How To get A centos Kernel source

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Jul 032008
 

1. Maybe you do not need the full kernel source

If you need to compile a kernel driver module, the chances are you do not really need the full kernel source tree. You might just need the kernel-devel package. (If, however, you are certain that the full source tree is required, please follow the instructions in Section 2.)

In CentOS-5, there are three kernel-devel packages available:

  • kernel-devel (both 32- & 64-bit architectures)
  • kernel-xen-devel (both 32- & 64-bit architectures)
  • kernel-PAE-devel (32-bit architecture only)

In CentOS-4, there are four kernel-devel packages available:

  • kernel-devel (both 32- & 64-bit architectures)
  • kernel-smp-devel (both 32- & 64-bit architectures)
  • kernel-xenU-devel (both 32- & 64-bit architectures)
  • kernel-hugemem-devel (32-bit architecture only)
  • kernel-largesmp-devel (64-bit architecture only)

If you are running the standard kernel (for example), you can install the kernel-devel package by:

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Anatomy of the Linux kernel

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Jun 272008
 


http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-kernel/

History and architectural decomposition

M. Tim Jones (mtj@mtjones.com), Consultant Engineer, Emulex Corp.

The Linux® kernel is the core of a large and complex operating system, and while it’s huge, it is well organized in terms of subsystems and layers. In this article, you explore the general structure of the Linux kernel and get to know its major subsystems and core interfaces. Where possible, you get links to other IBM articles to help you dig deeper.

Given that the goal of this article is to introduce you to the Linux kernel and explore its architecture and major components, let’s start with a short tour of Linux kernel history, then look at the Linux kernel architecture from 30,000 feet, and, finally, examine its major subsystems. The Linux kernel is over six million lines of code, so this introduction is not exhaustive. Use the pointers to more content to dig in further.

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