Reading the Linux Kernel Sources Reading the Linux Kernel
Sources  Part of an ongoing Linux Kernel exploration by SVLUG -
the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group You might enjoy our first
YouTube video! Good places to follow along: Look out for this:
sometimes code gets moved from one file or one directory to
another.... or converted from raw assembler (in the arch area)
into C and categorized. Therefore the LXR site letting you surf
the older source trees can be very interesting. A specific
example of this is the eventual combining of several closely
related architectures into one arch with sub-architectures. -
Wikipedia handy words - Potentially useful books - Assembly
Language Step by Step by Jeff Duntemann (Wiley 2000) ISBN
0471375233 - section on the gas assembly language syntax
(Chapter 12), INTs used in Linux (Chapter 13), etc. - Linux
Device Drivers, 3rd edition, Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini,
and Greg Kroah-Hartman (O'Reilly 2005) ISBN 0-596-00590-3 -
covers device drivers for kernel 2.6.10. Full t