2 This is a brief list of all the files in ./linux/Documentation and what
3 they contain. If you add a documentation file, please list it here in
4 alphabetical order as well, or risk being hunted down like a rabid dog.
5 Please keep the descriptions small enough to fit on one line.
8 Following translations are available on the WWW:
10 - Japanese, maintained by the JF Project (jf@listserv.linux.or.jp), at
11 http://linuxjf.sourceforge.jp/
16 - info on kernel <-> userspace ABI and relative interface stability.
18 - nothing here, just a pointer to process/coding-style.rst.
20 - DMA API, pci_ API & extensions for non-consistent memory machines.
22 - Dynamic DMA mapping Guide
24 - How to do DMA with ISA (and LPC) devices.
26 - listing of the various possible attributes a DMA region can have
28 - directory with DocBook templates etc. for kernel documentation.
30 - directory with info on customizing EDID for broken gfx/displays.
32 - info on Linux Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) Driver.
34 - how to select which CPU(s) handle which interrupt events on SMP.
36 - info on interrupt numbering and setting up IRQ domains.
38 - description of what an IRQ is.
40 - basic info on the Intel IOMMU virtualization support.
42 - It's not of interest for those who aren't touching the build system.
44 - It's not of interest for those who aren't touching the build system.
46 - info related to PCI drivers.
48 - directory with info on RCU (read-copy update).
50 - info on Secure Attention Keys.
52 - Silicon Motion SM501 multimedia companion chip
54 - nothing here, just a pointer to process/coding-style.rst.
56 - documentation on accounting and taskstats.
58 - info on ACPI-specific hooks in the kernel.
60 - info related to Linux users and system admins.
62 - description of AoE (ATA over Ethernet) along with config examples.
64 - directory with info about Linux on the ARM architecture.
66 - directory with info about Linux on the 64 bit ARM architecture.
68 - misc. LCD driver documentation (cfag12864b, ks0108).
70 - directory with info on controlling backlights in flat panel displays
72 - Block-layer cache on fast SSDs to improve slow (raid) I/O performance.
74 - directory with documentation for the Blackfin arch.
76 - info on the Block I/O (BIO) layer.
78 - info on block devices & drivers
80 - info on how to modify a bt8xx video card for GPIO usage.
82 - info on Marvell Bluetooth driver usage.
84 - directory with info on TI GPMC (General Purpose Memory Controller)
85 bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
86 - how to access I/O mapped memory from within device drivers.
88 - describes the cache/TLB flushing interfaces Linux uses.
90 - directory with information on the CD-ROM drivers that Linux has.
92 - cgroups v1 features, including cpusets and memory controller.
94 - cgroups v2 features, including cpusets and memory controller.
96 - how to make use of the existing circular buffer infrastructure
98 - info on the common clock framework
100 - Continuous Memory Area (CMA) debugfs interface.
102 - It's not of interest for those who aren't touching the build system.
104 - docs on the netlink based userspace<->kernel space communication mod.
106 - documentation on Linux console drivers.
108 - documentation on kernel core components.
110 - info on CPU frequency and voltage scaling.
112 - document describing CPU hotplug support in the Linux kernel.
114 - document describing how CPU load statistics are collected.
116 - info on CPU_IDLE, CPU idle state management subsystem.
118 - documentation on how CPU topology info is exported via sysfs.
120 - brief tutorial on CRC computation
122 - directory with info about Linux on CRIS architecture.
124 - directory with info on the Crypto API.
126 - information on the Dell Systems Management Base Driver.
127 debugging-modules.txt
128 - some notes on debugging modules after Linux 2.6.3.
129 debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
130 - how to use firewire like a hardware debugger memory reader.
132 - document demonstrating the use of the Dell Remote BIOS Update driver.
134 - directory with info on development tools for the kernel.
136 - directory with info on Device Mapper.
138 - the DMA engine and controller API guides.
140 - directory with info on device tree files used by OF/PowerPC/ARM
142 -info on the Digital Signature Verification API
144 - the DMA Buffer Sharing API Guide
146 - nothing here. Just a configuration file for docutils.
148 - file containing a list of files that should never be diff'ed.
