[ug-bosug] Hi.. every one.. want your suggestion..

[KishoreKumar Bairi]

Thanks a lot..
and its very exciting. to hear that i am going to understand the kernel.



(i hope you
> are familiar with assembly language... if not, its high time that you
> do so...hehe).


No. I dont know assembly language. So I thought of starting it and googled.
but  i am really confused now.
assembly language(ASM) is processor dependent. there are  many  different
types of  ASMs
like SPARC instruction set,  ARM instruction set,  80x86  programming,MIPS
assembly programming etc..etc... I dont even know what all these mean. :(

1. should i learn all these to learn internals of any kernel??
2. since most of kernels are compatible with many processors. Do the
developers write instructions in so many ASMs??
3. Is it not sufficient if i learn only 80x86 programming? should i learn
all others also.
4. which one should i start with??

other unix-like OS like {Free,Net,Open}BSD, Darwin.  You can also try
> FreeDos if you are inclined to experiment with other non-unix os. and
> probably BeOS (or Haiku). You can get loads of source code if you
> search on google.


oh.. my god!!!!
just now downloading the kernel for http://kernel.org its size is 43MB
(compressed)
Is it possible to read such a huge size code???
the code for biggest project i ever did in my life was 1MB (uncompressed)
Now I am afraid of it a bit. I am sure it takes life time to read 43MB
(compressed) source.

May be I am downloading the LINUX kernel thats why its of such a big size.
where can i get the SOLARIS kernel source??
I didnt get it while googling.

pls.. suggest me.


and last but not the least, do read your recommended text books for
> the course :=))
>
> Regards,
> Ananth
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KishoreKumar Bairi
IIT KHARAGPUR,
West Bengal 721302.
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