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The following manuals are written for users of the kernel — those who are trying to get it to work optimally on a given system and application developers seeking information on the kernel’s …

There are a great many reasons why kernel code should be merged into the official (“mainline”) kernel, including automatic availability to users, community support in many forms, and the …

This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to application developers and system integrators doing analysis of the Linux kernel for safety critical applications.

The kernel image file is usually /vmlinuz, /boot/vmlinuz, /bzImage or /boot/bzImage. To use the new kernel, save a copy of the old image and copy the new image over the old one.

Feb 6, 2022 · You can determine if your kernel currently has firmware loader support by looking for the CONFIG_FW_LOADER definition on your kernel’s .config file. In addition to having the …

It is an attempt to document how this community works in a way which is accessible to those who are not intimately familiar with Linux kernel development (or, indeed, free software …

This documentation outlines the Linux kernel crypto API with its concepts, details about developing cipher implementations, employment of the API for cryptographic use cases, as …

The tracing infrastructure can be very useful for debugging the Linux kernel. This document is a place to add various methods of using the tracer for debugging.

The IOMMUFD backwards compatibility interface can be enabled two ways. In the first method, the kernel can be configured with CONFIG_IOMMUFD_VFIO_CONTAINER, in which case the …