[PATCH] Documentation: Update to Documentation/kernel-docs.txt

From: james4765
Date: Sat Nov 13 2004 - 08:31:18 EST

Major cleanup and update to Documentation/kernel-docs.txt. New file generated
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Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or
-
+
Understanding the Linux Kernel.
-
- Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@xxxxxxxxxx>
-
+
+ Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@xxxxxxxxxx>
+
/*
* The latest version of this document may be found at:
* http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html
*/

- The need for a document like this one became apparent in the
- linux-kernel mailing list as the same questions, asking for pointers
- to information, appeared again and again.
-
- Fortunately, as more and more people get to GNU/Linux, more and more
- get interested in the Kernel. But reading the sources is not always
- enough. It is easy to understand the code, but miss the concepts, the
- philosophy and design decisions behind this code.
-
- Unfortunately, not many documents are available for beginners to
- start. And, even if they exist, there was no "well-known" place which
- kept track of them. These lines try to cover this lack. All documents
- available on line known by the author are listed, while some reference
- books are also mentioned.
-
- PLEASE, if you know any paper not listed here or write a new document,
- send me an e-mail, and I'll include a reference to it here. Any
+ The need for a document like this one became apparent in the linux-kernel
+ mailing list as the same questions, asking for pointers to information,
+ appeared again and again.
+
+ Fortunately, as more and more people get to GNU/Linux, more and more get
+ interested in the Kernel. But reading the sources is not always enough. It
+ is easy to understand the code, but miss the concepts, the philosophy and
+ design decisions behind this code.
+
+ Unfortunately, not many documents are available for beginners to start. And,
+ even if they exist, there was no "well-known" place which kept track of
+ them. These lines try to cover this lack. All documents available on line
+ known by the author are listed, while some reference books are also
+ mentioned.
+
+ Please, if you know any paper not listed here or write a new document,
+ send me an e-mail, and I'll include a reference to it here. Any
corrections, ideas or comments are also welcomed.
-
- The papers that follow are listed in no particular order. All are
- cataloged with the following fields: the document's "Title", the
- "Author"/s, the "URL" where they can be found, some "Keywords" helpful
- when searching for specific topics, and a brief "Description" of the
- Document.
-
+
+ The papers that follow are listed in no particular order. All are cataloged
+ with the following fields: the document's "Title", the "Author"/s, the "URL"
+ where they can be found, some "Keywords" helpful when searching for specific
+ topics, and a brief "Description" of the Document.
+
Enjoy!
-
+
ON-LINE DOCS:
-
+
+ * Title: "Iptables-tutorial"
+ Author: Oskar Andreasson.
+ URL: http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net
+ Keywords: iptables, netfilter, firewalls.
+ Description: The aim of the iptables-tutorial is to explain iptables in
+ a complete and simple way. It information on all the currently available
+ matches and targets (in kernel), as well as complete example scripts and
+ explanations. It contains a complete section on iptables syntax, as well
+ as other interesting commands such as iptables-save and
+ iptables-restore.
+
+ * Title: "Ipsysctl-tutorial"
+ Author: Oskar Andreasson.
+ URL: http://ipsysctl-tutorial.frozentux.net
+ Keywords: IP sysctl, ipsysctl, firewalls, Interface reference,
+ sysctl/proc basics.
+ Description: This document aims at giving more in depth explanations
+ about the different ip sysctl calls available in the Linux kernel.
+
* Title: "The Linux Kernel"
Author: David A. Rusling.
- URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/tlk/tlk.html
+ URL: http://en.tldp.org/LDP/tlk/tlk.html
Keywords: everything!, book.
- Description: On line, 200 pages book describing most aspects of
- the Linux Kernel. Probably, the first reference for beginners.
- Lots of illustrations explaining data structures use and
- relationships in the purest Richard W. Stevens' style. Contents:
- "1.-Hardware Basics, 2.-Software Basics, 3.-Memory Management,
- 4.-Processes, 5.-Interprocess Communication Mechanisms, 6.-PCI,
- 7.-Interrupts and Interrupt Handling, 8.-Device Drivers, 9.-The
- File system, 10.-Networks, 11.-Kernel Mechanisms, 12.-Modules,
- 13.-The Linux Kernel Sources, A.-Linux Data Structures, B.-The
- Alpha AXP Processor, C.-Useful Web and FTP Sites, D.-The GNU
- General Public License, Glossary". In short: a must have.
-
- * Title: "The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide"
- Author: Michael K.Johnson and others.
- URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html
- Keywords: everything!
- Description: No more Postscript book-like version. Only HTML now.
- Many people have contributed. The interface is similar to web
- available mailing lists archives. You can find some articles and
- then some mails asking questions about them and/or complementing
- previous contributions. A little bit anarchic in this aspect, but
- with some valuable information in some cases.
-
+ Description: On line, 200 pages book describing most aspects of the
+ Linux Kernel. Probably, the first reference for beginners. Lots of
+ illustrations explaining data structures use and relationships in the
+ purest Richard W. Stevens' style. Contents: "1.-Hardware Basics,
+ 2.-Software Basics, 3.-Memory Management, 4.-Processes, 5.-Interprocess
+ Communication Mechanisms, 6.-PCI, 7.-Interrupts and Interrupt Handling,
+ 8.-Device Drivers, 9.-The File system, 10.-Networks, 11.-Kernel
+ Mechanisms, 12.-Modules, 13.-The Linux Kernel Sources, A.-Linux Data
+ Structures, B.-The Alpha AXP Processor, C.-Useful Web and FTP Sites,
+ D.-The GNU General Public License, Glossary". In short: a must have.
+
+ * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition"
+ Author: Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet.
