The kernel manages drivers, file systems, inter-process communication, and interrupts.

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LFS on ARM with Blink

I am interested in creating a LFS on ARM with a HTML5 rendering layer, like how Mozilla's Firefox OS has. However, I want to use the new Blink rendering engine powering Chrome and Opera (soon) instead ...
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Raspberry PI freezing

I am working on a project to getting data from serial device and transmit it to web. I am using kernel 3.2.27 with busybox few start up scripts like sysfs and proc, wvdial daemon to dial USB modem for ...
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Unable to handel kernel null pointer dereferance

Okay, so this is one of various problems I'm having trying to get by RPI/ModelB working. Here are the steps I've followed and the errors I've run into. Installed Arch on 4GB SD card following this ...
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No image file after make (3.6 kernel compiling)

Overview: I wanted to compile 3.6.11+ linux kernel for my raspberry, after the make command, there were no image files in arch/arm/boot. What I've done: 1 Download the linux code from ...
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top/htop not showing CPU usage of kernel processes

I'm trying to improve FPS from a USB webcam. Supposedly I should be able to use htop to show where the bottleneck is, since top won't show kernel processes such as time spent waiting for disk access. ...
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How can I read and write data to a Character Device File in Linux with PHP?

I'm trying to read and write to modules on the I2C bus on a Raspberry Pi using PHP. I'm using fopen() and fskeek(). Below is the code I've been trying to use to read data coming in from the physical ...
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How do I install webcam firmware on the Raspberry Pi?

I want my Raspberry PI to be able to use this cheap webcam I bought from China. Identified as 17a1:0128 TASCORP After quite a bit of searching I found a post from someone who had got it to ...
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Raspbian source code

I´m using Raspbian on RaspBerry Pi and it´s working ok, but now I want to modify the distro according to my needs. I know the source for the kernel is found in kernel.org, but I haven't been able to ...
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Schedule periodical processes

I have a project that I´ll be using RaspBerry Pi to make a controller for process control. To do that I need to schedule processes periodically. Does anyone know how I could do that? So I have to ...
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Install Linux Kernel

How can I compile a basic linux kernel on Rpi, or is it possible in a any way? I want a very basic linux with nothing on it but just Linux. Let me know if there are any alternatives or suggestions.
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Raspbian missing modules in lsmod output

when I type lsmod I get the output below. But I am missing all the other but the sound modules. Why are no other modules shown? I am using the latest Raspbian release (12/16/12) root@raspberrypi:~# ...
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Kernel panic, unable to mount root fs on unknown-block after restart

My Raspberry Pi has been hosting a small site from home for a few days, and everything was working fine. It's completely headless, so I use SSH for everything. This morning however when I woke up, I ...
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Bare Metal Assembly/C(++) Programming

I'm trying to make a small os on my Raspberry Pi. I have good assembly and strong c/c++ knowledges but I need some help. For my first experiments I worked with Qemu and it's serial output but now I ...
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How do I upgrade Raspbian?

I have my RPi setup how I want, but I have an older version than what is currently available (2012-10-28-wheezy-raspbian.zip). How do I upgrade the kernel, firmware, etc? I have upgraded some this ...
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how to mount LCD/TFT screen on raspberry pi

Possible Duplicate Raspberry pi has an on-board DSI connector, If I buy an LCD or TFT or touch screen which has the DSI connector, could I mount it on the RPI? Does it require any additional firmware ...
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Multiplexing 4-digit 7-segment display is flickering

I connected a 4-digit 7-segment display to the GPIO-port. It uses 8 ports for the LEDs and 4 ports for multiplexing via PNP-transistors. It is running so far with a loop written in C program: ...
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raspberry pi booting failed on custom kernel

hello I have compiled my custom kernel and pack initramfs into it. I have created two partition fat32 and ext3. fat32 contains bootloaders and kernel and ext3 contains rootfs. I have made a raw disk ...
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building kernel image (.img) including ramdisk

I have build my Linux kernel (3.0.1) for my raspberry pi with those following steps. 1. Downloading kernel source 2. tar xvf source.tar.bz2 3. downloading arm cross compilation tool. 4. tar xvf ...
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Periodic task in kernel module

I currently developing a gpio based kernel module for a custom protocol. as per requirements of protocol, i have to send data, clock and enable signal to output device throgh gpio. this data is ...
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How do I roll back a kernel upgrade?

I am using the Occidentalis distro and stupidly ran apt-get upgrade without thinking about the repercussions. After a reboot I now am on a stock kernel, which means I lost kernel support for OneWire, ...
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What kernel parameters are available for fixing USB problems

There's a lot of problems with USB stack on Rapsberry Pi and developers are working hard to fix as many of them as possible. They introduce some kernel modules options (like dwc_otg.fiq_fix_enable) ...
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Current state of I2C in Kernel and Kernel version in general

I need to use kernel drivers for some I2C peripherals, so I need kernel I2C support. As already discussed in a previous question, the current 3.1.9 kernel doesn't provide support for the SoC's I2C ...
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What Distro Are The Stock Images Built For?

When I take a look at the firmware github repo I can download kernel images. But to what distro do they belong, are compatible to?
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Unloading kernel module does not remove /dev/ device file

I have had success following tutorials for developing kernel modules, running them on a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS virtual machine. Particularly the example in this tutorial works fine on Ubuntu on a 3.2.0 ...
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What is the difference between Raspbian kernels in official image?

In the official Raspbian "wheezy" image (2012-07-15), there are three Kernel images: kernel.img (6MB) kernel_cutdown.img (4MB) kernel_emergency.img (16MB) I'm curious what are the technical ...
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No modules found in custom Arch kernel

In order to test the patch linked to in the following post: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/29#issuecomment-6884170 I need to compile a custom kernel for my pi. To do this I followed the ...
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Arch Linux kernel panics and firmware not working

Before the update I had linux-raspberrypi-3.1.9-33-arm and raspberrypi-firmware-20120418-2 installed. After I upgraded to raspberrypi-firmware-20120729-1, the kernel refused to boot (no kernel panics ...
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Where is the kernel source for Raspbian's default 3.1.9+ kernel?

The default kernel version of Raspbian is 3.1.9+. When I try to compile an extra kernel module I have lots of error messages since the kernel header files are missing. I've checked the Raspbian ...