For example, you probably don’t want to put drivers for every single known video card in your kernel. But it is perfectly fine to build dozens or hundreds of modules you might need and then load ...

Learn how to use printk and kmod to debug a kernel module in GNU/Linux. Find out how to write printk statements, load and unload modules, pass parameters, and view messages.

Basic examples of Linux kernel modules. Contribute to felsocim/LKM development by creating an account on GitHub.

Step 2: In the previous example, you can only test the Kernel Module but you can not place breakpoints inside the Kernel Module for debugging. Use the techniques you learned in Assignment 1 to place a ...

Although Linux does not (yet) support this binary format, the good news is that you can learn how to write kernel modules by implementing COM support for the Linux kernel.

In our previous installment, the author introduced methods for accessing peripherals from user space in Linux. In this installment, Abbott describes kernel modules and device drivers followed by a ...

Learn how to use kernel module and driver parameters to tweak various aspects of your GNU/Linux system, such as performance, power management, debugging, and compatibility.

Our example uses the 2.5.31 kernel release, which contains enough of the LSM interface for us to create a useful module. In our module, we want to prevent any programs with the group ID of 0 (root) ...

I will discuss some of the fun things you can do by altering and wrapping system calls a little later, but let us first get our hands dirty with an example kernel module. This is a simple example, ...

In this second excerpt, Abbott discusses kernel modules and device drivers. In Part 1 of this excerpt the author worked through an example of a simple kernel module. In this installment, Abbott ...