I must agree with sifo, more so regarding this project

If you said you wanted to make a GUI to post on twitter you would probably take a few hours to learn that

If you say you want to learn what modifications a linux kernel needs to interact adequately with drivers or modules that are virtually nonexistant together with patching broken Hardware Abstraction Layer sources well... you are pretty much f*cked if you think you can start understanding, never mind patching and fixing, the source for this project

That being said... the more programmers in this world the better, go ahead and learn, if you have a logical brain I am sure you will find it sattisfying