Kernel hacking

Wednesday, February 21. 2007

As part of work, I'm now doing some kernel hacking. The first thing I'll be looking at is Kerberos authentication support in the CIFS VFS. It's an interesting challenge, and I'm very much looking forward to it.

I very much enjoyed the tutorial on Linux kernel development by Rusty Russel and Robert Love gave at LCA two years ago (probably the best I've seen so far!).

In other news, the BIOS patch for my X60s that enables VT has finally been released. I was hoping it'd allow me to speed up my virtual machines by replacing qemu with KVM, but KVM turned out to be extremely unreliable. The only images I've managed to get booted were running DOS, while Windows and Linux crash big time.

From friday to sunday, I'll be attending FOSDEM in Brussels again. Ping me on IRC if you'd like to meet up.

cp: Porcupine Tree - The Joke's on You

Posted by Jelmer Vernooij in be, kernel at 12:00 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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So this is really weird. KVM got integrated into the main kernel releases when I hardly heard of it yet and guessed it was some KDE shell around Qemu (Hey, admit it, it makes sense!). So I guessed it was pretty good.

Turns out the Linux kernel is getting filled up with crap then... :-/

#1 Wilmer (Homepage) on 2007-03-16 06:02 (Reply)

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