CH3 Compiling Linux Kernel.pptVIP

Kernel Compiling Overview Kernel architecture review Kernel download and patching Kernel configuration Make zImage Make modules Linux kernel key features Portability and hardware support Runs on most architectures Scalability Can run on super computers as well as on tiny devices (4MB of RAM is enough) Compliance to standards and interoperability Exhaustive networking support Security It cant hide its flaws. Its code is reviewed by many experts. Stability and reliability Modularity Can include only what a system needs even at run time. Easy to program You can learn from existing code. Many useful resources on the net. Supported hardware architectures See the arch/ directory in the kernel sources Minimum: 32 bit processors, with or without MMU 32 bit architectures (arch/ subdirectories) alpha, arm, cris, frv, h8300, i386, m68k, m32r, m68knommu, mips, parisc, ppc, s390, sh, sparc, um, v850 64 bit architectures: ia64, mips64, ppc64, sh64, sparc64, x86_64 See Documentation/arch/ for details Linux stable releases Major versions 1 major version every 2 or 3 years Examples: 1.0, 2.0, 2.4, 2.6 --Even number Stable releases 1 stable release every 1 or 2 months Examples: 2.0.40, 2.2.26, 2.4.27, 2.6.7 ... Stable release updates (since March 2005) Updates to stable releases up to several times a week Address only critical issues in the latest stable release Examples: to Linux kernel licensing constraints Linux license The whole Linux sources are Free Software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Constraints at release time (no constraint before!) For any device embedding Linux and Free Software, you have to release sources to the end user. You have no obligation to release them to anybody else! Proprietary modules are tolerated (but not recommended) as long as they cannot be considered as derived work of GPLed code. Proprietary drivers cant be statically compiled in the kernel. No issue with drivers available under a GPL compatible license Patent issues i