Introduction

Introduction

[Walter Keeler]

Hi! My name is Walter Keeler, and I've been working with the Debian Linux
for Sparc CD set for about two weeks now.

I have Linux up and running on a Sparc 5 at home, which will be my DSL
gateway/firewall once I get DSL installed a week from now. I've been
trying to get Linux running on an Ultra 5 at work, with considerably less
success.

First off, during the installation process, I can set aside a swap
partition, but when I try to format it as swap, the process fails. The VC
with system messages indicates inability to read a swap filesystem
signature in the swap partition, but I have no clue how to create such a
signature.

Secondly, Linux is in place, X won't run. Whether I run startx or Xsun
directly, I get a blank screen with a line cursor in the upper right-hand
corner; I can switch VC's, and when I come back, the server has died with
two messages, the first saying X should be up on VC 7, the second a
segmentation fault.

I thought compiling a new kernel might help, so I got 2.2.9 source off the
net; however, when I tried to make vmlinux, the compilation dies right
away with sparc64-linux-gcc - no such file. 

I found a sparc 64 RPM on the net, used Debian's alien package to convert
it to .deb and installed it; however, it seemed to need glibc 2.1, and
Debian installed 2.0. Attempting to upgrade the glibc to 2.1 resulted in
predictable havoc (all gettys died during the next reboot, trying to find
2.0 symbols and failing), so I'm pretty much stuck for the moment.

Once I get to feeling more ambitious, I'll probably take a stab at
installing the next, unstable Debian release (potato) over the net off the
boot CD I have with slink (current stable Debian). I'd do without a boot
CD at all, except that setting up a RARP server is such a pain.

This is sorta fun!

--Walter Keeler


wkeeler@acm.org                        *******************************
Walter Keeler                          *  If my words did glow...    *
San Francisco, CA                      *******************************

Introduction

[J. Hart]

     I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself if I may.

     My name is Joseph Hart.  I work at ATR ISD Labs in Kyoto as a programmer
and research assistant to Dr. Tom Ray on the ALife program Tierra, with which
some of you may be familiar.  I have been a programmer for about thirty years,
and have worked with the Tierra project for about the last seven years.  I
finally moved to Kyoto five years ago to avoid commuting from Niagara Falls
NY....:-)

     We are currently engaged in research using the network model of Tierra.  My
responsibilities include making upgrades and bug fixes to the Tierra code,
maintaining and monitoring the Tierra network, sampling the "organisms" which
"live" on it, and providing analyses of these.

     When another department at ATR finished operations recently, they discarded
much of their equipment, and I thereby came into possession of what appears to
be a perfectly functional Indigo2 Impact 10000.  The hard drive seems to have
been formatted, so I do not have IRIX for it.  I would like to be able to set up
Linux on it if that is possible, hence my interest in your project.  I
understand that there is quite a lot of work to be done to get Linux running on
this machine, so since I have one, may I be of any assistance ?

With Thanks,
     J. Hart
     ATR ISD Labs
     Kyoto, Japan
     jhart@isd.atr.co.jp

introduction

[Timothy Daly]

Hi all. :)  I'd like to introduce myself, if I may.

My name's Tim, and I'm in Berlin at the moment.  I 
recently picked up an Indigo2 R10000 SI, which is a
very nice purple.  I can't really knock Irix, but I
don't have the source, and I don't have a compiler,
which is like a car with no seats where you can't
open the hood.  Besides, I've always wanted to have
a good reason to hack around on the Linux kernel a
bit.
So, here I am. :)

I'm going to spend the next week or two getting my
bearings on what's been done, and what's waiting to
be done.  Then, if I'm not completely out of my depth,
maybe I can help with some stuff.  

One thing that's somewhat unfortunate is that it seems
SGI still hasn't released any documentation for the
Impact graphics hardware.  Is there any word on that?

Well, pleased to meet you all.  Have fun.

-Tim



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Re: introduction

[George Gensure]

> very nice purple.  I can't really knock Irix, but I

I can...

George
werkt@csh.rit.edu

Re: introduction

[George Gensure]

> very nice purple.  I can't really knock Irix, but I

I can...