+ URL: http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html
+ Keywords: device drivers, modules, debugging, memory, hardware,
+ interrupt handling, char drivers, block drivers, kmod, mmap, DMA, buses.
+ Description: O'Reilly's popular book, now also on-line under the GNU
+ Free Documentation License.
+ Notes: You can also buy it in paper-form from O'Reilly. See below under
+ BOOKS (Not on-line).
+
* Title: "Conceptual Architecture of the Linux Kernel"
Author: Ivan T. Bowman.
URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a1.html
- Keywords: conceptual software arquitecture, extracted design,
- reverse engineering, system structure.
+ Keywords: conceptual software arquitecture, extracted design, reverse
+ engineering, system structure.
Description: Conceptual software arquitecture of the Linux kernel,
- automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good
+ automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good
figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding.
-
+
* Title: "Concrete Architecture of the Linux Kernel"
Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Saheem Siddiqi, and Meyer C. Tanuan.
URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a2.html
- Keywords: concrete arquitecture, extracted design, reverse
- engineering, system structure, dependencies.
- Description: Concrete arquitecture of the Linux kernel,
- automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good
- figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding. This papers
- focus on lower details than its predecessor (files, variables...).
-
- * Title: "Linux as a Case Study: Its Extracted Software
- Architecture"
+ Keywords: concrete arquitecture, extracted design, reverse engineering,
+ system structure, dependencies.
+ Description: Concrete arquitecture of the Linux kernel, automatically
+ extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good figures. Gives good
+ overall kernel understanding. This papers focus on lower details than
+ its predecessor (files, variables...).
+
+ * Title: "Linux as a Case Study: Its Extracted Software Architecture"
Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Richard C. Holt and Neil V. Brewster.
URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/linuxcase.html
- Keywords: software architecture, architecture recovery,
- redocumentation.
- Description: Paper appeared at ICSE'99, Los Angeles, May 16-22,
- 1999. A mixture of the previous two documents from the same
- author.
-
+ Keywords: software architecture, architecture recovery, redocumentation.
+ Description: Paper appeared at ICSE'99, Los Angeles, May 16-22, 1999. A
+ mixture of the previous two documents from the same author.
+
* Title: "Overview of the Virtual File System"
Author: Richard Gooch.
URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/vfs.txt
- Keywords: VFS, File System, mounting filesystems, opening files,
+ Keywords: VFS, File System, mounting filesystems, opening files,
dentries, dcache.
- Description: Brief introduction to the Linux Virtual File System.
- What is it, how it works, operations taken when opening a file or
- mounting a file system and description of important data
- structures explaining the purpose of each of their entries.
-
+ Description: Brief introduction to the Linux Virtual File System. What
+ is it, how it works, operations taken when opening a file or mounting a
+ file system and description of important data structures explaining the
+ purpose of each of their entries.
+
* Title: "The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code"
Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
- URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue44/2391.html
+ URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391
Keywords: RAID, MD driver.
- Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
- abstract: "A description of the implementation of the RAID-1,
- RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the
- Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable,
- secondary-storage capability using software".
-
+ Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's abstract:
+ "A description of the implementation of the RAID-1, RAID-4 and RAID-5
+ personalities of the MD device driver in the Linux kernel, providing
+ users with high performance and reliable, secondary-storage capability
+ using software".
+
* Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers"
Author: Alessandro Rubini.
- URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue23/1219.html
- Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules,
- allocating resources.
- Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
- abstract: "This is the first of a series of four articles
- co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present
- a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel
- loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the
- topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's
- installment".
-
+ URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219
+ Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules, allocating
+ resources.
+ Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's abstract:
+ "This is the first of a series of four articles co-authored by
+ Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present a practical approach
+ to writing Linux device drivers as kernel loadable modules. This
+ installment presents an introduction to the topic, preparing the reader
+ to understand next month's installment".
+
* Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Discovery"
Author: Alessandro Rubini.
- URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue24/1220.html
- Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module,
- autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations,
- open(), close().
- Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
- abstract: "This article, the second of four, introduces part of
- the actual code to create custom module implementing a character
- device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and
- cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls".
-
+ URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220
+ Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module, autodetection,
+ mayor number, minor number, file operations, open(), close().
+ Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's abstract:
+ "This article, the second of four, introduces part of the actual code to
+ create custom module implementing a character device driver. It
+ describes the code for module initialization and cleanup, as well as the
+ open() and close() system calls".
+
* Title: "The Devil's in the Details"
Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini.
- URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue25/1221.html
- Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non
- blocking mode, interrupt handler.
- Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
- abstract: "This article, the third of four on writing character
- device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using
- ioctl-calls".
-
+ URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221
+ Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non blocking
+ mode, interrupt handler.
+ Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's abstract:
+ "This article, the third of four on writing character device drivers,
+ introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using ioctl-calls".
+
* Title: "Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA"
Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
- URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue26/1222.html
+ URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222
Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues.
- Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
- abstract: "This is the fourth in a series of articles about
- writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This
- month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling.
- Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and
- constraints make this an ``interesting'' part of device driver
- writing, and several different facilities have been provided for
- different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of
- DMA".
-
+ Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's abstract:
+ "This is the fourth in a series of articles about writing character
+ device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This month, we further
+ investigate the field of interrupt handling. Though it is conceptually
+ simple, practical limitations and constraints make this an
+ ``interesting'' part of device driver writing, and several different
+ facilities have been provided for different situations. We also
+ investigate the complex topic of DMA".
+
* Title: "Device Drivers Concluded"
Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz.
- URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue28/1287.html
- Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management,
- demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap,
- virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
- Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles
- series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of
- five articles about character device drivers. In this final
- section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with
- an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts".
