Yes and at least it keeps them working on it. They tie up our time fixing it, we tie up their time making them rewrite it. Not the best solution but for now it is better than nothing.
Maybe a few will get tired of having to work at it and do something useful.
Last version that I have is the Third Edition. Amazon states that they will have the 4th edition in July 2001, so maybe soon. Some of the info in the 3rd is dated, I don't think it covers SDRAM or Pentium II. Though it is a great reference for a lot of things that other books do not cover thoroughly, like interrupt controllers/routing and general timing diagrams.
Another good series along these lines is the Mindshare PC System Architecture, though their binding is crap and the book binding tends to break with a lot of use.
This book is a good ref for device drivers. Also see the Linux Doc Guide Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide by Ori Pomerantz for another angle on the device driver/module topic. Helps to see different examples to understand some of the topics.
O'reilly also has another book "Understanding The Linux Kernel" that is fairly up to date. They have links to the website to show the changes in going to 2.4 as well.
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Yes and at least it keeps them working on it. They tie up our time fixing it, we tie up their time making them rewrite it. Not the best solution but for now it is better than nothing.
Maybe a few will get tired of having to work at it and do something useful.
Last version that I have is the Third Edition. Amazon states that they will have the 4th edition in July 2001, so maybe soon. Some of the info in the 3rd is dated, I don't think it covers SDRAM or Pentium II. Though it is a great reference for a lot of things that other books do not cover thoroughly, like interrupt controllers/routing and general timing diagrams.
Another good series along these lines is the Mindshare PC System Architecture, though their binding is crap and the book binding tends to break with a lot of use.
This book is a good ref for device drivers. Also see the Linux Doc Guide Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide by Ori Pomerantz for another angle on the device driver/module topic. Helps to see different examples to understand some of the topics.
O'reilly also has another book "Understanding The Linux Kernel" that is fairly up to date. They have links to the website to show the changes in going to 2.4 as well.