George
werkt@csh.rit.edu

introduction

[Sam Halliday]

hello there,

i am keen to do a little bit of kernel programming, but i don't really
know where to start... i have programmed in c for a few years now in
mostly numerical stuff, and i think i could write a device driver if i
really needed to, what would some people reccomend reading before
starting?... i'd be keen to have a pet project of maybe totally
replacing an essential component (just as practice not to make it better
or anything!)

also, my kernel always says "Unknown Bridge Resource 2: Assuming
Transparent" on bootup, why would it be doing this? I have accounted for
everything on my system in the compile

thanks in advance!
Sam
-- 
A penny saved is a penny to squander.
-- Ambrose Bierce

Re: introduction

[John Levon]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:32:45PM +0200, Sam Halliday wrote:

> also, my kernel always says "Unknown Bridge Resource 2: Assuming
> Transparent" on bootup, why would it be doing this? I have accounted for
> everything on my system in the compile

Well why don't you find out what this means and what you could do about
it ? An excellent starting point, no ?

Anyway, visit http://kernelnewbies.org/ which amongst other things has a
large selection of links, and a suitable mailing list

regards
john

-- 
"If a thing is not diminished by being shared, it is not rightly owned if
 it is only owned & not shared."
	- St. Augustine

Introduction

[Muthukumar]

Hello all ,

I am working in squid developments oriented works.Then at presently 
i  want to upgrade my kernel to 2.6 for epoll support testing on 
Squid.


For that i have upgrade my gcc and i have tried to  compiled the 
kernel ,but i am getting some errors on kernel-2.6.0-test3 on IA64 
with ia64 linux patch.


The problem is as 
HOSTCC  scripts/lxdialog/checklist.o
In file included from scripts/lxdialog/checklist.c:24:
scripts/lxdialog/dialog.h:29:20: curses.h: No such file or 
directory
In file included from scripts/lxdialog/checklist.c:24:
scripts/lxdialog/dialog.h:127: error: parse error before 
"use_colors"
And so many error and warning so what is the problem in this.

I have browsed for this problem but i didn't get the answers for 
that.

SO pls inform about this/.

Thanks
Mvthv

Introduction

[Muthukumar]

Hello all ,

I am working in squid developments oriented works.Then at presently 
i  want to upgrade my kernel to 2.6 for epoll support testing on 
Squid.


For that i have upgrade my gcc and i have tried to  compiled the 
kernel ,but i am getting some errors on kernel-2.6.0-test3 on IA64 
with ia64 linux patch.


The problem is as 
HOSTCC  scripts/lxdialog/checklist.o
In file included from scripts/lxdialog/checklist.c:24:
scripts/lxdialog/dialog.h:29:20: curses.h: No such file or 
directory
In file included from scripts/lxdialog/checklist.c:24:
scripts/lxdialog/dialog.h:127: error: parse error before 
"use_colors"
And so many error and warning so what is the problem in this.

I have browsed for this problem but i didn't get the answers for 
that.

SO pls inform about this/.

Thanks
Mvthv

Re: Introduction

[Davide Libenzi]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Muthukumar wrote:

> Hello all ,
>
> I am working in squid developments oriented works.Then at presently
> i  want to upgrade my kernel to 2.6 for epoll support testing on
> Squid.

It seems you're missing the curses library :

http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html

You don't need 2.6 to test epoll though :

http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/epoll-lt-2.4.21-0.18.diff



- Davide

Introduction

[Ian Porter]

HI All,

My name is Ian Porter and I have done a couple of changes to the
kernel to make the laptop work with 4GB of memory, and I would like to
learn more about the kernel and hopefully this is a good place to
learn and ask questions :).

-- 
Kind regards
Ian Porter

www: www.codingfriends.com

Introduction

[Srdjan Todorovic]

Hi Ian,

A familiar name! :)

On 5 February 2011 21:06, Ian Porter <ian@codingfriends.com> wrote:
> My name is Ian Porter and I have done a couple of changes to the
> kernel to make the laptop work with 4GB of memory, and I would like to

I think the kernel should be able to support more than 4GB of RAM on
machines that can support it.
(ie. 64bit machines, or maybe machines with PAE enabled)

What changes did you make?

> learn more about the kernel and hopefully this is a good place to
> learn and ask questions :).

If you haven't already got them, it's a good idea to purchase the
LDD3, LKD 3 (which I think should be published by now) and UTLK3
books.

Regards,
Srdjan

introduction

[Leila]

Hi everyone,

I'm attending Hacker School and was interested in contributing to git
this summer and possibly afterwards. At Hacker School they encourage
us to contribute to open source software and projects were are
interested in. I'm in love with git, so naturally I want to contribute
to you guys. Why git? Because it's an awesome tool that has many well
thought out features that other source control tools lack like offline
mode. I'd like to see more people using git, and I'd like to see it
chosen as the source control tool used for team projects. So I was
thinking about contributing the following (which are the reasons I've
heard why people don't use git):

1) Commands are cryptic: I was thinking I could provide a wrapper to
simplify the commands, for example to undo a local commit, I can
introduce a "git undo commit", that wraps "reset" and will undo the
last commit. Or maybe "git rollback" is a better name?