-
+ URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287
+ Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management, demand
+ loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap, virtual
+ memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
+ Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles series.
+ This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of five articles
+ about character device drivers. In this final section, Georg deals with
+ memory mapping devices, beginning with an overall description of the
+ Linux memory management concepts".
+
* Title: "Network Buffers And Memory Management"
Author: Alan Cox.
- URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue30/1312.html
- Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer
- variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive,
- configuration, multicast.
- Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner. Here is the abstract:
- "Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally
- simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the
- hardware) involves managing network packets in memory".
-
- * Title: "Writing Linux Device Drivers"
- Author: Michael K. Johnson.
- URL: http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/devices.html
- Keywords: files, VFS, file operations, kernel interface, character
- vs block devices, I/O access, hardware interrupts, DMA, access to
- user memory, memory allocation, timers.
- Description: Introductory 50-minutes (sic) tutorial on writing
- device drivers. 12 pages written by the same author of the "Kernel
- Hackers' Guide" which give a very good overview of the topic.
-
+ URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312
+ Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer variables,
+ network devices flags, transmit, receive, configuration, multicast.
+ Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner. Here is the abstract: "Writing
+ a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally simple---most of the
+ complexity (other than talking to the hardware) involves managing
+ network packets in memory".
+
* Title: "The Venus kernel interface"
Author: Peter J. Braam.
- URL:
- http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html
+ URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html
Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager.
- Description: "This document describes the communication between
- Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation
- of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe
- the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we
- envisage".
-
+ Description: "This document describes the communication between Venus
+ and kernel level file system code needed for the operation of the Coda
+ filesystem. This version document is meant to describe the current
+ interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we envisage".
+
* Title: "Programming PCI-Devices under Linux"
Author: Claus Schroeter.
URL:
- ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/pcip.ps
- .gz
+ ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/pcip.ps.gz
Keywords: PCI, device, busmastering.
- Description: 6 pages tutorial on PCI programming under Linux.
- Gives the basic concepts on the architecture of the PCI subsystem,
- as long as basic functions and macros to read/write the devices
- and perform busmastering.
-
+ Description: 6 pages tutorial on PCI programming under Linux. Gives the
+ basic concepts on the architecture of the PCI subsystem, as long as
+ basic functions and macros to read/write the devices and perform
+ busmastering.
+
* Title: "Writing Character Device Driver for Linux"
Author: R. Baruch and C. Schroeter.
URL:
- ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/drivers
- .ps.gz
- Keywords: character device drivers, I/O, signals, DMA, accessing
- ports in user space, kernel environment.
- Description: 68 pages paper on writing character drivers. A little
- bit old (1.993, 1.994) although still useful.
-
- * Title: "Design and Implementation of the Second Extended
- Filesystem"
- Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
+ ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/drivers.ps.gz
+ Keywords: character device drivers, I/O, signals, DMA, accessing ports
+ in user space, kernel environment.
+ Description: 68 pages paper on writing character drivers. A little bit
+ old (1.993, 1.994) although still useful.
+
+ * Title: "Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem"
+ Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html
- Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices,
- VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library,
- ext2fs tools, e2fsck.
- Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers.
- Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features,
- design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks,
- e2fsck's passes description... A must read!
- Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the
- First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9.
-
+ Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices, VFS,
+ physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library, ext2fs
+ tools, e2fsck.
+ Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers. Covers
+ Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features, design,
+ physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks, e2fsck's passes
+ description... A must read!
+ Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the First
+ Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9.
+
* Title: "Analysis of the Ext2fs structure"
Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
- URL: http://step.polymtl.ca/~ldd/ext2fs/ext2fs_toc.html
+ URL: http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/files/FileSystems/ext2fs/
Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs.
- Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
- bitmaps, invariants...
-
+ Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes, bitmaps,
+ invariants...
+
* Title: "Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem"
Author: Stephen C. Tweedie.
- URL:
- ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/journal-design.ps.gz
+ URL: ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/journal-design.ps.gz
Keywords: ext3, journaling.
- Description: Excellent 8-pages paper explaining the journaling
- capabilities added to ext2 by the author, showing different
- problems faced and the alternatives chosen.
-
+ Description: Excellent 8-pages paper explaining the journaling
+ capabilities added to ext2 by the author, showing different problems
+ faced and the alternatives chosen.
+
* Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.0 to 2.2"
Author: Richard Gooch.
- URL:
- http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.2.html
+ URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.2.html
Keywords: 2.2, changes.
- Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed
- from 2.0.x to 2.2.x.
-
+ Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed from
+ 2.0.x to 2.2.x.
+
* Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.2 to 2.4"
Author: Richard Gooch.
- URL:
- http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.4.html
+ URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.4.html
Keywords: 2.4, changes.
- Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed
- from 2.2.x to 2.4.x.
-
+ Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed from
+ 2.2.x to 2.4.x.
+
* Title: "Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide"
- Author: Ori Pomerantz.
- URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/mpg.html
- Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,
- interrupt handlers .
- Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules
- programming. Lots of examples.
-
+ Author: Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian, Ori Pomerantz.
+ URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/
+ Keywords: modules, /proc, ioctls, system calls, interrupt handlers .
+ Description: Very nice 73 pages free book on the topic of modules
+ programming. Lots of examples. Updated to 2.6 kernels.
+
* Title: "Device File System (devfs) Overview"
Author: Richard Gooch.
URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.txt
- Keywords: filesystem, /dev, devfs, dynamic devices, major/minor
+ Keywords: filesystem, /dev, devfs, dynamic devices, major/minor
allocation, device management.
