2 Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or
4 Understanding the Linux Kernel.
6 Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche < jmseyas@dit.upm.es>
9 * The latest version of this document may be found at:
10 * http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html
13 The need for a document like this one became apparent in the
14 linux-kernel mailing list as the same questions, asking for pointers
15 to information, appeared again and again.
17 Fortunately, as more and more people get to GNU/Linux, more and more
18 get interested in the Kernel. But reading the sources is not always
19 enough. It is easy to understand the code, but miss the concepts, the
20 philosophy and design decisions behind this code.
22 Unfortunately, not many documents are available for beginners to
23 start. And, even if they exist, there was no "well-known" place which
24 kept track of them. These lines try to cover this lack. All documents
25 available on line known by the author are listed, while some reference
26 books are also mentioned.
28 PLEASE, if you know any paper not listed here or write a new document,
29 send me an e-mail, and I'll include a reference to it here. Any
30 corrections, ideas or comments are also welcomed.
32 The papers that follow are listed in no particular order. All are
33 cataloged with the following fields: the document's "Title", the
34 "Author"/s, the "URL" where they can be found, some "Keywords" helpful
35 when searching for specific topics, and a brief "Description" of the
42 * Title: "The Linux Kernel"
43 Author: David A. Rusling.
44 URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/linux/LDP/tlk/tlk.html
45 Keywords: everything!, book.
46 Description: On line, 200 pages book describing most aspects of
47 the Linux Kernel. Probably, the first reference for beginners.
48 Lots of illustrations explaining data structures use and
49 relationships in the purest Richard W. Stevens' style. Contents:
50 "1.-Hardware Basics, 2.-Software Basics, 3.-Memory Management,
51 4.-Processes, 5.-Interprocess Communication Mechanisms, 6.-PCI,
52 7.-Interrupts and Interrupt Handling, 8.-Device Drivers, 9.-The
53 File system, 10.-Networks, 11.-Kernel Mechanisms, 12.-Modules,
54 13.-The Linux Kernel Sources, A.-Linux Data Structures, B.-The
55 Alpha AXP Processor, C.-Useful Web and FTP Sites, D.-The GNU
56 General Public License, Glossary". In short: a must have.
58 * Title: "The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide"
59 Author: Michael K.Johnson and others.
60 URL: http://khg.redhat.com/HyperNews/get/khg.html
62 Description: No more Postscript book-like version. Only HTML now.
63 Many people have contributed. The interface is similar to web
64 available mailing lists archives. You can find some articles and
65 then some mails asking questions about them and/or complementing
66 previous contributions. A little bit anarchic in this aspect, but
67 with some valuable information in some cases.
69 * Title: "Conceptual Architecture of the Linux Kernel"
70 Author: Ivan T. Bowman.
71 URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a1.html
72 Keywords: conceptual software arquitecture, extracted design,
73 reverse engineering, system structure.
74 Description: Conceptual software arquitecture of the Linux kernel,
75 automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good
76 figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding.
78 * Title: "Concrete Architecture of the Linux Kernel"
79 Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Saheem Siddiqi, and Meyer C. Tanuan.
80 URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a2.html
81 Keywords: concrete arquitecture, extracted design, reverse
82 engineering, system structure, dependencies.
83 Description: Concrete arquitecture of the Linux kernel,
84 automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good
85 figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding. This papers
86 focus on lower details than its predecessor (files, variables...).
88 * Title: "Linux as a Case Study: Its Extracted Software
90 Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Richard C. Holt and Neil V. Brewster.
91 URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/linuxcase.html
92 Keywords: software architecture, architecture recovery,
94 Description: Paper appeared at ICSE'99, Los Angeles, May 16-22,
95 1999. A mixture of the previous two documents from the same
98 * Title: "Overview of the Virtual File System"
99 Author: Richard Gooch.
100 URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/vfs.txt
101 Keywords: VFS, File System, mounting filesystems, opening files,
103 dcache. Description: Brief introduction to the Linux Virtual File
104 System. What is it, how it works, operations taken when opening a
105 file or mounting a file system and description of important data
106 structures explaining the purpose of each of their entries.
