From 180e6bfd2cba0aeaa716b6a175126faca2db4236 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Lowe Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 11:16:35 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Slight grammatical cleanup of first 3 paragraphs I attempted to keep the same personal feel in the two paragraphs, but modified their content to sound more 'normal' to native English speakers. --- Misc/contribute.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Misc/contribute.md b/Misc/contribute.md index 30b5ffd..076c5d4 100644 --- a/Misc/contribute.md +++ b/Misc/contribute.md @@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ Linux kernel development Introduction -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -As you already may know, I've started a series of [blog posts](http://0xax.github.io/categories/assembly/) about assembler programming for `x86_64` architecture in the last year. I have never wrote no one line of low-level code before this moment, of course except a couple of toy `Hello World` examples in the university. It was already long time ago and as I already said I didn't write low-level code at all. Some time ago I'm interested in such things or in other words I understood that I can write programs, but actually I didn't understand how my program is arranged. +As you already may know, I've started a series of [blog posts](http://0xax.github.io/categories/assembly/) about assembler programming for `x86_64` architecture in the last year. I hadn't written even one line of low-level code before this moment, of course except a couple of toy `Hello World` examples in the university. It was a long time ago and, as I already said, I didn't write low-level code at all. Some time ago I became interested in such things, or in other words, I understood that I can write programs, but actually I didn't understand how my program is arranged. -After writing some assembler code I began to understand how my program looks after compilation, **approximately**. But anyway, I didn't understand many different things. For example: what occurs when the `syscall` instruction executed in my assembler, what occurs when the `printf` function starts to work, how does my program can talk with other computer via network and many many other cases. [Assembler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language#Assembler) programming language didn't give me answers on my questions and I decided to go deeper in my research. I started to learn source code of the Linux kernel and tried to understant things that I'm interested. Source code of the Linux kernel didn't give me answers on **all** of my questions, but now my knowledgesis about the Linux kernel and processes around it is much better. +After writing some assembler code I began to understand how my program looks after compilation, **approximately**. But I didn't understand many different things. For example: what occurs when the `syscall` instruction is executed in my assembler, what occurs when the `printf` function starts to work, how does my program talk with other computers via a network and many many other cases. [Assembler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language#Assembler) programming language didn't give me the answers to my questions, and I decided to go deeper in my research. I started to learn the source code of the Linux kernel and tried to understand things that interest me. The source code of the Linux kernel didn't give me answers on **all** of my questions, but now my knowledge about the Linux kernel and processes around it is much better. -I'm writing this part after nine and a half months since I have started to learn source code of the Linux kernel and publish first [part](https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/Booting/linux-bootstrap-1.html) of this book. Now it contains forty parts and it is not the end. I decided to write this series about the Linux kernel mostly for myself. As you know the Linux kernel is very huge piece of code and it is very easy to forget what does this or that part of the Linux kernel mean and how does it implement something. But soon the [linux-insides](https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides) repo become popular and after nine months it has `9096` stars: +I'm writing this part nine and a half months after I started learning the source code of the Linux kernel and published the first [part](https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/Booting/linux-bootstrap-1.html) of this book. It now contains forty parts, and that is not the end. I decided to write this series about the Linux kernel mostly for myself. As you know, the Linux kernel is very huge piece of code and it is very easy to forget what it does, what this or that part of the Linux kernel means, and how it implements things. But soon, the [linux-insides](https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides) repo became popular and after nine months it has `9096` stars: ![github](http://s2.postimg.org/jjb3s4frt/stars.png)