Forum: Kernel

I have small software protocol that use socket to communicate with an external FPGA (through Ethernet). This FPGA is responsible about only...

Can someone help me with simple example of network driver modules that send and receive Ethernet packet on same network interface

Hi guys, I am understanding the linux start up sequence and stuck at the following: start_kernel() -> rest_init() -> kernel_init() ->...

Hello I am working on embedded linux and got to hit the ground running :( I started to read some code, and saw a different type of struct than...

hi all, I am currently working in the compression of IP header packets I use a library which is called RoHC ( Robust Header Compression) well,...

Hi everybody! I am currently working on a school project, to develop a custom transport protocol that would function right above the data link...

Hi mates, I am working on "Creation of Postmortem data logger on Linux platform.". It is nothing but coredump utility creation manually on the basis...

Hi All, I am trying to compile MIPS kernel, i am getting an error. /include/stt_mem.h: In function 'stt_virt_to_phys': /include/stt_mem.h:31:...

I am playing with a block driver code for ndas. The full code and latest is here: linux.ximeta.com:8000/trac/ticket/1142 The problem is the...

Hi there, I would like to know, why the kernel source tree is arranged as what we see now? The question occurs when the first time I started...

Hi, I wanted to know that, how the kernel .config file options are related to source code of kernel.

In Linux, a library call is a "normal" function call, while a system call goes through the kernel. Library functions do not go to kernel mode for...

Hi All, I am trying to compile one kernel for mips architecture, executing make command is giving error as follows, /usr/lib: file not...

hi, for some days now i have been struggeling with the following issue: i have a C webapp running on a apache webserver, from this app i call to...

I would really appreciate if someone can explain why I see the title issue occasionally. Here are the rel info. Linux ver: 2.6.32.25(i686...

Hi mates, I am working on tracing the signal handling mechanism in linux kernel internallly. For that, i build the kernel. Now, i want to trace the...

Hello, I'm writing a small module to be used on 64bit systems with number of cores > 1. I'd like to read the IDT address on the requested core. I see...

I am using MS Windows XP, and have a CentOS on VMWare. I downloaded and installed Bridge-Utils from:...

Hello Everybody, I have a big problem to understand the file code in net/sched/sch_sfq.c i can't understand the sfq_sched_data structure, what...

Hi All, I wanted to know how can we access the register set of an i2c device? Thanks.