Norman McEntire

Norman McEntire holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Engineering from USC, where he has also served as an Adjunct Professor in the Engineering School.

Norman has many years of experience in both hardware design and software design. Before founding Servin Corporation in 1995, he lead the design of the NCR Tower 32/200, a multi-user UNIX-based business computer.

Linux Internals and Device Drivers

In this fast paced and demo-packed presentation, you'll see Linux Internals and Device Drivers in action. Using KDB (Kernel Debugger) and other tools, you'll see live demos of key Linux kernel functionality, including: booting, the process states (R,S,D,T,Z), kernel threads, system calls, memory management, /proc, and device drivers. Don't miss this exciting opportunity to see the internal operation of the Linux Kernel!

Resources:

• Presentation [PDF]
• MP3 (25.3MB)
• OGG (26.2MB)