- Description: Document describing Richard Gooch's controversial
- devfs, which allows for dynamic devices, only shows present
- devices in /dev, gets rid of major/minor numbers allocation
- problems, and allows for hundreds of identical devices (which some
- USB systems might demand soon).
-
+ Description: Document describing Richard Gooch's controversial devfs,
+ which allows for dynamic devices, only shows present devices in /dev,
+ gets rid of major/minor numbers allocation problems, and allows for
+ hundreds of identical devices (which some USB systems might demand
+ soon).
+
* Title: "I/O Event Handling Under Linux"
Author: Richard Gooch.
URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/io-events.html
- Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness
- event queues.
- Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about
- how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of
- open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your
- application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active
- (have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you
- want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of
- inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage".
-
- * Title: "The Kernel Hacking HOWTO"
- Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty.
- URL:
- http://www.lisoleg.net/doc/Kernel-Hacking-HOWTO/kernel-hacking-HOW
- TO.html
- Keywords: HOWTO, kernel contexts, deadlock, locking, modules,
- symbols, return conventions.
- Description: From the Introduction: "Please understand that I
- never wanted to write this document, being grossly underqualified,
- but I always wanted to read it, and this was the only way. I
- simply explain some best practices, and give reading entry-points
- into the kernel sources. I avoid implementation details: that's
- what the code is for, and I ignore whole tracts of useful
- routines. This document assumes familiarity with C, and an
- understanding of what the kernel is, and how it is used. It was
- originally written for the 2.3 kernels, but nearly all of it
- applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly different".
-
+ Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness event
+ queues.
+ Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about how
+ your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of open files
+ (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your application. You want
+ the OS to notify you when FDs become active (have data ready to be read
+ or are ready for writing). Ideally you want a mechanism that is
+ scalable. This means a large number of inactive FDs cost very little in
+ memory and CPU time to manage".
+
+ * Title: "Kernel Hacking HOWTO"
+ Author: Andrew Ebling.
+ URL: http://www.kernelhacking.org/docs/kernelhacking-HOWTO/
+ Keywords: HOWTO, kernel hacking, getting started, source navigation,
+ kernel debugging, profiling, benchmarking.
+ Description: Another kernel hacking howto. More recent than the now lost
+ Rusty's one.
+
* Title: "ALSA 0.5.0 Developer documentation"
Author: Stephan 'Jumpy' Bartels .
URL: http://www.math.TU-Berlin.de/~sbartels/alsa/
Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware.
- Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers,
- both at kernel and user-level sides. Work in progress. ALSA is
- supposed to be Linux's next generation sound architecture.
-
+ Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers, both at
+ kernel and user-level sides. Work in progress. ALSA is supposed to be
+ Linux's next generation sound architecture.
+
* Title: "Programming Guide for Linux USB Device Drivers"
Author: Detlef Fliegl.
URL: http://usb.in.tum.de/usbdoc/
Keywords: USB, universal serial bus.
- Description: A must-read. From the Preface: "This document should
- give detailed information about the current state of the USB
- subsystem and its API for USB device drivers. The first section
- will deal with the basics of USB devices. You will learn about
- different types of devices and their properties. Going into detail
- you will see how USB devices communicate on the bus. The second
- section gives an overview of the Linux USB subsystem [2] and the
- device driver framework. Then the API and its data structures will
- be explained step by step. The last section of this document
- contains a reference of all API calls and their return codes".
- Notes: Beware: the main page states: "This document may not be
- published, printed or used in excerpts without explicit permission
- of the author". Fortunately, it may still be read...
-
- * Title: "Tour Of the Linux Kernel Source"
- Author: Vijo Cherian.
- URL: http://www.geocities.com/vijoc/tolks/tolks.html
- Keywords: .
- Description: A classic of this page! Was lost for a while and is
- back again. Thanks Vijo! TOLKS: the name says it all. A tour of
- the sources, describing directories, files, variables, data
- structures... It covers general stuff, device drivers,
- filesystems, IPC and Networking Code.
-
+ Description: A must-read. From the Preface: "This document should give
+ detailed information about the current state of the USB subsystem and
+ its API for USB device drivers. The first section will deal with the
+ basics of USB devices. You will learn about different types of devices
+ and their properties. Going into detail you will see how USB devices
+ communicate on the bus. The second section gives an overview of the
+ Linux USB subsystem [2] and the device driver framework. Then the API
+ and its data structures will be explained step by step. The last section
+ of this document contains a reference of all API calls and their return
+ codes".
+ Notes: Beware: the main page states: "This document may not be
+ published, printed or used in excerpts without explicit permission of
+ the author". Fortunately, it may still be read...
+
* Title: "Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary"
Author: John Levon.
URL: http://www.movement.uklinux.net/glossary.html
Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel.
- Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as
- a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear
- during discussion of the Linux kernel".
-
+ Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as a
+ brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear during
+ discussion of the Linux kernel".
+
* Title: "Linux Kernel Locking HOWTO"
Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty.
URL:
- http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/unreliable-guides/kernel-locking-
- HOWTO.html
- Keywords: locks, locking, spinlock, semaphore, atomic, race
- condition, bottom halves, tasklets, softirqs.
- Description: The title says it all: document describing the
- locking system in the Linux Kernel either in uniprocessor or SMP
- systems.
- Notes: "It was originally written for the later (>2.3.47) 2.3
- kernels, but most of it applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly
- different". Freely redistributable under the conditions of the GNU
- General Public License.
-
- * Title: "Porting Linux 2.0 Drivers To Linux 2.2: Changes and New
- Features "
+ http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/unreliable-guides/kernel-locking-HOWTO.html
+ Keywords: locks, locking, spinlock, semaphore, atomic, race condition,
+ bottom halves, tasklets, softirqs.
