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Nov 5th |
Well its Guy Fawkes night and the Brits get to blow things up, keep the fire
brigade employed and in theory have fun. One day someone can explain why
standing in the pouring rain by a bonfire attempting to bale out the
barbeque is fun. So I didn't go to anything.
ESR released another Microsoft memo. I wonder if he's got any more. This one is a competitive analysis of Linux from the MS point of view, its fun and full of the sort of things Steve 'rubber arms' Ballmer would never have said in public. Speaking of which - after watching his incredible arm waving peformance on TV does anyone know if he's related to kermit the frog ? I'm told there is a unix/linux thing coming up in Ireland at the end of the month. More news when I hear it. I may even try and attend since its one ferry trip away from me. And now the important stuff: I've released 2.0.36pre17. This is provisionally the final diff for 2.0.36. Please test it hard. The changes of note from 2.0.36pre16 are:
No progress on NFS. I couldn't face patching bits of NFS code together today.
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Nov 4th |
Another day working on NFS. It doesn't compile and I've not finished all the
merging yet. The nfsd stuff is now merged and might compile soon but the
last two pieces of the client (read/write.c) are pretty hairy and will
probably take most of tomorrow to get fitted back together.
The I2O spec is now open. This means lots of potential funky high end toys for Linux once I2O stuff starts to appear seriously. I guess price might be the problem initially though.
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Nov 3rd |
So microsoft admitted the leaked memo was true, the US elections fortunately
for them drowned some of the publicity over a document that basically calls
for them to subvert the standards process to shore up prices and without a
single comment on customer needs. What fun.
www.linux.org.uk is currently taking quite a beating compared with its normal load as it stands in temporarily for www.linux.org (Mike should be back as soon as the telco can get its butt moving). I spent the day working on merging the NFS branch Olaf Kirch had from 2.1.74 to 2.1.126. It adds basic NFSv3 support and speeds up NFSv2 performance measurably. It may be too big a change to consider for 2.2, but it'll be nice as an add on in any case, and it'll make it ready for early 2.3 betas. 2.0.36pre16 is also looking resonably sound so far, one lock up report so far which may be unrelated. I also got my first amazon.com report by email in which people actually bought books having visited them via the site. Top topic - not Linux, not Computing it was Baseball. Boy am I confused. (and yes Linux came second). I've had a pile of mails about Sybase and needing 2.0.36pre kernels to talk with some Sybase clients (they rely on a feature Linux had but not quite compatibly). The three relevant answers are:
IBM ERS pulled their ssh advisory - the problems they found are not explotiable. Bugtraq has reported a few other problems found in ssh but for all the hard staring nothing but a few bizarre possible local exploits have been found. So it may all have been a false alarm. Finally the Lyx guys are looking for someone who can provide them with somewhere they can use as a new CVS server or donations of suitable hardware after their existing CVS server expired. Offers to larsbj@ifi.uio.no.
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Nov 2nd |
I've put 2.0.36pre16 up on ftp.uk.linux.org.
As usual the diff is versus vanilla 2.0.35. Give it a beating.
MD5Sum: 720e0c97ebd9bf781b3686252b2d0a9f The diary has successfully moved, as people may have noticed. There is now about 100Mbits between it and the main UK switching point as its on www.linux.org.uk which is hosted by cableinet. My modem is feeling a lot happier than yesterday when the send light basically didnt go out all day. I also got a moment to put amazon.co.uk into the Books page. No more ordering from abroad needed.
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Nov 1st |
Well linux.org is back in part. The modem has really been suffering because
not only are people catching up, and the file is long currently but also
www.linux.org points people at www.linux.org.uk points people here. Fun,
I actually had to stop httpd to download some stuff at one point. I think
its time the diary page moved to a fast site not my modem. Thats a cunning
plan to attempt tomorrow.
There is a hole in sshd that IBM ERS found and has been reported on the rootshell list. Lots of people will be going 'whats ssh' while the rest are going 'oh ****'. Stephen Tweedie has put some new test rpms for RedHat 5.x on ftp.linux.org.uk which should cover the possible problem found. Note that the SSH folk themselves don't believe this specific bug is exploitable. Personally I've upgraded, the less even potential holes in something like sshd the better. Oh and I rebuilt mine with Stackguard too. Nothing like paranoia. The wife has been on a cleaning blitz. Everything from plastic pots to light fittings have been disappearing into bin bags. The front light fitting has now successfully been changed. That was a close one. Another centimetre of wire needed and it would have been a disasterous case of 'doesnt reach'. Here is today's amusement link: A little leaked MS memo + comments from ESR.
