LWN.net Releases Linux 2.6 Kernel Driver Porting Series.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BOULDER Boulder, city, United States Boulder, city (1990 pop. 83,312), seat of Boulder co., N central Colo.; inc. 1871. A Rocky Mountain resort and a suburb of Denver, it is the seat of the Univ. of Colorado (1876). , Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2003 LWN LWN Linux Weekly News LWN Last Week's News LWN Labour Women's Network (UK) LWN Long Weld Neck LWN Land War Net LWN Local Website Network LWN Linux World Network .net, the premier web site for news from the Linux development community, is pleased to announce that its extensive series of articles on porting device drivers to the 2.6 kernel The nucleus of an operating system. It is the closest part to the machine level and may activate the hardware directly or interface to another software layer that drives the hardware. is now complete, current, and freely available. The LWN.net Driver Porting series consists of almost 40 highly technical, detailed articles describing how the kernel programming interface has changed between the 2.4 and soon-to-be-released 2.6 kernels. Topics covered range from the new kernel build system through advanced topics, including the block layer, network drivers, and the 2.6 device model. This series has been almost one year in the making, but all of the articles have been rechecked and revised to reflect the interfaces found in the 2.6.0-test11 kernel. LWN.net Executive Editor Jonathan Corbet said: "The development effort leading up to the 2.6 kernel has resulted in a much improved, safer, and more scalable programming interface. These changes are welcome, but they place a significant learning requirement on anybody who must make kernel code work with the new release. By making this extensive documentation freely available, LWN.net hopes to make a small contribution to the continued development of the Linux kernel The nucleus of the Linux operating system. The Linux kernel, which was developed by Linus Torvalds, was integrated with software from the GNU Project and other sources to create the actual Linux operating system. See Linux, GNU/Linux and kernel. ." The LWN.net Driver Porting series may be found at http://lwn.net/Articles/driver-porting/. About LWN.net LWN.net has been providing detailed coverage from the Linux and free software development community since 1998. LWN offers news updates several times each day, its flagship Weekly Edition which offers a comprehensive view of each week's events, and special features including the Driver Porting series. LWN is a subscriber-supported publication, but makes all of its content freely available one or two weeks after publication; its corporate subscribers include the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Linux Technology Center The IBM Linux Technology Center (LTC) is an organization focused on development for the Linux kernel and related open-source software projects. In 1999, IBM created the LTC to combine its software developers interested in Linux and other open-source software into a single organization. , Dell, the Debian Project, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , and numerous others. |
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