On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Michael Blizek wrote: > Hi! > > On 21:58 Sat 04 Sep , Bond wrote: > > I have looked at courses offered via > > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/ they are highly expensive. Does > > any one offer at less price such courses for device driver > > development or embedded system development. Some where every thing > > systematically. I do not want to waste my time in reading Internet > > guides which do not work tutorials and documentations which do not > > make any sense. So if some one offers for a reasonable price > > please do drop me a mail I will be interested. > > You might be interested in http://crashcourse.ca/ , but imho the > guides/books which are available are far from being that bad. thanks, i appreciate the recommendation but, as of right now, there's only the one intro course on kernel programming for beginners that i'm still working on. i have plans to write followup courses getting into embedded and driver development but they won't exist for a while. a couple recommendations. first, in terms of books, we've discussed this before and i would recommend: * chris hallinan's "embedded linux primer", 2nd ed. should be out soon, make sure you get the *2nd* edition, not the first. * "essential linux device drivers", by venkateswaran the bigger issue, though, is that embedded and driver development is such a huge area that it's almost impossible to intelligently give someone advice on how to get started. where do you *want* to start? what are you interested in? best way to get started is to pick a development kit, order it and start playing. maybe the new beagleboard-xM. for $150, it's hard to get a better deal. people can't really give you advice when the field is so vast. you need to take the first step -- buy a development kit and at least get it up and running. then play. after that, you'll at least have more focused questions. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
