The 2002 Kernel Developers' Summit [LWN.net]

The 2002 Linux Kernel Developers' Summit was held June 24 and 25 in Ottawa, Ontario. At this event, a number of issues relevant to the latter part of the 2.5 development series were worked out. LWN's Jonathan Corbet was there, and has written up the experience.

Day One covered the Hammer port, kernel parameters, rationalizing the loadable module mechanism, virtual memory, and the block I/O subsystem.
Day Two was dedicated to what database systems need from Linux, HP's kernel wishlist, the Loadable Security Module, asynchronous I/O, SCSI, and the kernel release process. Among other things, a firm date has been set for the 2.6 feature freeze.

Look inside the individual days' coverage for the details.

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A OS Kernel for the world hardware or a OS kernel for his "Brave Dreamers"

Posted Jun 28, 2002 5:55 UTC (Fri) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

WELL, MANY CHEERS AND THANKS HAS TO BE GIVEN TO THESE "GENIUS" FOR TRYING TO CHANCE THE WORLD...but!!!
ALTHOUG, NOT BEEING A DEVELOPER, AND LACKING THE TECHNOLOGIC "EXPERTIZE" DO DISCUSS DETAILS OFF THE KERNEL,...I BELIVE ,IN A SIMPLITIC AND PRAGMATIC WAY THAT A KERNEL'S PRIME DIRECTIVE AND "FIRST" JOB IS TO "RUN"\ "COMMUNICATE" WITH ALMOST ALL THE HARDWARE IT CAN FIND. AND FROM THAT PRESPECTIVE I REGRET TO SAY IT, BUT THE "LINUX KERNEL IS A FAILURE"...EVEN MORE WHEN COMPARED WHIT WINDOWS!!!...DONT GET ME WRONG! THE PROBLEM ISN'T EASY,..LINUX KERNEL IS TECHNOLOGICAL SUPERIOR IN A LOT OF ASPECTS..., IS EVOLVING FAST..., THE NEW DRIVER MODEL CAN HELP A LOT,...BUT THE "HOLY" SERVER FOCUS HIS ALWAYS BIASING ALL THE VIEW.!!! HEY, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY "DESKTOP" NOT EVEN ONCE, EVER!!!..JUST SAY RUN ALL THE DAMM HARWARE THAT INDUSTRY PITCH TO US, WHATEVER THAT IS...AND YOU WILL ASSIST TO THE EXPLOSION OF A LINUX DESKTOP BUSINESS, THAT WOULD SCARE THE HELL OUT OF MICRO$OFT!!!

BUT WHAT THE WELL, IF "LINUS" HAS THE BALLS TO ENDORSE A FULL ASYNCRONOUS I/O KERNEL FROM BOTTOM TO TOP. THEN HE COULD EASLY ENDORSE A "FULL LINUX I2O "SPLIT DRIVER" MODEL"(STEPPING ON M$ FACE, AND GIVING WHAT THEY HAVE BEING PROMOSSING FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS).IF NOT THIS THAN SOMETHING ELSE THAT WOULD STOP FOR GOOD WITH THE "modeversion" CRAP, AND ALLOWED THE INSTALATION OF ANY DEVICE DRIVER WITH A SINGLE CLICK, FROM THE USER SPACE TO THE KERNEL SPACE.

"THIS IS NOT FOCUSING ON A USERSPACE MISSION:-SERVER,DESKTOP,WHATEVER,...BUT ON THE PRIMARY FUNCTION OF A OS KERNEL"

TIME HIS GETTING SHORT, AND I DEEPLY HOPE THE LINUX KERNEL HEROES HAVE THE WISDOM TO SEE CLEAR AND IN THE NEST KERNEL SUMMIT, COMPANYS LIKE CREATIVE, LOGITECH, VIA, ASUSTECH, NVIDEA, ATI, SYS, PINNACLE, MUSTECK..ETC CAN ALSO PARTICIPATE AND TELL WHAT'S NEEDED!!!