Hello! I am not a professional kernel developer but I do like learning how things work..especially operating systems like linux. I know the basis stuff about the linux kernel (enough to write a very simple kernel module). But I wanted to learn how things like a simple scheduler or a memory manager would work. Only reading the current kernel code is sometimes difficult because all the layers of abstraction implemented in order to make Linux code scale. So I was thinking taking a much much older version of the kernel and starting to analyze it. Something like...v0.01. Seems like I'm on a good track since sched.c in v0.01 has 250 lines while shed.h in the current kernel has 1200 :P. But I couldn't get v0.01 to compile and I've search the Internet and found that it needs a _lot_ of hacking to get it to work. So I moved to try 1.0 which seems to have all of the basic features implemented yet simple enough to understand. But I am still having trouble compiling (having trouble with header files...). Although I could just read the code and try to figure out what it does, I would like to be able to modify it and compile and run it. In order to avoid useless trial and error, I wanted to ask other people that maybe did this: What is the oldest kernel version that can be compiled on a current system and then pun on a virtual machine like qemu-kvm or vmware? On a side note, I did look into the "Linux from scratch" documentation project, but that seems to tell you how to build a distribution, not a kernel. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
