Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition by Alessandro Rubini, Jonathan Corbet ISBN: 0-596-00008-1 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.31 (32 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best-written introduction to the Linux kernel
Comment: This book is a must-have if you want to write your own device drivers for Linux, or if you just need a place to get started hacking the kernel.
All the basics are covered and you really don't need to know much about the kernel internals to read this book. If you're not a beginner it still contains valuable information and it's organized in a way to make it very easy to skip the areas you are already familiar with.
After a few chapters you'll be able to write your own driver from scratch. When you have read the whole book you'll also be familiar with some of the more complex concepts of kernel programming. You will not be an expert kernel hacker but you will have an excellent base for learning more yourself.
The only drawback is that it doesn't completely cover the newer kernels (2.2 and above), but although some details have changed, most of the concepts are still more or less the same, so the knowledge you gain can easily be adapted to the later versions.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent at what it does; wish it did more.
Comment: "Linux Device Drivers" is of tremendous value to anyone writing, well, Linux device drivers. It explains very well the software interface between your driver and the OS. It presuposes a working knowlege of Unix OS concepts generally, but requires no familiarity with the internals of the Linux kernel. The programming specifics are adressed heavily: This is more a programming book than a textbook. All of the concepts are supported with demonstration code, and the complete source for all the modules discussed is available by ftp. The book also explains the hardware interaction aspects less well, but still suficiently. Some of this is an unavoidable consequence of the author's interest in cross-platform aplicability. I, for one, would have preferred more information.
All told, this is a wonderfull book, and I recommend it to anyone wishing to write drivers or intersted in how they are implemented.
Rating: 5
Summary: Execellent device-driver reference
Comment: This book's #1 audience is the Unix device-driver writer who wants to understand how Linux's kernel, interfaces, and data structures work. #2 comes the journeyman software engineer who wants to look "below" the application layer, toward creating more efficient programs.
There are clear, *working* examples throughout the book. Each chapter builds on the previous one. Complex issues come late in the book, after the reader has had time to build a framework for understanding.
 |
Title: Understanding the Linux Kernel (2nd Edition) by Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati ISBN: 0596002130 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
 |
Title: Building Embedded Linux Systems by Karim Yaghmour ISBN: 059600222X Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
 |
Title: Embedded Linux: Hardware, Software, and Interfacing by Craig Hollabaugh ISBN: 0672322269 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 07 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
 |
Title: Linux Kernel Development by Robert Love ISBN: 0672325128 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 08 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
 |
Title: Advanced Linux Programming by CodeSourcery LLC, Mark L. Mitchell, Alex Samuel, Jeffrey Oldham, Jeffery Oldham ISBN: 0735710430 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 11 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
