On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Rami Rosen wrote: > Hi, > Since there was a concern about these books being outdated, I want > to mention here also a book titled "Professional Linux Kernel > Architecture", by Wolfgang Maurer, Wiley, 2008, 1368 pages. (I read > it partially) And also I agree with Robert saying that he wouldn't > count on that publication date of LDD4 by Oreilly, since indeed the > publication date was postponed in the past (at least once but maybe > more, I am unsure about that) first, i wouldn't put any stock in a tentative publication date for LDD4, as i have already offered to be a technical pre-publication reviewer for that book, and i have been informed that there is no guarantee that there will be a new version of that book. (frankly, i would doubt it only because there would be *so* *much* content, it would be hard to pack all that into a single book. i can't even imagine trying to list everything one would have to cover in that newer version.) however, there are some git repos for the examples in LDD3 that were being updated to keep up with the kernel source -- here is one of them: https://github.com/martinezjavier/ldd3 i don't know if that code is still maintained, but it's definitely more relevant than the code snippets from the original LDD3. and as far as robert love's "linux kernel development, 3rd ed" (LKD3) is concerned, i was the technical editor for that book and, yes, it's also starting to look a bit dated but it's still pretty decent. once upon a time, i started a wiki page to try to keep up with changes and additions: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Updates_to_LKD3 but i just haven't had the time to stay on top of it. perhaps i should make another concerted effort to get back to that and bring it up to date again, and add more content (more on this in a bit). finally, i once wrote an online course for intro to kernel programming, it's still here (and, again, being crazy busy has kept me from updating it but i really want to get back to *that* someday as well): http://www.crashcourse.ca/introduction-linux-kernel-programming/introduction-linux-kernel-programming http://www.crashcourse.ca/introduction-linux-kernel-programming-2nd-edition/introduction-linux-kernel-programming-2nd-edition the first edition is the more complete of the two, but also the older; the second edition was meant to be a newer version, but i just ran out of time moving everything over, but you're welcome to use whatever you can from either of them -- there's no charge for them, so help yourself. more thoughts on all of this in a bit ... rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
