On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Shaz <shazalive@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Henrik Austad <henrik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Shaz, >> >> Now I'm being picky, if you're insulted, sue me :- >> >> > I guess the attached book can help a lot but its not the ultimate guide >> > ;) >> >> Please don't do that. If the list has 100 subscribers, you've just sent >> out >> 120MB of data that poor nl.linux.org has to move. It's better to put it >> somewhere and add a link. This also helps people that read a lot of their >> email over slow/expensive connections. >> >> And for the record, I think kernelnewbies has a lot more than 100 >> subscribers >> ;-) > > I can understand because I am new to mailing lists ;) I get lots of > corrections and I make sure that I learn. i should have emailed it in > private. Right? Can you mail me too......... I can't see any attachments in this mail thread. Thanks - Manish > > Thanks. > >> >> > It has shown howto make a memory manager with assembly language. >> > Scheduler >> > at kernel level means big time assembly language but the book tells you >> > how >> > you can use high level language in some cases. >> >> I'm (trying to) implementing a multicore real-time scheduler as we speak, >> and >> I don't write any assembly. Assembly should be put into arch/, not in >> kernel/. >> The scheduler should be *generic* for all architectures and if you put >> assembly into the scheduler, prepare for a flame-fest on lkml. > > I have to insist on this one because I know that both depend on the hardware > architecture and if anyone wants to do kernel scheduling than they ought to > know how to interact with registers and handle the stack and PSW etc. > >> >> > I hope this should get you excited and started ;) >> >> After all this, thanks for the book though, it is always nice to get more >> (and >> new) information about programming. > > I also learned a lot from it. A friend gave it to me for understanding > memory management. > >> >> henrik > > > > -- > Shaz > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
