Beginner guide

[sanjeev sharma]

Hello Prudhvee,

I would suggest first start with Kernel Basic and O.S Concept to understand
where Kernel really fits in O.;S and then gradually speed up to learn How
Kernel works by referring interesting books like Kernel Development by
Robert Love and also have source code handy to map the Kernel source code
with Book to understand the functionality.I Bet you that once you done
with  Kernel Development by Robert Love then you can start working in
community and then will let you know next step.

Regards
Sanjeev Sharma


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Rohan Puri <rohan.puri15 at gmail.com> wrote:

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