[ale] Kernel

[jj at spiderentertainment.com]

That would be great, I'm not too sure on where we could host this, perhaps
if we got a sponsor... how far are we open to idea ?


Joe Knapka wrote:

> Michael Hirsch wrote:
> >
> > I've been reading "Linux Kernel Internals" by Beck et al., published
> > by Addison-Wesley.  I'm finding it fairly readable.  It only goes up
> > to 2.0, so it is a bit dated, but a lot better than nothing.
> >
> > --
> > --Michael
>
> I have that book, and I've read a great deal of it, but
> it seems rather more confusing than informative. I think
> that's because it is rather short on examples in some
> places. And it is quite out-of-date now.
>
> Bach's "The Design of the Unix Operating System" is very
> good, though not Linux-specific. I think Bach would be
> a good thing to read before "Linux Kernel Internals."
>
> A while ago I started a little WWW project exposing
> the kernel as I explored it. Since I'm not a kernel
> expert, it was by no means authoritative, but it
> seems to me that there are not too many sources of
> information directed at newcomers to the kernel code.
> Linux is a great learning tool, but books like "L.K.I"
> and the "Kernel Hacker's Guide" are directed (either
> by design or due to the author's unconscious assumptions)
> at an audience of people who are quite familiar with
> kernel issues (multiprocessing, hardware interfaces,
> etc.) I wanted to present both my pre- and mis-conceptions,
> and the actual state of affairs in the kernel code,
> so that someone who was scratching their head in
> the middle of something like "L.K.I." could surf over
> and go, "Oh, so THIS is what I thought they were
> saying, but THAT's what's really going on."
> I had gotten as far as a fairly detailed account of
> the task-switching mechanism (on Intel hardware) and
> surrounding machinery before I got distracted by
> other things.
>
> Unfortunately, since I switched from Mindspring
> to Charter's cable service, I have no place from
> which to host those pages. (Charter Pipeline's
> customer support eats pond scum. Fast as hell,
> but try getting them to set up a web-hosting
> account...)
>
> Perhaps we could, as a group, work on building up
> a collective set of kernel explore-and-explain
> WWW pages? Maybe someone could host a Wiki?
> If a host were available, I'd be willing to
> start out by posting the pages I have on hand.
> I would host them on my firewall machine, but
> unfortunately I don't have a static IP. Any
> takers?
>
> -- Joe Knapka
> * I speak only for myself, except when the little transceiver
> * at the base of my skull is activated...