108 * Title: "The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code"
109 Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
110 URL: http://www.ssc.com/lj/issue44/2391.html
111 Keywords: RAID, MD driver.
112 Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
113 abstract: "A description of the implementation of the RAID-1,
114 RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the
115 Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable,
116 secondary-storage capability using software".
118 * Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers"
119 Author: Alessandro Rubini.
120 URL: http://www.ssc.com/lj/issue23/1219.html
121 Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules,
122 allocating resources.
123 Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
124 abstract: "This is the first of a series of four articles
125 co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present
126 a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel
127 loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the
128 topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's
131 * Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Discovery"
132 Author: Alessandro Rubini.
133 URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue24/1220.html
134 Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module,
136 mayor number, minor number, file operations, open(), close().
137 Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
138 abstract: "This article, the second of four, introduces part of
139 the actual code to create custom module implementing a character
140 device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and
141 cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls".
143 * Title: "The Devil's in the Details"
144 Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini.
145 URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue25/1221.html
146 Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non
147 blocking mode, interrupt handler.
148 Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
149 abstract: "This article, the third of four on writing character
150 device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using
153 * Title: "Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA"
154 Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
155 URL: http://www.ssc.com/lj/issue26/interrupt.html
156 Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues.
157 Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
158 abstract: "This is the fourth in a series of articles about
159 writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This
160 month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling.
161 Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and
162 constraints make this an ``interesting'' part of device driver
163 writing, and several different facilities have been provided for
164 different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of
167 * Title: "Device Drivers Concluded"
168 Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz.
169 URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue28/1287.html
170 Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management,
171 demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap,
172 virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
173 Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles
174 series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of
175 five articles about character device drivers. In this final
176 section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with
177 an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts".
179 * Title: "Network Buffers And Memory Management"
181 URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue30/1312.html
182 Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer
183 variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive,
184 configuration, multicast.
185 Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner. Here is the abstract:
186 "Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally
187 simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the
188 hardware) involves managing network packets in memory".
190 * Title: "An Introduction to the Linux 1.3.x Networking Code"
192 URL: http://anchor.cs.binghamton.edu/courses/cs628/linux-net.html
193 Keywords: files, sk_buffs.
194 Description: A short description of files under the net/
195 directory. Each file has a one or two lines paragraph description.
196 sk_buffs explained, too, with some beautiful pictures. A little
199 * Title: "Linux ioctl() Primer"
201 URL: http://anchor.cs.binghamton.edu/courses/cs628/ioctl.html
202 Keywords: ioctl, socket.
203 Description: Little description and examples on the use and
204 implementation of the ioctl() system call. A little bit biased
207 * Title: "Writing Linux Device Drivers"
208 Author: Michael K. Johnson.
209 URL: http://www.redhat.com/~johnsonm/devices.html
210 Keywords: files, VFS, file operations, kernel interface, character
211 vs block devices, I/O access, hardware interrupts, DMA, access to
212 user memory, memory allocation, timers.
213 Description: Introductory 50-minutes (sic) tutorial on writing
214 device drivers. 12 pages written by the same author of the "Kernel
215 Hackers' Guide" which give a very good overview of the topic.
217 * Title: "The Venus kernel interface"
218 Author: Peter J. Braam.
220 http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html
221 Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager.
222 Description: "This document describes the communication between
223 Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation
224 of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe
225 the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we
228 * Title: "Programming PCI-Devices under Linux"
229 Author: Claus Schroeter.
231 ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/pcip.ps
233 Keywords: PCI, device, busmastering.
234 Description: 6 pages tutorial on PCI programming under Linux.
235 Gives the basic concepts on the architecture of the PCI subsystem,
236 as long as basic functions and macros to read/write the devices
237 and perform busmastering.
239 * Title: "Writing Character Device Driver for Linux"
240 Author: R. Baruch and C. Schroeter.
242 ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/drivers
244 Keywords: character device drivers, I/O, signals, DMA, accesing
245 ports in user space, kernel environment.
246 Description: 68 pages paper on writing character drivers. A little
247 bit old (1.993, 1.994) although still useful.
249 * Title: "Design and Implementation of the Second Extended
251 Author: RĆ©my Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
252 URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html
253 Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices,
254 VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library,
255 ext2fs tools, e2fsck.
256 Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers.
257 Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features,
258 design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks,
259 e2fsck's passes description... A must read!
