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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The idea of updating your Linux kernel can sound intimidating, especially if you're new to the ecosystem or if your ...

Our objective in this chapter is to introduce the basics of Linux device drivers. We’ll begin with the concept of installable kernel modules. Then we’ll look at the basic device driver APIs in the ...

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?

Linux strives to be open to many uses, including some that the kernel hackers might find distasteful; dynamic security modules would seem to be one of those uses.

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 ...