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Hello all,

I am a newbie here. I'd like to contribute in architectures, kernel features, virtualization, and drivers parts, but I don't know where is a good way to start. I have looked for some advice but I have had a hard time to understand (Some advice is too general. Some used too old kernel versions, so I cannot catch up when reading the newer ones). I learned about OS, C language, and assembly language. I can configure and build the kernel. Would someone guide me where should I start? I appreciate for your helping.
Sorry if there are some errors in my writing, because English is not my native language.

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Quoted 13 lines · On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 11:29 AM, 901stt at gmail.com <[email protected]> wrote:

Hello all,

I am a newbie here. I'd like to contribute in architectures, kernel features, virtualization, and drivers parts, but I don't know where is a good way to start. I have looked for some advice but I have had a hard time to understand (Some advice is too general. Some used too old kernel versions, so I cannot catch up when reading the newer ones). I learned about OS, C language, and assembly language. I can configure and build the kernel. Would someone guide me where should I start? I appreciate for your helping.
Sorry if there are some errors in my writing, because English is not my native language.

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Get Robert Love's book Linux kernel development. It is a good start and

then you can search around the net for your way around. Reading pages from kernelnewbies.org and lwn.net and other website should also help.

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Quoted 10 lines · On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 17:29:19 +0700, "901stt at gmail.com" said:

Hello all,

I am a newbie here. I'd like to contribute in architectures, kernel features, virtualization, and drivers parts, but I don't know where is a good way to start. I have looked for some advice but I have had a hard time to understand (Some advice is too general. Some used too old kernel versions, so I cannot catch up when reading the newer ones). I learned about OS, C language, and assembly language. I can configure and build the kernel. Would someone guide me where should I start? I appreciate for your helping.

One major challenge for newbies to the kernel is that over the past 5 years
or so, large parts of the kernel have been overhauled by professional maintainers.
As a result, it's rather hard for newbies to find places to contribute. For
instance, with virtualization, it's hard for a newbie to contribute when
the person who did the last overhaul of the VT-d support was (a) an
experienced full-time hacker and (b) probably able to walk down the hall and
ask the guy who designed the VT-d hardware how it works. ;)
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