Hello, > > Then the next thing I was trying to do was to compile the source code > and try to understand the various methods/function calls, system calls > etc, but I'm not able to compile the code, I'm getting the following > errors: > If you want to compile this kernel to understand how an operating system works. I would recommend using a newer kernel version that you can easily compile and test with current tools. Compiling a 0.01 with today tools will be a pain and you would learn more about C compiling and linking than operating system internals. The Linux kernel is a really complex beast but also it is highly modularized, so you can try to understand one aspect at a time. Also there is much more documentation about recent kernels code that for a kernel that old. I would recommend buying some of the excellent books about Linux kernel internals, the best book in my opinion is Robert Love's Linux Kernel Development (http://amzn.to/i34vbB). Another great books are Linux Device Drivers (http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/), Essential Linux Device Drivers (http://amzn.to/bvELFI) and IA-64 Linux Kernel: Design and Implementation (http://amzn.to/fTvV9z). Also lwn.net site has a lot of documentation about the kernel in its Kernel index page (http://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/). I think that reading about the kernel internals while looking at the source code and latter trying to hack the code is the best way to learn about the Linux kernel an operating systems internals. -- Best regards, ----------------------------------------- Javier MartÃnez Canillas (+34) 682 39 81 69 _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