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Oct 31st |
It's Halloween, and I spent most of the day in bed, and much of the rest
vegetating in front of the TV. No kernel hacking occured.
DaveM is getting married tomorrow.
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Oct 30th |
2.0.36pre16 is mostly built. I've got a small driver change to merge and I'm
hunting a rather interesting bug in smbfs at the moment. I'm still hoping
to have a 2.0.36pre16 out on Monday. It'll need a chunk of testing as it
includes tcp networking changes, something that always makes me nervous of
strange bugs, and someone will need to boot it on a 1Gig RAM machine to
check a few other things ;)
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Oct 29th |
I've released a 2.1.126ac1. I've played with the 2.1.127 pre patches a bit
but they seem rather unstable and I'm not yet sure why. Most of the
2.1.126ac1 changes are small over the previous ac release. Primarily it
removes warnings and unused variables as well as fixing small error
handling glitches in the existing stuff.
I've also filled in the days around ALS in the diary. I'll attempt to fill in the ALS days when I get time.
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Oct 28th |
I've begun merging together Linus 2.1.126, and some of the accumulated
patches from my time away. So I've merged some more MCA bus stuff into
the tree and started looking through all the sound stuff.
The spider plant definitely likes this flowering business, its sent out another stalk of flowers.
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Oct 27th |
I'm back from ALS. Actually I was back yesterday. I spent yesterday
recovering and today reading email. The email reading is now done (phew),
and included a couple more fun 2.0.x crash reports.
Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to issue a new 2.0.x and start catching up with Linus on 2.1.x stuff. I'll also back fill the gap in the diary. For the evening we tested the new italian a bit further down from the one that turned tragically into a Dominoes pizza. Its great. I am happy. The prices are also superb.
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Oct 26th |
Arrived at Gatwick airport about 7:30am. Sat on the plane because they had
to find the man to drive the steps to the plane. Then busses and other mess
because Gatwick doesnt have enough nice proper terminals. Uggh.
Having retreived my luggage (the return trip wasn't all hand luggage, the pile of new t-shirts and other toys pushed it over the limit) I discovered I'd missed the coach back by a small margin. Fortunately its a regular service and I managed to stay awake until it arrived. I then slept most of the way back. The afternoon was spent doing non computing things, mostly recovering and catching up on real life.
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Oct 25th |
I woke up nice and early (probably too many penguin mints), looked at the
clock, and faced with the choice of getting up for the Red Hat breakfast
or staying in bed did what any sane person would do.
About 12am I got up packed, realised it was 11am as the clock had gone back, checked out and staggered out of the hotel to go to the MARTA station. While I was still adjusting to the bright light an airport shuttle appeared and happened to have Miguel in it, so I got the bus to the airport instead and had to wake up sharply to cope with Miguels usual 500 thoughts per second conversations. The good thing about getting to the airport early is you can get the right seats if you know the plane type. I got what I thought was the best seat but I now know an even better seat number for 777's, and no I'm not sharing the info ;). Lunch I grabbed from one of the fast food places in the airport, whoops yuck. I don't believe traditional southern cooking is soggy fries and a gristleburger but there we have it. Over lunch I ran into someone from the DERA (thats the UK government defence research people) who was interested in Beowulf clusters. I spent the afternoon shopping (ie buying the required bribes and extras to keep everyone happy). I ended up with a couple of books the wife wanted and couldnt find in the UK, a birthday card and present for my mother, and a T shirt. After that I went for a reaonsably large meal (this time mexican) so that if the aeroplane food was bad I wouldnt be forced by hunger to eat it. Waiting for the plane I found the man from freshmeat, whom it turns out had been on the same flight as me arriving too, but obviously in disguise that time. The plane departed roughly on time, then sat on the edge of the runway for a while and a while longer and eventually took off. The food wasnt as bad as I feared although if there had been much more water in their 'chicken' it would have turned into a stew of its own accord. Then I basically slept the entire flight back.
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Oct 24th |
ALS day two. I may have missed the breakfast but I got to the show on
time somehow. The details are a bit fuzzy. This time I got about 2/3rds of
the way around the show floor before going to the talk on Gnu rope. That was
entertaining, although the moment Nat told everyone 'think of it as an n
dimensional space' was priceless for the faces in the audience. Beware of
MIT students carrying mathematics knowledge. That was only a minor glitch
and the real stuff looked very interesting. 20% speed ups in applications by
feeding them through grope is going to make quite a difference to small
machines.
