Alexander Leidinger

In the last days I did not only spend my time approving stuff of my mentee Boris, I also worked a little bit on the linuxolator myself. Thanks to Dmitry Ganenko and a mail of him to emulators@ I was able to fix some bugs which prevented Oracle 10g Express Edition from running. While the [...]

A happy welcome to Boris Samorodov to the ports committers team (I’m his mentor). This means I don’t have the burden to take care of the linuxolator infrastructure in the Ports Collection alone anymore. Yeah!

Today I committed another part of Roman’s work in the linuxolator SoC. Now we should get log messages for the new [...]

I did shoot down some USB related PR’s today. We have now support for more devices in uscanner, umodem and one new PDA in uvisor. Additionally all people which use the controller of a XBOX 360 will now notice that the LEDs on them stop blinking, when the uhid driver attaches to it (like on [...]

I committed a little bit of cleanup / some XXX comments to the soundsystem, extended the linux(4) man page a little bit and removed some alpha specific section 4 man pages which where overlooked at the time alpha was removed from current.

I think I will enjoy the sun in the backyard a little bit now… [...]

Just returned home from a nice evening with friends and noticed, that the wife of one of our committers has some serious medical problems. Therefore Ruslans asks for help and the spreading of this bad news. I hope a lot of people read this and are able to help Ruslan’s love.

I committed the 5 year old envy24 driver by Katsurajima Naoto. Konstantin Dimitrov spend some time to fix some bugs and to add support for some more soundcards. Currently supported / known to work are:

M-Audio Audiophile 2496
M-Audio Delta Dio 2496
Terratec DMX 6fire

Reports about other working devices are welcome.

There are some known problems too, they are [...]

Portmgr committed the switch to the new default linux base port yesterday. After returning home from work I committed the corresponding UPDATING entry.

Today I marked all unmaintained/old linux base ports as deprecated (some are marked because they are EOL, some are marked because of bitrod). I use a expiration time of about 3 months. So [...]

I just removed the COMPAT_43 option from the GENERIC kernel in current. This may result in increased performance for some workloads.

In the last days I also “mentored” a little bit my SoC students. Reviewing some changes, suggesting some imrovements, committing some stuff which is ready, discussing various things and so on.

And last but not least, [...]

The last week has seen some bikesheds. One of them was my commit of the doxygen infrastructure for the kernel subsystems. Some people don’t like the way doxygen requires some markup tags in the comments, some people don’t think such API docs provide additional value and some people fear that 3rd party developers may use [...]

Just committed the FC4 port Boris did after Joe did the repocopy (Thanks Joe!). It seems this is the newest FC based linux_base port we can use with the current linuxolator.