The kernel's configuration system can be challenging to deal with; Linus Torvalds recently called it "one of the worst parts of the whole project". Thus, anything that might help users with the ...

Configuration is the first step in building a kernel. There are many ways and various options to choose from. The kernel will generate a .config file at the end of the process and generate a series of ...

Richmond, Virginia: At the Linux Plumbers Conference, the invite-only meeting for the top Linux kernel developers, ByteDance Linux Kernel Engineer Cong Wang, proposed that we use artificial ...

Hi folks, I'd like to announce a little tool for helping w/ creating .config's: I often have to spend lots of time to find out which configs to enable on a specific board, to get certain features (eg.

The current Linux source code is always available in both a complete tarball (an archive created with the tar command) and an incremental patch from the official home ...

I remember the first time I compiled a Linux kernel. I was nervous. It was something I’d never done before, and it seemed like an incredibly difficult task. After all, isn’t the kernel the stuff of ...

Source is a wonderful thing. Merged module source in the kernel tree is even better. Most of all, support for that source is what really counts. In today's explosion of Linux in the enterprise, the ...

The Linux kernel provides support for memory management, interprocess communication mechanisms, interrupt management, and TCP / IP networking. The directory structure separates architecture-dependent ...