The 2009 report on the state of Linux kernel development (pdf) has been published by the Linux Foundation. Although all the information in it is drawn from the development management process and ...

XIP Linux Kernel Architecture Typical Linux systems, such as PCs and high-end MPUs, aren’t memory-constrained, so they can incorporate large, high-speed RAM without penalty. In a memory ...

The groundwork for Rust modules in Linux was laid with kernel 6.1, and by version 6.8, the first experimental Rust drivers, ...

Officially, Intel's Itanium chips and their IA-64 architecture died back in 2021, when the company shipped its last processors.But failed technology often dies a million little deaths. To name ...

Much of the Linux kernel is written in portable C,and a great deal of it is portable to a clean architecture like MIPSwith no further trouble.In the previous Part 4 we looked at the ...

Linux kernel dev team grows, Torvalds drops off the chart Written by ZDNet UK, Contributor Aug. 20, 2009 at 9:54 p.m. PT The 2009 report on the state of Linux kernel development has been published ...

Real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux each bring their own advantages for embedded-systems designers. With an RTOS, designers can build deterministic multi-threaded applications with low ...