From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Daniel Drake <dsd@reactivated.net>
Cc: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Developing Kernel Code newbie
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:55:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1063634144.2674.26.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F658B36.2010503@reactivated.net>
On Llu, 2003-09-15 at 10:49, Daniel Drake wrote:
> I'm in a similar situation here.. a C/C++ beginner, very keen to work on
> the Linux kernel.
> Those two books you mentioned, the latest editions cover the 2.4 series
> kernel. Would reading these still be useful for working on the 2.6 (and
> onwards) kernels?
The kernel is cool, but it is a large piece of code with a lot of ideas
in it that some folks find challenging (interrupts, multiprocessing,
threads and locking) [One thing to be said at least the Java taught
university folks understand some of this unlike those they used to feed
pascal]
Have fun but if you find the kernel daunting and hard work, don't give
up but pick up something smaller, easier to understand and use a
debugger on - like desktop applications, then come back and try the
kernel again later.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-15 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-15 7:59 Amir Hermelin
2003-09-15 8:35 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-15 9:49 ` Daniel Drake
2003-09-15 9:52 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-15 15:11 ` Daniel Drake
2003-09-15 13:55 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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2003-09-15 7:57 Amir Hermelin
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