Rusty's Bleeding Edge Page

I was disappointed with the tutorial. We tried to be interactive and have people write their own driver, but we lost about 50% of people through the tutorial. But as it was, we had to abandon the interactive approach and run through the last half of the material in the last quarter of the presentation. Writing a PCI driver was clearly too much, although it seemed logical to write a driver. My patch series, lightly annotated, is here

Some people were having problems getting the device to fire an interrupt: it occurred to me later that perhaps qemu doesn't always initialize the interrupt lines correctly, and writing a "0" to the control word of the device would clear it (something which also needs to be done by the driver so it can get a second interrupt).

The highlight was getting to present with Robert Love , whose book has apparently sold out on campus already.

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