150 - the Linux driver implementer's API guide.
152 - directory with info about Linux driver model.
154 - info about initramfs, klibc, and userspace early during boot.
156 - How to use the EFI boot stub to bypass GRUB or elilo on EFI systems.
158 - info on EISA bus support.
160 - directory with porting guide for Android kernel switch driver.
162 - info on EISA bus support.
164 - dir with docs about the fault injection capabilities infrastructure.
166 - directory with info on the frame buffer graphics abstraction layer.
168 - status of feature implementation on different architectures.
170 - info on the vfs and the various filesystems that Linux supports.
172 - request_firmware() hotplug interface info.
174 - how to make use of flexible sized arrays in linux
176 - information about the FMC bus abstraction
180 - Fujitsu FR-V Linux documentation.
182 - info on requeueing of tasks from a non-PI futex to a PI futex
184 - GCC plugin infrastructure.
186 - gpio related documentation
188 - directory with information on GPU driver developer's guide.
190 - directory with information on human interface devices
192 - notes on the change from 16 bit to 32 bit user/group IDs.
194 - hardware spinlock provides hardware assistance for synchronization
196 - info on the timer related topics
198 - info on Linux support for random number generator in i8xx chipsets.
200 - directory with docs on various hardware monitoring drivers.
202 - directory with info about the I2C bus/protocol (2 wire, kHz speed).
204 - directory with info about Linux on Intel 32 bit architecture.
206 - directory with info about Linux on Intel 64 bit architecture.
208 - Information regarding the Enhanced IDE drive.
210 - info on industrial IIO configfs support.
212 - main index for the documentation at ReST format.
214 - directory with documents concerning Linux InfiniBand support.
216 - info on Linux input device support.
218 - info on intel Trusted Execution Technology (intel TXT).
220 - description of io_mapping functions in linux/io-mapping.h
222 - info on ordering I/O writes to memory-mapped addresses.
224 - directory with documents describing various IOCTL calls.
226 - info on I/O statistics Linux kernel provides.
228 - how to use the irq-flags tracing feature.
230 - info on Linux ISA Plug & Play support.
232 - directory with info on the Linux ISDN support, and supported cards.
234 - directory with info about the kernel build process.
235 kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
236 - outdated info about kernel-doc documentation.
238 - directory with mini HowTo on getting the crash dump code to work.
240 - how to write and format reStructuredText kernel documentation
241 kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
242 - List of all per-CPU kthreads and how they introduce jitter.
244 - info of the kobject infrastructure of the Linux kernel.
246 - documents the kernel probes debugging feature.
248 - docs on adding reference counters (krefs) to kernel objects.
250 - small unittests for (some) individual codepaths in the kernel.
252 - directory with laptop related info and laptop driver documentation.
254 - a brief description of LDM (Windows Dynamic Disks).
256 - directory with info about LED handling under Linux.
258 - info on kernel live patching.
260 - directory with info about kernel locking primitives
262 - info on soft and hard lockup detectors (aka nmi_watchdog).
264 - full colour GIF image of Linux logo (penguin - Tux).
266 - info on creator of above logo & site to get additional images from.
268 - kernel LZO decompressor input formats
270 - directory with info about Linux on Motorola 68k architecture.
272 - How to write drivers for the common mailbox framework (IPC).
274 - directory with info about Linux Software RAID
276 - info on media drivers: uAPI, kAPI and driver documentation.
278 - info on Linux kernel memory barriers.
280 - directory with info on parts like the Texas Instruments EMIF driver
282 - Hotpluggable memory support, how to use and current status.
283 men-chameleon-bus.txt
284 - info on MEN chameleon bus.
286 - directory with info about Linux on Meta architecture.
288 - Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture device driver.
290 - directory with info about Linux on MIPS architecture.
292 - directory with info about devices using the misc dev subsystem
294 - directory with info about the MMC subsystem
296 - directory with info about the mn10300 architecture port
298 - directory with info about memory technology devices (flash)
300 - directory with various information about namespaces
302 - directory with information on the NetLabel subsystem.
304 - directory with info on various aspects of networking with Linux.
306 - directory relating info about Near Field Communications support.
