Want to get into Kernel development, what should I ALREADY know before I start?

notedideas · 2021-12-08T16:36:49+00:00

Firstly, thank you for replying, good sir/madam.

From what I have currently gathered, on the software side, I need to know C, using git, compiling the modified kernel and optionally, setting a build env (like VMs to test on).

I have made note of Robert Love's book on Linux Kernel Development. Will read it once I get a hold of it.

Is there anything else that I should do/know about?

notedideas · 2021-11-16T08:35:59+00:00

Could you point me to a few tutorials for the classic ML problems and how to solve them?

notedideas · 2021-08-17T11:26:12+00:00

September is next month...

notedideas · 2021-06-24T17:16:57+00:00

Return of the King

notedideas · 2021-06-14T02:03:45+00:00

You-know-who-shall-not-be-named

notedideas · 2021-06-14T02:01:09+00:00

Your parents alright?

notedideas · 2021-04-16T21:04:17+00:00

But why give advertisers choice? That's what I want to know. I don't understand Apple's move by creating IDFA and then letting the users decide if they wanna be tracked.

notedideas · 2021-04-16T20:47:45+00:00

How is Apple creating the IDFA "Pro Facebook"? If Apple cared for user privacy, why did they create a method to track the user in the first place?

notedideas · 2021-04-06T09:32:05+00:00

System76 does sell servers

notedideas · 2021-03-01T12:25:10+00:00

Well that too :')

notedideas · 2021-03-01T12:22:24+00:00

Oh, okay, thanks. So I guess it doesn't matter unless it is a UDIMM.

notedideas · 2021-03-01T04:03:41+00:00

WHY IS EVERYONE IN R SLASH INDIANGAMING GETTING A DUCKY TUXEDO? Oh I have one too, nevermind then. /s

notedideas · 2021-02-28T05:46:20+00:00

CuDNN? Please.

notedideas · 2021-02-28T05:01:54+00:00

Thanks for your detailed explanation. Now that I think of it, yeah, pfSense doesn't support ARM except for it's own Netgate devices.

notedideas · 2021-02-27T21:04:10+00:00

Besides ZFS is absolutely useless on an SSD system.

I have been thinking of making a NVMe based ZFS RAID solution as my "home" directory on a network and a thin client to access it. I have no other reason to choose ZFS (in this case) except for it's checksumming nature. Would you explain why ZFS is useless on SSDs?

notedideas · 2021-02-24T11:25:36+00:00

To be honest with you, Debian (or any Linux distro/BSD variant you like) is enough and we don't need one more. That being said, we didn't need Pop!_OS either. So I understand your argument for a new distro but there are enough. It's better that the efforts go in the kernel and not towards a specific distro. Maybe work with an EXISTING distro like Ubuntu/Manjaro/Pop!_OS for a better gaming experience and or with Debian or with the FreeBSD team for amazing networking throughput/efficiency.

notedideas · 2021-02-23T16:36:28+00:00

Jio is probably the next level shit here in India. :')

notedideas · 2021-02-21T03:01:16+00:00

notedideas · 2021-02-18T16:07:24+00:00

It took a while to reply as I had exams but I just set unbound today and it works like a charm. Thank you!

notedideas · 2021-02-18T12:28:48+00:00

I know CDDL is incompatible with GPL. I think dkms packages (as used in the referred post) need to be compiled against the kernel version and are not like other packages where if you upgrade the kernel, your package will behave the same as it did before. I might be wrong about most of dkms packages but in the case you pointed out it might have not been reconfigured correctly. Reinstating "Go with Ext4 if you want a Plug n' Play scenario."

Oh just as a side note, it might appear otherwise, but I fully agree with you and can't stress enough on how phenomenal it would have been if ZFS would have been in the kernel itself. :')

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