El Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 12:25:51PM -0400 Robert P. J. Day ha dit: > just picked up a copy of: > > http://elinuxdd.com/index.html > > and about to read it cover to cover. anyone else already been down > that road? thoughts? i bought it a couple of months ago and am working myself through it. imo it is a book for people who already have knowledge about basic kernel mechanisms like synchronization, process management, page cache, ... and want to dig deeper in driver specific issues. the book introduces most of the basic stuff, but i think if i was a complete newbie i'd be rather confused. i would recommend to read it after having worked through "Linux Device Drivers" and optionally "Linux Kernel Development". the book contains a lot of useful information about subsystems (pci, usb, net, wifi, ...) and driver implementation. -- Matthias Kaehlcke Embedded Linux Engineer Barcelona El trabajo es el refugio de los que no tienen nada que hacer (Oscar Wilde) .''`. using free software / Debian GNU/Linux | http://debian.org : :' : `. `'` gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 47D8E5D4 `- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
