[linux-audio-user] Book recommendations

John Anderson ardour at semiosix.com
Mon Oct 10 05:05:56 EDT 2005


On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 09:35 -0400, Jason Bechtel wrote:
> On 10/5/05, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 17:10 +0200, John Anderson wrote:
> > > So I'm looking for good books on writing kernel drivers (2.4 and 2.6)
> > > and interfacing with PCI hardware.
> >
> > there is only book to consider. "Writing Linux Device drivers" published
> > by O'Reilly. one of the best technical books i have ever read. Author is
> > Alessandro Rubini i think, but i tend to be bad with names.
> 
> avoid it.  He also specifically recommends "Linux Kernel Development"
> by Robert Love, and "Understanding The Linux Kernel" by Bovet and
> Cesati (third edition due in November).

Thanks, everyone. This has been really useful. I've downloaded LDD3.

bye
John





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