From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261660AbULBQFC (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:05:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261690AbULBQCd (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:02:33 -0500 Received: from c7ns3.center7.com ([216.250.142.14]:30689 "EHLO smtp.slc03.viawest.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261676AbULBQAn (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:00:43 -0500 Message-ID: <41AF3EC3.7060807@devicelogics.com> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 09:11:47 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: krishna Cc: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: How to understand flow of kernel code References: <41AE9E3E.9020307@globaledgesoft.com> In-Reply-To: <41AE9E3E.9020307@globaledgesoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare, Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama, Rama, Hare, Hare. Start at entry.S and head.S in /arch/i386/kernel and trace the initialization. It's a good place to start for understanding how the kernel boots and follow the code through init. Check out the userspace interaction as well. It will at least start you with the basics. You may want to offer a leaf, fruit, flower, and water to Lord Chaitanya and Lord Krishna and chant the mantras in between to ask for guidance and understanding (I'm serious). Interesting trivia. Krishna in hindi means "all attractive". The Greeks took the word and over time it was corrupted into the word "Christ" which was later used for Jesus of Nazereth. I lot of people probably don't know his last name actually came from the Vedic culture. Hare Krishna, Jeff krishna wrote: > Hi, > > Can Anyone tell me the tips/tricks/techniques/practices followed in > understanding flow of Linux kernel code? > > Regards, > Krishna Chaitanya > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >