The Old Protocols Hackers Club Band has been busy these
days, ralf on AX.25, ROSE and NETROM and
me on Appletalk, LLC, IPX, SNAP, X.25 and LAPB. I'm almost
finishing a general cleanup and locking implementation
on LAPB and X.25, that already doesn't use cli/sti at all
and has refcountings for interfaces, routes and neighbours, now to make get{addr,name}info work on AF_X25

Man, LLC is really getting into shape, and to properly
test it I'm hacking several userlevel tools to use it
instead of TCP/IP, up to now I have working: openssh,
inetd, ftp, ftpd, telnet and telnetd, I'm also using
Jay Schullist's llcping and llcpingd to test the SOCK_DGRAM mode of PF_LLC, I still have a bug on
the receiving side of psnap and p8022 (which in turn
are needed by Appletalk and IPX) and under stress they're

edd I am very interested in why OHCI is not allowing you to download the firmware, but UHCI does. The USB host controller drivers should not be acting different (but unfortunatly this often isn't the case...) Post to linux-usb-devel, and you should get a response.

plotting world domination

First two of us get called an axis, and then this picture from OLS 2002 gets out, finally people are realizing...

Been playing with Movable Type so as to have a blog on my own site. Pretty fun, and much nicer than the hack of scripts I used to have that I used a long time ago to try to keep a log of what I was doing.

PCI

Finally got out lots of PCI core patches today. Problem was they touched all
of the different archs code, so it took quite some time trying to fix up
everything, luckily I didn't have to do the majority of the work :)

65 patches in 48 hours, I think I need a rest this weekend away from the computer...




updated later...



goingware I think you might be referring to my entry

here. Advogato likes replacing old entries with the latest one and that entry was for yesterday :)

Ahh goingware is
looking at doing embedded work.



I started out doing embedded programming, and over the years realized that I
was doing OS programming (right on the hardware, size restrictions, dealing
with nasty, undocumented electronics, etc.) and started playing with Linux
drivers as I saw somewhere I could help out. Flash forward to today, and I'm
doing pure kernel work (but still dealing with the same constraints of embedded
work.) In short, if you're comfortable writing kernel driver code, writing
embedded code is a very short step.

Bleah, I've not posted in forever, I'll try to do better next time...




Some things in the past:



OLS 2002 and the Kernel Summit

I went there all nervous about a proposal that Pat Mochel and I were
making about driverfs and /sbin/hotplug. Basically we are wanting to
move all of the existing device naming policy out into userspace. Well,
our worse nightmare happened, everyone loved it and wants it right now
:)

The conversion of PF_LLC/core LLC to use a single struct
sock to represent LLC connections is done and now I'm testing
it, mostly OK, but some stuff is failing for some reason :-\
Most probably I'll be backporting this stuff to 2.4.latest
and testing it there as 2.5 is not _so_ stable for me to
be really confident that the problem is _only_ in my code...
And this afternoon I _have_ to finish the presentation I'll

I just spent 3 hours at the Episcopal Diocese fighting with MS Exchange 5.5.

Imagine if you will a program whose error reporting capabilities are roughly the equivalent of Kerberos V5, except you don't get source you can figure out what it's upset about....

I'd switch them over to Linux, except that the staff are all addicted to the e-mail/calendar integration which MS Exchange provides.

1. It is a really good idea to label kitchen containers
2. 10X confectioner's sugar and flour can look very similar when you're in a hurry
3. However, confectioner's sugar is not an adequate substitute for flour when making banana bread...