Alan Cox on the Linux IDE layer locking:
“There is currently no sane locking mechanism to enforce or implement this in the IDE layer. Welcome to hell, please leave your brain at the door.”
September 1, 2005
August 28, 2005
Guarded page tables on Mips R4600 or an exercise in architecture-dependent micro optimization, by Jochen Liedtke and Kevin Elphinstone.
August 25, 2005
I’m fairly certain at this stage I’ll be getting a playstation 3. This will be my first console since the original Nintendo 15 or so years ago… Still haven’t decided if I’ll get one or two PS3’s (one to play on, the other to play with).
“We can do a few things very well or we can do a great many things poorly. There is no middle ground. Long ago [we] developed the concept of main and supporting efforts, as well as mission essential tasks. If we would employ these concepts, everything would not be a priority, and unit focus would not shift from day to day. Movement is not necessarily progress, nor is constant re-organization.”
From a letter regarding “Today’s US Army”, but oh so applicable to certain projects I’ve worked on…
August 24, 2005
A look at several memory management units, TLB-refill mechanisms, and page table organizations, by Bruce Jacob and Trevor Mudge.
August 14, 2005
I’m not supposed to be working today, but since I came in for a couple of meetings anyway, I stopped by to listen to this talk: Formal Models and Tools for Network Intrusion Detection Systems. Not very interesting (read, practical) so far.
August 11, 2005
Unmodified Device Driver Reuse and Improved System Dependability via Virtual Machines, by Joshua LeVasseur, Volkmar Uhlig, Jan Stoess, and Stefan Götz.
Mambo – A Full System Simulator for the PowerPC Architecture, by P. Bohrer, M. Elnozahy, A. Gheith, C. Lefurgy, T. Nakra, J. Peterson, R. Rajamony, R. Rockhold, H. Shafi, R. Simpson, E. Speight, K. Sudeep, E. Van Hensbergen, and Lixin Zhang.
Muli Ben-Yehuda's journal 