You don't need a PhD in computer science and years of experience to hack the kernel. Sure, they help, but the nature of Linux development means that it's open to all by default. All you have to do is get stuck in. You use the Linux kernel in whatever shape or form every day; wouldn't you feel just the tiniest swell of pride if you'd helped work on it, no matter in how small a way?
I normally do the kernel configuration on my machine like this -
copy the distro configuration file to the kernel dir
make menuconfig (answer Y's/N's/M's) Normally keep return key pressed
for default answers
then do the actual kernel compilation
Now, I know that this is not a clean way to do the kernel compilation
(although it has worked for me for thousands of times that I have
compiled an
While most Linux users are fine with just using the kernel supplied by their distribution vendor, there are some enthusiasts and professional users who end up tweaking their kernel configuration extensively for their needs, particularly if they are within a corporate environment where the very best performance and reliability is demanded for a particular workload.
I've been writing an occasional "Ask a kernel maintainer" column on the
lwn.net weekly kernel page.
Guys, probably an obvious error so I apologise in advance - trying to install vmware player, and it needs the kernel-source to build drivers.
I've gone out and downloaded kernel-source for my running kernel.
However it's complaining that the kernel-source (2.6.31.12-0.1) does not match the running kernel (2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop).
I am planning to write some device drivers and I need to get the Linux kernel source. My Linux kernel version is 3.2.0-23-generic-pae and I downloaded the image from this. In many of the articles I have read, it tells me that I need to have the entire kernel tree to start inserting new modules.
i'm user centos 6.3 kernel 2.6.32and i want to modified and patch kernel such as l7layer, pp2p to new kernel version 2.6.35download kernel source (tar.gz) from kernel.o... [by slackman]
Linux Kernel Manual Pages
By Erik Schweigert
Having the ability to lookup how a kernel function works is very handy when writing your own device driver or any kernel module. Unfortunately you cannot just apt-get install kernel-manpages. Well wouldn’t that be nice! To get your kernel manual pages for a specific kernel you can download the kernel source and execute a few choice commands.
I maintain a customized kernel, also I provide patches that you can use directly for major version of kernel source code, now I got a classic problem,
I developed the patch based on 3.7.8 kernel, as newer version 3.7.9 is out, I had to develop the patch for 3.7.9 as well, but how should I do this quickly?
Right now, I download the whole source code of 3.7.9, migrate the code to new version of ke
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