On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 12:21:48PM +0000, Christoff Humphries wrote: > Greetings all. > > I went searching for documentation about the kernel internals and was > used to the intro(9) man page from NetBSD > https://man.netbsd.org/intro.9 that had a lot more details. Would it > be a worthwhile project to attempt to do the same for OpenBSD? > > I understand the annoyance of folks talking about what they intend or > are going to do with no actual fruit, but wanted to check that the > intro(9) is lacking and the information is not just stored somewhere > else (other than "apropos -s 9 ."). > > I want to learn the internals of the OpenBSD kernel, too, and will do > as mulander (and friends) did by learning a bit of code daily > https://blog.tintagel.pl/2017/09/10/openbsd-daily-recap.html. > > Seeking the learn and contribute, especially in the uvm, vmd/vmm, and > possibly filesystem subsystems. > > Thanks in advance! >
hi. as far as i know, there is no real kernel overview page. so i guess intro(9) would be the place. you could certainly try to do something similar to netbsd's page - it would be more useful than what we have now. jmc
