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Linux kernel patches [PATCH] Hexagon: Export raw I/O routines for modules: Hexagon is a digital signal processor architecture by Qualcomm, which is a little special in terms of the Linux kernel because it is the only architecture that does not have a GCC backend so LLVM has to be used to build it, meaning that it is important to keep it building. This patch fixes an issue with allmodconfig, which enables us to build a wide variety of code and verify the compiler is able to handle all of it.
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On Linux vDSO and clock_gettime sometimes being slow Like the previous post on this somewhat dormant blog, I want to share an oddity I discovered that no search engine could really find for me - even though once I found what the problem was, it turns out I was by no means the first person to discover this. Some system calls that are used extremely frequently in Linux can be speeded up by a mechanism called vDSO: a virtual dynamically linked shared object.
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Here is everything you need to know to set up a minimal Linux kernel dev environment on Ubuntu 20.04. It works great on small VPS instances, is optimized for a fast development cycle, and allows you to run custom binaries to exercise the specific kernel functionality being developed. Step 1:
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[AI summary] A comprehensive guide detailing the graphical and command-line procedures for enabling the RPM Fusion free and nonfree software repositories on various Linux distributions
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