Fortiter Et Recte
Congratulations to the Ksplice team which has just been awarded the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award in Security/Privacy for 2009!
Ksplice is technology which can apply patches to the Linux kernel on the fly, without needing a reboot. Also see my interview with Waseem Daher, one of the founding members of the team.
Greg Kroah-Hartman has posted a status update for drivers in the 2.6.32 kernel. This in particular, was rather funny:
hv (Microsoft Hyper-V) drivers. Over 200 patches make up the
massive cleanup effort needed to just get this code into a
semi-sane kernel coding style (someone owes me a bit bottle of
rum for that work!) Unfortunately the Microsoft developers
seem to have disappeared, and no one is answering my emails.
If they do not show back up to claim this driver soon, it will
be removed in the 2.6.33 release. So sad…
After all his work to get the patches in, Microsoft no longer gives a crap? Perhaps they did just do it because they were forced to after violating the GPL.
From time to time I need to compile a 32bit kernel on a 64bit system and the kernel’s make scripts appear to detect my hardware and override my settings. I always forget what option to pass (even though it’s really, really easy), so I’m just blogging it here for my own future reference 
make menuconfig ARCH=i386
make -j2 ARCH=i386
make modules -j2 ARCH=i386
make modules_install ARCH=i386
make install ARCH=i386
Phew.. glad I have that written down somewhere!
Ever since I heard about the Openmoko, a completely open mobile phone, I was really interested. Open hardware, open software, Linux, handy little device that might be useful? Awesome.
The latest developer model, the Neo Freerunner GTA02, has been available for a few months now and Jason bought one (which means I get to play with it). Originally the moko was developed using GTK, but now there are lots of different images for it.
Recently, Qt Extended (formally Qt Embedded pre Nokia purchase of Trolltech) released an image for the moko based on their 4.4.1 codebase. I thought I’d check it out and I was pretty impressed!
Note, that if you’re following this, make sure you get the correct version for your moko. The Freerunner is GTA02, while the original Neo1973 is GTA01.
First I had to download the kernel image and the root image (for the GTA02, of course).
Continue reading ‘The openmoko is sooo Qt’
New kernel is out, yay!
Of particular interest to me is using kexec as a way to suspend the machine, although it is only 32bit at the moment 
There are plenty of other neat new features.