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Hi I want to install NIST Net (WAN emulator) and have some problems not necessarily linked with application itself. When I run 'make' command...
I'm trying to compile a kernel, and I'm getting an error message I can't make sense of. My kernel source is in /usr/src/linux, and I ran "make...
Hey guys, I'm trying to compile my own kernel. However, I hit a snag when I try to make an initrd image. Here's the expanded format: ...
Hi All, How does the write() system call work if it's writing it to a device port and how would I know if the data is being sent immediately and...
Hi, I want to write a block device driver in user mode so that the read and write calls from the FileSystem comes to user mode component than a...
hi all I want to find where the functions of libc are located. When we call "open" from an application, it is libc open function which calls...
Hi, The company I work for has created a baseboard for a Computer On Module. On the baseboard is a little microprocessor that talks to the COM via...
Hi all, I have a workstation that support SATA drives. I install Linux(in "Compatible" mode) OS with 2.6.18 kernel and upgrade it to 2.6.27 by...
Hi all, I have a moderately sized module, which has the following: registers a misc_device and on exit, deregisters it. Of late When I rmmod...
I'm doing some kernel module programming. What I am considering is how to detect if the ip of the host is changed. I would prefer not to try the...
Hi, this is a question from someone new to the workings of Linux. Why are the drivers built into the kernel? Why are they not "pluggable" or...
Can someone help me in making a decision. I am trying out one thing - to encrypt the data that is written to external USB storage device ONLY. I...
hi i am kind of stuck up with this situation. how do i call sync from kernel without jumping out to user space. kernel libs dont recognise sync...
(Sorry if this is a double-post -- don't know what happened to the first one.) As I read klist.c, calling klist_iter_exit to close an iteration...
Hi, I'm pretty new to writing linux device drivers and I'm a little confused about the wait_event_interruptible function in the Linux Kernel....
Once a thread terminates, does anyone know where the call is to free memory used by that task struct in the slab allocator? Thanks
Dear all We are using on Montavista linux 3(kernel version 2.4.18_mvl30, GCC version 3.2.1) for our product powered with Motorola power pc...
I have following understanding, please correct it if it is wrong. 1) kernel has direct mapping for first 896 MB of RAM. 2) kernel sets up the page...
Hi does anybody tell me how bio structure of kernel is used? I want to capture i/o request at block layer...if is there any source code available...
My machine has an AMD Opteron dual-core. In order to maintain a high-accuracy timer, I wrote a program to read TSC (Timestamp Clock) value. The TSC...
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