2001-12-28 21:30:07

by Glover George

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Subject: Kernel/Hardware hacking start?

As Eliezer dos Santos Magalhaes was wondering, I too am wanting to learn
about hacking the linux kernel as well as device drivers. I actually own
Linux Device Drivers (1st edition), but was wondering if someone could
direct me towards a source that explained how operating systems deal with
boot up, initialization of hardware, and the like. In other words, I want
to learn the kernel from boot up to shutdown. Is there a comprehensive
guide out there for this? I would like to learn more about the low level
hardware stuff and programming it (the more i think about it, the more it
seems like i just need to re-read Linux Device Drivers :-) ) Is the kernel
the best place to learn this? Any suggestions would be apprecitated. Thank
you.



2001-12-29 01:39:54

by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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Subject: Re: Kernel/Hardware hacking start?

Em Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:30:09PM -0600, Glover George escreveu:
> As Eliezer dos Santos Magalhaes was wondering, I too am wanting to learn
> about hacking the linux kernel as well as device drivers. I actually own
> Linux Device Drivers (1st edition), but was wondering if someone could
> direct me towards a source that explained how operating systems deal with
> boot up, initialization of hardware, and the like. In other words, I want
> to learn the kernel from boot up to shutdown. Is there a comprehensive
> guide out there for this?

Have you looked at Documentation at all? :) Ok, I'll do that for you, this
time:

Documentation/kernel-docs.txt

http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/lki.html

- Arnaldo