Desktop and laptop PCs designed to run Windows will now only run a boot loader signed by Microsoft or by their manufacturer, unless manually reconfigured. Several Linux distributions now include the necessary chain of signed code, but for various reasons Debian...
I have always wondered what happens when we enter the kernel from userspace: what preparations does the hardware meet when the userspace to kernel space switch instructions are executed and back, and what does the kernel do when it executes a system call. There are...
The Linux kernel features an extensive array of, to put it kindly, somewhat disorganized documentation. A significant effort is underway to make things better, though. This talk will review the state of kernel documentation, cover the changes that are being made...
The kernelci.org project performs over 2000 kernel boot tests per day for upstream kernels on a wide variety of hardware. This talk will provide an overview of kernelci.org, how distributed board farms are used, how it is used by kernel maintainers and developers,...
