WOW !!!!!!
On 5/25/06, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:> Have you ever felt teased when driver developers of other operating> systems teased you about a lack of a "proper" driver development kit for> Linux? Have you felt left out of the crowd when looking at the 36 cdrom> package of documentation and example source code that other operating> systems provide for their developers? Well feel ashamed no longer!>> In coordination with the FreedomHEC[1] conference this week in Seattle,> WA, USA, I'm proud to announce the first release of the Linux Device> Driver Kit.>> It is a cd image that contains everything that a Linux device driver> author would need in order to create Linux drivers, including a full> copy of the O'Reilly book, "Linux Device Drivers, third edition" and> pre-built copies of all of the in-kernel docbook documentation for easy> browsing. It even has a copy of the Linux source code that you can> directly build external kernel modules against.>> It can be downloaded for free at:> kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/ddk/>> and all attendees of FreedomHEC will get a physical copy, for you to> leave around your desk for other developers to envy.>>> There's a few things that I would like to include in future versions of> this cdrom:> - searchable index of all documentation. jsFind looks like will work> for this, but due to time constraints, did not make this release.> - prettier web pages. I acknolodge I'm no designer, anyone who wants> to fix up my sparse html with proper CSS support and images would be> greatly appreciated.> - More documentation. Possible inclusion is a snapshot of the> kernelnewbies wiki. As we have plenty of room, any pointers to> stuff that should be included is welcome.>> And of course, the image is released under the GPL v2 and can be copied> freely. There's a cdrom label included in the root directory if you> wish to print it out.>
What an awesome initiative !! This is a gold mine for kernel anddevice driver newbies.
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