Blacklisting modules prevents them from being loaded and used, and it is sometimes an important step in keeping a system running properly. The Linux kernel is modular — composed of modules that ...

Technology Editor Bill Wong takes Microchip’s SAMA5S27 SOM, featuring a 500-MHz Arm Cortex-A5, for a test drive. Arm’s Cortex-A family handles heavy-duty operating systems like Linux, while ...

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Today’s Diminutive Device is a small castellated System-On-Module (Twitter link, nitter proxy) from [MangoPi] called M-Core, with a quad-core A53 CPU and 1 GB of RAM. As such, it’s very… ...

In the past few years, systems on modules (SoMs) have gained ground and become the default approach for projects needing a processor capable of running a ‘rich OS’ (such as Linux) rather than a simple ...