I’ve been working on cli tool for a little while called dhcpm (“m” for “mock” - link). It started as a cli tool for constructing & sending arbitrary DHCP messages. I had been looking for a tool that could build various dhcp (mostly v4) messages with d... (more…)

With the new OverloadedRecordDot language extension, we can use the . character to access stuff on records. (more…)

One of my favorite tools that exists internally is our smart bookmarking tool commonly referred to as “bunnylol.”... (more…)

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, gr... (more…)

Overview This calling convention can be used for definining interrupt handlers on 32-bit and 64-bit x86 targets. The compiler then uses iret instead of ret for returning and ensures that all regist... (more…)