Not really. I haven't worked on any meaningful kernel and my understanding is just from textbooks and toying around a bit (good old hello world level x86 kernel

Not really. I haven't worked on any meaningful kernel and my understanding is just from textbooks and toying around a bit (good old hello world level x86 kernel). I try to keep up to date but a lot of stuff in kernel development and low level hardware land is pretty much over my head.