Hi,
We are pleased to announce the availability of "Linux Kernel Tester's Guide" v0.3-rc1.
This short guide describes the basics of kernel testing. The handbook is divided into six chapters:
1 The kernel, patches, trees and compilation
1.1 The kernel
1.2 Patches
1.3 Ketchup
1.4 Trees
1.5 The -mm tree
1.6 Compilation and installation
1.6.1 Kernel compilation
1.6.2 Useful make options
1.6.3 Kernel modules
1.6.4 Kernel hacking options
1.6.5 Magic SysRq
1.6.6 Installation
1.6.7 Automated configuration and installation
2 Testing
2.1 Phase One
2.2 Phase Two (AutoTest)
2.3 Phase Three
2.4 Measuring performance
2.5 Hello world! or What exactly are we looking for?
2.6 Binary drivers and distribution kernels
3 Collecting kernel messages
3.1 Syslog, console and dmesg
3.2 Serial console
3.3 Network console
4 Git, quilt and binary searching
4.1 Git
4.2 Quilt
4.3 General idea of binary searching
4.4 Binary searching with the help of quilt
4.5 Binary searching with the help of git-bisect
4.6 Caveats
5 Reporting bugs
6 Testing of hardware
A Related topics
A.1 Test system
A.2 KLive
A.3 Sending patches
A.4 How to become the kernel developer?
B License
PDF version
http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/handbook/handbook-en-0.3-rc1.pdf
LaTeX source
http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/handbook/handbook-current.tar.bz2
Any comments, suggestions and patches are welcome.
Huge thanks goes to Rafael J. Wysocki who translated the entire guide into English.
This is one of those rare cases when translation is better than original version :).
Regards,
Michal
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LOG
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Hello, Michal, Rafael!
Good work!
Some (minor) comments below.
Michal Piotrowski schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> We are pleased to announce the availability of "Linux Kernel Tester's
> Guide" v0.3-rc1.
>
> This short guide describes the basics of kernel testing. The handbook is
> divided into six chapters:
>
> 1 The kernel, patches, trees and compilation
> 1.1 The kernel
I would prefer to use a -rc in the examples and not one of the
stable 2.6.x.y kernels.
> 1.2 Patches
> 1.3 Ketchup
I would prefer using git in the examples.
There is no such thing as "apt-get" in generic linux.
> Any comments, suggestions and patches are welcome.
There is just too less time to test the kernel much in
detail. It would be fine to have the whole book as
./test-my-system-now-but-dont-ask-me.sh ;-)
Good luck,
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Clemens Koller
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Hi Clemens,
On 19/06/07, Clemens Koller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, Michal, Rafael!
>
> Good work!
Thanks :)
> Some (minor) comments below.
>
> Michal Piotrowski schrieb:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are pleased to announce the availability of "Linux Kernel Tester's
> > Guide" v0.3-rc1.
> >
> > This short guide describes the basics of kernel testing. The handbook is
> > divided into six chapters:
> >
> > 1 The kernel, patches, trees and compilation
> > 1.1 The kernel
>
> I would prefer to use a -rc in the examples and not one of the
> stable 2.6.x.y kernels.
>
> > 1.2 Patches
> > 1.3 Ketchup
>
> I would prefer using git in the examples.
> There is no such thing as "apt-get" in generic linux.
>
> > Any comments, suggestions and patches are welcome.
>
> There is just too less time to test the kernel much in
> detail. It would be fine to have the whole book as
> ./test-my-system-now-but-dont-ask-me.sh ;-)
How about "bin/autotest samples/all_tests"?
Regards,
Michal
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LOG
http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/
<On Jun 18 2007 22:11, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
>
> 1 The kernel, patches, trees and compilation
> 1.1 The kernel
Please do not advocate old-style tar option syntax.
> 1.2 Patches
> 1.3 Ketchup
> 1.4 Trees
> 1.5 The -mm tree
> 1.6 Compilation and installation
> 1.6.1 Kernel compilation
> 1.6.2 Useful make options
make O=/katalog seems out of place.
> 1.6.3 Kernel modules
> 1.6.4 Kernel hacking options
> 1.6.5 Magic SysRq
> 1.6.6 Installation
> 1.6.7 Automated configuration and installation
> 2 Testing
> 2.1 Phase One
> 2.2 Phase Two (AutoTest)
> 2.3 Phase Three
> 2.4 Measuring performance
> 2.5 Hello world! or What exactly are we looking for?
> 2.6 Binary drivers and distribution kernels
> 3 Collecting kernel messages
> 3.1 Syslog, console and dmesg
> 3.2 Serial console
Or set up minicom first... minicom -s ttyS0 (and then go to Serial port setup)
> PDF version
> http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/handbook/handbook-en-0.3-rc1.pdf
No HTML version?
>
> LaTeX source
> http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/handbook/handbook-current.tar.bz2
>
> Any comments, suggestions and patches are welcome.
>
> Huge thanks goes to Rafael J. Wysocki who translated the entire guide into
> English.
> This is one of those rare cases when translation is better than original
> version :).
>
Jan
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Hello, Michal!
Michal Piotrowski schrieb:
>> There is just too less time to test the kernel much in
>> detail. It would be fine to have the whole book as
>> ./test-my-system-now-but-dont-ask-me.sh ;-)
>
> How about "bin/autotest samples/all_tests"?
Ah, I really should read all of it:
There is "Chapter 2.2 Phase Two (AutoTest)".
I will give it a try...
Thanks,
--
Clemens Koller
__________________________________
R&D Imaging Devices
Anagramm GmbH
Rupert-Mayer-Stra?e 45/1
Linhof Werksgel?nde
D-81379 M?nchen
Tel.089-741518-50
Fax 089-741518-19
http://www.anagramm-technology.com
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 08:50:54AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> <On Jun 18 2007 22:11, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
...
> > PDF version
> > http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/handbook/handbook-en-0.3-rc1.pdf
>
> No HTML version?
I see I'm not the last of a kind... Or? So:
No txt version?
> > Any comments, suggestions and patches are welcome.
> >
> > Huge thanks goes to Rafael J. Wysocki who translated the entire guide into
> > English.
I join you in this thanking! (Sorry for delay.)
> > This is one of those rare cases when translation is better than original
> > version :).
It's probably mainly because my contribution (i.e. some comas)
is untranslatable!
Cheers,
Jarek P.
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 10:30:04AM +0200, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
...
> It's probably mainly because my contribution (i.e. some comas)
> is untranslatable!
After full awakening I've recalled there were a few very nice commas
as well!
Jarek P.
Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are pleased to announce the availability of "Linux Kernel Tester's
> Guide" v0.3-rc1.
It would be cool if we can get a clickable table of contents. Normally it's
enough to include \usepackage{hyperref} before running pdflatex.
Eike