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The following manuals are written for users of the kernel — those who are trying to get it to work optimally on a given system and application developers seeking information on the kernel’s user …

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There are a great many reasons why kernel code should be merged into the official (“mainline”) kernel, including automatic availability to users, community support in many forms, and the ability to …

Nov 16, 2025 · The Linux Kernel Archives is the official source for Linux kernel releases, documentation, and resources for developers and users.

This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to application developers and system integrators doing analysis of the Linux kernel for safety critical applications.

May 26, 2025 · These kernel releases are not hosted at kernel.org and kernel developers can provide no support for them. It is easy to tell if you are running a distribution kernel.

NT synchronization primitive driver ¶ This page documents the user-space API for the ntsync driver. ntsync is a support driver for emulation of NT synchronization primitives by user-space NT …

Feb 6, 2022 · You can determine if your kernel currently has firmware loader support by looking for the CONFIG_FW_LOADER definition on your kernel’s .config file. In addition to having the …

While the typical use case for sync_state() is to have the kernel cleanly take over management of devices from the bootloader, the usage of sync_state() is not restricted to that.