260 Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the
261 First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9.
263 * Title: "The Second Extended Filesystem"
264 Author: Matthew Wilcox.
265 URL: http://pocket.fluff.org/~mrw/linux/ext2.txt
266 Keywords: ext2, filesystem.
267 Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes...
268 Notes: Seems to be DOWN. Anyone knows another link for it?
270 * Title: "Analysis of the Ext2fs structure"
271 Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
272 URL: http://step.polymtl.ca/~ldd/ext2fs/ext2fs_toc.html
273 Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs.
274 Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
275 bitmaps, invariants ...
277 * Title: "Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem"
278 Author: Stephen C. Tweedie.
280 ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org:/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/journal-design.ps.gz
281 Keywords: ext3, journaling.
282 Description: Excellent 8-pages paper explaining the journaling
283 capabilities added to ext2 by the author, showing different
284 problems faced and the alternatives chosen.
286 * Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.0 to 2.2"
287 Author: Richard Gooch.
289 http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.2.html
290 Keywords: 2.2, changes.
291 Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed
294 * Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.2 to 2.3"
295 Author: Richard Gooch.
297 http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.3.html
298 Keywords: 2.3, changes.
299 Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed
302 * Title: "Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide"
303 Author: Ori Pomerantz.
304 URL: http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/lkmpg/mpg.html
305 Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,
307 Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules
308 programming. Lots of examples.
310 * Title: "Device File System (devfs) Overview"
311 Author: Richard Gooch.
312 URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.txt
313 Keywords: filesystem, /dev, devfs, dynamic devices, major/minor
314 allocation, device management.
315 Description: Document describing Richard Gooch's controversial
316 devfs, which allows for dynamic devices, only shows present
317 devices in /dev, gets rid of major/minor numbers allocation
318 problems, and allows for hundreds of identical devices (which some
319 USB systems might demand soon).
321 * Title: "I/O Event Handling Under Linux"
322 Author: Richard Gooch.
323 URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/io-events.html
324 Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness
326 Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about
327 how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of
328 open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your
329 application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active
330 (have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you
331 want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of
332 inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage".
334 * Title: "The Kernel Hacking HOWTO"
335 Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty.
336 URL: http://www.samba.org/~netfilter/kernel-hacking-HOWTO.html
337 Keywords: HOWTO, kernel contexts, deadlock, locking, modules,
338 symbols, return conventions.
339 Description: From the Introduction: "Please understand that I
340 never wanted to write this document, being grossly underqualified,
341 but I always wanted to read it, and this was the only way. I
342 simply explain some best practices, and give reading entry-points
343 into the kernel sources. I avoid implementation details: that's
344 what the code is for, and I ignore whole tracts of useful
345 routines. This document assumes familiarity with C, and an
346 understanding of what the kernel is, and how it is used. It was
347 originally written for the 2.3 kernels, but nearly all of it
348 applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly different. ".
350 * Title: "ALSA 0.5.0 Developer documentation"
351 Author: Stephan 'Jumpy' Bartels .
352 URL: http://www.math.TU-Berlin.de/~sbartels/alsa/
353 Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware.
354 Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers,
355 both at kernel and user-level sides. Work in progress. ALSA is
356 supposed to be Linux's next generation sound architecture.
358 * Title: "Programming Guide for Linux USB Device Drivers"
359 Author: Detlef Fliegl.
360 URL: http://usb.in.tum.de/usbdoc/
361 Keywords: USB, universal serial bus.
362 Description: A must-read. From the Preface: "This document should
363 give detailed information about the current state of the USB
364 subsystem and its API for USB device drivers. The first section
365 will deal with the basics of USB devices. You will learn about
366 different types of devices and their properties. Going into detail
367 you will see how USB devices communicate on the bus. The second
368 section gives an overview of the Linux USB subsystem [2] and the
369 device driver framework. Then the API and its data structures will
370 be explained step by step. The last section of this document
371 contains a reference of all API calls and their return codes".
372 Notes: Beware: the main page states: "This document may not be
373 published, printed or used in excerpts without explicit permission
374 of the author". Fortunately, it may still be read...
