Traditionally, the Linux kernel is forked several times before it hits an Android phone, usually by each stakeholder in an Android device. First, Google forks the Linux kernel into "Android common ...

Another method is to use the lscpu command to get the model name and other info about the installed CPU. The top entry for ...

In the 2.5 Linux kernel development series, a unified device driver model framework was created by Pat Mochel. This framework consists of a number of common structures and functions all device driver ...

The Pixel Watch is so ashamed of its Linux kernel that it's not even listed in the settings, but the device launched in 2022 with Linux kernel 4.19, a 4-year-old kernel at the time.

In this second excerpt, Abbott discusses kernel modules and device drivers. In Part 1 of this excerpt the author worked through an example of a simple kernel module. In this installment, Abbott ...

The improved threading model in 2.6 is based on a 1:1 threading model, one kernel thread for one user thread. It also includes in-kernel support for the new Native Posix Threading Library (NPTL). The ...

On Jan. 19, Linus Torvalds officially released the Linux 6.13 kernel. I can't call the 6.13 kernel a major release, but it's still a step forward in performance, security, and hardware support ...

The upstream Linux kernel project recently ended its six-year support lifetime commitment for LTS releases, which would’ve been bad for the security of Android devices, so Google had to step up.

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 ...