Device Drivers, Part 14: A Dive Inside the Hard Disk for Understanding Partitions
This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, takes you on a tour inside a hard disk. “Doesn’t it sound like a mechanical engineering subject: The design of the…
Getting Started with SystemTap
If programming is an art, then debugging is even more so. To be a good programmer, one must master debugging. We have seen some good methods of kernel debugging, e.g., gdb, kgdb, kprobes,…
Getting Started with Inotify
Inotify is a Linux kernel feature that provides an event-driven framework for applications to monitor changes in the filesystem. This article demonstrates how to use the Inotify API to register for interesting events,…
A Voyage to the Kernel, Day 11
[Segment 3.1] We’re entering a new phase in our journey—kernel programming. In the first part, we’ll cover a broad introduction to the Linux platform for newbies, along with some history.
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.
