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21 years ago

Kernel development on Nios Linux 2.6 distribution

The Nios II Linux 2.6 distribution is not really biased for kernel development, but since this is all what I have, what way you suggest I should develop my drivers? I understood importing the s...
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21 years ago

Is it possible to develop a kernel driver as an independant module ? This module will be dynamically linked in the kernel with insmod command.

I tried to develop such a module, like I used to do under "standard" Linux (Red Hat or Montavista), but I get several warnings on compiling "linux/module.h" and "linux/kernel.h". Is there other defines to add that __KERNEL__ and MODULE ? Should I use the standard C library for kernel development ?