Prototyping kernel development

:Authors: Jesper Dangaard Brouer [email protected]

This project and GitHub_ repository is meant for speeding up Linux Kernel development work, this also includes Documentation_. The directory layout tries to keep close to the Kernel directory layout. This helps when/if upstreaming the work.

This prototype-kernel was primarily meant for prototyping kernel modules (see blogpost_).

XDP eBPF samples

UPDATE: See XDP-tutorial_ if you want to learn eBPF-coding, and not depend on kernel tree.

The Linux kernel tree also contains some eBPF samples_ which this github repo is also shadowing for easier prototyping, see directory samples/bpf/_.

This directory samples/bpf/_ maintains a different Makefile (than depending on the kernels) and maintains a copy of some bpf-header files to ease compiling outside the kernel source tree.

Simply run 'make' in that directory to build the bpf samples.

Documentation

This also covers Kernel Documentation_ which is being auto-generated_ by Read The Docs_ (based on reStructuredText_ files and Sphinx_ to generate pretty documentation).

.. _GitHub: https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel .. _Documentation: kernel/Documentation/ .. _Read The Docs: https://prototype-kernel.readthedocs.io .. _auto-generated: https://prototype-kernel.readthedocs.io .. _Sphinx: http://www.sphinx-doc.org/ .. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html .. _blogpost: http://netoptimizer.blogspot.dk/2014/11/announce-github-repo-prototype-kernel.html .. _eBPF samples: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/samples/bpf/ .. _samples/bpf/: kernel/samples/bpf/ .. _XDP-tutorial: https://github.com/xdp-project/xdp-tutorial