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/apm/scu.txt di

[PATCH V7 3/6] Documentation: arm64: add SCU dts binding documentation to linux kernel

2014-06-25 Thread Feng Kan
This add documentation for the SCU system clock unit device tree binding to the kernel. Signed-off-by: Feng Kan --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/apm/scu.txt | 17 + 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/apm/scu.txt di

[PATCH 0/9] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #6]

2007-11-13 Thread David Howells
These patches add the MEI/Panasonic MN10300/AM33 architecture to the Linux kernel. The first four patches make it possible to suppress A.OUT support in the kernel for an arch (CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT must be set to 'y' to unsuppress). MN10300 does not support the AOUT binfmt, so the ELF binfmt

[PATCH 0/6] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #5]

2007-11-09 Thread David Howells
These patches add the MEI/Panasonic MN10300/AM33 architecture to the Linux kernel. The first patch suppresses A.OUT support in the kernel if CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=n and CONFIG_IA32_AOUT=n and CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT32=n. MN10300 does not support the AOUT binfmt, so the ELF binfmt should not be permitte

Re: [PATCH 0/2] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #3]

2007-11-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:00:08PM +, David Howells wrote: > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The patch to include/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm doesn't seem to be required. > > It is. asm/a.out.h does not exist for MN10300, therefore the export process > breaks unless it is told not to

Re: [PATCH 0/6] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #4]

2007-11-08 Thread David Howells
Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kbuild does not know anything about ASFLAGS. > In the whole kernel tree I only see frv assign them but the > value is never used. Hmmm... I think it used to be. No matter, I'll drop it from MN10300. > It just seemed stupid that someone having copyright

Re: [PATCH 0/6] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #4]

2007-11-08 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi David. > > arch/mn10300/Makefile: > > > > 1) Use KBUILD_CFLAGS & KBUILD_AFLAGS & KBUILD_CPPFLAGS - they > > have replaced the former xFLAGS. > > Done. What about ASFLAGS and LDFLAGS? kbuild does not know anything about ASFLAGS. In the whole kernel tree I only see frv assign them but the valu

Re: [PATCH 0/6] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #4]

2007-11-08 Thread David Howells
Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > arch/mn10300/Makefile: > > 1) Use KBUILD_CFLAGS & KBUILD_AFLAGS & KBUILD_CPPFLAGS - they > have replaced the former xFLAGS. Done. What about ASFLAGS and LDFLAGS? > 2) Consider using unit-y as replacement for UNIT. > This enable you to do: > unit-$(C

Re: [PATCH 0/6] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #4]

2007-11-08 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi David. A few comments to patch #5. I only looked at the kbuild related stuff - and I have seen stuff much worse than this. Yet I have a few comments: arch/mn10300/Makefile: 1) Use KBUILD_CFLAGS & KBUILD_AFLAGS & KBUILD_CPPFLAGS - they have replaced the former xFLAGS. 2) Consider using unit-y

[PATCH 0/6] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #4]

2007-11-08 Thread David Howells
These patches add the MEI/Panasonic MN10300/AM33 architecture to the Linux kernel. The first patch suppresses A.OUT support in the kernel if CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=n and CONFIG_IA32_AOUT=n and CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT32=n. MN10300 does not support the AOUT binfmt, so the ELF binfmt should not be permitte

Re: [PATCH 0/2] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #3]

2007-11-08 Thread David Howells
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The patch to include/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm doesn't seem to be required. It is. asm/a.out.h does not exist for MN10300, therefore the export process breaks unless it is told not to export this header. The alternative is to move this line into each arch's

Re: [PATCH 0/2] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #3]

2007-11-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 05:43:23PM +, David Howells wrote: > > > These patches add the MEI/Panasonic MN10300/AM33 architecture to the Linux > kernel. > > The first patch suppresses AOUT support in the kernel if CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=n > and CONFIG_IA32_AOUT=n. MN10300 does not support the AOUT

[PATCH 0/2] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #3]

