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Linux 2.6.39.4 how to find available loadable kernel modules
I'm customizing the 2.6.39.4 linux kernel on an arm platform and trying to test out a "Hello World" driver I created. I selected "M" (loadable) in the kernel make menuconfig and verified that it ...
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Linux kernel - check currently used drivers
Is it possible to check what drivers from linux kernel source are used for currently working devices in the system? I know that usually device drivers are written as kernel modules, but some of them ...
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How to get a list of active drivers that are statically built into the linux kernel?
While I can use lsmod in order to show currently active kernel modules, how can I see which drivers are statically built into the kernel AND currently active?
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How to downgrade Linux kernel
I have a Linux machine running RHEL3.8 with kernel release 2.4.21-66.ELsmp.
How can I downgrade the Linux kernel to 2.4.21-47.ELsmp?
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About the last kernel upgrade, can we find logs somewhere ...
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Linux kernel compiling: standalone OS
Hi guys I'm new to linux kernel compiling so I have some question:
By compiling linux kernel are we building a totally standalone OS which doesn't depend on any linux destributions?
If yes... Well ...
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Development environment for embedded system [closed]
I need to develop software in C/C++ for an embedded system. I have Debian 6 running off of a USB hard drive. I would like to be able to generate a stripped-down kernel with modules, and install them ...
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Disable "longhaul" kernel module with a GRUB command?
I've got a problem with a VIA C3 (1GHz)-system: the system freezes immediately when the CPU frequency goes under 731MHz because of an incompatibility with the (not completely implemented) i686 ...
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Building modules with linux kernel for custom flavor
I followed the instructions for building a custom kernel and booting it. Everything works fine, except that when building it, I used the option skipmodule=true (as given in this link), so I guess the ...
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Where do I look for Linux kernel module documentation?
Where do I look for Linux kernel module documentation?
For example, I've tried googling the module iwlagn, but I cannot find anything that tells me about available options. Where do I look?
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__modver_version_show undefined error when building linux kernel 3.0.4 version
I tried to build the linux kernel 3.0.4 on ubuntu 11.10 in virtualbox. Here are my steps:
Download the source code
tar xjvf linux-source-3.0.0.tar.bz2
cd linux-source-3.0.0
make menuconfig, changed ...
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Oracle Virtualbox on statically compiled kernel
I can't seem to find any documentation on the subject. I'm working on putting together a linux install for a fairly "dirty" environment. Best practice there would be a statically compiled kernel ...
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How to add ahci module to linux-image-2.6.38-11-virtual kernel?
I just installed Ubuntu 11.04 with the linux-image-2.6.38-11-virtual kernel as a virtual machine in VirtualBox (4.1.2). When I booted the machine after installation, I got this error message:
FATAL: ...
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Do both lsmod and /proc/modules use the same mechanism to retrieve modules?
I can get a list of modules using either lsmod or cat /proc/modules. Do the two approaches use the same mechanism to retrieve the modules? I want to know this as we could use it to find some hidden ...
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