| |
| 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: "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. |
| |
| * 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). |
| |
| * Title: "Conceptual Architecture of the Linux Kernel" |
| Author: Ivan T. Bowman. |
| URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/ |
| Keywords: conceptual software architecture, extracted design, |
| reverse engineering, system structure. |
| Description: Conceptual software architecture 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/ |
| Keywords: concrete architecture, extracted design, reverse |
| engineering, system structure, dependencies. |
| Description: Concrete architecture 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/ |
| 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.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/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.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391 |
| Keywords: RAID, MD driver. |
| Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its |
| 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.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219 |
| Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules, |
| allocating resources. |
| Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its |
| 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://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220 |
| 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 its |
| 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://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221 |
| Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non |
| blocking mode, interrupt handler. |
| Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its |
| 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.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222 |
| Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues. |
| Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its |
| 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://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287 |
| 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://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312 |
| 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. |
| URL: http://users.evitech.fi/~tk/rtos/writing_linux_device_d.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, 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. |
| |
| * Title: "Design and Implementation of the Second Extended |
| Filesystem" |
| Author: Rémy 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: "Analysis of the Ext2fs structure" |
| Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau. |
| URL: http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/files/FileSystems/ext2fs/ |
| 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.linuxhq.com/guides/LKMPG/node28.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 2.4" |
| Author: Richard Gooch. |
| 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. |
| URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.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: "I/O Event Handling Under Linux" |
| Author: Richard Gooch. |
| 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. |
| Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl |
| (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs}) |
| 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: "Writing an ALSA Driver" |
| Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> |
| URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html |
| Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware. |
| Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers, |
| both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel |
| sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version. |
| |
| * 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: "Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary" |
| Author: various |
| URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/ |
| 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. |
| Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl |
| (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs}) |
| 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: "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... |
| |
| * 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/id/238 |
| 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/id/261 |
| 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/id/284 |
| 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/id/307 |
| 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/id/330 |
| Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm. |
| Description: The title says it all. |
| |
| * Title: "More on Mouse Drivers" |
| Author: Alan Cox. |
| URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/356 |
| 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/id/381 |
| 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/id/406 |
| 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/id/429 |
| 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/id/452 |
| Keywords: PCI, bus, bus-mastering. |
| Description: The title says it all. |
| |
| * 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. |
| |
| * Title: "Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and |
| Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack." |
| Author: Glenn Herrin. |
| URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin |
| 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. |
| URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46968.html |
| 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 |
| URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46998.html |
| |
| * 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. |
| |
| * 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://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.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. |
| URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html |
| 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 |
| kernels. |
| |
| 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/ |
| |
| * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 3rd 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/ |
| |
| * 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: "Unix internals -- the new frontiers" |
| Author: Uresh Vahalia. |
| Publisher: Prentice Hall. |
| Date: 1996. |
| Pages: 600. |
| ISBN: 0-13-101908-2 |
| |
| * 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. |
| |
| * Title: "UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric |
| Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers" |
| Author: Curt Schimmel. |
| Publisher: Addison Wesley. |
| Date: June, 1994. |
| Pages: 432. |
| ISBN: 0-201-63338-8 |
| |
| MISCELLANEOUS: |
| |
| * 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. |
| |
| * Name: "Linux Kernel Source Reference" |
| Author: Thomas Graichen. |
| URL: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=96446640102205&w=4 |
| 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". |
| |
| * 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.earth.li/kernel-traffic/index.html |
| 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: 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. |
| |
| * 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 Encyclopedia - The Linux Kernel" |
| Author: Gary (I suppose...). |
| URL: http://slencyclopedia.berlios.de/index.html |
| Keywords: linux, community, everything! |
| 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, |
| sites... This list is now hosted by developer.Berlios.de, |
| but seems not to have been updated since sometime in 1999. |
| |
| * 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! |
| |
| * 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" |
| URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html |
| URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html |
| 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/ |
| 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 |