2007-11-07 Thread David Howells
These patches add the MEI/Panasonic MN10300/AM33 architecture to the Linux kernel. The first patch suppresses AOUT support in the kernel if CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=n and CONFIG_IA32_AOUT=n. MN10300 does not support the AOUT binfmt, so the ELF binfmt should not be permitted to go looking for AOUT lib

Re: [Linux-am33-list] [PATCH 0/2] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #2]

2007-11-02 Thread Suzuki Takashi
Sorry for the late. On 10/31/07, David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But is there any utility that depends on that uname says mn10300? > > autoconf:-) I forgot again the one as an host environment. :-) AFAIK, mn10300 series are for embedded systems and I've never heard as development hos

Re: [Linux-am33-list] [PATCH 0/2] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #2]

2007-10-31 Thread Alan Cox
> Can you guarantee there won't be any non-AM33 variants of mn10300 that need > supporting? An AM34, perhaps? > > So basically, the toolchain name should change from am33 to mn10300 by your > argument. Given the "i686" toolchain name is wrong (its actually i686 + cmov) there is a ton of history

Re: [Linux-am33-list] [PATCH 0/2] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #2]

2007-10-30 Thread David Howells
Suzuki Takashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But is there any utility that depends on that uname says mn10300? autoconf:-) > I know existing developers should learn the arch name change. > But how many developers? I don't know. MEI probably does. > That's the point. They must always be told or

Re: [Linux-am33-list] [PATCH 0/2] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #2]

2007-10-30 Thread Suzuki Takashi
On 10/31/07, David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But the arch name change does not affect running kernels on consumer > > devices. > > uname says mn10300. Oh, I forgot. But is there any utility that depends on that uname says mn10300? > > Drastic changes in the directory and file struct

Re: [Linux-am33-list] [PATCH 0/2] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #2]

2007-10-30 Thread DJ Delorie
> They can if they're told so, plus if they've got the CPU docs to > hand, it should be more obvious. The AM33 is a variant of the > MN10300 arch as far as I can tell. Right, there's also the AM30, AM31, AM32, and AM34. Panasonic calls the whole series the "AM3" or "MN103 series" although they

Re: [Linux-am33-list] [PATCH 0/2] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #2]

2007-10-30 Thread David Howells
Suzuki Takashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But the arch name change does not affect running kernels on consumer devices. uname says mn10300. > Drastic changes in the directory and file structures will have > a much greater impact than that. Like renaming the arch/mn10300 and include/asm-mn1030

Re: [Linux-am33-list] [PATCH 0/2] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #2]

2007-10-30 Thread Suzuki Takashi
On 10/30/07, David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why don't you use `am33' for the arch name? > > History and the fact that 'mn10300' is what MEI called their arch when they > originally gave us (RH) their kernel. There are kernels already out there > running on consumer devices for which

Re: [Linux-am33-list] [PATCH 0/2] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #2]

2007-10-30 Thread David Howells
Suzuki Takashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why don't you use `am33' for the arch name? History and the fact that 'mn10300' is what MEI called their arch when they originally gave us (RH) their kernel. There are kernels already out there running on consumer devices for which it is the mn10300 ar

Re: [Linux-am33-list] [PATCH 0/2] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #2]

2007-10-30 Thread Suzuki Takashi
On 10/29/07, David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The second patch adds the architecture itself, to be selected by ARCH=mn10300 > on the make command line. Why don't you use `am33' for the arch name? Do you have any plans to support am30 (mn10300) or any pre-am33 processor cores? I know the

[PATCH 0/2] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel [try #2]

2007-10-29 Thread David Howells
These patches add the MEI/Panasonic MN10300/AM33 architecture to the Linux kernel. The first patch makes it possible to suppress AOUT support in the ELF binfmt. MN10300 does not support the AOUT binfmt, so the ELF binfmt should not be permitted to go looking for AOUT libraries to load. The seco

