2008-11-13 19:19:34

by Kristoffer Ericson

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Subject: Recommended books for new kernel programmers

Greetings,

Ive gotten this question alot lately and thought
people could name their favourite books.

I usually recommend "Linux Device Drivers" by
Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini and
Greg Kroah-Hartman.

Anything else worth telling people?

/Kristoffer

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2008-11-13 19:48:40

by Jose Celestino

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Subject: Re: Recommended books for new kernel programmers

Words by Kristoffer Ericson [Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:19:47PM +0100]:
> Greetings,
>
> Ive gotten this question alot lately and thought
> people could name their favourite books.
>
> I usually recommend "Linux Device Drivers" by
> Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini and
> Greg Kroah-Hartman.
>
> Anything else worth telling people?
>

Robert Love "Linux Kernel Development" 2nd edition is very good.

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2008-11-13 19:50:31

by Matthias Kaehlcke

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Subject: Re: Recommended books for new kernel programmers

El Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:19:47PM +0100 Kristoffer Ericson ha dit:

> Ive gotten this question alot lately and thought
> people could name their favourite books.
>
> I usually recommend "Linux Device Drivers" by
> Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini and
> Greg Kroah-Hartman.

Robert Loves' "Linux Kernel Development" is my favorite for
getting an overview of kernel and its mechanisms

"Essential Linux Device Drivers" from Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran is a
good book for learning about driver development, though i'd recommend
to read "Linux Kernel Development" or LDD3 first

finally there is "Understanding the Linux Kernel" by Daniel P. Bovet
and Marco Cesati, an in-depth view of the kernel core code

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2008-11-13 20:18:44

by Alexey Dobriyan

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Subject: Re: Recommended books for new kernel programmers

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:19:47PM +0100, Kristoffer Ericson wrote:
> Ive gotten this question alot lately and thought people could name their
> favourite books.
>
> I usually recommend "Linux Device Drivers" by Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro
> Rubini and Greg Kroah-Hartman.
>
> Anything else worth telling people?

Kernighan, Rithie, "The C Programming Language"
Kernighan, Pike, "The Practice of Programming"
C programming language standard ISO/IEC 9899:1999
Bovet, Cesati, "Understanding the Linux Kernel"

2008-11-14 06:24:33

by Damien Wyart

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Subject: Re: Recommended books for new kernel programmers

* Kristoffer Ericson <[email protected]> [2008-11-13 21:19]:
> Ive gotten this question alot lately and thought
> people could name their favourite books.

Not very well-known yet because very recent, _Professional Linux Kernel
Architecture_ by Wolfgang Mauerer (Wrox) seems very promising after
a few hours of browsing throught it.

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Damien Wyart