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Demonstration: kernel source

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Demonstration: kernel source

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- [Instructor] Let's look at driver source stuff, a little bit in the kernel. First of all, let's figure out what ethernet devices we have. So we've got a few there and then we've got this kind of real one, even though we're in a VM. This ENP thing, let's find out more about that. And it tells us the driver is MLX5 core. All right, so let's see if there's a loadable module with that name. Yep. Sure enough, there's a module with that name loaded. So the driver for that ethernet was built as a loadable kernel module. Let's see if we can go find the source code for that. If we find dot name mlx5 underscore core. Oops. We don't pipe into slash name. All right, we've got a bunch of stuff underneath drivers net. So let's go to drivers net ethernet mellanox mlx5 core. Now we got lots of stuff. Now I already did a full build in here, so I got lots of object files along with the source files. There's a make file in here. Let's look at the make file. And we see here on line nine, obj dash value…

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