One of the main contributor into the Linux kernel is Ingo Molnar. I found this article while checking removal of ‘get_irqlock()’ in Kernel 2.6. Even though, it doesn’t mention about this in detail, it was good material to understand what jobs Ingo did and what was the main feature of O(1) scheduler and others. Check [...]

The basic steps to compile kernel and modules are similar to following. 1 make modules && make bzImage && make modules_install && make install It will install the kernel related files into the proper location after compile modules and kernel. But maybe you could be surprised by the final binaries size. Sometimes, it shows more [...]

Recently, one of my headache is to make diskonchip to support 64MB media. I tried it with doc2001plus.ko file, but it depreciated and recommended to use inftl with diskonchip.ko. Unfortunaltely, diskonchip.ko only support 16MB media. It was big frustration for me because I need to finish this soon or fired (I guess). I googled and [...]

With my work, I sometimes have to check with ‘oops’ message and first thing I have to check is whether it’s tainted one or not. For the later use, I decided to keep it in here (also inspired by djoo’s blog. ^^). It’s basically well explained in kernel source itself. Following is the snippet from [...]