On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:56 AM, me <kernelkangaroo@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks, Eric! I purchased Amit Singh's book.  The review on Halvorsen's book said that it mainly covered device drivers. Is this correct?

Singh's book is a bit dated at this point, and most of it isn't about practical kernel programming as such - it's more of a description of the whole system, going well beyond just the kernel, and with just one chapter on making your own kexts. Having said that, I still look things up in it with some regularity, as some things haven't changed (much) since OSX 10.4. It's around 1200 pages, so even if most of it isn't of much interest to you, there will undoubtedly be some useful stuff in there. Halvorsen's book is rather more practical and focused on kext programming. Things like memory management, user/kernelspace communication, synchronisation and threading, debugging, etc. are generally applicable to all kinds of kernel extension. As you say there are quite a few chapters for various different types of device drivers, but IIRC there's also a chapter specifically about non-device-driver network kexts. Contrary to what the title of the book suggests, there's no practical info about iOS in there, by the way, I can only assume that's a marketing gimmick. Amazon's "look inside" feature is probably your best bet for deciding what to go for. (disclosure: I was one of the tech reviewers for the Halvorsen book - I don't get any incentives, financial or otherwise for recommending it; note also that I only read an early draft of the book, but as far as I know the structure stayed the same) Hope that helps, phil _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com