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obtaining kernel build tree

Could anyone explain me what the kernel build tree is? What files does it include? How can I obtain it from a cross-compiled kernel source (e.g. 3.4.0)?
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compressed and uncompressed kernel on an embedded device

I have been using several different embedded boards that store kernel, init files, filesystem, etc. on partitions of a (micro)SD card. I notice in the example usage or instructions that compressed ...
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building/compiling kernel headers

I am compiling kernel 3.4 and 3.8 for different target devices. I would like to install compat wireless driver which requires kernel header. Could anyone tell me how I can compile/build the kernel ...
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files in /proc/$PID (e.g. ssh-agent, Chrome) are not owned by user but by root

I am just answering another question here :-) and thus had a look – wanted to have a look at /proc/$PID/fd of ssh-agent in order to find out which socket it uses. But I can't. I am quite surprised to ...
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What is the relation between the Linux device drivers “domains”?

As I'm reading about the Linux device drivers and power management API I keep encountering terms like "system level", "subsystem", "platform", "class", and so on. What is the relation between them? ...
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Determine whether kernel built-in driver supports a device

I'm trying to find a way to accurately determine whether all the hardware on some system has a valid driver installed either via a kernel module or built-in to the kernel. I'm working with RHEL 5.5 ...
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Does linux modules/drivers belong to kernal space or user space

Some articles say that modules/drivers belong to kernel space as it take part in forming the kernel; (reference: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/drivers_linux) While others say that ...
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What are the other congestion control algorithms specially designed for lossy Wireless Networks like LTE and WiMax?

I am trying different congestion control algorithms for getting maximum throughput and minimum delay across my setup for TCP flow.Please suggest other available algorithms apart from Veno, ...
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Install x11 on my own linux system

I have developed my own tiny linux file system using buildroot and busybox. I used linux-2.6.38.8 kernel configured and cross-compiled for target system(X86) according to needs.Now the filesystem is ...
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Unable to install Atheros AR8161 Ethernet controller driver for centOS 6

I've installed CentOS 6.3. However, eth0 does not show up on ifconfig. So I figured out that I need to install alx Ethernet driver from here. Since my internet is not working, as ethernet drivers are ...
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How is the kernel loaded?

I am trying to understand the Linux boot process, and after reading quite some amount of documentation there is one point that I still can't seem to understand. So the basicis is BIOS -> Grub MBR -> ...
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Linux Operating system recovery after abnormal termination

How does the operating system (Linux) while rebooting checks whether abnormal termination happened during last shutdown and then does the file system consistent checks etc if required ?
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Preparing an initrd for qemu [duplicate]

I have compiled a bzImage but when I try to run it in qemu I get a kernel panic because I don't have an initrd file. So I create one by following the steps in this question but I cannot get it to ...
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Why TCP TIME-WAIT State is present at both ends after a connection termination?

I am reading how the TCP states work and especially the connection termination part. All of the books or online material I read, shows that for the termination procedure these states are followed ...
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Writing a Linux file system for NFS

I want to write my own custom file system in Linux. Can I share it over standard NFS without making any changes to the local NFS server? If so what VFS APIs are required to be implemented by my file ...
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Compiling the Linux kernel in Eclipse

I have a Mac running Snow Leopard and I know that I cannot compile the Linux kernel. I have used a Linux VM (virtualbox) to compile the kernel but I was wondering if I could compile it on Eclipse ...
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Invoking memory compaction on linux 2.6.35 kernels and beyond

This LWN article about memory compaction indicates that memory compaction can be invoked in the linux kernel by Writing a node number to /proc/sys/vm/compact_node, causing compaction to happen on ...
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core dump help— linux

I'm trying to understand the core dump generation. Is the core dump generated separately for a user space application process crash and the kernel level crash? Is the ulimit -c for both kinds? Can you ...
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swap partition and its laws

I remember for choice of swap partition, we should use (swap > 2xRAM) at least.Of course it deprecated , because max of computer's ram is very high. kernel support it. My question: i remember each ...
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Best way of updating Openssl on Linux machine [duplicate]

I have a confusion to choose the best way for upgrading the OpenSSL on my Linux machine. 1*Through the yum Update.* # yum update I know this will update the entire packages. But If I want to ...
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Is it possible to run any distro from RAM from within an .iso saved on an NTFS file system?

Running entirely from RAM been done on various distros such as Slax, DamnSmallLinux, and newer Ubuntu versions, and since I have 8GB it seems reasonable that I could run many distros entirely from RAM ...
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Why does mount require root privileges?

Why does Linux require that a user be root/using sudo/specifically authorized per mount in order to mount something? It seems like the decision as to whether to allow a user to mount something should ...
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How to setup an audio/sound output monitor/listener?