2) git undo command, that will undo the last command (if possible)?

Other ideas:

3) Just like we have git-svn, maybe a svn-git?

Any help or if you can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate
it. I can also start out by fixing some bugs to get into it. I
couldn't figure out how to see a list of bugs though.

How does one contribute to your documentation? Would it be submitting
a patch just like with code?

Please let me know what you think!

Thanks,
Leila

Re: introduction

[Michael Schubert]

On 06/04/2012 10:36 PM, Leila wrote:
> 1) Commands are cryptic: I was thinking I could provide a wrapper to
> simplify the commands, for example to undo a local commit, I can
> introduce a "git undo commit", that wraps "reset" and will undo the
> last commit. Or maybe "git rollback" is a better name?

There's Legit [1], Easy Git [2] and probably more.

> 2) git undo command, that will undo the last command (if possible)?

Not possible in general.

> 3) Just like we have git-svn, maybe a svn-git?

?

> Any help or if you can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate
> it. I can also start out by fixing some bugs to get into it. I
> couldn't figure out how to see a list of bugs though.

There's no bugtracker, just the ML.

How to submit patches:
https://raw.github.com/gitster/git/master/Documentation/SubmittingPatches

You could check "old" GSoC Ideas:
https://github.com/peff/git/wiki/SoC-2012-Ideas

> How does one contribute to your documentation? Would it be submitting
> a patch just like with code?

Yes.

HTH.

[1] http://www.git-legit.org
[2] http://people.gnome.org/~newren/eg/

Re: introduction

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 06/04/2012 10:36 PM, Leila wrote:
> 
> 3) Just like we have git-svn, maybe a svn-git?
> 

I would absolutely love "gvn" command that works more or less exactly
like svn, but works against a git repository instead. That might allow
me to persuade the last recalcitrant bugger to switch to a version
control that actually allows people to work *with* the tool instead of
*for* it.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Tel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231

Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and
terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war
on peace.

Re: introduction

[Leila]

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Michael Schubert <schu@schu.io> wrote:
> On 06/04/2012 10:36 PM, Leila wrote:
>> 1) Commands are cryptic: I was thinking I could provide a wrapper to
>> simplify the commands, for example to undo a local commit, I can
>> introduce a "git undo commit", that wraps "reset" and will undo the
>> last commit. Or maybe "git rollback" is a better name?
>
> There's Legit [1], Easy Git [2] and probably more.

Ok fair.

>
>> 2) git undo command, that will undo the last command (if possible)?
>
> Not possible in general.

Undoing adds and commits? But I guess there isn't a long list here..

>> 3) Just like we have git-svn, maybe a svn-git?
>
> ?
>
>> Any help or if you can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate
>> it. I can also start out by fixing some bugs to get into it. I
>> couldn't figure out how to see a list of bugs though.
>
> There's no bugtracker, just the ML.

Thanks!

> How to submit patches:
> https://raw.github.com/gitster/git/master/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
>
> You could check "old" GSoC Ideas:
> https://github.com/peff/git/wiki/SoC-2012-Ideas

Thanks I've reached out to Peff and Thomas.

>> How does one contribute to your documentation? Would it be submitting
>> a patch just like with code?
>
> Yes.
>
> HTH.
>
> [1] http://www.git-legit.org
> [2] http://people.gnome.org/~newren/eg/
>

Re: introduction

[Leila]

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 5:40 AM, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
> On 06/04/2012 10:36 PM, Leila wrote:
>>
>> 3) Just like we have git-svn, maybe a svn-git?
>>
>
> I would absolutely love "gvn" command that works more or less exactly
> like svn, but works against a git repository instead. That might allow
> me to persuade the last recalcitrant bugger to switch to a version
> control that actually allows people to work *with* the tool instead of
> *for* it.
>

Yea, that's exactly the same reason I had. I wanted my colleagues to
switch to using git from svn. I love the name you gave it. That's
totally the name that project should be.

> --
> Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
> OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
> Tel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231
>
> Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and
> terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war
> on peace.

