In this second excerpt, Abbott discusses kernel modules and device drivers. In Part 1 of this excerpt the author worked through an example of a simple kernel module. In this installment, Abbott ...

Kernel Engineering Driving Mobile and Embedded Innovation Engineers in kernel development often grapple with optimizing power consumption, real-time responsiveness, and hardware abstraction.

In fact, this has actually been a key selling point for many embedded Linux implementations for quite some time. Vendors of these products still have an edge, because the 2.6 kernel still isn't a ...

Borkmann submitted his first patch to the Linux kernel in 2010 as a “complete noob” (his words) to extend netpoll for allowing the execution of multiple rx_hooks per interface, and ...

The new Linux 3.0 kernel will probably take awhile to get to embedded developers but it handles Xen And KVM virtualization along with a number of new features.

CNXSoft: This is a guest port by Erik Wierich, Senior Engineer at RISCstar Solutions, demonstrating a practical security ...

His e-mail address is [email protected]. Michael Barr is the editor in chief of Embedded Systems Programming. He earned his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering and worked as an engineer for a ...

“Linux is huge in the embedded market because it can be adapted for any application, but it isn’t always easy to get started with a custom design,” says Grant Likely, Linux kernel developer ...

Linux works well for most jobs, but to get it to work great requires kernel tuning, and that's never easy. ByteDance has a proposal to make this easier.

In our previous installment, the author introduced methods for accessing peripherals from user space in Linux. In this installment, Abbott describes kernel modules and device drivers followed by a ...