looking for current, online kernel-related tutorials

Sarah Sharp sarah.a.sharp at linux.intel.com
Thu Oct 18 09:21:29 EDT 2012


On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 06:08:55AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Sarah Sharp wrote:
> 
> > Any plans to include this content in kernelnewbies.org?  It seems
> > like tutorials on kernel programming should be linked from there.
> 
>   at the risk of putting a few noses out of joint, a main reason why
> i'm not keen on adding more content to kernelnewbies is that what's
> there is, in many cases, spectacularly out of date, and newer content
> would just get lost in the shuffle.
> 
>   consider the links here:
> 
> http://kernelnewbies.org/Documents
> 
> follow some of those links and see where you end up.  i mean,
> seriously, "working with the kernel source in CVS"??  and a number of
> other links there have very little remaining value.
> 
>   rather than trying to add more content, a higher priority would be
> to *cleanse* that documentation page of what obviously has little
> value, and start over.  thoughts?

That's what I'm planning on doing to the wiki.  You're right that it's
out of date and very disorganized.  So I'll take a crack at it and see
if there's a better structure.

Sarah Sharp



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