A new soldier

A new soldier

[Rodrigo Nascimento]

Hi all,

I'm a Science of Computers student and I'd like help you in something.
I don't know if exists something that I could do. So if someone wants
a help, I'm a volunteer.

See you,
-- 

underscore(0x5f)

Re: A new soldier

[Rodrigo Nascimento]

Mr. Engel,

Thanks for the tip.

I like to develop programs. If I have to write a program for something
that I don't know, I do some searchs, I read manuals, I understand
this thing and later I write the program.

Can you suggest something to me? :)
I really want to help, but I don't know where I should start.

I need to see how it works, what I need to have to help. I think that
a C compiler and a knowledge in C isn't sufficient. :)

I don't know if exists a guide that I can read..... if it exists,
please, tell me where I can get it.

--
Rodrigo

Re: A new soldier

[Niraj kumar]

> 
> I don't know if exists a guide that I can read..... if it exists,
> please, tell me where I can get it.

Loot at this , to begin with :
http://jungla.dit.upm.es/%7Ejmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html

Niraj

Re: A new soldier

[Michał Piotrowski]

Hi,

Rodrigo Nascimento wrote:

>Mr. Engel,
>
>Thanks for the tip.
>
>I like to develop programs. If I have to write a program for something
>that I don't know, I do some searchs, I read manuals, I understand
>this thing and later I write the program.
>
>Can you suggest something to me? :)
>I really want to help, but I don't know where I should start.
>
>I need to see how it works, what I need to have to help. I think that
>a C compiler and a knowledge in C isn't sufficient. :)
>
>I don't know if exists a guide that I can read..... if it exists,
>please, tell me where I can get it.
>
>  
>
http://www.kernelnewbies.org/

http://64.122.99.246/jeneral/ (for me it works only with internet explorer)

http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/

I'm newbie too...

Regards,
Michał Piotrowski

Re: A new soldier

[Rodrigo Nascimento]

Thanks, Mr. Piotrowski.
I got of LDD3. 

I have a lot of things to read before to send my first useful message.

Thanks !!!

--
underscore(0x5f)

Re: A new soldier

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Rodrigo Nascimento wrote:

> I'm a Science of Computers student and I'd like help you in something.
> I don't know if exists something that I could do. So if someone wants
> a help, I'm a volunteer.

Submit patches to clean up all the whitespace problems in the kernel 
sources. Andrew Morton indicated that he will take those.

Re: A new soldier

[Bodo Eggert]

Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Rodrigo Nascimento wrote:

>> I'm a Science of Computers student and I'd like help you in something.
>> I don't know if exists something that I could do. So if someone wants
>> a help, I'm a volunteer.
> 
> Submit patches to clean up all the whitespace problems in the kernel
> sources. Andrew Morton indicated that he will take those.

http://7eggert.dyndns.org/l/patches/trailing-ws/

-- 
Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF
verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.

Re: A new soldier

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Dinsdag 28 Juni 2005 16:23, Rodrigo Nascimento wrote:
> I'm a Science of Computers student and I'd like help you in something.
> I don't know if exists something that I could do. So if someone wants
> a help, I'm a volunteer.

The best place to start would probably be the kernel janitors project.

If you are looking for something bigger with a steep learning curve,
you could try to do a sample architecture implementation like
arch/skeleton and include/asm-skeleton, along the lines of the
original include/asm-generic directory (asm-generic now serves
as a place to put code that is the same on most archs but is different
on others).

Most new architectures that are added keep copying hacks and obsolete
code from one of the existing trees, so it would be really nice to
have a clean starting point for those who don't have as much time to
find the correct solution as a CS student ;-).

You would surely learn a lot about the architecture specific parts
of the kernel and do something useful without the danger of breaking
code that other people depend on, but it's a lot of work.
Maybe that can also be done by more that one person.

	Arnd <><

Re: A new soldier

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> If you are looking for something bigger with a steep learning curve,
> you could try to do a sample architecture implementation like
> arch/skeleton and include/asm-skeleton, along the lines of the
> original include/asm-generic directory (asm-generic now serves
> as a place to put code that is the same on most archs but is different
> on others).
> 
> Most new architectures that are added keep copying hacks and obsolete
> code from one of the existing trees, so it would be really nice to
> have a clean starting point for those who don't have as much time to
> find the correct solution as a CS student ;-).
> 
> You would surely learn a lot about the architecture specific parts
> of the kernel and do something useful without the danger of breaking
> code that other people depend on, but it's a lot of work.
> Maybe that can also be done by more that one person.

Sounds like an excellent idea to me! I'm eager to try `make ARCH=skeleton'!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds