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From: "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
To: CRISTIAN ANDRES VARGAS GONZALEZ <vargascristian@americana.edu.co>
Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: Do I need strong mathematical bases to work in the memory subsystem?
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 01:06:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <35772.1569819987@turing-police> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABfRCzgLb7cmTDPH_6VF6ERbDJbuw2W4AcTvfRb_W5XQfNWJFQ@mail.gmail.com>


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On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 17:48:43 -0500, CRISTIAN ANDRES VARGAS GONZALEZ said:

> Hello good morning, to be developed from the kernel do I need to have good
> math bases? I want to help in the ram memory subsystem and I have that
> doubt thank you.

Depends what you mean by "strong math basics".  You'll *definitely* need to
understand decimal/hexadecimal/binary/octal and how to convert between
them. Understanding algebra is useful.

If you've had some intro to complexity theory so you understand why an O(N^2)
algorithm is usually worse than one that's O(N log N), that helps. Also,
knowing enough computing theory to understand what a finite state machine is,
and why to use one, and how to write code to implement one, is useful.

You *probably* don't need calculus or deep number theory or a lot of other
pure math.

Programming in the kernel doesn't require any more math than what's required
for competent programming in userspace.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-30  5:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-29 22:48 Do I need strong mathematical bases to work in the memory subsystem? CRISTIAN ANDRES VARGAS GONZALEZ
2019-09-30  5:06 ` Valdis Klētnieks [this message]
2019-10-03  1:47   ` Ruben Safir
2019-10-03  3:35     ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-10-03  3:42       ` Ruben Safir
2019-10-03  7:00         ` Greg KH
2019-10-03 10:55           ` Ruben Safir
2019-10-03 16:51             ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-10-03 17:21               ` Sahil Gupta
2019-10-06  1:49         ` Grant Taylor
2019-10-16 15:18         ` Cindy Sue Causey

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