A lot of people went to Nat's talk, which unfortunately clashed with the netatalk talk I wanted to go to. This may have had something to do with Miguel standing outside proclaiming how cool Gnu rope was. We aren't quite sure what powers Miguel, he certainly didnt seem to have eaten an entire box of penguin mints even though he was acting like it. The current theory is that Miguel is adapted to the air pollution of Mexico City and gets an overdose of oxygen when at conferences. Either way having Miguel bouncing around dementedly at 9:30 in the morning is an alarming experience. After the talk I finished touring the show and met a few guys hiding at the far end. Some web site thing I'd never heard of, what was it slashdot.org ? It seemed to have a fair crowd around it and was doing quite nicely. VA Research donated T shirts they sold to raise money for slashwhatever, freshmeat and themes.org (which are all basically volunteer efforts btw). I also had a run in with a mac68k box that didn't want to run Linux. The Mac won that round but we'll be back. Expect a proper Mac68K Red Hat installer quite soon. The evening demonstrated the ancient tradition of cat herding. We dropped Mike Shaver (the man trying not to be discovered as the man giving out Mozilla shirts) off at his hotel, I went back and cleaned up and dumped the T shirt supply of the day and drove back to where we were meeting the others. We drove around for a while and eventually they phoned to say they were already at the microbrewery. The rest the follows as before, eat drink and go to bed about 4am. A few people weren't present this time as they were at Eric Raymond's geeks with guns sessions. Frankly I'm not keen on guns and even less keen on the idea of a gun wielding RMS explaining free software ethics to terrified onlookers. Over the two days I met lots of Linux people I've met before - Miguel, DaveM, Jes, Don Becker, Maddog and more as well as a pile of new people like Russ Nelson and mkp (sunsite.dk and bestower of PS/2's) and also DaveM's girlfriend (although she was looking a bit lost in geekdom at times). The show was great fun. The caffinated penguin mints were interesting too, but not nearly as interesting as the people who ate an entire tin before they noticed that 3 is the same as a caffinated drink and there are about 100 a tin. That was much funnier.
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Oct 23rd |
ALS day one. I got up on time much to my suprise and got down to the hotel
lobby before all the Red Hat people left to ALS and to Networld + Interop
(or from the reports of the folks who went to it marketroid+glitz). The
general report from N+I appeared to be that the suits had finally completed
their invasion and all technical content eradicated.
Getting up on time was a paticularly important move, since Red Hat had wheeled transport. By the time we arrived the registration queue had grown fairly long despite the best efforts of the volunteers manning the desk. In fact by the early afternoon they looked like they needed intravenous caffeine. Inside the show things were mostly technical, but not to the point of leaving the non technical behind. In different passes of the Adaptec booth for example I heard questions along the line of both 'will it fit my PC' and 'what driver do you recommend if I install this in [sound of configuration being reeled off'. There were only one obvious set of suits with a stand and only marketing glitz there, and they were so out of their depth it was funny. The Red Hat booth was fairly plain but rarely visible as it was next to the Gnome booth which was demoing the Enlightenment window manager configuration tools, themed gtk and enough eye candy to create a permanent two day jam of people watching the big screen it was being projected onto. In fact the Gnome booth became kind of self manning over time. I spent a fair amount of the morning at the Debian stand and had a long discussion on various interworking and standards issues, as well as aspects of the planned Debian source package improvements. Notably the 'wouldn't it be nice if you could turn the new debian source packages into RPM source packages and back automatically' discussion. Along with Red Hat people we went for lunch together to an Indian resturant not far from ALS. All the US people seemed to think it was a great resturant. I pity them, there are probably five better places within walking distance of me. Now, if we could swap a couple for US Thai style resturants I'd be very happy indeed. The afternoon was also spent meeting people, discussing things and by the end of the day I'd only made it 2/3rds of the way around the stands and I was fairly exhausted (I missed the penguin mints you see). There was a lot to see and a lot of T shirts to get. I missed all the talks and the keynote. The evening was the fund raiser dinner. That meant running around getting the LCD projector to work with the PC110. After a bit of worry we found the low resolution projecter sort of worked OK although a few bits of the screen escaped off the edges. One day someone will make an LCD project whose controls manual and actual feature set match up and actually do what is claimed. Everything was set up and we sat down for food. Very good food it was too. I did a brief introduction to the Linux 2.1.x current status and I'll put the magicpoint files for that up once I've had time. The highlight of the evening was Pete Salus. He treated us to a very funny and most thoughtful look back through the origins of Unix, the Internet and Usenix. He got a standing ovation at the end and well deserved it. And then of course we went to the bar, we ate and we drank. Being a microbrewery the beer was ok and being US the chances of getting drunk were minimal. About 4am I went to sleep. This was badly planned as Maddog had decided 6;30am was the time for the LI breakfast. I didn't make it and while going to apologize to Mike Shaver who was turning up specially for it ran into the SuSE guy, who didnt make it and Mike who tried to apologise to me because he missed it.
