Re: Contributing to drivers/staging area
Hi Greg, On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 10:39:20AM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 04:45:15PM +0200, Len Baker wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > > > I am a kernel newbie in the path to find an area where to contribute > > on. I have sent some patches before (simple ones) but I would like > > to find some driver to contribute on and if possible mantain in the > > future. Due to the big amount of drivers in staging, and my lack > > of experience and specific hardware: > > > > Are there any driver in the staging area that not requires specific > > hardware? I have only access to an old laptop with 4 processors: > > I think all drivers in staging relate to real hardware, so I would > recommend just buying one of the cheap devices for the drivers. I just > purchased one of the USB wifi devices for under 20 euros, so it is > possible. Ok, thank you very much for all the info and advices. Again, thanks for your time. Regards, Len ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
Re: How do the kernel boot parameters work (especially "toram")?
On 8/27/21 6:03 AM, Gueven Bay wrote: With kernel boot parameters I mean the arguments you give on the grub command line to the kernel. Just like "toram" which on some distros work and on many doesn't. I'm not familiar with "toram", but it's possible that it's not actually a kernel parameter. Not everything that's passed on the kernel command line is actually a kernel parameter; see dracut.cmdline(7) for a bunch of examples. Actual kernel parameters are implemented with various macros defined in include/linux/moduleparam.h. -- In Soviet Russia, Google searches you! ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
How do the kernel boot parameters work (especially "toram")?
Hello, With kernel boot parameters I mean the arguments you give on the grub command line to the kernel. Just like "toram" which on some distros work and on many doesn't. I googled but only found webpages listing the possible boot parameters and maybe explaining what they do, but none where it was explained _how_ they work. Does a boot parameter make the kernel call a script? Does a boot parameter reference a function inside the kernel? If some distros seem to allow a specific boot parameter what did they do to their distros kernel to make this parameter work? And which module or which part of the kernel takes the boot parameters as input to do the appropriate things? For example: It seems that Centos (8) does not suppport "toram" (allowing to load the whole OS into RAM), at least on my machine. Okay, what should or can I do to get my (Centos) kernel to accept this? Writing a script? Patching something? (Maybe my questions are not really clear, just ask me, please.) Thanks. ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
