Beginner guide

[Rohan Puri]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Pranay Srivastava <pranjas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Prudhvee Narasimha Sadha
> <prudhvi.sada at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >       My name is Prudhvee and I'm purusing my undergraduate second year.
> I'm
> > intrested in kernel development but I'm unable to understand how to get
> into
> > it.
> > Can you please help me to become a kernel developer.
>
> I would suggest get the foundations right first and let's hope you know
> good C,
> tricks are good to know but you should be able to understand code
> written by others and be able to integrate the knowledge with what you
> already know.
>
> Agree. Ways to do this : -
1. Read/write/understand K&R C language.
2. To understand code written by others you have to start doing that. (I
mean practice it).


> If you haven't used semaphores or mutexes in user space code then do
> that first, understand why is the need. For example why you need to
> have a sycall to get a semaphore
> but when working with pthreads you probably don't need that.
>
> Understand compiler and make it your friend. Errors you get while
> compiling, and things you can do for example why  ((struct
> mystruct*)(0))->member fails when you run code but &(((struct
> mystruct*)(0))->member) works.
>
>

>
> Basic idea is to get to understand how would you do it yourself, get
> some ideas in your mind see if they should work or not. You may be
> able to write code maybe without going through all that but in the
> long run it would help.
>
> >
> >      I just want to know what I should learn and any suggested books to
> > learn kernel programming.
> >
>
> Take an operating system course first. Get to know the basics then you
> can try to understand kernel code. You can start with LDD, i think a
> new version is available now, but take an OS course in parallel or
> read yourself.
>
Agree. Ways to do this : -
Get an OS course done, search for courses online, 2 of ones which I know
are : -
1. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~213/
2. CMUs OS course.

>
> >  Thank you,
> >  Prudhvee.
> >
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- Rohan
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