Yes, I think I’ll let jiffies overflow on pell. What could possibly go wrong?
So I’ll mark this down as “Linux 2.0.28 does not deal well with a jiffy overflow” and put it on my list of things to fix when I try to wedge UDMA, SATA (the wide scsi disks in pell are only about a decade old, and I’m sure they’re waiting for the perfect day to physically disassemble themselves over the inside of the case,) and USB support into the kernel. In, of course, my copious free time (which reminds me that I should probably convert the kernel time counter into an int*8 field, because my copious free time should be freeing up around the time the epoch rolls over.
Comments
The bulk of the computing I do is userland stuff, so it’s pretty irrelevant if it’s a Linux machine or a BSD machine (well, except for having to deal with the technological illiteracy around gcc,) but when a machine actually dies it’s either some hardware exploding (at which point I grumble, then replace the offending item) or the OS tripping over something and breaking its neck. In that case, it can’t help but be a complaint about a particular kernel version – It’s the nature of the beast.
PDP-11s are lovely machines to program in assembly language, but DEC was too stupid to market them, and now the assembly language is a dead bunny, alas. But you can still buy and program 6502s (both as themselves and in their guise as 65816s) so the art of programming ancient hardware is still around.
Comments are closed
I was looking for a rainy day pic - landed me on TSFR2005 - I read a bit - when I saw “Open Source.” The paragraphs contained the words “version” & “kernel.” has ever a word been written about UNIX that didn’t? Fastly upto your home page to view 08entries - Now it’s LINUX, for sure, “kernel,” two of them. Kernel,kernel.Kernel.Colonel.
Since I turned 161 this year I’m not allowed to program computers anymore, sigh. So my PDP11 asm and all my VME stuff is now retired, official. Besides I just can’t interview anymore, I have to sit in front of those 50 year old kids not even ½ my age and get grilled once again on virtual inheritance, pure, etal. Heh, when did ++ become ##. Is there a special cemetery for ATL gurus? Oh ya. Is Bill Joy still with us, I got a viEditor question for him, been nagging me?
Joel S.