How to display the Linux kernel command line parameters given for the current boot?
In the grub.conf configuration file I can specify command line parameters that the kernel will use, i.e.:
linux-kernel
MMU-less kernel?
I would like to try compile mmu-less kernel. From what I found in configuration there is no option for such a thing. Is it possible to be done?
Can’t install Linux Headers (Kali Linux)
I am trying to install Linux headers for Kali Linux on my machine and I have tried every possible solution on the internet but it always show “Unable to locate packages “
Given a git commit hash, how to find out which kernel release contains it?
Assume I have some issue that was fixed by a recent patch to the official Linux git repository. I have a work around, but I’d like to undo it when a release happens that contains my the fix. I know the exact git commit hash, e.g. f3a1ef9cee4812e2d08c855eb373f0d83433e34c.
How does the linux kernel know device major and minor numbers?
As far as I know, the kernel detects hardware, adds information to sysfs creates a device in /dev and then generates a udev event. My question is, do device drivers do all of this or it is the kernel itself? If drivers do it, then they would know the device major and minor number to create the file in devtmps.
Setting CPU governor to on demand or conservative
I’m struggling with cpupower on ArchLinux. I want to set governor to ondemand or even to conservative.
Linux does not reply to ARP request messages if requested IP address is associated with another (disabled) interface
I have a PC(kernel 3.2.0-23-generic) which has 192.168.1.2/24 configured to eth0 interface and also uses 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 addresses for tun0 interface:
How interpret kworker threads names?
On Linux 3.11.0-13-generic running on top of a dual socket Xeon X5650 hexa core board, htop shows different kworker threads. Sorted by names (I tweaked the result I am showing here a little bit to have the threads on core 2 before the ones on core 10), here is the result:
Load Linux bzImage in QEMU?
I compiled a Linux by doing make menuconfig then make and now I have compiled the most recent version of Linux. How can I load the kernel into QEMU?