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Init Call Mechanism in the Linux Kernel

Friday, December 5. 2008

Andrew Murray, writing in the latest edition of Linux Gazette, examines Linux's driver initialisation mechanism.

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HugeTLB - Large Page Support in the Linux Kernel

Thursday, November 6. 2008

Linux Gazette have published a piece on enabling and using HugeTLB - in other words, using large virtual memory pages within Linux applications.

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Writing Network Device Drivers for Linux

Monday, November 3. 2008

The latest edition of Linux Gazette has an excellent article on writing linux network device drivers, and walks through the steps of detecting the network device, enabling it, using the net_device structure, and transmitting and receiving.

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Anatomy of Linux Kernel modules

Thursday, July 17. 2008

If you're looking to get into a bit of Linux kernel coding, then you might find this article useful, which discusses the innards of loadable modules.

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Controlling Input/Output of Device Drivers

Saturday, June 14. 2008

Linux Magazine has a fairly in-depth look at using ioctl to control device drivers, with some real-world examples of getting and setting the line speed of a terminal and setting the ip address of network interfaces, from your own C code.

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