308 - Linux on the Nios II architecture.
310 - documentation about no-mmu memory mapping support.
312 - info on how to read Numa policy hit/miss statistics in sysfs.
314 - info on Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB) drivers.
316 - info on non-volatile devices.
318 - info on non volatile memory framework.
320 - default directory where html/LaTeX/pdf files will be written.
322 - An introduction to the "padata" parallel execution API
324 - directory with info on using Linux on PA-RISC architecture.
326 - description and usage of the low level parallel port functions.
328 - info on the Linux PCMCIA driver.
329 percpu-rw-semaphore.txt
330 - RCU based read-write semaphore optimized for locking for reading
332 - info about the APM X-Gene SoC Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU).
334 - ino on Samsung USB 2.0 PHY adaptation layer.
336 - Description of the generic PHY framework.
338 - documentation on lightweight priority inheritance futexes.
340 - info on pinctrl subsystem and the PINMUX/PINCONF and drivers
342 - List of supported hardware by compal and Dell laptop.
344 - Linux Plug and Play documentation.
346 - directory with info on Linux PCI power management.
348 - directory with info on using Linux with the PowerPC.
350 - directory with info on the priveledge control subsystem
352 - info on locking under a preemptive kernel.
354 - how to get printk format specifiers right
356 - how to work with the mainline kernel development process.
358 - directory with information on the pulse-per-second support
360 - directory with info on Intel MID PTI.
362 - directory with info on support for IEEE 1588 PTP clocks in Linux.
364 - info on the pulse width modulation driver subsystem
366 - directory with info on RapidIO packet-based fabric interconnect
368 - info on what red-black trees are and what they are for.
370 - info on how to handle remote processor (e.g. AMP) offloads/usage.
372 - info on the radio frequency kill switch subsystem/support.
374 - documentation of the robust futex ABI.
376 - a description of what robust futexes are.
378 - info on the Remote Processor Messaging (rpmsg) Framework
380 - notes on how to use the Real Time Clock (aka CMOS clock) driver.
382 - directory with info on using Linux on the IBM S390.
384 - directory with info on the scheduler.
386 - directory with info on Linux scsi support.
388 - directory that contains security-related info
390 - directory with info on the low level serial API.
392 - description of the SGI IOC4 PCI (multi function) device.
394 - directory with info on porting Linux to a new architecture.
396 -info on the smsc Keyboard Scan Expansion/GPIO Expansion device.
398 - directory with info on sound card support.
400 - overview of Linux kernel Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) support.
402 - no documentation here, just files required by Sphinx toolchain.
404 - no documentation here, just files required by Sphinx toolchain.
406 - info on how static keys allow debug code in hotpaths via patching
408 - short guide on selecting video modes at boot via VGA BIOS.
410 - Sync file API guide.
412 - directory with info on the /proc/sys/* files.
414 - directory with info on generating TCM v4 fabric .ko modules
416 - info on the TEE subsystem and drivers
418 - List rationale behind and the way to use this_cpu operations.
420 - directory with information on managing thermal issues (CPU/temp)
422 - directory with info on tracing technologies within linux
424 - translations of this document from English to another language
425 unaligned-memory-access.txt
426 - info on how to avoid arch breaking unaligned memory access in code.
428 - description of the Linux unshare system call.
430 - directory with info regarding the Universal Serial Bus.
432 - info on Virtual Function I/O used in guest/hypervisor instances.
434 - sysfs class driver interface to enable/disable a video output device.
436 - directory with information on the various linux virtualizations.
438 - directory with info on the Linux vm code.
440 - directory with documents regarding the 1-wire (w1) subsystem.
442 - how to auto-reboot Linux if it has "fallen and can't get up". ;-)
444 - directory with info about Intel Wireless Wimax Connections
445 core-api/workqueue.rst
446 - information on the Concurrency Managed Workqueue implementation
448 - directory with info on Linux support for AMD x86-64 (Hammer) machines.
450 - Overview and basic ui of xillybus driver
452 - directory with documents relating to arch/xtensa port/implementation
454 - how to make use of the XZ data compression within linux kernel
456 - info on writing drivers for Zorro bus devices found on Amigas.