+ Description: The title says it all: document describing the locking
+ system in the Linux Kernel either in uniprocessor or SMP systems.
+ Notes: "It was originally written for the later (>2.3.47) 2.3 kernels,
+ but most of it applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly different". Freely
+ redistributable under the conditions of the GNU General Public License.
+
+ * Title: "Global spinlock list and usage"
+ Author: Rick Lindsley.
+ URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock
+ Keywords: spinlock.
+ Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and usage
+ of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive list of
+ spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions access them, how
+ each lock is acquired, under what conditions it is held, whether
+ interrupts can occur or not while it is held...
+
+ * Title: "Porting Linux 2.0 Drivers To Linux 2.2: Changes and New Features"
Author: Alan Cox.
URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-05/gear_01.html
Keywords: ports, porting.
- Description: Article from Linux Magazine on porting from 2.0 to
- 2.2 kernels.
-
+ Description: Article from Linux Magazine on porting from 2.0 to 2.2
+ kernels.
+
* Title: "Porting Device Drivers To Linux 2.2: part II"
Author: Alan Cox.
URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-06/gear_01.html
Keywords: ports, porting.
Description: Second part on porting from 2.0 to 2.2 kernels.
-
- * Title: "How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power
- Macintosh"
+
+ * Title: "How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh"
Author: Paul Mackerras.
URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-07/gear_01.html
Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility.
Description: The title says it all.
-
+
* Title: "An Introduction to SCSI Drivers"
Author: Alan Cox.
URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-08/gear_01.html
Keywords: SCSI, device, driver.
Description: The title says it all.
-
+
* Title: "Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales"
Author: Alan Cox.
URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-09/gear_01.html
Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced.
Description: The title says it all.
-
+
* Title: "Writing Linux Mouse Drivers"
Author: Alan Cox.
URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-10/gear_01.html
Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm.
Description: The title says it all.
-
+
* Title: "More on Mouse Drivers"
Author: Alan Cox.
URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-11/gear_01.html
Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O.
Description: The title still says it all.
-
+
* Title: "Writing Video4linux Radio Driver"
Author: Alan Cox.
URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-12/gear_01.html
Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices.
Description: The title says it all.
-
+
* Title: "Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device"
Author: Alan Cox.
URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-01/gear_01.html
- Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
- camera driver.
+ Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices, camera
+ driver.
Description: The title says it all.
-
+
* Title: "Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices"
Author: Alan Cox.
URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-02/gear_01.html
- Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
- camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility.
+ Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices, camera
+ driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility.
Description: The title says it all.
-
+
* Title: "PCI Management in Linux 2.2"
Author: Alan Cox.
URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-03/gear_01.html
Keywords: PCI, bus, bus-mastering.
Description: The title says it all.
-
+
* Title: "Linux 2.4 Kernel Internals"
Author: Tigran Aivazian and Christoph Hellwig.
URL: http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/lki.html
Keywords: Linux, kernel, booting, SMB boot, VFS, page cache.
- Description: A little book used for a short training course.
- Covers building the kernel image, booting (including SMP bootup),
- process management, VFS and more.
-
- * Title: "Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and
+ Description: A little book used for a short training course. Covers
+ building the kernel image, booting (including SMP bootup), process
+ management, VFS and more.
+
+ * Title: "Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and
Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack."
Author: Glenn Herrin.
- URL:
- http://kernelnewbies.org/documents/ipnetworking/linuxipnetworking.
- html
+ URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin
Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection,
- socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets,
- modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags.
- Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking,
- explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space
- configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of
- the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps
- packets follow from the time they are received at the network
- device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel
- code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet
- dropper example.
-
+ socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets, modules,
+ /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags.
+ Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking,
+ explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space configuration
+ tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of the kernel
+ networking implementation and understand all steps packets follow from
+ the time they are received at the network device till they are delivered
+ to applications. The studied kernel code is from 2.2.14 version.
+ Provides code for a working packet dropper example.
+
* Title: "Get those boards talking under Linux."
Author: Alex Ivchenko.
- URL: http://www.ednmag.com/ednmag/reg/2000/06222000/13df2.htm
- Keywords: data-acquisition boards, drivers, modules, interrupts,
- memory allocation.
+ URL: http://www.reed-electronics.com/ednmag/contents/images/46968.pdf
+ Keywords: data-acquisition boards, drivers, modules, interrupts, memory
+ allocation.
Description: Article written for people wishing to make their data
acquisition boards work on their GNU/Linux machines. Gives a basic
- overview on writing drivers, from the naming of functions to
- interrupt handling.
+ overview on writting drivers, from the naming of functions to interrupt
+ handling.
Notes: Two-parts article. Part II is at
- http://www.ednmag.com/ednmag/reg/2000/07062000/14df.htm
-
+ http://www.reed-electronics.com/ednmag/contents/images/46998.pdf
+
* Title: "Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide"
Author: David Hinds.
URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html
Keywords: PCMCIA.
- Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device
- drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also
- describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
- Card Services.
-
+ Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device drivers
+ for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also describes how to
+ write user-mode utilities for communicating with Card Services.
+
* Title: "The Linux Kernel NFSD Implementation"
Author: Neil Brown.
- URL:
- http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/oss/linux-commentary/nfsd.html
+ URL: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/oss/linux-commentary/nfsd.html
Keywords: knfsd, nfsd, NFS, RPC, lockd, mountd, statd.
Description: The title says it all.
Notes: Covers knfsd's version 1.4.7 (patch against 2.2.7 kernel).
-
- * Title: "A Linux vm README"
- Author: Kanoj Sarcar.
