History Some form of module support has been around since Linux 1.2. However, modern kernels can be built to include support for things or support them as modules.

NVIDIA has this week announced it is now publishing Linux GPU kernel modules as open source with dual GPL/MIT license. First making available the R515 driver with the source code now available for ...

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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 ...

Downloading/building the kernel on my Linux box will pretty much fill up that box's hard drive. So, can I set up a virtual machine on my Windows 8.1 box to develop my kernel module on?

Intel engineers recently submitted a few lines of code that contain a major change to the company's long-standing CPU ...

A patch was finalized by the module's maintainers by October 21 and released on lore.kernel.org four days later. The fix has now also been added to the mainline repository, released on October 29 ...

Promises to maintain it Nvidia, which is named after a Roman vengeance daemon, is publishing their Linux GPU kernel modules as open-source and has sworn by its dark gods to maintain them.

Nvidia is publishing its Linux GPU kernel modules on an open source basis with a dual GPL/MIT license now available on GitHub. It’s a good day for users of Linux distros as the hardware giant ...

Resources Rubini, Alessandro, Jonathan Corbet, and Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux Device Drivers, third Ed. , O’Reilly, 2005. On the one hand, this is a very readable and thorough treatment of kernel-level ...