On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Alexandru Juncu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 19 August 2013 15:35, Robert Clove <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I am an software Guy have some knowledge about device drivers. > > I want to understand porting Linux kernel on new PCI board. > > I have no idea from where to start and how. > > Please guide me through some good books and tutorials. > > > > Please guide. > > Hello! > > I don't think you want to 'port' Linux on the board. You port the > kernel on a new CPU processor/architecture. > I think what you want is to make a device driver for your device (that > connects via PCI). > > What you should do is search for an existing device driver of a > similar board and take the code for that one and examine it. Then take > the technical specs of the new board and see the differences between > that and the old board and implement the differences in a new code > that will be the new device driver. > Sir, Actually what i want to do is suppose the hardware team give you a new board and now you want to run Linux kernel on it, What one should do to port Linux on the new board. Thanks
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