- URL: http://reality.sgi.com/kanoj_engr/vm229.html
- Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page
- cache, swap cache, kswapd.
- Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions
- relating the Linux virtual memory implementation.
-
- * Title: "(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The
- definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system
- administrators."
+
+ * Title: "(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The definitive
+ guide for hackers, virus coders and system administrators."
Author: pragmatic/THC.
- URL: http://packetstorm.securify.com/groups/thc/LKM_HACKING.html
+ URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html
Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table.
- Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in
- order to intercept and modify syscalls, make
- files/directories/processes invisible, become root, hijack ttys,
- write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to
- avoid all those abuses.
- Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x
- kernels. Also available in txt format at
- http://www.blacknemesis.org/hacking/txt/cllkm.txt
-
- BOOKS: (Not on-line)
-
- * Title: "Linux Device Drivers"
- Author: Alessandro Rubini.
- Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates.
- Date: 1998.
- Pages: 439.
- ISBN: 1-56592-292-1
-
+ Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in order
+ to intercept and modify syscalls, make files/directories/processes
+ invisible, become root, hijack ttys, write kernel modules based virus...
+ and solutions for admins to avoid all those abuses.
+ Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x kernels.
+
+ * Title: "Linux Kernel Threads in Device Drivers"
+ Author: Martin Frey.
+ URL: http://www.scs.ch/~frey/linux/kernelthreads.html
+ Keywords: threads, creation, stopping, initialization.
+ Description: How to start and stop kernel threads in a loadable module.
+
+ * Title: "The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide"
+ Author: Michael K.Johnson and others.
+ URL: http://en.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html
+ Keywords: everything!
+ Description: Probably, too old to be useful... Many people have
+ contributed. The interface is similar to web available mailing lists
+ archives. You can find some articles and then some mails asking
+ questions about them and/or complementing previous contributions. A
+ little bit anarchic in this aspect, but with some valuable information
+ in some cases.
+
+ BOOKS: (Not on-line, ordered by publication date)
+
+ * Title: "The Linux TCP/IP Stack: Networking for Embedded Systems"
+ Author: Thomas F. Herbert.
+ Publisher: Charles River Media.
+ Date: 2004.
+ Pages: 586.
+ ISBN: 1-58450-284-3
+ Notes: From the book's description: "it details the TCP/IP
+ implementation in Linux 2.6 by following a packet of data as it flows
+ through the stack from the sending system, out the wire, and back
+ through the input side of the stack in the receiving machine".
+
+ * Title: "Linux Kernel Development"
+ Author: Robert Love.
+ Publisher: Sams.
+ Date: 2003.
+ Pages: 332.
+ ISBN: 0-67232-512-8
+
+ * Title: "Understanding the Linux Kernel (2nd Edition)"
+ Author: Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati.
+ Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc..
+ Date: 2002.
+ Pages: 816.
+ ISBN: 0-596-00213-0
+ Notes: Further information in
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/
+
* Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition"
Author: Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet.
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates.
Date: 2001.
Pages: 586.
ISBN: 0-59600-008-1
- Notes: Further information in
- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive2/
-
- * Title: "Linux Kernel Internals"
- Author: Michael Beck.
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
- Date: 1997.
- ISBN: 0-201-33143-8 (second edition)
-
- * Title: "The Design of the UNIX Operating System"
- Author: Maurice J. Bach.
- Publisher: Prentice Hall.
- Date: 1986.
- Pages: 471.
- ISBN: 0-13-201757-1
-
- * Title: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX
- Operating System"
- Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J.
- Karels, John S. Quarterman.
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
- Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990).
- ISBN: 0-201-06196-1
-
- * Title: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX
- Operating System"
- Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels,
- John S. Quarterman.
+ Notes: It is also on-line (under the GNU Free Documentation License) at
+ http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html
+
+ * Title: "Understanding the Linux Kernel"
+ Author: Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati.
+ Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc..
+ Date: 2000.
+ Pages: 702.
+ ISBN: 0-596-00002-2
+ Notes: Further information in http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/
+
+ * Title: "Kernel Projects for Linux"
+ Author: Gary J. Nutt.
Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
- Date: 1996.
- ISBN: 0-201-54979-4
-
- * Title: "Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et fonctionnement du
- noyau"
- Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel.
- Publisher: Eyrolles.
- Date: 1997.
- Pages: 520.
- ISBN: 2-212-08932-5
- Notes: French.
-
+ Date: 2000.
+ Pages: 239.
+ ISBN: 0-201-61243-7
+ Notes: Provides 12 exercises related to OS functions implementation.
+ Comes with a CD-ROM.
+
+ * Title: "Linux IP Stacks Commentary"
+ Author: Stephen Satchell and HBJ Clifford.
+ Publisher: Coriolis.
+ Date: 2000.
+ Pages: ???.
+ ISBN: 1-57610-470-2
+ Notes: Line by line source code commentary book.
+
+ * Title: "Linux Core Kernel Commentary. Guide to Insider's Knowledge on
+ the Core Kernel of the Linux Code"
+ Author: Scott Maxwell.
+ Publisher: Coriolis.
+ Date: 1999.
+ Pages: 592.
+ ISBN: 1-57610-469-9
+ Notes: CD-ROM included. Line by line commentary of the kernel code.
+
+ * Title: "Linux Device Drivers"
+ Author: Alessandro Rubini.
+ Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates.
+ Date: 1998.
+ Pages: 439.
+ ISBN: 1-56592-292-1
+
* Title: "The Linux Kernel Book"
Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons.
Date: 1998.
ISBN: 0-471-98141-9
- Notes: English translation.
-
+ Notes: English translation of "Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et
+ fonctionnement du noyau".