I am working with an Arduino and am trying to get it to respond to sound when it is played on my computer. I'm communicating with it over a serial port. I need to know if there are any audio/sound ...
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kgdb not returning control to gdb

I've compiled a kernel with kgdb support and I'm trying to debug it. I have two machines running, a debug machine (running the kgdb kernel) and the machine I'm using to debug it. They are connected ...
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Linux Kernel: uid and gid vs /etc/passwd

How does the Linux kernel deal with UIDs and GIDs? When I want to add a user to a system, does the kernel require some type of "registration" for this user (syscall?)? Does the kernel even care about ...
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Kernel and QEMU : Unable to mount root fs error

I am trying to run a distro in the virtual disk image with a custom kernel,so that I can experiment and debug the kernel. I followed this to make a disk image and then install Debian to it. Now I ...
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Debugging Linux Kernel with QEMU

I was trying to study the debugging of kernel using QEMU. I tried initially and failed due to the fact that there was no virtual file system. The answers to this post suggests that there should be a ...
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Android strace error: “strace: 2: Syntax error: ”&“ unexpected”

I was using built-in strace given in /system/xbin/ directory in the emulator and it was giving me wrong set of system calls such as msgget() and msgrecv() which are not supported by Android even. I ...
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Linux, Debugger program development

We are trying to implement the debugger program which will takes either PID or Program name as input and Invoke the gdb by using PID. Below is two small programs are written, Not able to figure out ...
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Creating a Virtual filesystem to boot linux

I am trying to boot the linux kernel (bzImage) in QEMU but have had issues. After asking on U&L I found out that my problem was that I was booting the kernel without a filesystem to boot from. So ...
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Finding out the values of kernel options related to sysctl.conf and sysctl.d

On my Ubuntu machine, in /etc/sysctl.conf file, I've got reverse path filtering options commented out by default like this: #net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter=1 #net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter=1 but in ...
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directions about customized Layer 2 implementation in linux

I have some machines running on the same network. One node is the control node which distributes traffic coming to it to the other nodes. The thing is that I want to have a custom protocol header ...
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Chain loading kernel without a boot loader

I am working on an embedded project that will do in-place upgrades. There may come a time when an upgrade will need to reinstall everything. Since this is a pretty risky thing, I would like to have ...
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Further clarification as to whether interuppts are disabled in top-half handler or not [closed]

Recently I came across a note in an online post that states the following: In modern kernels, most of the differences between fast and slow interrupts have disappeared. There remains only one: ...
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Is TRESOR included in the latest kernel?

Did TRESOR get included in the mainline Linux kernel? Where would I look to find out? Is there any documentation describing its use? Reading about cold boot attacks on Wikipedia makes me think TRESOR ...
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is linux/compiler.h a userspace header?

VirtualBox is looking for this file in /usr/include but it's missing in gentoo linux-headers Does someone know if that is userspace header and gentoo is missing it? Or if that is not it, then if ...
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What mode of memory at the time linux kernel was loaded?

Can anyone tell me what the memory mode is at the time linux kernel is loaded (by bootloader)? As this link says, the memory mode is real mode then the linux kernel will ask user to choose video mode ...
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exec() and system() system calls

I do understand that while exec() does not return after it executes in Unix ,system() may or may not return depending on the situation.But can anyone explain why exec() system call does not return and ...
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Unable to mount root fs after new kernel compile in VMware

So, I'm attempting to compile and use the 3.6.2 kernel on my Debian 6 VM (running under Windows 7 in VMware Workstation 9). I've already had several hick ups, but I am slowly getting through them but ...
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c++ programming on a Real-time linux OS

Is there any gotcha's programming RealTime C++ applications (user space and linux drivers) on RT linux kernel compare to a std linux kernel? The Linux RT patch applies changes to kernel scheduler, ...
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compile software with older version of gcc and linux kernel

Distributor ID: SUSE LINUX Description: openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Release: 11.4 Codename: Celadon gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.5.1 Linux linux-14ay 2.6.37.6-0.20-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2011-12-19 ...
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Running linux kernel in Virtualbox

I just built a Linux kernel on Ubuntu and now I want to make it run on VirtualBox. I wanted it to be in an img format. I created a hard drive image by doing the commands $ qemu-img create disk.img ...
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How to debug Linux kernel panic?

I am trying to debug a kernel panic. Panic message says unable to handle kernel paging request for address 40025694. At the time of panic it was executing ldreq r10, [lr, #-4] @ get SWI instruction. ...
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Running bzImage in QEMU

So I compiled a linux kernel by doing make menuconfig and make. I was trying to run the bzImage in qemu, by doing "qemu -kernel bzImage" but it didn't work out: How can I fix it? How can I run the ...
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Load Linux bzImage in QEMU?

I compiled a Linux by doing "Make menuconfig" then make and now I have compiled the most recent version of Linux. How can I load the kernel into QEMU?
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What exactly are Linux kernel headers? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What does a kernel source tree contain? Is this related to Linux kernel headers? I know that if I want to compile my own Linux kernel I need the Linux kernel headers, ...
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Given a git patch id, how to find out which kernel release contains it?

Assume I have some issue that was fixed by a recent patch to the official Linux git repository. I have a work around, but I’d like to undo it when a release happens that contains my the fix. I know ...
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SIOCSIFADDR: File exists after upgrading kernel

Since upgrading my (Gentoo) kernel from 2.6.38 to 3.3.8 (via oldconfig), I can't get the network on eth0 up anymore. It reports "SIOCSIFADDR: File exists" with a number of other SIOCSIF* errors that ...
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An oom killer thats baffling me

I am not able to understand why would kernel issue this oom killer when I see enough memory is available: Also why are there so many kernel cache pages allocated? I say enough memory is available ...
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“nopage” method for ISA vs PCI [closed]

This is with reference to LDD3 ch. 15, section "Mapping memory with nopage". I am having trouble understanding the third paragraph on page 429. It says: Note that this implementation works for ISA ...

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