On 19 August 2013 16:13, Robert Clove <cloverobert@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Alexandru Juncu <alexj@rosedu.org> wrote:
On 19 August 2013 15:35, Robert Clove <cloverobert@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello All,
I am an software Guy have some knowledge about device drivers. I want to understand porting Linux kernel on new PCI board. I have no idea from where to start and how. Please guide me through some good books and tutorials.
Please guide.
Hello!
I don't think you want to 'port' Linux on the board. You port the kernel on a new CPU processor/architecture. I think what you want is to make a device driver for your device (that connects via PCI).
What you should do is search for an existing device driver of a similar board and take the code for that one and examine it. Then take the technical specs of the new board and see the differences between that and the old board and implement the differences in a new code that will be the new device driver.
Sir,
Actually what i want to do is suppose the hardware team give you a new board and now you want to run Linux kernel on it, What one should do to port Linux on the new board.
Can you be more specific on what kind of a board you are referring to? Is it a something like a Pandaboard or a Beagleboard (System-on-a-Chip boards), or a normal graphics/network/sound/board (you said something about PCI so my mind pointed to this kind of boards).