The next Linux Kernel Debugging Tools monthly meeting is tomorrow, Wednesday, February 28th at 11:30 AM Pacific time. See the linux-debuggers mailing list for the agenda: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-debuggers/Zd5FF1aTvhHWcHhY@telecaster/ and let me know if you'd like an invite.

So, this is fun, but it really chews through your ChatGPT credits. :`)

I'm working on b4 "code review" mode (grab a series, apply it to your tree, review every patch, send all your acked-by's, reviewed-by's, and individual comments as a one lump batch at the end of your review). The reason I'm playing with this is to see if we can plug in some AI pre-analysis and discussion summaries before the reviewer starts their work.

We had a lot of #linaro hackers wondering around at #fosdem this year it seems: https://www.linaro.org/blog/linaro-fosdem-2024/

The #Linux Security Summit, April 18 & 19, in Seattle, has published the schedule:
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/linux-security-summit-north-america/program/schedule/
Come join us!

Linux is now a CNA: http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2024/02/13/linux-is-a-cna/

This has taken a long time, I'd like to thank all the groups that helped, and especially the CVE group themselves. Our application was a bit different than other groups, but they understood that this is important for security overall.

One-line fix, you say? Meh. Here's a zero-line fix!

1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/27573/diffs?commit_id=d8e4a4e44b3e3bb493535f87c14123e4dbbe1209

Wondering if that might be something the #Linux #kernel development community could use to motivate a few people to improve the #LinuxKernel's docs:

"'"Google Season of Docs provides direct grants to open source projects to improve their documentation and gives professional technical writers an opportunity to gain experience in open source."'"

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/02/announcing-google-season-of-docs-2024.html

When I got started with Linux kernel debugging, one of the most opaque topics was core dumps. What's inside them? What formats are there? How do they get created? How can you fix them if they're broken?

I've learned a lot over the past several years, and I wrote a guide based on my experience. It's a very long article, and surely not complete. I hope if you're interested in kernel debugging, you might read it and find it useful!

https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/whats-inside-a-linux-kernel-core-dump

@TheWarOnCars Sometimes I feel like people are just being assholes because they can, it kind of drives me crazy because I don't really know what to do...

is running my X1 carbon in high-TDP mode all the time a bad idea?

git config --global rerere.enabled true

I learned this at #FOSDEM. You too might want to set it.

I made it this year, I’m in Brussels for #FOSDEM ! Join me tomorrow in room h1309 at 11h30 CEST for my talk about the mainline Linux state of Qualcomm SoCs and @LinaroLtd engineers work to achieve current state https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1707-mainline-linux-on-qualcomm-socs-are-we-here-now-/

At the risk of spoiling next week's "quote of the week": @monsieuricon 's post on why projects like the kernel and Git continue working over email is definitely worth a read.

Calling QEMU developers to send their Google Summer of Code project ideas.

https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/CAJSP0QX9TQ-=PD7apOamXvGW29VwJPfVNN2X5BsFLFoP2g6USg@mail.gmail.com/T/#u

The state of eBPF https://lwn.net/Articles/960036/ #LWN

Because DATE conference organization extended their early-bird registration period by 3 weeks to Feb 14, we introduced a second early-bird review cycle with a submission deadline on Feb 7, and a notification date at Feb 13.

Get your papers in!

https://osda.ws/r/svc6K

#osda24 #eda #opensource #software #silicon

GNU Binutils 2.42 released with improvements to support for CFI, AArch64, RISC-V, Intel, s390x.
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2024-January/132213.html

A fantastic job opportunity here, a German train company are looking for a Windows 3.11 Administrator https://www.gulp.de/gulp2/g/projekte/agentur/C00929028

A customer found their machine being hung during reboot. A vmcore was collected. The vmcore analysis shown that the reboot sequence was stuck with tasks waiting for TTY to be unlocked after Scroll Lock was pressed. The customer came back demanding a workaround. Our reply was something like "press Scroll Lock again to unlock the TTY". I wonder what comes next.

If you think working as a Senior Principal in the Kernel team is fun, think twice.

#FOSDEM 2024 will be happening in a bit more than 1 week in Brussels!

Catch my talk "From phone hardware to mobile Linux" on Saturday morning or "Open Source for Sustainable and Long lasting Phones" (together with @agnes007 in the big Janson room!) on Sunday afternoon!

Or come by the @postmarketOS (+friends) stand in the AW building!

I hope to see you there!

Links:

https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2234-from-phone-hardware-to-mobile-linux/
https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3362-open-source-for-sustainable-and-long-lasting-phones/
https://fosdem.org/2024/stands/