Documentation

Documentation

[war]

Are there any relatively new documents on how to optimize /proc system
variables?
Securing and Optimizing RedHat Linux had a few,
/usr/src/linux/Documentation has a few.
Are there any current papers/documents that encompass all of the
settings and options that you can set?

ie: for 1 GB of ram
echo "100 1200 128 512 15 5000 500 1884 2" > /proc/sys/vm/bdflush
Would be used.

However, this was taken from either a 2.2.x kernel or early 2.4.

Anyone know if any docs currently exist which explain how to tweak each
setting and what each setting means?

Documentation

[Guillaume Chamberland-Larose]

Hi,

I have some linux kernel programming experience from the 2.0 days and I'd 
like to start programming it again, or at least understand the new 
features. Is there any really up-to-date information on 2.5, what's changed 
(build process, new VM, new this), what's new for developers eager to jump 
into kernel programming again? :)

Thanks for your cooperation,
Please cc me as I'm not on the list.

Guills

Re: Documentation

[Yven J. Leist]

On Saturday 02 February 2002 10:18, Guillaume Chamberland-Larose wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some linux kernel programming experience from the 2.0 days and I'd
> like to start programming it again, or at least understand the new
> features. Is there any really up-to-date information on 2.5, what's changed
> (build process, new VM, new this), what's new for developers eager to jump
> into kernel programming again? :)

http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status/status.html
provides a nice overview of 2.5 changes.
cheers,
Yven
-- 

Yven J. Leist - leist@beldesign.de
http://www.leist.beldesign.de

Re: Documentation

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Yven J. Leist wrote:

| On Saturday 02 February 2002 10:18, Guillaume Chamberland-Larose wrote:
| > Hi,
| >
| > I have some linux kernel programming experience from the 2.0 days and I'd
| > like to start programming it again, or at least understand the new
| > features. Is there any really up-to-date information on 2.5, what's changed
| > (build process, new VM, new this), what's new for developers eager to jump
| > into kernel programming again? :)
|
| http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status/status.html
| provides a nice overview of 2.5 changes.


also try http://www.osdl.org/archive/rddunlap/linux-port-25x.html

I need to add input API and frame buffer API changes to it...

-- 
~Randy