Can anyone recommend a good technical book for OS development or kernel development? Preferably UNIX or Linux systems.
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In priority order:
The Linux Programming Interface - Michael Kerrisk
https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg
Linux System Programming - Robert Love
Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide (Outdated, 1999)
I think I have a few more
I have the book by Robert Love. What I’m looking is kernel development. In other words, developing the kernel, developing the operating system itself.
My next question was going to be scope. So developing an operating system in general or like specifically Linux internals?
For now, in general. Closer to the hardware. My aim is to learn the amd64 (aka x86_64) architecture and OS fundamentals in practice.
Ultimately I’d like to move on towards Linux specifics. But this is not yet my current immediate aim.
Okay, let me do some searching and digging and Ill see what else I have saved that might help!
Have you looked into FreeRTOs? I had to dabble the tiniest bit when working on a school project a while ago. Then I got into directly working with Atmel hardware bare metal. From 2018-2023 I spent learning early 8065 (pre x86 but tightly coupled to early stuff)
Something also worth looking into is the Cosmo LibC project https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan. Justine is awesome and so is her discord! I mention this because most of her library is highly hardware optimized and plenty of asm to go around.
There are a couple other folks in the discord like ahgamut and paulclinger along with some other peeps from NIST and other orgs that are just awesome to read and chat with too
You just unlocked a memory. I’ve worked with FreeRTOS on Atmega chips for competitions and school projects as well, but that was such a long time ago.
Is not that I personally looked into it. But I would say for this purpose LFS (Linux from scratch) could may help:
Sounds like what I’m looking for, thanks.
