From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 13 22:17: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B5E914D48 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 22:17:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id WAA01032; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 22:16:27 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id WAA19569; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 22:16:26 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.39]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id WAA02234; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 22:15:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <387EC019.29BCBA6C@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 23:20:09 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Lucas Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reading the kernel sources References: <200001132144.QAA48936@blackhelicopters.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Lucas wrote: > > Wes Peters wrote: > > Michael Lucas wrote: > > > > > > I find myself in a contract where I sit for eight hours a day and wait > > > for something to break. It pays obscenely well, so I'm putting up > > > with the tedium. > > > > > > So, if I was to sit down and start reading /usr/src/sys, where's the > > > logical place to start? Or should I start elsehwere? Or is there no > > > logical statring place, and I should just assimilate it all en masse? > > > > Start with the PR database. Grab a PR, see if you can figure out what makes > > it go wrong, and then see if you can make it go right. Call this "directed > > research" of anyone asks what you're doing. > > Gut reaction: > > "Geez, I'd like to learn how to swim." > > "No problem! Just tie these cinderblocks to your wrists and ankles, > jump off the deep end, and you'll be ready to go." Close. Leave off the cinderblocks, just jump in. > Second reaction: > > Ah, what the hell. I might actually fix something. You might. Take your time, there's no hurry. ;^) > PS: Anyone know the status of zp0 in -current? Having interrupt problems, at least on the 589D. Get an NE2000 clone. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message