On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Rabee Al-Maqabi <rabee.almaqabi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for not yet supported piece of hardware to write a driver for > it. anyone can help? > > Regards, > Rabee Al-Maqabi Hi Rabee, Linux Device Drivers 3rd edition (LDD3) is a great book to learn how to write Linux device drivers. The best thing about this book is that teaches how to write device drivers for memory-based virtual devices, which mean that you don't need any special hardware to run the example drivers on your computer. Fortunately the Linux internal API is not stable and that allows us to improve the kernel every day. But this has the side effect that any documentation about the Linux kernel quickly becomes obsolete. A long time ago I updated the LDD3 examples so they could be compiled and used on newer kernels, this was for academic purposes so my students would be able to use that code. Sadly I haven't had any time to update to more recent kernels so if you want to work on Linux device drivers you can fork my tree [1] and make the drivers work on recent kernels, I know that many people would be happy (specially students). [1]: https://github.com/martinezjavier/ldd3 Best regards, -- Javier Martínez Canillas (+34) 682 39 81 69 Barcelona, Spain _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
