Linux Driver Project

[Rabee Al-Maqabi]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas <
martinez.javier at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Rabee Al-Maqabi
> <rabee.almaqabi at gmail.com> 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
>

Hi Javier,

Thank you for your reply. Linux Device Drivers is indeed a great book. I
have read it in addition to Understanding the Linux Kernel and I have
experimented with my Linux box. At this point, I would like to have a
real-world experience and write a driver for a piece of hardware not yet
supported.

Best regards,

--
Rabee Al-Maqabi
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