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Kaiwan N. Billimoria
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Kaiwan N. Billimoria

Kaiwan N. Billimoria taught himself BASIC programming on his dad's IBM PC back in 1983. He was programming in C and Assembly on DOS until he discovered the joys of Unix, and by around 1997, Linux! Kaiwan has worked on many aspects of the Linux system programming stack, including Bash scripting, system programming in C, kernel internals, device drivers, and embedded Linux work. He has actively worked on several commercial/FOSS projects. His contributions include drivers to the mainline Linux OS and many smaller projects hosted on GitHub. His Linux passion feeds well into his passion for teaching these topics to engineers, which he has done for well over two decades now. He's also the author of Hands-On System Programming with Linux, Linux Kernel Programming (and its Part 2 book) and Linux Kernel Debugging. It doesn't hurt that he is a recreational ultrarunner too.
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Kernel build for the Raspberry Pi

A popular and relatively inexpensive Single-Board Computer (SBC) to experiment and prototype with is the ARM-based Raspberry Pi. Hobbyists, tinkerers, and, to some extent, even pros find it very useful to try out and learn how to work with embedded Linux, especially as it has a strong community backing (with many Q&A forums) and excellent support. (You’ll find a brief discussion and picture of a Raspberry Pi board in Online Chapter, Kernel Workspace Setup, in the Experimenting with the Raspberry Pi section. By the way, there are several well-known Raspberry Pi clones – like the Orange Pi – that work very well; the discussions should apply equally to them.)

There are two typical ways in which you can build a kernel for the target device or Device Under Test (DUT) that we’ll use here, the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (64-bit):

  • Build the kernel on a powerful host system, typically an x86_64 (or Mac) desktop or...
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Kaiwan N. Billimoria

Kaiwan N. Billimoria taught himself BASIC programming on his dad's IBM PC back in 1983. He was programming in C and Assembly on DOS until he discovered the joys of Unix, and by around 1997, Linux! Kaiwan has worked on many aspects of the Linux system programming stack, including Bash scripting, system programming in C, kernel internals, device drivers, and embedded Linux work. He has actively worked on several commercial/FOSS projects. His contributions include drivers to the mainline Linux OS and many smaller projects hosted on GitHub. His Linux passion feeds well into his passion for teaching these topics to engineers, which he has done for well over two decades now. He's also the author of Hands-On System Programming with Linux, Linux Kernel Programming (and its Part 2 book) and Linux Kernel Debugging. It doesn't hurt that he is a recreational ultrarunner too.
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