below is the table-of-contents for the lecture about 'installing drivers'.
as it looks now, it is too long for one lecture. i should either cut out
stuff, or extend this (as is common for my lectures, it seems ;) ) to a
2-lectures thing again. what sais y'all? please note that there are not
yet enough slides about installing drivers that don't come as part of the
distro's kernel.
- TOC
- The linux kernel
- Drawing: proc1 proc2 proc3
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kernel
driver1 driver2
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Hardware
device1 device2
- hardware diagnostics
- lspci
- ???
- Device files
- what is a device file
- the /dev directory
- character device and block device
- Kernel modules
- Listing modules
- Loading/Unloading a module - insmod, rmmod
- /lib/modules/
- modules dependencies and depmod
- /etc/modules.conf
- In-Kernel drivers
- looking for the driver
- what if it's not compiled
- kernel compilation
- installing the sources
- make config, menuconfig, xconfig
- choosing what to compile
- as a module or in the kernel?
- compiling the kernel
- installing along-side current kernel
- updating the boot loader
- booting and caveats
- out-of-kernel drivers
- source vs. half-source vs. binary
- finding the right driver
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or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
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