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3 | Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or Understanding the Linux Kernel |
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5 | |
6 | Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es> | |
7 | ||
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8 | The need for a document like this one became apparent in the |
9 | linux-kernel mailing list as the same questions, asking for pointers | |
10 | to information, appeared again and again. | |
11 | ||
12 | Fortunately, as more and more people get to GNU/Linux, more and more | |
13 | get interested in the Kernel. But reading the sources is not always | |
14 | enough. It is easy to understand the code, but miss the concepts, the | |
15 | philosophy and design decisions behind this code. | |
16 | ||
17 | Unfortunately, not many documents are available for beginners to | |
18 | start. And, even if they exist, there was no "well-known" place which | |
19 | kept track of them. These lines try to cover this lack. All documents | |
20 | available on line known by the author are listed, while some reference | |
21 | books are also mentioned. | |
22 | ||
23 | PLEASE, if you know any paper not listed here or write a new document, | |
24 | send me an e-mail, and I'll include a reference to it here. Any | |
25 | corrections, ideas or comments are also welcomed. | |
26 | ||
27 | The papers that follow are listed in no particular order. All are | |
28 | cataloged with the following fields: the document's "Title", the | |
29 | "Author"/s, the "URL" where they can be found, some "Keywords" helpful | |
30 | when searching for specific topics, and a brief "Description" of the | |
31 | Document. | |
32 | ||
33 | Enjoy! | |
34 | ||
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35 | .. note:: |
36 | ||
37 | The documents on each section of this document are ordered by its | |
38 | published date, from the newest to the oldest. | |
39 | ||
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40 | Docs at the Linux Kernel tree |
41 | ----------------------------- | |
42 | ||
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43 | The Sphinx books should be built with ``make {htmldocs | pdfdocs | epubdocs}``. |
44 | ||
45 | * Name: **linux/Documentation** | |
46 | ||
47 | :Author: Many. | |
48 | :Location: Documentation/ | |
ff41c419 | 49 | :Keywords: text files, Sphinx. |
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50 | :Description: Documentation that comes with the kernel sources, |
51 | inside the Documentation directory. Some pages from this document | |
52 | (including this document itself) have been moved there, and might | |
53 | be more up to date than the web version. | |
54 | ||
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56 | ------------ |
57 | ||
cc68fd95 | 58 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary** |
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cc68fd95 | 60 | :Author: various |
5aa55fc2 | 61 | :URL: https://kernelnewbies.org/KernelGlossary |
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62 | :Date: rolling version |
63 | :Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel. | |
64 | :Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as | |
65 | a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear | |
66 | during discussion of the Linux kernel". | |
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67 | |
68 | * Title: **Tracing the Way of Data in a TCP Connection through the Linux Kernel** | |
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70 | :Author: Richard Sailer |
71 | :URL: https://archive.org/details/linux_kernel_data_flow_short_paper | |
57b2e1c8 | 72 | :Date: 2016 |
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73 | :Keywords: Linux Kernel Networking, TCP, tracing, ftrace |
74 | :Description: A seminar paper explaining ftrace and how to use it for | |
75 | understanding linux kernel internals, | |
76 | illustrated at tracing the way of a TCP packet through the kernel. | |
77 | :Abstract: *This short paper outlines the usage of ftrace a tracing framework | |
78 | as a tool to understand a running Linux system. | |
79 | Having obtained a trace-log a kernel hacker can read and understand | |
80 | source code more determined and with context. | |
81 | In a detailed example this approach is demonstrated in tracing | |
82 | and the way of data in a TCP Connection through the kernel. | |
83 | Finally this trace-log is used as base for more a exact conceptual | |
84 | exploration and description of the Linux TCP/IP implementation.* | |
85 | ||
cc68fd95 | 86 | * Title: **On submitting kernel Patches** |
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88 | :Author: Andi Kleen |
89 | :URL: http://halobates.de/on-submitting-kernel-patches.pdf | |
90 | :Date: 2008 | |
91 | :Keywords: patches, review process, types of submissions, basic rules, case studies | |
92 | :Description: This paper gives several experience values on what types of patches | |
93 | there are and how likley they get merged. | |
94 | :Abstract: | |
95 | [...]. This paper examines some common problems for | |
96 | submitting larger changes and some strategies to avoid problems. | |
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cc68fd95 | 98 | * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition** |
a8332a07 | 99 | |
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100 | :Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman |
101 | :URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ | |
102 | :Date: 2005 | |
103 | :Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver | |
104 | programming API and kernel hacking in general. Available under the | |
105 | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. | |
106 | :note: You can also :ref:`purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere <ldd3_published>`. | |
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cc68fd95 | 108 | * Title: **Writing an ALSA Driver** |
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110 | :Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> |
