simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the
hardware) involves managing network packets in memory".
- * Title: "Writing Linux Device Drivers"
+ * Title: "Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide"
Author: Michael K. Johnson.
- URL: http://users.evitech.fi/~tk/rtos/writing_linux_device_d.html
- Keywords: files, VFS, file operations, kernel interface, character
- vs block devices, I/O access, hardware interrupts, DMA, access to
- user memory, memory allocation, timers.
- Description: Introductory 50-minutes (sic) tutorial on writing
- device drivers. 12 pages written by the same author of the "Kernel
- Hackers' Guide" which give a very good overview of the topic.
+ URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html
+ Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs
+ block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory,
+ memory allocation, timers.
+ Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the
+ concepts that are not intuitevly obvious, and to document the internal
+ structures of Linux.
* Title: "The Venus kernel interface"
Author: Peter J. Braam.