Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262752AbUKMN3k (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:29:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262748AbUKMN3k (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:29:40 -0500 Received: from out014pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.46]:55733 "EHLO out014.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262752AbUKMNY3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:24:29 -0500 From: james4765@verizon.net To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: akpm@osdl.org, jmseyas@dit.upm.es, james4765@verizon.net Message-Id: <20041113132426.5142.46164.12423@localhost.localdomain> Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Update to Documentation/kernel-docs.txt X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out014.verizon.net from [70.16.226.208] at Sat, 13 Nov 2004 07:24:26 -0600 Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 07:24:28 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 66202 Lines: 1352 Major cleanup and update to Documentation/kernel-docs.txt. New file generated by 'lynx -dump http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html' after update by page maintainer. diffstat output: kernel-docs.txt | 1092 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------- 1 files changed, 561 insertions(+), 531 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: James Nelson diff -urN --exclude='*~' linux-2.6.9-original/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt linux-2.6.9/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt --- linux-2.6.9-original/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt 2004-10-18 17:54:37.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.9/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt 2004-11-13 08:08:43.676394217 -0500 @@ -1,770 +1,800 @@ Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or - + Understanding the Linux Kernel. - - Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche - + + Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche + /* * 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: R?my 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: Gesti?n 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..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..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. _________________________________________________________________ - - Document last updated on Thu Jun 28 15:09:39 CEST 2001 + + Document last updated on Sun Oct 17 16:41:56 CEST 2004 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/