[PATCH 0/2] MN10300: Add the MN10300 architecture to Linux kernel

2007-10-26 Thread David Howells
These patches add the MEI/Panasonic MN10300/AM33 architecture to the Linux kernel. The first patch makes it possible to suppress AOUT support in the ELF binfmt. MN10300 does not support the AOUT binfmt, so the ELF binfmt should not be permitted to go looking for AOUT libraries to load. The seco

PROBLEM: Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently

2007-02-01 Thread Martin Klejch
Dear friends, I am a linux user (distro Ubuntu 6.10) with a 2.6.17.10-generic kernel running on my Acer TravelMate 4672LMi. I found a line "Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently" in my /var/log/kern.log but have no idea where the problem is because I am

Re: kernel 2.6.19.1 - Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently

2007-01-17 Thread Greg KH
3 of IDE controller :00:1f.1 > PCI: Transparent bridge - :00:1e.0 > PCI: Bus #03 (-#06) is hidden behind transparent bridge #02 (-#02) (try > 'pci=assign-busses') > Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [

kernel 2.6.19.1 - Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently

2007-01-17 Thread taps
transparent bridge #02 (-#02) (try 'pci=assign-busses') Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIB._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *6) ACPI: PCI Interrupt

RE: OT Coffee (was Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-03 Thread David Schwartz
> On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:01:56 PST, David Schwartz said: > > There is simply no way you can argue that McDonald's failed to > > warn people > > about the risks. The cup says "hot" on it, > Actually, the "HOT" on the cup and the sticker in the drive-through that > says "Warning: Coffee is served

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-03 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 16:23 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > Bernd Petrovitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > I don't know about others but I wouldn't write an offer with a fixed > > price for "look into assembler dumps, reverse engineer it and find an > > infringement on a list of given

Re: OT Coffee (was Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:01:56 PST, David Schwartz said: > There is simply no way you can argue that McDonald's failed to warn people > about the risks. The cup says "hot" on it, Actually, the "HOT" on the cup and the sticker in the drive-through that says "Warning: Coffee is served very hot" were a

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:14:54 PST, David Schwartz said: > > > The recommendet _serving_ temperature for coffe is 55 °C or below. > > Nonsense! 55C (100F) is ludicrously low for coffee. > > 70C (125F) is the *minimum* recommended serving temperature. 165-190F is the 100F == 37C 125F == 52C 55C =

RE: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread David Schwartz
> On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 12:14 -0800, David Schwartz wrote: > > > The recommendet _serving_ temperature for coffe is 55 °C or below. > > > > Nonsense! 55C (100F) is ludicrously low for coffee. > > > > 70C (125F) is the *minimum* recommended serving temperature. > 165-190F is the > > preferred se

RE: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Brian Beattie
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 12:14 -0800, David Schwartz wrote: > > The recommendet _serving_ temperature for coffe is 55 °C or below. > > Nonsense! 55C (100F) is ludicrously low for coffee. > > 70C (125F) is the *minimum* recommended serving temperature. 165-190F is the > preferred serving range. I can

RE: OT Coffee (was Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread David Schwartz
> How many of them stuffed the cup between their legs though? I think it > she would have sqeezed the cup too hard and burned her hand and sued > McDonalds for that people would be more understainding... How would what she did have any bearing on the key issue, which is whether or not McDonald's

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 08:11:21 +1100 Neil Brown wrote: > Of course if people would just put milk in their coffee, we would have > this problem :-) > > [We now return you to our regular program of filesystem corruption > and flame wars]. Yes, PLEEZE! --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday January 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:22:21AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > > > I can very easily believe it. The US patent system and "justice" > > > system in the US is completely and totally insane, and co

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 06:13:46PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Jan 2 2007 16:15, David Weinehall wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:22:21AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > >> > >> 1) mcdonald's was not merely serving their coffee "hot," but

Re: OT Coffee (was Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 1/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:30:17 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven said: > > > 2) there had, for a decade prior, been some *700* cases where people > > > had burned themselves with mcdonald's coffee, so it's not as if > > > mcdonald's was unaware of th

