Writing a new driver framework in Linux is hard. There are many pitfalls along the way; this talk hopes to point out some of those pitfalls and hard lessons learned through examples, advice and humorous anecdotes in the hope that it will aid those adventurous enough...
Flash devices introduced a sudden shift in the performance profile of direct attached storage. With IOPS rates orders of magnitude higher than rotating storage, it became clear that Linux needed a re-design of its storage stack to properly support and get the most out...
Kernel development is often associated with rebooting crashed machines, debugging over serial consoles, and an unwiedly development cycle. Developers know that short development cycles are incredibly important for programmer productivity. The QEMU machine emulator and...
WireGuard is an upcoming project to replace IPSec with a newer more modern and secure VPN protocol. It lives inside the kernel and provides a very simple and novel interface for setting up secure encrypted network tunnels. All the cryptography is cutting edge —...
Every Linux kernel needs a hardware platform to run it. Compared to twenty years ago, the relationships between hardware manufacturers and the Linux kernel community has improved in order to render the Linux kernel usage easy. This requires an organization on both...
