Re: Kernel/Hardware hacking start?

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br)
Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:40:14 -0200


Em Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:30:09PM -0600, Glover George escreveu:
> As Eliezer dos Santos Magalhaes was wondering, I too am wanting to learn
> about hacking the linux kernel as well as device drivers. I actually own
> Linux Device Drivers (1st edition), but was wondering if someone could
> direct me towards a source that explained how operating systems deal with
> boot up, initialization of hardware, and the like. In other words, I want
> to learn the kernel from boot up to shutdown. Is there a comprehensive
> guide out there for this?

Have you looked at Documentation at all? :) Ok, I'll do that for you, this
time:

Documentation/kernel-docs.txt

http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/lki.html

- Arnaldo
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