Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) is a program/framework that enables generating Linux kernel modules whose sources generally reside outside the kernel...
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(although support for third-party modules is being dropped), kernel extension module in AIX, dynamically loadable kernel module in HP-UX, kernel-mode driver...
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: 379–380 The kernel has a modular design such that modules can be integrated as software components – including dynamically loaded. The kernel is monolithic...
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systems, support loadable kernel modules, allowing modules to be loaded into the kernel at runtime, permitting easy extension of the kernel's capabilities...
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NetBSD (redirect from NetBSD kernel)
be leveraged by emulators such as QEMU. The kernel NVMM driver comes as a dynamically loadable kernel module, made of a generic machine-independent frontend...
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Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a free and open-source virtualization module in the Linux kernel that allows the kernel to function as a hypervisor...
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TUX web server (category Third-party Linux kernel modules)
coordinating between kernelspace modules, userspace modules, and regular userspace web server daemons that provide dynamic content. Regular userspace web...
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UEFI (redirect from Compatibility Support Module)
a kernel module designed to access system features on Samsung laptops were initially blamed (also prompting kernel maintainers to disable the module on...
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OS-9 (section Kernel modules)
supervisor (kernel) mode. Dynamic use of individually and separately built software components (executable program images and kernel modules) rather than...
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inclusion of Dynamic Kernel Module Support, a tool that allows kernel drivers to be automatically rebuilt when new kernels are released, and support for creating...
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Monkey patch (redirect from Dynamic Funk)
Codes. "New in Rails: Module#alias_method_chain". Ruby on Rails. "Tainted kernels — The Linux Kernel documentation". www.kernel.org. Retrieved 2020-07-12...
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2012-07-23 at the Wayback Machine Third party module required. Mac OS X Kernel Module available here "FreeBSD supported platforms". Larabel, Michael (2 April...
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hybrid kernel is an operating system kernel whose architecture attempts to combine aspects and benefits of microkernel and monolithic kernel architectures...
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Nucleus RTOS (section Kernel)
for memory partitioning to support dynamic loading and unloading of application modules. Loadable processes are supported on both high end MPUs and low...
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QEMU (section Supported disk image formats)
replaces DynGen, which relied on GCC 3.x to work. KQEMU was a Linux kernel module, also written by Fabrice Bellard, which notably sped up emulation of...
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DragonFly BSD (section Kernel)
small quantity of disk space. When a new kernel is installed, the backup copy of the previous kernel and its modules are stripped of their debugging symbols...
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usually cached by its origin: static content: file cache; dynamic content: dynamic cache (module or program output). Historically, static contents found...
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Shared library (section Dynamic linking)
automate this process. Loadable kernel module – Dynamically loadable module that extends a running operating system kernel Levine, John R. (2000). "9. Shared...
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Weak symbol (section Tools support)
work for kernel loadable modules though - weak symbol in the kernel is not replaced with kernel module symbol when the module is loaded. C preprocessor...
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Linux (redirect from Linux Module List)
typically packaged as a Linux distribution (distro), which includes the kernel and supporting system software and libraries—most of which are provided by third...
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GNU GRUB (redirect from Kernel map file)
be required if the specific kernel module is broken and thus prevents boot-up. For example, to blacklist the kernel module nvidia-current, one could append...
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Device file (category Pseudo file systems supported by the Linux kernel)
in their kernel module). Some other Unix systems such as FreeBSD use kernel-based device node management via devfs only and do not support manual node...
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Procfs (redirect from /proc/modules)
standardized method for dynamically accessing process data held in the kernel than traditional tracing methods or direct access to kernel memory. Typically...
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DTrace (category Linux kernel features)
DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework originally created by Sun Microsystems for troubleshooting kernel and application problems on production...
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"index : kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git". Linux kernel source tree. Kernel.org. Retrieved 2 February 2020. "drivers/net: Enable WIREGUARD as module". 21 March...
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Loader (computing) (category Operating system kernels)
can, thereby, load and relocate a load module of any practical size, and in the minimum possible time. Dynamic linking loaders are another type of loader...
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Device driver (redirect from Kernel driver)
drivers as parts of the kernel, separately as loadable modules, or as user-mode drivers (for certain types of devices where kernel interfaces exist, such...
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into an executable file Loadable kernel module – Dynamically loadable module that extends a running operating system kernel Loader (computing) – Part of an...
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native support for TPM 1.2. The Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM 2.0) has been supported by the Linux kernel since version 4.0 (2015) Google includes TPMs...
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example, when a kernel performs computations in GPU memory and a parallel kernel performs communications with a peer, the local kernel will flush its writes...
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