Forum: Kernel

hi..can anyone give me a step-by-step guide or where i can find one that tells me how to re-compile the linux kernel?..any help would be appreciated..

I've successfully compiled the kernel from source on multiple occasions for both of my FC8 machines (laptop/desktop) and my Ubuntu server 7.10...

I am working on software for a proprietary MPC8641D based embedded board that will act as a root complex. The board runs GNU Linux version 2.6.xx...

Hi All, Anyone can provide some links on adding EXPORT_SYMBOL() to modules and description. Thanks ...

I just recompiled the 2.6.20 kernel after making some changes to it. But I am unable to boot from it.When I boot from it, the kernel is properly...

Hello All, I have ARM9 systems with JFFS2 root file system. For some reasons, e.g. system crash or power failure, when system boots up next time,...

Hello; Can you flush the kernel function printk? If so how do you do it?

I am building linux from scratch for an embedded system that has CF for storage and 128MB of SDRAM. I've built, for comparison, two separate kernels...

anyone know where I can get the 2.6 kernel patch for reiser4 filesystem? or just a guide on getting reiser4 support built into my kernel? I tried...

These two files i have created in som efolder in home dir 1)hello-1.c 2)Makefile #include <linux/module.h> /* Needed by all modules */...

Hello; Can anyone tell me what ENTRY(ret_from_intr) is? Is it a function, a macro or is it something completly different? The table entry.S has a...

I was working on this system with SquirrelMail and Sendmail. and Suddenly I got Kernel Panic.. I know I cant save what I was doing but maybe...

I am not able to find from where and when does inode->i_ops->truncate() gets called. Also I noticed that when we open a file in O_TRUNC mode, this...

Now days ,I am studying linux device driver . I now can write some simple device driver .But I encounter some difficult when I study the new device...

Hi! I am new to writing device drivers, and I would need to write one like this: Write a driver similar to the one with a circular buffer, this...

I'm looking at Linux for use in my company. I don't know very much about it but i know it's open source and most distros are free. What i'm...

While compiling atheros wifi code with LTIB compiler for ppc, I am getting the following linker errors rm -f...

Hi everyone; I am interested in linux kernel programming it is nice but so hard until now. I wanna implement a Linux kernel module that gives out...

I try to write a device driver which when i load module user will write something to to my device like: For example my device file is DFILE under...