+
+ * Title: "Linux Kernel Internals"
+ Author: Michael Beck.
+ Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
+ Date: 1997.
+ ISBN: 0-201-33143-8 (second edition)
+
* Title: "Linux 2.0"
Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel.
- Publisher: Gestión 2000.
+ Publisher: Gestión 2000.
Date: 1997.
Pages: 501.
ISBN: 8-480-88208-5
- Notes: Spanish translation.
-
+ Notes: Spanish translation of "Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et
+ fonctionnement du noyau".
+
+ * Title: "Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et fonctionnement du noyau"
+ Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel.
+ Publisher: Eyrolles.
+ Date: 1997.
+ Pages: 520.
+ ISBN: 2-212-08932-5
+ Notes: French.
+
* Title: "Unix internals -- the new frontiers"
Author: Uresh Vahalia.
Publisher: Prentice Hall.
Date: 1996.
Pages: 600.
ISBN: 0-13-101908-2
-
- * Title: "Linux Core Kernel Commentary. Guide to Insider's Knowledge
- on the Core Kernel of the Linux Code"
- Author: Scott Maxwell.
- Publisher: Coriolis.
- Date: 1999.
- Pages: 592.
- ISBN: 1-57610-469-9
- Notes: CD-ROM included. Line by line commentary of the kernel
- code.
-
- * Title: "Linux IP Stacks Commentary"
- Author: Stephen Satchell and HBJ Clifford.
- Publisher: Coriolis.
- Date: 2000.
- Pages: ???.
- ISBN: 1-57610-470-2
- Notes: Line by line source code commentary book.
-
+
+ * Title: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX Operating
+ System"
+ Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels, John S.
+ Quarterman.
+ Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
+ Date: 1996.
+ ISBN: 0-201-54979-4
+
* Title: "Programming for the real world - POSIX.4"
Author: Bill O. Gallmeister.
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc..
Date: 1995.
Pages: ???.
ISBN: I-56592-074-0
- Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be
- POSIX. Good reference.
-
- * Title: "Understanding the Linux Kernel"
- Author: Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati.
- Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc..
- Date: 2000.
- Pages: 702.
- ISBN: 0-596-00002-2
- Notes: Further information in
- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/
-
+ Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be POSIX.
+ Good reference.
+
+ * Title: "UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric
+ Multiprocesssing and Caching for Kernel Programmers"
+ Author: Curt Schimmel.
+ Publisher: Addison Wesley.
+ Date: June, 1994.
+ Pages: 432.
+ ISBN: 0-201-63338-8
+
+ * Title: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating
+ System"
+ Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels,
+ John S. Quarterman.
+ Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
+ Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990).
+ ISBN: 0-201-06196-1
+
+ * Title: "The Design of the UNIX Operating System"
+ Author: Maurice J. Bach.
+ Publisher: Prentice Hall.
+ Date: 1986.
+ Pages: 471.
+ ISBN: 0-13-201757-1
+
MISCELLANEOUS:
-
+
* Name: linux/Documentation
Author: Many.
URL: Just look inside your kernel sources.
Keywords: anything, DocBook.
- Description: Documentation that comes with the kernel sources,
- inside the Documentation directory. Some pages from this document
- (including this document itself) have been moved there, and might
- be more up to date than the web version.
-
+ Description: Documentation that comes with the kernel sources, inside
+ the Documentation directory. Some pages from this document (including
+ this document itself) have been moved there, and might be more up to
+ date than the web version.
+
* Name: "Linux Source Driver"
URL: http://lsd.linux.cz
Keywords: Browsing source code.
- Description: "Linux Source Driver (LSD) is an application, which
- can make browsing source codes of Linux kernel easier than you can
- imagine. You can select between multiple versions of kernel (e.g.
- 0.01, 1.0.0, 2.0.33, 2.0.34pre13, 2.0.0, 2.1.101 etc.). With LSD
- you can search Linux kernel (fulltext, macros, types, functions
- and variables) and LSD can generate patches for you on the fly
- (files, directories or kernel)".
-
+ Description: "Linux Source Driver (LSD) is an application, which can
+ make browsing source codes of Linux kernel easier than you can imagine.
+ You can select between multiple versions of kernel (e.g. 0.01, 1.0.0,
+ 2.0.33, 2.0.34pre13, 2.0.0, 2.1.101 etc.). With LSD you can search Linux
+ kernel (fulltext, macros, types, functions and variables) and LSD can
+ generate patches for you on the fly (files, directories or kernel)".
+
* Name: "Linux Kernel Source Reference"
Author: Thomas Graichen.
URL: http://innominate.org/~graichen/projects/lksr/
Keywords: CVS, web, cvsweb, browsing source code.
- Description: Web interface to a CVS server with the kernel
- sources. "Here you can have a look at any file of the Linux kernel
- sources of any version starting from 1.0 up to the (daily updated)
- current version available. Also you can check the differences
- between two versions of a file".
-
+ Description: Web interface to a CVS server with the kernel sources.
+ "Here you can have a look at any file of the Linux kernel sources of any
+ version starting from 1.0 up to the (daily updated) current version
+ available. Also you can check the differences between two versions of a
+ file".
+
* Name: "Cross-Referencing Linux"
URL: http://lxr.linux.no/source/
Keywords: Browsing source code.
- Description: Another web-based Linux kernel source code browser.
- Lots of cross references to variables and functions. You can see
- where they are defined and where they are used.
-
+ Description: Another web-based Linux kernel source code browser. Lots of
+ cross references to variables and functions. You can see where they are
+ defined and where they are used.
+
* Name: "Linux Weekly News"
URL: http://lwn.net
Keywords: latest kernel news.
