I read that on a system with 1 CPU and non preemtive linux kernel (2.6.x) a spin_lock call is equivalent to an empty call, and thus implemented that way.
http://managedruntime.org/ is pretty sparse on what exactly are in the tarballs and why users would want them. http://lwn.net/Articles/392307/ has some more details, but the author also isn\'t sure wh
I am currenlty trying to monitor my battery status through SMBus. I have a battery along with a control board that constantly outputs the battery status.
I would like to learn about linux/Unix kernel programming for scalable multi processors (smps). I found this book UNIX(R) Systems for Modern Architectures http://www.amazon.com/UNIX-Systems-Moder开发者
My development machine has a 64 bit proc, running a 32 bit distribution. I would like to compile and test a kernel module with a 64 bit kernel. My question is :
If I want to execute a开发者_开发技巧 user program (not a kernel module) in Linux kernel space, what options do I have?
I am trying to write a linux kernel module that communicates with user process using netlink. I am using netlink because the user program I want to communicate to communicates only using sockets and I
I need to compile a minimum Linux kernel, I mean, with the basic and generic modules to get it work on 开发者_StackOverflowlow resources machines.
How to use linux kernel\'s find_module() function? The documenta开发者_如何学运维tion says \"must hold module_mutex\".
I wish to access some registers of my ARM Cortex-A8 board which are by default in a non-accessible state. Ubuntu 9.10 runs on this board. So, to access them I have to in-turn change 1 other register s