A Smackerel of Opinion
Notes and jottings from an ex-Ubuntu Kernel Team Engineer
Monday, 22 February 2010
Atom Z530 identity crisis
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Last week I peeked at /proc/cpuinfo on a Atom Z530 netbook and got the following model name information: model name : Intel(R) Core (TM) ...
Friday, 19 February 2010
Examining Wifi Signal Quality
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If one looks at the Wifi signal quality reported by a variety of Linux laptops one will see a range of different results even though the mac...
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
GCC inline assembler explained
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There are times when the Linux Kernel uses inline assembler to either use specific instruction sequences for optimal code efficiency or to u...
Monday, 15 February 2010
Kernel Oops page fault error codes
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The x86 Linux kernel Oops messages provide normally just enough information to help a kernel developer corner and fix critical bugs. The st...
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