On 3/2/07, Lazlo Hollyfield <leemart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to understand the linux kernel as a whole first, and then on digging deeper into the details? As of now I'm learning details first(ex: load re-balancer, task_struct, etc...), and it seems rather slow going, and a tad overwhelming to memorize without understanding were the details are going.
http://lxr.linux.no/source/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt is a nice collection of kernel related documents it would be nice to start with * Title: "Conceptual Architecture of the Linux Kernel" Author: Ivan T. Bowman. URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a1.html *Title: "Concrete Architecture of the Linux Kernel" Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Saheem Siddiqi, and Meyer C. Tanuan. URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a2.html i personally feel that as a newbies we should be least bothered with the current developments in the kernel First get the basics right from the stable documentation which is there ..the implementation specific details can be overlooked then the latest changes which are there can be looked at & best understood and as they say you have to be in it to win it if we keep yourself updated with the latest news keep in sync with the mailing lists this will act as a filler for some things which we miss out/or don't understand while reading the books -- Milind Arun Choudhary -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
