Hi Naveen, On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:27 AM, naveen yadav <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > > I have search on net but could not get good book on ARM that explain > Linux in terms of ARM. I found one ARM System Developer's Guide _ > Designing and Optimizing System Software. > > I want similar book as > Prentice.Hall.PTR.The.Linux.Kernel.Primer.A.Top.Down.Approach.for.x86.and.PowerPC.Architectures.Sep.2005 > Is there any similar book for ARM that explain kernel well.
I don't have that particular book, so I'm not sure exactly what it contains. I've been working with ARM architectures for the last 5 or 6 years. The biggest difference is that you typically have to build everything using a cross-compiler. There is a bunch of information in the Documentation/arm directory. In general terms, it's all very very similar to programming linux for any other architecture. The biggest differences are that the ARM is purely memory mapped - no I/O instructions. In order to turn on the cache you need to tun on the MMU. Some ARMs use virtually tagged caches and some use physically tagged caches. There typically is no HW floating point support, although some of the newer ARMs have it. -- Dave Hylands Shuswap, BC, Canada http://www.DaveHylands.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
