Talk:Linux kernel
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I think that this page needs more information on the capabilities of the Linux kernel; things like it's RCU implementation, it's new unified device model, User Mode Linux, ACPI etc. I'll do what I can, but I'm sure that there are people who are better suited to this task than I am, and who would know how to better present the extra information I am looking for.
--MJA
What language(s) is the Linux kernel actually written in? The Wiki article says "almost entirely in C", but I wonder if actually, the Linux kernel uses gcc compiler extensions to the C language. If so, is it proper to simply state that it is written in C? - LarryW 22:16, 16 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Maybe not ANSI C, but it is C. Some device drivers may include inline assembler, but as such they are architecture-dependent. I assume that's what the "mostly" refers to. -- Miguel
C with a few gcc extensions. But even with a few extensions, it's still C. It's "almost entirely in C" because a small minority of the code is written in assembler. Adrian Bunk 20:20, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Should it be Compaq Alpha? They merged with HP...
Needs to get more technical
This article needs a good description of how the kernel is arranged internally, starting with the directories in the kernel source, kernel/, fs/ sound/ and so on, how they relate to each other and how the build process takes place. -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (https://academickids.com:443/encyclopedia/index.php?title=User_talk:%C6var_Arnfj%F6r%F0_Bjarmason&action=edit§ion=new) 21:24, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)
Who has the most ports?
I read in MatthewWilcox changes that "NetBSD has been ported to almost as many architectures" Do we have some numbers for that? Some quick googling gave these pages: [1] (http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/) for NetBSD and [2] (http://perso.wanadoo.es/xose/linux/linux_ports.html) for Linux. It certainly seems that NetBSD "wins" in number of ports. Does anybody has better references? Sander123 13:33, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- http://www.kroah.com/log/2004/09/29/#more_archs is a claim from a Linux kernel hacker that Linux supports more architectures than NetBSD; it references the Linux User Group HOWTO (http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO-1.html). Neilc 14:41, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
List of people involved in Linux
It would good to have on this page (or another page) a list of the people involved in Linux and who they are. The people I could find in WikiPedia so far were: [[[Linus_Torvalds]]], [[[Alan_Cox]]], [[[Ingo_Molnar]]], [[[Marcelo_Tosatti]]] and [[[Miguel_de_Icaza]]] has worked on it in the past. a good place to start might be in the Linux MAINTAINERS (http://lxr.linux.no/source/MAINTAINERS) file.
- Don't forget Robert Love.