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posted 17 Aug 2007

Today's discoveries:

  • TCC is a tiny C compiler that allows you to do #!/usr/bin/tcc -run at the top of C files! It is really handy for those 20 line test programs.

Things I am working on:

  • Today I wrote what seems like a proper solution to a QEMU bug that was causing CDROM devices to be unhappy under recent Kernel versions. The bug turns out to be really simple but it took a bit of time to learn about ATAPI and AT devices to understand what was failing.
  • I am also working on a patch to give quilt the ability to pull down a series and all patches via http/ftp. It is a bit frustrating being pointed at a patches/ directory but having no quick way of pulling them into your series.
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Brandon Philips by Mujtaba Ali

ifup.org is the weblog of Brandon Philips and contains excerpts from my code, work and play.

I write Linux software and work on the systems layer of Linux. In the last two years I have helped to organize Linux Plumbers Conf and Freedom HEC Taipei. It has been rewarding to bring together these communities to discuss current Linux issues.

Robotics is another passion and I had the opportunity to mentor a FIRST Robotics team in Portland recently too. I also continue to work with my friend Ron Jackson to build some neat USB devices for robotics.