RE: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread David Schwartz
> The recommendet _serving_ temperature for coffe is 55 °C or below. Nonsense! 55C (100F) is ludicrously low for coffee. 70C (125F) is the *minimum* recommended serving temperature. 165-190F is the preferred serving range. I can cite source after source for this. For example: http://www.bunn.com

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 07:44:24PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote: > David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:22:21AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > >> 1) mcdonald's was not merely serving their coffee "hot," but > >> *scalding* hot (180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit), a

OT Coffee (was Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:30:17 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven said: > > > 2) there had, for a decade prior, been some *700* cases where people > > > had burned themselves with mcdonald's coffee, so it's not as if > > > mcdonald's was unaware of the danger, yet continued to ignore it. > > Given the popul

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, David Weinehall wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:22:21AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > 1) mcdonald's was not merely serving their coffee "hot," but > > *scalding* hot (180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit), a temperature that > > will produce third-degree burns almost immediate

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Bernd Petrovitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I don't know about others but I wouldn't write an offer with a fixed > price for "look into assembler dumps, reverse engineer it and find an > infringement on a list of given patents" so the patent holder has to > list the patents and the amoun

[OT] Hot coffee (was: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers))

2007-01-02 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 08:22 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > I can very easily believe it. The US patent system and "justice" > > system in the US is completely and totally insane, and companies > > often feel they have to act accordingly. Remember t

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Bodo Eggert
David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:22:21AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> 1) mcdonald's was not merely serving their coffee "hot," but >> *scalding* hot (180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit), a temperature that >> will produce third-degree burns almost immediately

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 2 2007 16:15, David Weinehall wrote: >On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:22:21AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: >> >> 1) mcdonald's was not merely serving their coffee "hot," but >> *scalding* hot (180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit), a temperature that >> wil

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread James Simmons
> > > > I can very easily believe it. The US patent system and "justice" > > > > system in the US is completely and totally insane, and companies > > > > often feel they have to act accordingly. Remember this is the > > > > country that has issued multi-million dollar awards to people who > > >

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Jan 02 2007, David Weinehall wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:22:21AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > > > I can very easily believe it. The US patent system and "justice" > > > system in the US is completely and totally insane, and compa

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:22:21AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > I can very easily believe it. The US patent system and "justice" > > system in the US is completely and totally insane, and companies > > often feel they have to act accordingly. Rem

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > I can very easily believe it. The US patent system and "justice" > system in the US is completely and totally insane, and companies > often feel they have to act accordingly. Remember this is the > country that has issued multi-million dollar awards to p

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:26:14PM +1000, Trent Waddington wrote: > The list of features which the driver supports is going to be > sufficient evidence for 99% of patents that relate to computer > graphics hardware. Nope, not necessarily. Recall that Patent Office has issued a patent on the conce

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 21:26 +1000, Trent Waddington wrote: > On 1/2/07, Bernd Petrovitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While this is true (at last in theory), there is one difference in > > practice: It is *much* easier to prove a/the patent violation if you > > have (original?) source code than

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Trent Waddington
On 1/2/07, Bernd Petrovitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While this is true (at last in theory), there is one difference in practice: It is *much* easier to prove a/the patent violation if you have (original?) source code than to reverse engineer the assembler dump of the compiled code and prove t

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Alan
> I think you're repeating a myth that has become a common part of > hacker lore in recent years. It's caused by how little we know about > software patents. The myth is that if you release source code which > violates someone's patent that is somehow worse than if you release > binaries that vio

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-02 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 16:30 +1000, Trent Waddington wrote: [...] > I think you're repeating a myth that has become a common part of > hacker lore in recent years. It's caused by how little we know about > software patents. The myth is that if you release source code which > violates someone's pat

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2007-01-01 Thread Trent Waddington
On 1/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The binary blob in question is several megabytes in size. Now, even totally *ignoring* who knowingly licensed/stole/whatever IP from who, that *still* leaves the problem of trying to write several megabytes of code that doesn't infringe on

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