Introduction

[Chia-Juch Chang]

China Steel Corporation (CSC).
HEAD OFFICE 1 Chung-Kang Road,
Siaogang District, Kaohsiung 
81233, Taiwan, R.O.C.
REF: CSC/REP/887

i. Introduction.
My Name is Chia-Juch Chang. I am the Chief Executive Officer of China Steel Cooperation (CSC). We need a reputable company/firm to serve as our payment collection agent in North America, Europe, and Asia. You shall earn 12% of every payment issued to you on behalf of China Steel Cooperation.

ii. Requirement (Contact Information):
1. Full Names:
2. Company Name:
3. Full Contact Address:
4. Tel and Fax Numbers:

If interested, please email us immediately at (csgtrep@kimo.com)

Contact Person: Chia-Juch Chang
Chief Executive Officer
Tel: +886-7-802-1111
Email: (csgtrep@kimo.com)
Website: www.csc.com.tw

Introduction

[Ho Wan Chan]

Hello Linux Driver Backports Team,

I'm Howard Chan, a 15-year-old student from Hong Kong SAR, China. I am
a Kubuntu developer and an Ubuntu Member, but I always have wanted to
go into some kernel development.

I decided to take part in the Drivers Backports Team, since it's just
backports:P I did read the wiki, but I would still like some pointers
as to how to get something started.

Regards,
Howard Chan (smartboyhw)

introduction

[erick karanja]

Hello community, my name is Erick Karanja Muthama.I am currently
applying for outreachy internship and I would love to contribute to
your project.Thank you.

Introduction

[Samiksha Palav]

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Hi everyone,

I’m Samiksha (a.k.a. Shdwcodr), an undergrad BCA student from India with a
relentless drive to get deep into the Linux kernel. I've recently begun my
journey contributing to the kernel, focusing on staging drivers, learning
the kernel development workflow, and understanding the culture of patch
submission and review.

Over the past few days, I’ve:
- Set up a local kernel build and testing workflow.
- Sent out my first real patch (not a dummy), with more lined up.
- Subscribed to key mailing lists and joined IRC channels to stay in the
loop.
- Started tracking patch feedback and diving into `scripts/checkpatch.pl`,
git send-email, and the entire mailing list-based workflow.

My short-term goal is to get multiple patches accepted into staging by
early 2025, and long-term I’m aiming for the **LFX Kernel Mentorship
Program in 2026**.

I’ll be lurking, learning, and asking questions when stuck. Thanks in
advance to everyone who shares knowledge and guidance — it means a lot to
newcomers like me.

Looking forward to learning from you all and giving back as I grow.

Cheers,
Samiksha (Shdwcodr)

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Introduction

[Samiksha Palav]

Hi everyone,

I’m Samiksha (a.k.a. Shdwcodr), an undergrad BCA student from India
with a relentless drive to get deep into the Linux kernel. I've
recently begun my journey contributing to the kernel, focusing on
staging drivers, learning the kernel development workflow, and
understanding the culture of patch submission and review.

Over the past few days, I’ve:
- Set up a local kernel build and testing workflow.
- Sent out my first real patch (not a dummy), with more lined up.
- Subscribed to key mailing lists and joined IRC channels to stay in the loop.
- Started tracking patch feedback and diving into
`scripts/checkpatch.pl`, git send-email, and the entire mailing
list-based workflow.

My short-term goal is to get multiple patches accepted into staging by
early 2025, and long-term I’m aiming for the **LFX Kernel Mentorship
Program in 2026**.

I’ll be lurking, learning, and asking questions when stuck. Thanks in
advance to everyone who shares knowledge and guidance — it means a lot
to newcomers like me.

Looking forward to learning from you all and giving back as I grow.

Cheers,
Samiksha (Shdwcodr)

Introduction

[Samiksha Palav]

Hi everyone,

I’m Samiksha (a.k.a. Shdwcodr), an undergrad BCA student from India
with a relentless drive to get deep into the Linux kernel. I've
recently begun my journey contributing to the kernel, focusing on
staging drivers, learning the kernel development workflow, and
understanding the culture of patch submission and review.

Over the past few days, I’ve:
- Set up a local kernel build and testing workflow.
- Sent out my first real patch (not a dummy), with more lined up.
- Subscribed to key mailing lists and joined IRC channels to stay in the loop.
- Started tracking patch feedback and diving into
`scripts/checkpatch.pl`, git send-email, and the entire mailing
list-based workflow.

My short-term goal is to get multiple patches accepted into staging by
early 2025, and long-term I’m aiming for the **LFX Kernel Mentorship
Program in 2026**.

I’ll be lurking, learning, and asking questions when stuck. Thanks in
advance to everyone who shares knowledge and guidance — it means a lot
to newcomers like me.

Looking forward to learning from you all and giving back as I grow.

Cheers,
Samiksha (Shdwcodr)