Alan Perry's Blog

Wednesday May 11, 2005

Who am I and what am I doing here?

Hi,

My name is Alan Perry and I am a software engineer in the Solaris x86 kernel group. I work on the Firewire support in Solaris. Firewire is the Apple tradename for a serial bus protocol described by IEEE standard 1394. Right now, that means working on the dcam1394, av1394, scsa1394 and hci1394 drivers and the underlying framework driver (s1394) and drivers to support protocols (like sbp2). Firewire support for x86 and SPARC is available in Solaris 10. For more information about Firewire, check out the 1394 Trade Association website.

I also compete in a form of motorsports called stage rally. In stage rally, cars race against the clock on roads that have been closed. The driver has typically not seen the road before and is driving by what he sees and what he is being told by his co-driver. I am a co-driver. For a rally, I am given a book containing a detailed set of directions for all of the roads and that I use that to let the driver know what is coming up next on the road. Stage rally has an international following and is sanctioned in the US by Rally America and NASA.

Hope this ends up being interesting. ( May 11 2005, 01:15:00 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [2]