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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>
/*
* 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 "The Linux Kernel"
Author David A. Rusling.
URL http//sunsite.unc.edu/linux/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//khg.redhat.com/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.
* 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.
Description Conceptual software arquitecture of the Linux
kernel,
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"
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.
* 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.
* Title "The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code"
Author Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
URL http//www.ssc.com/lj/issue44/2391.html
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".
* Title "Dynamic Kernels Modularized Device Drivers"
Author Alessandro Rubini.
URL http//www.ssc.com/lj/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".
* 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".
* 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".
* Title "Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA"
Author Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
URL http//www.ssc.com/lj/issue26/interrupt.html
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".
* 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".
* 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 "An Introduction to the Linux 1.3.x Networking Code"
Author Vipul Gupta.
URL http//anchor.cs.binghamton.edu/courses/cs628/linux-net.html
Keywords files, sk_buffs.
Description A short description of files under the net/
directory. Each file has a one or two lines paragraph
description.
sk_buffs explained, too, with some beautiful pictures. A little
bit outdated.
* Title "Linux ioctl() Primer"
Author Vipul Gupta.
URL http//anchor.cs.binghamton.edu/courses/cs628/ioctl.html
Keywords ioctl, socket.
Description Little description and examples on the use and
implementation of the ioctl() system call. A little bit biased
towards sockets.
* Title "Writing Linux Device Drivers"
Author Michael K. Johnson.
URL http//www.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.
* 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".
* Title "Programming PCI-Devices under Linux"
Author Claus Schroeter.
URL
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.
* 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, accesing
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?y 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.
* Title "The Second Extended Filesystem"
Author Matthew Wilcox.
URL http//pocket.fluff.org/~mrw/linux/ext2.txt
Keywords ext2, filesystem.
Description Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes...
Notes Seems to be DOWN. Anyone knows another link for it?
* Title "Analysis of the Ext2fs structure"
Author Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
URL http//step.polymtl.ca/~ldd/ext2fs/ext2fs_toc.html
Keywords ext2, filesystem, ext2fs.
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
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.
* 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.
* Title "Kernel API changes from 2.2 to 2.3"
Author Richard Gooch.
URL
http//www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.3.html
Keywords 2.3, changes.
Description Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed
from 2.2.x to 2.3.x.
* Title "Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide"
Author Ori Pomerantz.
URL http//www.linuxdoc.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.
* 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
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).
* 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.samba.org/~netfilter/kernel-hacking-HOWTO.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. ".
* 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.
* 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.
* 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".
* 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 "
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.
* 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"
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.
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.
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.
URL http//www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/lki.html
Keywords Linux, kernel, VFS, SMP boot
Description A little book used for a short training course
I gave on this subject at VERITAS. Covers building the kernel
image, booting (including SMP), process management, VFS and more.
BOOKS (Not on-line)
* Title "Linux Device Drivers"
Author Alessandro Rubini.
Publisher O'Reilly &Associates.
Date 1998.
ISBN 1-56592-292-1
* 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.
* 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.
* Title "Linux 2.0"
Author Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel.
Publisher Gesti? 2000.
Date 1997.
Pages 501.
ISBN 8-480-88208-5
Notes Spanish translation.
* 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 "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.
MISCELLANEOUS
* 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)".
* 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.
* 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//kt.linuxcare.com
Keywords linux-kernel mailing list, weekly kernel news.
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.
* Name "New linux-kernel Mailing List FAQ"
URL Original site
http//www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html
URL U.S. mirror site
http//www.ececs.uc.edu/~rreilova/linux/lkml-faq.html
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.
* 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.
* Name "Gary's Enciclopedia - The Linux Kernel"
Author Gary (I suppose...).
URL http//members.aa.net/~swear/pedia/kernel.html
Keywords links, not found here?.
Description Gary's Enciclopedia 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 whar you were
looking for.
* Name "The home page of Linux-MM"
Author The Linux-MM team.
URL http//www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/
Keywords memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs,
mailing list.
Description Site devoted to Linux Memory Mangement 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.surriel.com/kernelnewbies.shtml
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".
* 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.
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Document last updated on Thu Jun 1 215818 CEST 2000DATE$