On October 25, 2001 05:58 pm, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Patrick Ouellet wrote: > > > As a follower of linux for a couple of years now > > I wanted to go deeper into the madness, > > so I said to myself, why no go as deep as you > > can and get yourself into the Kernel. > > > > My simple question is this: > > > > Were should I start. > > A good place to start would be http://kernelnewbies.org/ > and also the kernelnewbies mailing list and IRC channel. Highly recommended. > > I would like to have a nice overview of the kernel > > something that would help me understand all the part > > of the kernel and how they work toghether. > > The book "Understanding the Linux Kernel" by O'Reilly > is nice, also see http://kernelnewbies.org/books.php3 More than nice, I'd say essential. Even though it's based on the 2.2 series it's still 95% relevant. Here's the best place to start: http://lxr.linux.no/source/init/main.c#L793 -- Daniel - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
