MESSAGE
| DATE | 2016-08-10 |
| FROM | John Chludzinski
|
| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] Are these books outdated?
|
The 2.6 kernel made significant changes to threading support in the
kernel. In 2.6 there's now a 1-to-1 mapping from kthreads to pthreads.
On 2016-08-10 14:17, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 11:16:13PM +0530, Raul Piper wrote:
>> Most of the books like Essential linux device drivers, Robert love
>> kernel
>> development,
>> Linux device drivers by Rubini
>> Most of the books are based on old kernels 2.2,2.6 etc
>>
>> I wanted to know hasnt the kernel evolved during these times and is it
>> still
>> good to design drivers based on that theory.Since device trees and
>> possibly
>> many other concepts would have evolved and obviously the apis related
>> to them
>> like _of_ apis for device tree parsing.
>> Please comment- which book to be read or followed?
>
> The ideas should still be the same, but the details have changed.
>
> If you don't like that, then just refer to the best documentation there
> is, the source itself. The kernel comes with TONS of built-in
> documentation (make pdfdocs) and all of the source code which shows
> exactly how things work together.
>
> And it's free!
>
> best of luck,
>
> greg k-h
_______________________________________________
Kernelnewbies mailing list
Kernelnewbies-at-kernelnewbies.org
https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
_______________________________________________
hangout mailing list
hangout-at-nylxs.com
http://www.nylxs.com/
|
|
