Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:54:24 +0000 From: Sergey Lyubka <devnull@asitatech.ie> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Assembly, Kernels and Bootstraps Message-ID: <20020801155424.GG97092@yoda.asitatech.ie> In-Reply-To: <20020801101639.A11972@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020731161322.O5057-100000@boise.neuroflux.com> <20020801102424.GC97092@yoda.asitatech.ie> <3D490353.8A5A07D4@mindspring.com> <20020801101639.A11972@blackhelicopters.org>
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Lions wrote a book far long ago, and it is still worth reading. Why? Because he didn't just show the code, he showed the concepts. Describing, say, how to call malloc() is a stupid thing. This can be outdated tomorrow. But describing the concept, how kernel malloc interface has being developed in time, and possible future directions of it - this kind of information will not be outdated for a very long time. A lot of such information is buried now in relatively small number of kernel expert's heads. This is bad. Is it possible to get frosen version, say, 5.0 - current, and describe it? I think it is. Many things may become obsolete, but the knowledge I'm talking about will be revealed. Such book must paint a solid and complete picture of FreeBSD kernel. I see it as analogue to Greg Lehey's book, but for the kernel world. As a side effect, it will attract and educate a large number of newbie kernel hackers, which is I suppose quite positive. regards, -sergey On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:16:40AM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: > Terry's very right here. > > I had a hell of a time writing a book about running *stable*; we > change things very quickly here, and it's quite difficult to document. > (Book is due in my hands tomorrow or Saturday, hurrah!) > > I was considering editing a book on kernel internals, soliciting > chapters from the various developers. (They could provide know-how, I > could provide grammar.) But such a book would take four to six months > to assemble, and three months to physically produce. Three months > after that, we'd realistically start seeing contributions based upon > that code. > > That's one year. We have a hard time keeping people out of interfaces > for twelve weeks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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