BooksToRead - rmu75/linuxcnc-wiki GitHub Wiki

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date: '2009-06-20T17:10:51' title: BooksToRead

Programming

From old emails - note that some of it is dated material (i.e. 2.4.x kernel books won't be much use with 2.6.x)

Rubini's book "Writing Kernel Device Drivers"

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html - git tutorial

http://www.tldp.org/ - Assorted online guides and a mine of information.

The folowing are helpful for people inexperienced in working within a linux environment: http://www.advancedlinuxprogramming.com/ - General linux programming

For guides to specific GNU/linux tools: http://www.gnu.org/doc/other-free-books.html http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html

Required reading for anyone planning on low level code: http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ - Linux Device Drivers http://people.mech.kuleuven.ac.be/~bruyninc/rthowto/ http://www.fdn.fr/~brouchou/rtai/rtai-doc-prj/

Recommended reading for an undersatnding of the principles of communication within emc: The RCS Handbook by Albus, Gazi, Moore, Passino, Proctor, & Shackleford. http://www.ece.osu.edu/nist_rcs_lib/ http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/projects/rcslib/index.html

Machine Design

"Precision Machine Design" by Alexander Slocum of MIT