I am pretty sure he's been working on this book since before LLMs were a thing. He's also not the kind of person who'd just delegate his passion to a machine.
My exposure to FreeBSD has been mostly through routers and firewalls, plus reading about jails and finding the concept genuinely impressive. Always wanted to dig deeper but the existing material assumes you already know the things I was hoping to learn. A book that explicitly starts before that wall sounds like exactly what's been missing. Going to give it a real shot.
theres some questionable quality content in the book, but lets be fair 4.5k pages is hard to manage.
if people dont get too 'anti' about it, it might grown into a good book at some point over editions.
It would certainly be useful to have such a book be complete and maintained (tons of work ofc).
personally id prefer a book that requires abit more prework, like learning C etc. and Unix, so it can be more compact specific to device drivers. 4k+ pages is a lot to chew through and more a thing for reference manuals like intel/amd/acpi manuals etc. (lot of tables and diagrams etc.)
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[ 5.2 ms ] story [ 31.1 ms ] threadAwesome work!
I await the Linux version :)
if people dont get too 'anti' about it, it might grown into a good book at some point over editions.
It would certainly be useful to have such a book be complete and maintained (tons of work ofc).
personally id prefer a book that requires abit more prework, like learning C etc. and Unix, so it can be more compact specific to device drivers. 4k+ pages is a lot to chew through and more a thing for reference manuals like intel/amd/acpi manuals etc. (lot of tables and diagrams etc.)