Had one of those days that make me wish I could get better acquainted with every nearby computer, preferably with a chainsaw. I spent 7.5 hours(!) trying to get 2.6.1 to boot on a thinkpad running Fedora Core I with the root file system on an LVM volume. Eventually, it did.
The rest of the day was spent alternatively writing code and slides, for the “Introduction to Linux Device Drivers” talk. I can’t say I’m too thrilled with the way it turned out, but hopefully, it will do. The code, klife-0.02, is available here. It’s does mmap and hooking into the timer interrupt, but the races are abundant. To be cleaned up after I get some sleep (or maybe left as an exercise to the readers ;-))
Quick catchup time:
– da_x announced coLinux which he’s been telling me about for a while now and the reception was terrific. Well done, da_x!
– UML with 2.6 woes (posted earlier) were solved thanks to the nice guys on #uml. Turns out that UML does not play well with exec-shield, which FC1 comes with. Running ‘i386 ./linux …’ instead of plain ‘./linux’ allows it to run. No idea what the i386 utility does yet, but disabling exec-shield seems like a pretty safe bet.
– I could swear there was more I needed to write about, but I can’t remember what.
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