Peter Chubb has long been working on a project to move device drivers into user space. Getting drivers out of the kernel, he points out, would have a number of benefits. Faults in drivers (the source ...

Smartphones have plenty of great capabilities, allowing users to multitask like never before. This is excellent for a consumer, but for the tester it means coming up with new ways of testing. For ...

The software-interrupt mechanism is one of the oldest parts in the kernel; arguably, the basic design behind it predates Linux itself. Software interrupts can get in the way of other work so, for ...