A new soldier

Hi all,

I'm a Science of Computers student and I'd like help you in something. I don't know if exists something that I could do. So if someone wants a help, I'm a volunteer.

See you,

underscore(0x5f)

Mr. Engel,

Thanks for the tip.

I like to develop programs. If I have to write a program for something that I don't know, I do some searchs, I read manuals, I understand this thing and later I write the program.

Can you suggest something to me? :)
I really want to help, but I don't know where I should start.

I need to see how it works, what I need to have to help. I think that a C compiler and a knowledge in C isn't sufficient. :)

I don't know if exists a guide that I can read..... if it exists, please, tell me where I can get it.

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Rodrigo

Loot at this , to begin with :
http://jungla.dit.upm.es/%7Ejmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html

Niraj

Hi,

http://www.kernelnewbies.org/

http://64.122.99.246/jeneral/ (for me it works only with internet explorer)

http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/

I'm newbie too...

Regards,
Michał Piotrowski

Thanks, Mr. Piotrowski.
I got of LDD3.

I have a lot of things to read before to send my first useful message.

Thanks !!!

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underscore(0x5f)

Submit patches to clean up all the whitespace problems in the kernel sources. Andrew Morton indicated that he will take those.

The best place to start would probably be the kernel janitors project.

If you are looking for something bigger with a steep learning curve, you could try to do a sample architecture implementation like arch/skeleton and include/asm-skeleton, along the lines of the original include/asm-generic directory (asm-generic now serves as a place to put code that is the same on most archs but is different on others).

Most new architectures that are added keep copying hacks and obsolete code from one of the existing trees, so it would be really nice to have a clean starting point for those who don't have as much time to find the correct solution as a CS student ;-).

You would surely learn a lot about the architecture specific parts of the kernel and do something useful without the danger of breaking code that other people depend on, but it's a lot of work. Maybe that can also be done by more that one person.

	Arnd <><

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Sounds like an excellent idea to me! I'm eager to try `make ARCH=skeleton'!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
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