111 | :URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html | |
112 | :Date: 2005 | |
113 | :Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware. | |
114 | :Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers, | |
115 | both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel | |
116 | sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version. | |
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cc68fd95 | 118 | * Title: **Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide** |
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120 | :Author: David Hinds. |
121 | :URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html | |
122 | :Date: 2003 | |
123 | :Keywords: PCMCIA. | |
124 | :Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device | |
125 | drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also | |
126 | describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with | |
127 | Card Services. | |
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128 | |
129 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide** | |
130 | ||
131 | :Author: Ori Pomerantz. | |
132 | :URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html | |
57b2e1c8 | 133 | :Date: 2001 |
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134 | :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls, |
135 | interrupt handlers . | |
136 | :Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules | |
137 | programming. Lots of examples. | |
138 | ||
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139 | * Title: **Global spinlock list and usage** |
140 | ||
141 | :Author: Rick Lindsley. | |
142 | :URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock | |
57b2e1c8 | 143 | :Date: 2001 |
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144 | :Keywords: spinlock. |
145 | :Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and | |
146 | usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive | |
147 | list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions | |
148 | access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it | |
149 | is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held... | |
150 | ||
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151 | * Title: **A Linux vm README** |
152 | ||
153 | :Author: Kanoj Sarcar. | |
154 | :URL: http://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.html | |
155 | :Date: 2001 | |
156 | :Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page | |
157 | cache, swap cache, kswapd. | |
158 | :Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions | |
159 | relating the Linux virtual memory implementation. | |
160 | ||
161 | * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device** | |
162 | ||
163 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
164 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/406 | |
165 | :Date: 2000 | |
166 | :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices, | |
167 | camera driver. | |
168 | :Description: The title says it all. | |
169 | ||
170 | * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices** | |
171 | ||
172 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
173 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/429 | |
174 | :Date: 2000 | |
175 | :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices, | |
176 | camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility. | |
177 | :Description: The title says it all. | |
178 | ||
179 | * Title: **Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack.** | |
180 | ||
181 | :Author: Glenn Herrin. | |
182 | :URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin | |
183 | :Date: 2000 | |
184 | :Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection, | |
185 | socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets, | |
186 | modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags. | |
187 | :Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking, | |
188 | explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space | |
189 | configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of | |
190 | the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps | |
191 | packets follow from the time they are received at the network | |
192 | device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel | |
193 | code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet | |
194 | dropper example. | |
195 | ||
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196 | * Title: **How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh** |
197 | ||
198 | :Author: Paul Mackerras. | |
199 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/261 | |
57b2e1c8 | 200 | :Date: 1999 |
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201 | :Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility. |
202 | :Description: The title says it all. | |
203 | ||
204 | * Title: **An Introduction to SCSI Drivers** | |
205 | ||
206 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
207 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/284 | |
57b2e1c8 | 208 | :Date: 1999 |
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209 | :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver. |
210 | :Description: The title says it all. | |
211 | ||
212 | * Title: **Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales** | |
213 | ||
214 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
215 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/307 | |
57b2e1c8 | 216 | :Date: 1999 |
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217 | :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced. |
218 | :Description: The title says it all. | |
219 | ||
220 | * Title: **Writing Linux Mouse Drivers** | |
221 | ||
222 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
223 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/330 | |
57b2e1c8 | 224 | :Date: 1999 |
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225 | :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm. |
226 | :Description: The title says it all. | |
227 | ||
228 | * Title: **More on Mouse Drivers** | |
229 | ||
230 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
