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vivekb6

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Registered: 22/01/09

Symbian OS document
Posted: 22-Jan-2009 06:48

Hi,

I am looking for technical documents of Symbian OS, which will be helpfull for my understanding on developing BSP on Symbian OS for our customer specific platform.

If the technical docs related to Symbian OS is freely available, please let me know.

Thx,
Vivek

paul_todd

Posts: 344
Registered: 17/10/07

Re: Symbian OS document
Posted: 22-Jan-2009 10:10

in response to: vivekb6

As far as I know, BSP documentation is under NDA and you need to be a Sybmian Partner to access it. It should have come with your BAK or devKit.

If you want to make a start on the Symbian OS architectures I recommend "Symbian OS Internals" by Jane Sales as this covers large portions of the kernel and the low level API's for Symbian.

simonm

Posts: 22
Registered: 25/01/08

Re: Symbian OS document
Posted: 22-Jan-2009 11:00

in response to: paul_todd

You might want to look at the 'Symbian OS Internals' book. While it does not explain everything about making a baseport, it does explain how the OS kernel works, the idea of the hardware abstraction layer, what the baseport would be expected to support for the OS, device driver design, etc.

I think some, maybe all, of the chapters are available online if your are a member of SDN (or maybe it is just SDN++)?

vivekb6

Posts: 2
Registered: 22/01/09

Re: Symbian OS document
Posted: 23-Jan-2009 18:38

in response to: simonm

i tried searching for symbian os internals online chapters, becoming member of SDN, i am afraid i couldnt find. Can anyone suggest me on the online chapters

paul_todd

Posts: 344
Registered: 17/10/07

Re: Symbian OS document
Posted: 24-Jan-2009 09:34

in response to: vivekb6

Well as you are developing a BSP you must be a Symbian partner so its in the SDN++, not the regular SDN wiki

Its at this URL - https://developer.symbian.com/wiki/display/ppg/Symbian+OS+Internals, if you can't see it, you are not a partner.

You can always buy a copy from here http://developer.symbian.com/main/documentation/books/books_files/os_internals/index.jsp

Edited by: paul_todd on 24-Jan-2009 09:35

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