Flaming week....!!

When the Nazis arrested the Communists,
I said nothing; after all, I was not a Communist.
When they locked up the Social Democrats,
I said nothing; after all, I was not a Social Democrat.
When they arrested the trade unionists,
I said nothing; after all, I was not a trade unionist.
When they arrested the Jews, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Jew.
When they arrested me, there was no longer anyone who could protest.

Martin Niemöller

its been quite a week at work discovering new problems in the project. One of them were rather very obvious...it took me two days to figure this out. I regret spending so much time on such a stupid bug. All that i had to figure out was why the serial initialization code (written in assembly) was hanging. The solution to that was ....no return instruction for the processor we are using.

Now i am kind stuck with a blizare problem. I havent been able to print strings. The kernel implementations looks to quite different. I suppose the problem is the cross-compiler. Its been generating huge amount of assembly junk...

Another bug that i have to solve is even better. I cannot using global declarations. why?...cos this initialized data goes and comfortably sits in the data section rather than rodata(read only). i have been working with the linker script for quite some time.....i havent got a clue to go about solving this now. But i will some time soon.

I have been having a pretty stressful time at work, for which i have compensated well this week. Its been parties all this week, which i suppose is gonna end today. Its been loads and loads of beer plus good flaming tequilla shots. In this happening week i did meet qutie a few jerks. Localites obviously, but i was there just get my self relaxed. People here actually play boy band songs in the PUB...huh?

Last, but very interesting. I have started hacking on a bootloader, which i am looking to open source it. I want volunteers who can test my code on various architectures and get back to me on the behaviour...so that i can fix the bugs. Currently i am still on the ethernet driver. I am looking to support ARM, MOTOROLA and i386. Its working with bugs on the hardware i am using for project. But i have to be running U-Boot on that. Any one willing to contribute, please get in touch with me for the code.

I miss being in Bangalore...!

These are the snaps from the latest Canon D30. I want it.....


Hammond Castle column


Gargoyle's Abode

Phoenix

I want a machine for myself now....it sucks without it.



Currently reading Deception Point - Dan Brown