376 * Title: "Tour Of the Linux Kernel Source"
377 Author: Vijo Cherian.
378 URL: http://www.geocities.com/vijoc/tolks/tolks.html
380 Description: A classic of this page! Was lost for a while and is
381 back again. Thanks Vijo! TOLKS: the name says it all. A tour of
382 the sources, describing directories, files, variables, data
383 structures... It covers general stuff, device drivers,
384 filesystems, IPC and Networking Code.
386 * Title: "Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary"
388 URL: http://www.movement.uklinux.net/glossary.html
389 Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel.
390 Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as
391 a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear
392 during discussion of the Linux kernel".
394 * Title: "Linux Kernel Locking HOWTO"
395 Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty.
397 http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/unreliable-guides/kernel-locking-
399 Keywords: locks, locking, spinlock, semaphore, atomic, race
400 condition, bottom halves, tasklets, softirqs.
401 Description: The title says it all: document describing the
402 locking system in the Linux Kernel either in uniprocessor or SMP
404 Notes: "It was originally written for the later (>2.3.47) 2.3
405 kernels, but most of it applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly
406 different". Freely redistributable under the conditions of the GNU
407 General Public License.
409 * Title: "Porting Linux 2.0 Drivers To Linux 2.2: Changes and New
412 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-05/gear_01.html
413 Keywords: ports, porting.
414 Description: Article from Linux Magazine on porting from 2.0 to
417 * Title: "Porting Device Drivers To Linux 2.2: part II"
419 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-06/gear_01.html
420 Keywords: ports, porting.
421 Description: Second part on porting from 2.0 to 2.2 kernels.
423 * Title: "How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power
425 Author: Paul Mackerras.
426 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-07/gear_01.html
427 Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility.
428 Description: The title says it all.
430 * Title: "An Introduction to SCSI Drivers"
432 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-08/gear_01.html
433 Keywords: SCSI, device, driver.
434 Description: The title says it all.
436 * Title: "Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales"
438 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-09/gear_01.html
439 Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced.
440 Description: The title says it all.
442 * Title: "Writing Linux Mouse Drivers"
444 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-10/gear_01.html
445 Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm.
446 Description: The title says it all.
448 * Title: "More on Mouse Drivers"
450 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-11/gear_01.html
451 Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O.
452 Description: The title still says it all.
454 * Title: "Writing Video4linux Radio Driver"
456 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-12/gear_01.html
457 Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices.
458 Description: The title says it all.
460 * Title: "Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device"
462 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-01/gear_01.html
463 Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
465 Description: The title says it all.
467 * Title: "Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices"
469 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-02/gear_01.html
470 Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
471 camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility.
472 Description: The title says it all.
474 * Title: "PCI Management in Linux 2.2"
476 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-03/gear_01.html
477 Keywords: PCI, bus, bus-mastering.
478 Description: The title says it all.
480 * Title: "Linux 2.4 Kernel Internals"
481 Author: Tigran Aivazian.
482 URL: http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/lki.html
483 Keywords: Linux, kernel, VFS, SMP boot
484 Description: A little book used for a short training course
485 I gave on this subject at VERITAS. Covers building the kernel
486 image, booting (including SMP), process management, VFS and more.
490 * Title: "Linux Device Drivers"
491 Author: Alessandro Rubini.
492 Publisher: O'Reilly &Associates.
496 * Title: "Linux Kernel Internals"
497 Author: Michael Beck.
498 Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
500 ISBN: 0-201-33143-8 (second edition)
502 * Title: "The Design of the UNIX Operating System"
503 Author: Maurice J. Bach.
504 Publisher: Prentice Hall.
509 * Title: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX
511 Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J.
512 Karels, John S. Quarterman.
513 Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
514 Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990).
517 * Title: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX
519 Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels,
521 Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
525 * Title: "Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et fonctionnement du
527 Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel.
534 * Title: "The Linux Kernel Book"
535 Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel.
536 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons.
539 Notes: English translation.
542 Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel.
543 Publisher: GestiĆ³n 2000.
547 Notes: Spanish translation.
549 * Title: "Unix internals -- the new frontiers"
550 Author: Uresh Vahalia.
551 Publisher: Prentice Hall.
556 * Title: "Linux Core Kernel Commentary. Guide to Insider's Knowledge
557 on the Core Kernel of the Linux Code"
558 Author: Scott Maxwell.
563 Notes: CD-ROM included. Line by line commentary of the kernel
566 * Title: "Linux IP Stacks Commentary"
567 Author: Stephen Satchell and HBJ Clifford.
572 Notes: Line by line source code commentary book.
574 * Title: "Programming for the real world - POSIX.4"
575 Author: Bill O. Gallmeister.
576 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc..
