Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932521AbXFRUNB (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:13:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764806AbXFRUMe (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:12:34 -0400 Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.185]:43012 "EHLO mu-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764409AbXFRUMc (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:12:32 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=or+rTQPl3P2w56qML9CEVSHLJP5YRVQGTbuY0Q614AkpvAgHyCSBDFHdaODSjXkK4l4u37Lyq/xM6LvruORq2qtY80GoT/PFpEgn7Cy9DVlHjJdhvo3SN3ZyrtTyO4UHOuZfIQz3BlYyu9uP+/MwCpvPUgUfOHGziyC4p84snw4= Message-ID: <4676E707.8020109@googlemail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:11:51 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Maciej Rutecki , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Jarek Poplawski , Mariusz Kozlowski , Randy Dunlap Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Kernel =?UTF-8?B?VGVzdGVy4oCZcyBHdWlkZSB2MC4zLXI=?= =?UTF-8?B?YzE=?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Michal Piotrowski Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1939 Lines: 69 Hi, We are pleased to announce the availability of "Linux Kernel Tester's Guide" v0.3-rc1. This short guide describes the basics of kernel testing. The handbook is divided into six chapters: 1 The kernel, patches, trees and compilation 1.1 The kernel 1.2 Patches 1.3 Ketchup 1.4 Trees 1.5 The -mm tree 1.6 Compilation and installation 1.6.1 Kernel compilation 1.6.2 Useful make options 1.6.3 Kernel modules 1.6.4 Kernel hacking options 1.6.5 Magic SysRq 1.6.6 Installation 1.6.7 Automated configuration and installation 2 Testing 2.1 Phase One 2.2 Phase Two (AutoTest) 2.3 Phase Three 2.4 Measuring performance 2.5 Hello world! or What exactly are we looking for? 2.6 Binary drivers and distribution kernels 3 Collecting kernel messages 3.1 Syslog, console and dmesg 3.2 Serial console 3.3 Network console 4 Git, quilt and binary searching 4.1 Git 4.2 Quilt 4.3 General idea of binary searching 4.4 Binary searching with the help of quilt 4.5 Binary searching with the help of git-bisect 4.6 Caveats 5 Reporting bugs 6 Testing of hardware A Related topics A.1 Test system A.2 KLive A.3 Sending patches A.4 How to become the kernel developer? B License PDF version http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/handbook/handbook-en-0.3-rc1.pdf LaTeX source http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/handbook/handbook-current.tar.bz2 Any comments, suggestions and patches are welcome. Huge thanks goes to Rafael J. Wysocki who translated the entire guide into English. This is one of those rare cases when translation is better than original version :). Regards, Michal -- LOG http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/ - 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/