-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I've purchased the two of books you mention (Linux Device Drivers, and Robert Love's book), and I would be interested in purchasing an up-to-date book. So I am the market segment that your publisher is interested in targeting. The 5 main pillars are important, but are covered in alternate sources, and they aren't really things that a newbie can jump into, so while a good Linux Kernel book should obviously cover them, I dont think they should necessarily be the main focus of a new book. Please relay to your publisher that what we need are 1) Debugging Debugging Debugging. debugging remote targets (specifically arm), debugging gdb style (heretic!). 2) Hardware specs, where to get them and how to read them as a programmer. I recently had experience with the touchscreen on my laptop and wish I knew more about the hardware I was hacking on 3) Kernel to Userspace communication I guess my three main points demonstrate that I would be in the market to purchase a "Practical guide to hacking the Linux Kernel" On 12/29/2014 08:04 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > without naming names, a publishing company i do a lot of > editing/proofreading for has sent me a proposal for a new linux > kernel book, and is asking me what i think of its marketability, > and these days, i'm not sure what to say. > > the canonical kernel programming book these days *seems* to still > be "linux kernel programming (3rd ed)", by robert love but, like > all kernel books, it's starting to show its age -- if memory > serves, LKD3 is based on the 2.6.32 kernel so, yes, it needs a > serious facelift at this point. > > keeping it brief, the proposal describes the three main pillars of > the kernel -- memory management, processes and interrupts -- and > the first five proposed chapters are listed as: > > * kernel boot time * memory management * processes * interrupts * > file systems > > i'm sure there's more but it's not listed here. the book claims to > be based on the 3.16 kernel, which is a good thing, but given the > amount of kernel documentation out there, and the speed with which > the kernel changes, i'm wondering what others think of the > viability of any new kernel books. thoughts? > > rday > > p.s. earlier this year, there was *supposed* to be an updated > version of "linux device drivers (3rd ed)", but the initial main > author had to bow out so that entire project was put on indefinite > hold. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJUoYzQAAoJEJHz7fmWOTHsqtgIAJ7q0y0/mEZsVYFUaK3W66y1 J9hNpT93oM5S+F5qixzJZezaaPYMr9+dLxie73m4baH+ELwNHD0U17T1zosCC95v ZgWdKLGGZDPXnd/ED8M3Qkz1PvqgXRwgbmMNiUcY99myfsd9nz+W6OaGoeOHktlM V31OOjxdlGmRa4vJemMKN9jwHIzmsbqioe2KMta0yOwhkag34MZNWedGEBZzwweP lzORzbMPpuH7nUuynvyzfdOEQYihKALzaSzi0WAwwxdIMlPT828eyJ9YuN81+2/N NqkAAusxKF/uVWUvtQWqmuHTvxFt8+cWamVTxAOirWrbHro5UC/maxcx34I6ef4= =CywZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----