This whitepaper provides an overview of the types of changes that you may need to make to a customized or specialized Linux installation in order to use it with the Linux 2.6 kernel, building upon the configuration file and administrative updates that were touched upon in the third article in this series.

This whitepaper continues the series from TimeSys's “2.6 Linux Resource Center” on using the new Linux 2.6 kernel. Authored by TimeSys Senior Product Manager William von Hagen, the series places special emphasis on the primary issues in migrating existing drivers, applications, and embedded Linux deployments to a Linux distribution based on the 2.6 kernel.

Material presented is largely vendor-neutral.

Read part four of von Hagen's series . . .

This article is part four of a series of whitepapers from TimeSys on Migrating to Linux kernel 2.6. The series includes:

• Customizing a 2.6-based Linux kernel
• Migrating device drivers to Linux kernel 2.6
• Using the 2.6 kernel with your current system
• Migrating custom Linux installations to 2.6
• Migrating applications to the 2.6 kernel and NPTL

 
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