Kernel Labs

I’ve personally been very happy with the blog. Have you? Traffic and posts are rising and it’s a useful mechanism that allows the folk here at KernelLabs to communicate with you. The blog is also a mechanism that enables you to comment on the specific issues we’re raising. We like your feedback. The blog is… Read More

At KernelLabs, one of the questions we receive often has to do with choosng a tuner for use under Linux. Sometimes it’s from end users looking to buy a single tuner for their home theatre PC, sometimes it’s from resellers, and sometimes it’s from embedded customers looking to deploy thousands of units. And in most… Read More

… So for some reason network traffic to the web server stalled yesterday around 2pm. Thanks to everyone who emailed to raise the issue. The server is back up now, around 9.30am Sunday (Yes – clearly, as you’re able to read this). We also have an intermittent disk issue that I’ve been monitoring for the… Read More

In case any of you were looking to try out digital TV under Linux, woot has the ATI TV Wonder 600 USB for $19.95. http://www.woot.com/ It’s a good entry level tuner I added Linux support for last year. It doesn’t have an MPEG encoder and cannot do ClearQAM, but works great for over-the-air ATSC and… Read More

Yeah, life can throw you a curve ball once in a while. My older HP Desktop is a 2.4GHz HT 1GB system. It’s 5 years old. Great value for money. It’s also my MythTV backend… and it’s also been slowly dying for the last 3 months. What a saga. With the TV schedules just restarting… Read More

I saw the following email on the video4linux mailing list, and wanted to take some time to talk about it since I think it raises some interesting issues. Here’s the email: From: Bill Davidsen [email address redacted] To: video4linux M/L <video4linux-list@redhat.com> Date: Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:04 AM Subject: Upgrading from FC4 to current… Read More

The Linux Plumbers Conference in Portland wrapped up yesterday afternoon. Here are some highlights: KGDB Talk – a status update on kernel debugger support by Jason Wessel and Jesse Barnes. They discussed various issues with getting kgdb and kdb merged together into the upstream kernel. With the introduction of Kernel Mode Switching, you can now… Read More

In preparation for the Linux Plumber Conference next week, there has been considerable discussion about Hans Verkuil’s proposed Media Controller framework. If you only took a cursory read of the framework, you might wonder why you would care about any of this if you aren’t building embedded systems. However, there is actually a *very* real-world… Read More

A quick note to all readers… The kernellabs.com will be unavailable between 7PM and midnight (Eastern) on Wednesday August 5th 2009. We’re taking a few hours to do some scheduled maintenance.

I booked my trip to the Linux Plumbers Conference today: http://linuxplumbersconf.org/2009/ For those of you who were thinking of going but haven’t registered yet, the Early Bird Registration has been extended to August 5th, so there is still time to get the cheaper rate… It will be good to meet some of the LinuxTV developers,… Read More