Very fun so far. Nice to see people who you have only known by email. I give a talk on Linux Hotplugging stuff in a few minutes. Hopefully no one will come to see it :) Or if they do, at least they can ask some good questions. Talks without feedback aren't that much fun.Wireless is great. I need to get this set up for my house.
Been working a bunch on the Linux kernel driver for this lately. Released another patch based on comments from some people. Only one major thing left to do to it before I try to get it into the kernel tree.
Linux USB
Been doing lots of little patches lately. Nothing major.
I did get a signed NDA from Sony back that should now let me get some information from them on how they have implemented the USB interface in their Clie devices. This is good.
Now if only the Pilot Link people would get their m500 and m505 code checked into the tree, I can stop answering all of this email that I'm getting with "They are working on it." :)
Finally got my plane ticket. Just saw that they are going to be having a keysigning party so I might finally get someone to sign my GPG key...
Yumm...USB Clie support on Linux
Funny thing is that my bios doesn't detect some things that Linux handles just fine. Had to upgrade my old util-linux package to get access to the whole disc, but that was the only problem. My eyes are thanking me.
I'm actually talking with someone from Sony about this. Now they want me to sign an NDA. I gave my stock, "Sure, as long as I can write a driver released under the GPL with the information learned." and they weren't phased at all. Should be interesting to see how it all turns out. Hopefully better than hacker's Sony experience.ols
Gotta get a plane ticket and start writing my slides up. Procrastination is good :)
Spent some time trying to build the latest version of glibc (2.2.2) with the StackGuard compiler. After some stupid things that I was doing were finally made apparent, the build progressed nicely until it hit the sunrpc code. Lovely core dumps all over the place.
sigh Someday the StackGuard compiler will be forward ported to the latest gcc code base. If I get sufficiently bored, maybe I should take a look at it. Hey, the ProPolice people have their version of StackGuard running on 2.96, how hard could it be? :)
I left WireX a week ago, and am now working for IBM. What a contrast in the two companies, the internal commitment to Linux that IBM has is amazing. I would have never guessed, and this should be a fun job (basically getting paid to do the things I was doing on my own anyway...)USB
Lots of little things need to be cleaned up. The flaws in the usb-serial drivers keep getting pointed out (the SMP locking is all b0rked) so I will spend some time this week sorting it all out.Hotplug PCI
I wrote a small usb-skeleton.c driver and got lots of good review by a few people on how I messed up the SMP locking on it (any common thread here?...) The usb-skeleton.c driver was written as an example for others, and a good excuse to keep putting off a LJ article that I finally finished about Linux USB drivers. Hope it turned out ok, it seemed pretty messy.
Compaq supprised me with a machine to test out the hotplug PCI patches with. It's a very impressive piece of hardware. I finally got it all set up, and now have quite the room heaters :) I need to work on the drivers a bunch this week also, luckily my day job allows this.
survived that, now onward to new stuff...
tomorrow is not going to be a fun day...
Wee, got the Hotplug PCI
driver working on my box.
Now to attack it with a big stick...
Finished my paper late last night. Glad to see it done, hopefully some people find it interesting. Now to postpone writing my presentation till the last minute also :)work
It really sucks to see a good, talented, person let go for no good reason. And of course management explained it all very badly. I hope they realize what they did when all of their Windows machines need something and there's no one to help them. Of course I feel extra bad, as I had pointed the job out to him in the first place a year ago :( Now who do I get to bother when the server's disc is full?USB
Received a new USB 2.0 card. Looks real nice, hopefully I'll get some time now that my paper is done to hack on it. Also have to get this hotplug PCI driver working soon too, I hate cleaning up NTisms in Linux drivers.Should be an "interesting" month...
gotta get working on my paper for OLS...time is running
out...
Now I remember why I like writing code instead of documents
:)
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