References

Textbooks

	Title: Writing Linux Device Drivers: A Guide with Exercises Author: Jerry Cooperstein Publisher: Jerry Cooperstein ISBN 978-1448672387 Hard copy available from Amazon.com, electronic copy available for download from several other sites.
	Title: Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Allessandro Rubini & Greg Kroah-Hartman Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN 0-596-00590-3 http://www.lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3 With this book you must also read Jonathan's Corbet's blog on API Changes in the 2.6 kernel, since the kernel has changed a lot since the book was written. The blog mentions most of the changes, but not all.

Linux Kernel

• Linux Kernel Site
• Linux Kernel Documentation Site
• Linux-kernel mailing list
• Understanding the Linux Kernel 3rd Edition
• Anatomy of Linux synchronization methods (2007)
• The mutex API

General Interest

• The Open Group's Single Unix Specification API search engine. This is the API implemented by Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.
• Definition of "cargo cult programming". Cargo cult programming can be a big problem with device driver code.
• GCC Inline Assembly Howto. You will run into some bits of assembly code as you read through the architecture-dependent portions of the kernel sources.

Good Books on Operating Systems

• Andrew Tanenbaum and Maarten van Steen, Distributed Systems Principles and Paradigms
• Mukesh Singhal and Niranjan Shivaratri, Advanced Concepts in Operating Systems
• Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems (background)
• Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne, Operating System Concepts (background)
• Gary Nutt, Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective (background)
• Gary Nutt, Kernel Projects for Linux (background)
• Kernighan, Ritchie, The C Programming Language (background)
• Maxwell, Linux Core Kernel Commentary (background)