Linux device driver writing

Linux device driver writing

[Rahul]

Hi friends,

I am new to this field of writing device drivers. I
have done my course in Unix/C and presently working
for a company in india in embedded systems. I am
looking forward to write some device drivers in
Linux/Unix/QNX can any one suggest me any good book
which i can refer for my guidance.

thx for your constant support.
bye
rahul

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Re: Linux device driver writing

[Marcus Ramos]

Hello,

For Linux you can use the good and complete "Linux Device Drivers" by
Alessandro Rubini, O'Reilly, 1998. For other flavors of Unix, I am aware only
of old text books of little interest for present systems. Good luck.

Marcus.

Rahul wrote:

> Hi friends,
>
> I am new to this field of writing device drivers. I
> have done my course in Unix/C and presently working
> for a company in india in embedded systems. I am
> looking forward to write some device drivers in
> Linux/Unix/QNX can any one suggest me any good book
> which i can refer for my guidance.
>
> thx for your constant support.
> bye
> rahul
>
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Re: Linux device driver writing

[Erik Mouw]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 03:06:13PM -0200, Marcus Ramos wrote:
> For Linux you can use the good and complete "Linux Device Drivers" by
> Alessandro Rubini, O'Reilly, 1998. For other flavors of Unix, I am aware only
> of old text books of little interest for present systems. Good luck.

Problem with that edition is quite old. Yes, it's good and the general
guidelines still apply, but the details are obsoleted by the newer
kernels. When I asked the O'Reilly at LWE NY, they told me that the
second edition (which covers 2.4) will be released in May this year.

Another good place to start is of course http://www.kernelnewbies.org/


Erik

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Re: Linux device driver writing

[Prasanna P Subash]

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a treasure trove of info on linux would be /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt

-Prasanna

On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:01:40AM +0000, Rahul wrote:
> Hi friends,
> 
> I am new to this field of writing device drivers. I
> have done my course in Unix/C and presently working
> for a company in india in embedded systems. I am
> looking forward to write some device drivers in
> Linux/Unix/QNX can any one suggest me any good book
> which i can refer for my guidance.
> 
> thx for your constant support.
> bye
> rahul
> 
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