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Oct 22nd |
Coaches and airports. Arrived at Gatwick at 4:30am feeling hungry. The only
food available was a MacDonalds so I stayed hungry until the other shops
began to open.
I was very glad I took hand luggage only. The queue for the BAA checkin was about an hour long by the look of it. I sailed up to the quick check in which had no queue and discovered my bag was 1Kg over hand luggage limit. One jolt bottle in a pocket and one drunk and the problem was resolved. The flight was boring. The available movies and tv stuff were all junk except for one final interesting piece about the early days of the internet, the food was crap and I didnt have enough leg room. So after 8 and half hours trapped in a tin can at 30,000 feet we finally landed. Customs. Two whole hours of trundling slowly forward down a queue. Eventually I got to the front to be asked the usual silly questions and hand in the form where you have to tick to say you aren't a terrorist, nazi or psychopathic axe wielding murderer. As if the people who are would tick it anyway. Then through the baggage part of customs where they were bored enough to go through my luggage and check that briefly. After about two orbits of the airport area I eventually discovered you have to keep going down into the depths of the place to get out via this little shuttle train service. Its quite clever, it looks empty so you get on it instead of walking down the moving pavement thing. It does about two stops and at this point even the sardines start to feel claustrophobic. By the time it hits the end terminal people have been getting out at other stops to walk the last bit. I'd been told about MARTA so rather than the $25 cab fare the folks who didnt do their research ended up with I got a $1.50 train fare and ended up two blocks from the hotel to discover the map I had helpfully didn't include some of the roads, and that Atlanta folks hang their road signs in really strange ways. I was still figuring this out when I ran into Zach Brown who was also trying to find his hotel and other sundry things like the registration for the show. Fortunately he knew about Atlanta road signs. I checked in got changed and went with Zach to find the show and Red Hat people. Fun fun fun, Red Hat were hiding in Networld+Interop. Having run into Linuxmall and said hello to them (especially the guy with the really cool big red hat) I got to the registration desk to discover that I wasn't listed in the Red Hat exhibitors (whoops), no Red Hat people were there, and that although I was speaking at the next nights meal I wasn't on the speaker list either. They made me a badge there and then so that wasn't a big problem. In the registration queue I also met Don Becker and Russ Nelson, who between them have probably written more ethernet drivers than the rest of the planet put together. Various other folks appeared notably Jes who is kind of hard to miss in a crowd. I also got to meet Mkp who despite threats didnt bring another PS/2 on the plane for me. MKJ also finally showed up, looked at the Red Hat exhibitor stuff they'd tried to give me and decided also not to take it but to leave it with the (by now rather confused) ALS people. Due to my instant promotion to speaker I ended up going to the first night appreciation dinner. I was actually sufficiently hungry that I misplanned food intakes and didn't make it to the pudding course. Then I went back to the hotel and sleep.
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Oct 21th |
I've been playing with MagicPoint.
Once I'd built it with FreeType
properly and it all worked I was most pleasantly suprised. Not only does it
run at a nice speed on a 300MHz MII, but its extremely usable on a 486SLC
palmtop, where to be quite honest Applix isnt even worth installing.
I suspect Applix won't be writing any more of my presentations in future, gnumeric has eliminated the spreadsheet side, magicpoint the presentation tool, and I'm waiting for gwp (the Gnome word processor) to see if it can eliminate the rest. MagicPoint may not appeal to all, but the approach of writing a text file in normal ascii and then feeding it to MagicPoint is precisely how I want it to work. It's very hard to do clever editing tricks with only a GUI and crude cut and paste functions.
