Interesting Snippets from 2013-09-10

• booting a self-signed Linux kernel - Linux Kernel Monkey Log

  Now that The Linux Foundation is a member of the UEFI.org group, I’ve been working on the procedures for how to boot a self-signed Linux kernel on a platform so that you do not have to rely on any external signing authority. After digging through the documentation out there, it turns out to be relatively simple in the end, so here’s a recipe for how I did this, and how you can duplicate it yourself on your own machine.

• spotify/sparkey · GitHub

  Sparkey is a simple constant key/value storage library. It is mostly suited for read heavy systems with infrequent large bulk inserts. It includes both a C library for working with sparkey index and log files (libsparkey), and a command line utility for getting info about and reading values from a sparkey index/log (sparkey).

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