The Linux Kernel Primer

Top Reasons people will buy this book: -Covers Linux on PPC -Top-down approach traces functionality from user space into the kernel -Lots of code commentary and examples. It walks you through the actual source code implementation. -Side by side comparison of x86 and PPC -Hands on Examples and Projects -Covers the kernel build system. The "Linux Kernel Primer" offers a c...

Top Reasons people will buy this book: -Covers Linux on PPC -Top-down approach traces functionality from user space into the kernel -Lots of code commentary and examples. It walks you through the actual source code implementation. -Side by side comparison of x86 and PPC -Hands on Examples and Projects -Covers the kernel build system. The "Linux Kernel Primer" offers a comprehensive view of the underpinnings of the Linux kernel. This book starts with a guide of the necessary tools a developer needs to be able to understand and manipulate the source code including cryptic programming fundamentals found throughout the kernel code. It then follows up with an in depth analysis of the major subsystems including process management, memory management, scheduling, I/O, and filesystems. This book also provides information necessary to get started developing on the Linux kernel. The specifics of Intel and PowerPC architecture implementations are covered side by side providing perspective on architecture specific features and how Linux make use of them. Similar in approach to Kernighan's "Practice of Programming" 020161586X

Claudia Salzberg Rodriguez 就職于IBM Linux技術中心，負責內核及相關編程工具的開發(fā)。在擔任程序員的10多年時間里，她一直針對Intel和PPC平臺進行Linux嵌入式系統(tǒng)到高性能系統(tǒng)的開發(fā)。

Gordon Fischer 曾為很多底層設備 開發(fā)過Linux和Unix設備驅動程序，并針對Intel和PPC平臺上的企業(yè)級系統(tǒng)中使用Linux內核。

Steven Smolski 有近30年的半導體行業(yè)從業(yè)經驗。從事過內存、處理器以及ASICS的研發(fā)和測試，為Linux、AIX以及Windows都編寫過應用程序和驅動程序，還進行過嵌入式操作系統(tǒng)的開發(fā)。