Description: The title says it all. There's a fixed kernel section
summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions
produced during the week. Published every Thursday.
-
+
* Name: "Kernel Traffic"
- URL: http://www.kerneltraffic.org/kernel-traffic/
+ URL: http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/
Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list, weekly kernel news.
- Description: Weekly newsletter covering the most relevant
- discussions of the linux-kernel mailing list.
-
+ Description: Weekly newsletter covering the most relevant discussions of
+ the linux-kernel mailing list.
+
* Name: "CuTTiNG.eDGe.LiNuX"
URL: http://edge.kernelnotes.org
Keywords: changelist.
- Description: Site which provides the changelist for every kernel
- release. What's new, what's better, what's changed. Myrdraal reads
- the patches and describes them. Pointers to the patches are there,
- too.
-
+ Description: Site which provides the changelist for every kernel
+ release. What's new, what's better, what's changed. Myrdraal reads the
+ patches and describes them. Pointers to the patches are there, too.
+
* Name: "New linux-kernel Mailing List FAQ"
URL: http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list FAQ.
- Description: linux-kernel is a mailing list for developers to
- communicate. This FAQ builds on the previous linux-kernel mailing
- list FAQ maintained by Frohwalt Egerer, who no longer maintains
- it. Read it to see how to join the mailing list. Dozens of
- interesting questions regarding the list, Linux, developers (who
- is ...?), terms (what is...?) are answered here too. Just read it.
-
+ Description: linux-kernel is a mailing list for developers to
+ communicate. This FAQ builds on the previous linux-kernel mailing list
+ FAQ maintained by Frohwalt Egerer, who no longer maintains it. Read it
+ to see how to join the mailing list. Dozens of interesting questions
+ regarding the list, Linux, developers (who is ...?), terms (what is...?)
+ are answered here too. Just read it.
+
* Name: "Linux Virtual File System"
Author: Peter J. Braam.
URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/
Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache.
- Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the
- Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the
- dcache.
-
+ Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the Linux
+ VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the dcache.
+
* Name: "Gary's Encyclopedia - The Linux Kernel"
Author: Gary (I suppose...).
- URL: http://members.aa.net/~swear/pedia/kernel.html
+ URL: http://www.lisoleg.net/cgi-bin/lisoleg.pl?view=kernel.htm
Keywords: links, not found here?.
- Description: Gary's Encyclopedia exists to allow the rapid finding
- of documentation and other information of interest to GNU/Linux
- users. It has about 4000 links to external pages in 150 major
- categories. This link is for kernel-specific links, documents,
- sites... Look there if you could not find here what you were
- looking for.
-
+ Description: Gary's Encyclopedia exists to allow the rapid finding of
+ documentation and other information of interest to GNU/Linux users. It
+ has about 4000 links to external pages in 150 major categories. This
+ link is for kernel-specific links, documents, sites... Look there if you
+ could not find here what you were looking for.
+
* Name: "The home page of Linux-MM"
Author: The Linux-MM team.
URL: http://linux-mm.org/
- Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs,
- mailing list.
- Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development.
- Memory related patches, HOWTOs, links, mm developers... Don't miss
- it if you are interested in memory management development!
-
+ Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs, mailing
+ list.
+ Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development. Memory
+ related patches, HOWTOs, links, mm developers... Don't miss it if you
+ are interested in memory management development!
+
* Name: "Kernel Newbies IRC Channel"
URL: http://www.kernelnewbies.org
Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts.
- Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.openprojects.net. From the web
- page: "#kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedicated to the 'newbie'
- kernel hacker. The audience mostly consists of people who are
- learning about the kernel, working on kernel projects or
- professional kernel hackers that want to help less seasoned kernel
- people. [...] #kernelnewbies is on the Open Projects IRC Network,
- try irc.openprojects.net or irc.<country>.openprojects.net as your
- server and then /join #kernelnewbies". It also hosts articles,
- documents, FAQs...
-
+ Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.openprojects.net. From the web page:
+ "#kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedicated to the 'newbie' kernel
+ hacker. The audience mostly consists of people who are learning about
+ the kernel, working on kernel projects or professional kernel hackers
+ that want to help less seasoned kernel people. [...] #kernelnewbies is
+ on the Open Projects IRC Network, try irc.openprojects.net or
+ irc.<country>.openprojects.net as your server and then /join
+ #kernelnewbies". It also hosts articles, documents, FAQs...
+
* Name: "linux-kernel mailing list archives and search engines"
URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html
URL: http://www.kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/
- URL: http://www.geocrawler.com
Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search.
- Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If
- you have a better/another one, please let me know.
+ Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If you
+ have a better/another one, please let me know.
+
+ * Name: "The Operating System Resource Center"
+ Author: Chris Lattner.
+ URL: http://www.nondot.org/~sabre/os/articles
+ Keywords: boot process, partitions, file systems, memory management,
+ protected mode, executable file formats, plug and play specs, device
+ driver interfaces, processor architectures, interconnect buses, disk and
+ disc drives, human interface devices, sound devices, communication
+ devices, networking devices, specifications, specs, specs, specs.
+ Description: Site with specifications covering everything OS-related.
+
+ * Title: "File Systems"
+ Author: Chris Lattner URL:
+ http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles/FileSystems/
+ Keywords: ext2, ext3, StegFS, Steganographic File System, FAT, VFAT,
+ FAT32, HPFS, ISO9660, Joliet, NFS, XFS, GFS.
+ Description: Part of Chris Lattner's "The Operating System Resource
+ Center", this page points to information and specifications regarding
+ lots of filesystems.
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- Document last updated on Thu Jun 28 15:09:39 CEST 2001
+
+ Document last updated on Sun Oct 17 16:41:56 CEST 2004
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