Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Jan 2014 21:29:51 +0000 | From | One Thousand Gnomes <> | Subject | Re: How does a newbie find work? |
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> I've made small contributions to other OSS projects before but now I'm > at a loss for how to study the kernel code base, what to try to > break/change to study how the kernel works.
LXR is useful for finding code and where it goes, but the kernel is a big project. Don't assume anyone knows how of all it works.
> Is there some simple work a newbie like me can take up? Any maintainer > need some grunt work done? Or perhaps someone could suggest a pet > project I could try to understand things better? (Should I be learning > how to write device drivers?) > > Things that are very interesting to me so far are the KVM and the Scheduler.
Then I would fiddle with KVM and the scheduler !
Alan
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