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Oct 20th |
Organisational overhead. Banks, Company Amex card applications, and other
drudge work. Isn't it all fun.
On the code front since I started twiddling with MCA I seem to have opened the door on a whole stream of MCA stuff, and David Weinehall is busily trying to keep my mailbox full with new MCA drivers. I also wrote a new editorial (thats a polite term for rambling pontifications) for www.linux.org.uk. Time to water the spider plant, which has decided to flower yet again.
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Oct 19th |
I've been investigating the assorted bugs that 2.1.126pre2ac1 has shown up
and nailed a few of them as well as merged in more MCAbus updates. The 'it
doesn't compile with egcs -O3' bug has turned out to be what looks like an
egcs bug. Colin Plumb sent me a workaround but that blows up on gcc 2.7.x
so it'll stay as it is for now.
I've put up a 2.1.126pre2ac2 and that should sort some of the problems out but not all - the Quake sound problem is still present and there is a little pile of sound patches to add.
Scary web site for the day:
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Oct 18th |
A 'not a lot happened' day. I watched TV, I tested (honest) doom on the PS/2
and I watched more TV and ate far too much chocolate.
Richard Stern sent me the best entry yet for the great slug removal saga. I'm not sure if this is a future garden implement or a geek toy in truth. Truth is stranger than fiction, even Arthur C Clarke didn't see this coming. The garden actually appears to be doing fairly ok. The weeds are starting to make a comeback but the Strawberry patch invasion of earth is eventually going to stifle them forever as well as keep the slugs well fed. The cat from a few doors down also seems to have stopped using our garden as a toilet. I guess a regular blasting with a supersoaker is a common language between man and cat.
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Oct 17th |
The PS/2 and the kernel are now all agreeing. I merged a few more things and
resynchronized with Linus 2.1.126pre2 diff. So its now patch-2.1.126pre2ac1
(bletch). 2.1.126pre2 seems pretty decent on the whole. The stuff Im sure
is stable in the ac diff I've submitted on to Linus.
One report so far of problems with quake and the full duplex sound blaster.
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Oct 16th |
Eventually I got to the bottom of some of the problems with the time stuff.
Ttys die when the jiffies counter wraps. This looks like it may be something
deeply and fundamentally horrid going on in the timer code. I hope not as
the code while fast and clever is a little gothic in places.
Went out for a chinese in the evening. Most enjoyable and they have a cute set of windows with water washing down them. It would probably look quite nice in some parts of the world but in Swansea the sight of water running continually down all the windows is not that uncommon even in summer. I've also been investigating small windowing environments for embedding Linux toys.
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Oct 15th |
Life has resumed a little. I've still got something nasty, but while I
wasn't feeling up to coding I had another go at the PS/2. I'm not sure what
I twiddled but the beast now boots. With a bit of hacking I got the Red Hat
5.1 + MCA boot disk stuff to install and then put 2.1.125ac2 on the box.
I've fixed the 3c529 code that needed remerging, and added the NE/2 MCA driver to my tree. I then added a whole pile of other obviously safe patches to the tree and discovered my source tree seems to have caught something obnoxious too. I'm now hunting down the reason my ttys have stopped working. Then I'll be able to release 2.1.125ac3.
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Oct 14th |
Today didn't go to plan. I've spent most of it lying in bed feeling ill, and
I think I'll return shortly. I don't think working on pre15 with a splitting
headache is going to be a clever idea.
Come 11pm feeling a bit better I did 2.0.36pre15. As it happens it may be a good job I was ill. A lance32 fix dropped into my mailbox just as I finally got around to building things.
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Oct 13th |
Most of the day spent on the Z85230 driver. Equiinet lent me a cisco 2501
which happens to make a passible wan analyser so that I could pin down the
strange goings on. The practical upshot is I now have a driver that does
64K 1500 byte frames solidly and passes the ping -f test.
Z85230 is now declared to be beta standard. That is I believe it to be functional code and it just needs testing hard. I'll do some new archives tomorrow. The gas maintainenace man visited to inspect central heating and radiators. He didn't get very far with the machine room radiator. Next time they need to send a permeable engineer or one about an inch wide. Slashdot was most bizarre. My editorial got replies that were longer and more thought out than the original. Excellent stuff and some beautiful quotes there. I think
If Linus had sat down to design and write an OS that ran on everything from supercomputers to PDAs, he'd be there still. Instead he choose a much more modest target. After that goal was achieved, the source code was evolved to achieve the "impossible" goal. -- bhurtHit the nail on the head beautifully. So if you've done seven impossible things before breakfast, why not write a localtalk driver for a MacII....
