Device Drivers, Part 5: Character Device Files — Creation & Operations
This article is a continuation of the series on Linux device drivers, and carries on the discussion on character drivers and their implementation. In my previous article, I had mentioned that even with…
Kernel Development & Debugging Using the Eclipse IDE
This article is targeted at Linux newbies, kernel developers, and those who are new to Eclipse. It deals with development, building and debugging of the Linux kernel using the Eclipse IDE. Eclipse is…
CRASH Your System (and Debug Kernel Panic)
Aimed at Linux kernel developers and just about anybody who would like to debug a kernel panic with the Crash utility, this article assumes readers have an understanding of the basics of the…
Kernel Tracing with ftrace, Part 1
This article explains how to set up ftrace and be able to understand how to trace functions. It should be useful for current kernel developers and device driver developers who want to debug…
Debugging the Linux Kernel with debugfs
debugfs is a simple memory-based filesystem, designed specifically to debug Linux kernel code, and not to be confused with the debugfs filesystem utility. Introduced by Greg Kroah-Hartman in December 2004, debugfs helps kernel…
Playing with User-mode Linux
This article gives you hands-on experience in setting up a User-Mode Linux (UML) kernel and getting it up on a running Linux OS. We see how to share files between the host Linux…
SystemTap Tutorial, Part 1
This is the first of a two-part series on SystemTap, a dynamic method to monitor and trace the operations of a running Linux kernel. SystemTap is useful to systems administrators, kernel developers, support…
May 21, 2013
JKR — More efficient? Probably. More readable? Definitely not.
May 21, 2013
Prashanth Joshi — The author assumes that the first article being introductory in nature is for the beginners. So there is no question...
May 21, 2013
Peter — Hi I followed the steps but on bootup of qemu it hangs at "Stopping configure virtual network devices, waiting for...
May 20, 2013
Aseem — can u just elaborate this part "edit the output file to include only the hash value. (It should only include...
May 19, 2013
raghu ram — Hi Anil, Your articles are awesome Please give some tutorials on PCI Sound Card drivers using ALSA.