580 Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be
581 POSIX. Good reference.
585 * Name: "Linux Source Driver"
586 URL: http://lsd.linux.cz
587 Keywords: Browsing source code.
588 Description: "Linux Source Driver (LSD) is an application, which
589 can make browsing source codes of Linux kernel easier than you can
590 imagine. You can select between multiple versions of kernel (e.g.
591 0.01, 1.0.0, 2.0.33, 2.0.34pre13, 2.0.0, 2.1.101 etc.). With LSD
592 you can search Linux kernel (fulltext, macros, types, functions
593 and variables) and LSD can generate patches for you on the fly
594 (files, directories or kernel)".
596 * Name: "Cross-Referencing Linux"
597 URL: http://lxr.linux.no/source/
598 Keywords: Browsing source code.
599 Description: Another web-based Linux kernel source code browser.
600 Lots of cross references to variables and functions. You can see
601 where they are defined and where they are used.
603 * Name: "Linux Weekly News"
605 Keywords: latest kernel news.
606 Description: The title says it all. There's a fixed kernel section
607 summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions
608 produced during the week. Published every Thursday.
610 * Name: "Kernel Traffic"
611 URL: http://kt.linuxcare.com
612 Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list, weekly kernel news.
613 Description: Weekly newsletter covering the most relevant
614 discussions of the linux-kernel mailing list.
616 * Name: "CuTTiNG.eDGe.LiNuX"
617 URL: http://edge.kernelnotes.org
618 Keywords: changelist.
619 Description: Site which provides the changelist for every kernel
620 release. What's new, what's better, what's changed. Myrdraal reads
621 the patches and describes them. Pointers to the patches are there,
624 * Name: "New linux-kernel Mailing List FAQ"
626 http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html
627 URL: U.S. mirror site:
628 http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~rreilova/linux/lkml-faq.html
629 Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list FAQ.
630 Description: linux-kernel is a mailing list for developers to
631 communicate. This FAQ builds on the previous linux-kernel mailing
632 list FAQ maintained by Frohwalt Egerer, who no longer maintains
633 it. Read it to see how to join the mailing list. Dozens of
634 interesting questions regarding the list, Linux, developers (who
635 is ...?), terms (what is...?) are answered here too. Just read it.
637 * Name: "Linux Virtual File System"
638 Author: Peter J. Braam.
639 URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs
640 Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache.
641 Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the
642 Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the
645 * Name: "Gary's Enciclopedia - The Linux Kernel"
646 Author: Gary (I suppose...).
647 URL: http://members.aa.net/~swear/pedia/kernel.html
648 Keywords: links, not found here?.
649 Description: Gary's Enciclopedia exists to allow the rapid finding
650 of documentation and other information of interest to GNU/Linux
651 users. It has about 4000 links to external pages in 150 major
652 categories. This link is for kernel-specific links, documents,
653 sites... Look there if you could not find here whar you were
656 * Name: "The home page of Linux-MM"
657 Author: The Linux-MM team.
658 URL: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/
659 Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs,
661 Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Mangement development.
662 Memory related patches, HOWTOs, links, mm developers... Don't miss
663 it if you are interested in memory management development!
665 * Name: "Kernel Newbies IRC Channel"
666 URL: http://www.surriel.com/kernelnewbies.shtml
667 Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts.
668 Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.openprojects.net. From the web
669 page: "#kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedicated to the 'newbie'
670 kernel hacker. The audience mostly consists of people who are
671 learning about the kernel, working on kernel projects or
672 professional kernel hackers that want to help less seasoned kernel
673 people. [...] #kernelnewbies is on the Open Projects IRC Network,
674 try irc.openprojects.net or irc.<country>.openprojects.net as your
675 server and then /join #kernelnewbies".
677 * Name: "linux-kernel mailing list archives and search engines"
678 URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html
679 URL: http://www.kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/
680 URL: http://www.geocrawler.com
681 Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search.
682 Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If
683 you have a better/another one, please let me know.
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686 Document last updated on Thu Jun 1 21:58:18 CEST 2000DATE$