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Oct 12th |
2.1.125ac2 time. This merges a lot of HJ's NFS work as well as a pile of
other fixes and patches. I've still got a fair bit in the in queue
(linux-kernel has been fairly loaded with patches and bug reports recently,
pity its trying to go hopelessly off topic again).
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Oct 11th |
2.1.125ac1 emerged from Building Number Three. Its a mix down of 2.1.124ac
patches, Linus 2.1.125 and a few other bits. The diff is now significantly
smaller as Linux took a fair bit of the stuff for the 2.1.125 tree. I
split off and sent Linus a fair bit more a couple of days ago so hopefully
once a 2.1.126 emerges the diff will be far smaller again.
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Oct 10th |
Nothing exciting happened today. Except perhaps that reports of jwz's
death were greatly exaggerated. Fun fun fun.
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Oct 9th |
I've sorted more pieces of code together into blocks for Linus so hopefully
he will apply those. People have asked about the jobs list - it is somewhat
out of date at the moment, but I will update it tomorrow probably.
Xfree SGI took a big leap forward thanks to a couple of X hackers. When I was explaining where I had go to with building an SGI driver I was greeted with a certain amount of amusement and "look at the 8514 driver, you are re-inventing the wheel". Very annoying considering all the hacking I put into the existing work, but on the other hand this time I now have a working wheel for a different cart to use as a basis.
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Oct 8th |
Built 2.0.36pre14, in fact I've built several of them. Once Stephen's patch
turns up I'll build another hopefully final one. With a bit of help
from Comtrol and friends finally cracked the Z85230 problem. The
hostess-sv11 is now doing 64Kbits DMA in both directions and seems quite
happy. Not bad for a UKP100 card.
If you want to know more about the big adventure in the blue room you can read the wife's report.
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Oct 7th |
Synchronized with 2.1.125pre2 and merged some more stuff with Linus as
well as fixing a few things up further.
2.0.36pre14 will hopefully be out tomorrow or the day after and should include the AMI Megaraid drivers and an ICP Vortex driver update. Fingers crossed the new Adaptec driver will be ready. I've also rebuilt all the Gnome stuff and been playing with the latest and greatest toys that have appeared and I've finally got the panel to look how I want it to. Some possible progress on the Z85230 driver. I've added code to handle the fifo locks even though the documentation says that isnt needed in the mode I'm currently driving the chip. We shall see tomorrow what actually happens. It isn't lost work anyway, to do 2Mbits I have to support the Z85230 extended DMA mode complete with the status fifo and other high weirdness.
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Oct 6th |
I've been fixing mkkickstart. It now actually seems to work fairly
reasonably.
Other than that its been a fairly boring sort of day. I've tidied up the www.linux.org.uk web site a fair bit and added some new items to it and been investigating a couple of 2.0.36 bug reports. RX DMA still doesnt want to work on this Z85230. I'm very very puzzled.
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Oct 5th |
Busy day. Released 2.0.36pre13, 2.1.124ac1 and 2.1.124ac2. The notes
on 2.1.124 changes I posted to linux-kernel are on
the web site if you don't read linux kernel. The patches are on
ftp.linux.org.uk.
My TV appearance occurred complete with a certain amount of artistic license by the camera people. They did a nice job of making that part of Swansea look like some grey grim housing estate when it isn't, all for the sake of emphasising their "linux hides in strange places" spiel. Before anyone else asks:
Lincexpo is moving from January to early March 1999. Its merging with the IDG organised Linux show at the same place. Linc know about Linux IDG know about conferences, lets hope the combination produces a great Linux conference. Its last reminders time for ALS. For once I'm not a speaker but an exhibitor with Red Hat however.
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Oct 4th |
So much for big blue rooms, it was the giant gray shower cubicle. I've been
away for a week with the 'Friends Of The Masque' doing Live Roleplaying,
trying to explore bits of Cornwall. It was wet, muddy and the sun only came
out briefly, while we were having lunch before climbing up St Michaels
Mount. Needless to say as we finished lunch it rained again.
Despite all the rain I had a wonderful time. I've been catching up on all the Linux mail and all the fun goings on in the world as well as reading back a week of slashdot. 2.0.36pre13 should emerge tomorrow about midday - its pretty much ready for its final testing now.
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