Nicky Chorley wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using Linux for several years now and I'm interested in > learning how the kernel works and being able to contribute to its > development. However, I'm quite confused as to how to get going with > this. I've bought two books on the subject - "Understanding the Linux > kernel" and "Linux Kernel Development", but I guess the problem is > that I can't really follow the source code while I'm reading - there > aren't enough pointers in the books to the relevant code and it's > quite difficult to navigate the tree, since it's so big. > > Another thing is that I'm not sure which area of the kernel I'd like > to contribute to. This is because I don't yet know how it works, so I > can't make any (informed) decision. This is perhaps not much of a > problem, I think, since once I learn how things work, I will hopefully > be able to contribute (learning more as I do so) to an area that needs > it. > > Assuming that I know nothing (except some C), what advice would you > give me if I wanted to successfully join the kernel development > community? > Hi, If its only Linux you are interested in then other answers are there for you. If you want to know things from scratch please clone: git[colon]git[dot]gitorious[dot]org[slash]freax[slash]freax[dot]git I have recently started it for learning purpose since Linux is too big to learn things from scratch. Don't expect much from it for now. - Himanshu [P.S.] This at least forces me to read Intel's manuals ;-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
