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Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or Understanding the Linux Kernel. Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es> |
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/* * 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 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. Enjoy! ON-LINE DOCS: * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition" Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver programming API and kernel hacking in general. Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. * Title: "The Linux Kernel" Author: David A. Rusling. URL: http://www.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. |
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* 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). |
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* Title: "Conceptual Architecture of the Linux Kernel" Author: Ivan T. Bowman. URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a1.html |
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Description: Conceptual software architecture of the Linux kernel, |
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* 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 |
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Description: Concrete architecture of the Linux kernel, |
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* 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. |
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* 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, 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. |
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* Title: "The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code" Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza. |
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Keywords: RAID, MD driver. |
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Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its |
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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". |
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* Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers" Author: Alessandro Rubini. |
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Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules, allocating resources. |
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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". |
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* Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Discovery" Author: Alessandro Rubini. |
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Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module, autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations, open(), close(). |
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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". |
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* Title: "The Devil's in the Details" Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini. |
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Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non blocking mode, interrupt handler. |
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abstract: "This article, the third of four on writing character device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using ioctl-calls". |
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* Title: "Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA" Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz. |
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Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues. |
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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". |
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* Title: "Device Drivers Concluded" Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz. |
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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". |
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* Title: "Network Buffers And Memory Management" Author: Alan Cox. |
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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. |
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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. * Title: "The Venus kernel interface" Author: Peter J. Braam. 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". |
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* Title: "Programming PCI-Devices under Linux" Author: Claus Schroeter. URL: |
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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. |
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* Title: "Writing Character Device Driver for Linux" Author: R. Baruch and C. Schroeter. URL: |
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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. |
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* Title: "Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem" |
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Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie. |
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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. |
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* Title: "Analysis of the Ext2fs structure" Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau. |
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Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs. Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes, bitmaps, invariants... |
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* 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 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. |
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* 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 Keywords: 2.2, changes. Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed from 2.0.x to 2.2.x. |
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* 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 Keywords: 2.4, changes. Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed from 2.2.x to 2.4.x. * Title: "Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide" Author: Ori Pomerantz. |
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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. |
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* 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. |
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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". |
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* Title: "Writing an ALSA Driver" Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html |
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* 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... |
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* 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... |
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* 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. |
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* 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. |
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* 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. |
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* 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. |
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* 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. |
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* 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. |
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* 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. |
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* 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. |
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* 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. Description: The title says it all. |
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* 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. Description: The title says it all. |
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* 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. |
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* 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. |
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* Title: "Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack." Author: Glenn Herrin. |
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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. * Title: "Get those boards talking under Linux." Author: Alex Ivchenko. |
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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. Notes: Two-parts article. Part II is at |
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* 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. |
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* Title: "The Linux Kernel NFSD Implementation" Author: Neil Brown. 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." Author: pragmatic/THC. |
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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 |
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BOOKS: (Not on-line) * Title: "Linux Device Drivers" Author: Alessandro Rubini. Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates. Date: 1998. Pages: 439. ISBN: 1-56592-292-1 * 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/ |
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* Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 3nd Edition" Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates. Date: 2005. Pages: 636. ISBN: 0-596-00590-3 Notes: Further information in http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/ PDF format, URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ |
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* 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. 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. |
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* Title: "Unix internals -- the new frontiers" Author: Uresh Vahalia. Publisher: Prentice Hall. Date: 1996. Pages: 600. ISBN: 0-13-101908-2 |
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* 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 |
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* 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. |
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* 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 |
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* 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. |
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* 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)". |
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* 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". |
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* 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. |
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* 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. |
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* Name: "Kernel Traffic" |
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Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list, weekly kernel news. Description: Weekly newsletter covering the most relevant discussions of the linux-kernel mailing list. |
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* 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. |
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* 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. |
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* 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. |
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* Name: "Gary's Encyclopedia - The Linux Kernel" Author: Gary (I suppose...). |
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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, |
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sites... This list is now hosted by developer.Berlios.de, but seems not to have been updated since sometime in 1999. |
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* 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! |
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* 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... * Name: "linux-kernel mailing list archives and search engines" |
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URL: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel URL: http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel URL: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/ URL: http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/ |
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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. _________________________________________________________________ |
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Document last updated on Sat 2005-NOV-19 |