Kernel/Hardware hacking start?

Kernel/Hardware hacking start?

[Glover George]

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?  I would like to learn more about the low level
hardware stuff and programming it (the more i think about it, the more it
seems like i just need to re-read Linux Device Drivers :-) ) Is the kernel
the best place to learn this?  Any suggestions would be apprecitated.  Thank
you.

Re: Kernel/Hardware hacking start?

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

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