Finding help

[Stephen Gream]

Oh, and of course, the kernel man pages and the source code itself :)


On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Stephen Gream <poisonthemon at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Maria,
>
> Most of what I learned about the Linux kernel I learned in an operating
> systems course at uni, the note for which are freely available at
> http://cs.anu.edu.au/student/comp3300/notes.php
>
> A good place to start is with rolling your own kernel, for which there is
> a ton of resources to be found. Usually it's best to follow special steps
> suited to your distro. Another really good starting place for getting a
> high level view of how the kernel fits in with the entire eco system is
> doing the Linux from Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ tutorials.
>
> If you want to dive straight into the code, though, try finding a simple
> USB gadget like a Nerf launcher or something and reverse engineering a
> driver. USB drivers are probably the easiest to write, unless you're
> working with something really crazy.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Stephen
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:50 PM, María <meccomaria at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I just started to learn about the linux kernel and I am very excited
>> about it... but very lost. I would like to know if there's any mentor
>> program or anything similar to that. If there's no such thing, can anyone
>> suggest me some link/s with "First steps to the linux kernel" or the like?
>>
>> Thank you very much and sorry for the inconvenience,
>> María.
>>
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