231 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/356 | |
57b2e1c8 | 232 | :Date: 1999 |
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233 | :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O. |
234 | :Description: The title still says it all. | |
235 | ||
236 | * Title: **Writing Video4linux Radio Driver** | |
237 | ||
238 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
239 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/381 | |
57b2e1c8 | 240 | :Date: 1999 |
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241 | :Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices. |
242 | :Description: The title says it all. | |
243 | ||
cc68fd95 | 244 | * Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux** |
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246 | :Author: Richard Gooch. |
247 | :URL: http://web.mit.edu/~yandros/doc/io-events.html | |
248 | :Date: 1999 | |
249 | :Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness | |
250 | event queues. | |
251 | :Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about | |
252 | how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of | |
253 | open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your | |
254 | application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active | |
255 | (have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you | |
256 | want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of | |
257 | inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage". | |
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258 | |
259 | * Title: **(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system administrators.** | |
260 | ||
261 | :Author: pragmatic/THC. | |
262 | :URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html | |
57b2e1c8 | 263 | :Date: 1999 |
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264 | :Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table. |
265 | :Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in | |
266 | order to intercept and modify syscalls, make | |
267 | files/directories/processes invisible, become root, hijack ttys, | |
268 | write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to | |
269 | avoid all those abuses. | |
270 | :Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x | |
271 | kernels. | |
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273 | * Name: **Linux Virtual File System** |
274 | ||
275 | :Author: Peter J. Braam. | |
276 | :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/ | |
277 | :Date: 1998 | |
278 | :Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache. | |
279 | :Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the | |
280 | Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the | |
281 | dcache. | |
282 | ||
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283 | * Title: **The Venus kernel interface** |
284 | ||
285 | :Author: Peter J. Braam. | |
286 | :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html | |
287 | :Date: 1998 | |
288 | :Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager. | |
289 | :Description: "This document describes the communication between | |
290 | Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation | |
291 | of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe | |
292 | the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we | |
293 | envisage". | |
294 | ||
295 | * Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem** | |
296 | ||
297 | :Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie. | |
298 | :URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html | |
299 | :Date: 1998 | |
300 | :Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices, | |
301 | VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library, | |
302 | ext2fs tools, e2fsck. | |
303 | :Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers. | |
304 | Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features, | |
305 | design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks, | |
306 | e2fsck's passes description... A must read! | |
307 | :Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the | |
308 | First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9. | |
309 | ||
310 | * Title: **The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code** | |
311 | ||
312 | :Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza. | |
313 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391 | |
314 | :Date: 1997 | |
315 | :Keywords: RAID, MD driver. | |
316 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its | |
317 | :Abstract: *A description of the implementation of the RAID-1, | |
318 | RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the | |
319 | Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable, | |
320 | secondary-storage capability using software*. | |
321 | ||
322 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide** | |
323 | ||
324 | :Author: Michael K. Johnson. | |
325 | :URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html | |
326 | :Date: 1997 | |
327 | :Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs | |
328 | block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory, | |
329 | memory allocation, timers. | |
330 | :Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the | |
331 | concepts that are not intuitevly obvious, and to document the internal | |
332 | structures of Linux. | |
333 | ||
334 | * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers** | |
335 | ||
336 | :Author: Alessandro Rubini. | |
337 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219 | |
338 | :Date: 1996 | |
339 | :Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules, | |
340 | allocating resources. | |
341 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its | |
342 | :Abstract: *This is the first of a series of four articles | |
343 | co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present | |
344 | a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel | |
345 | loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the | |
346 | topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's | |
347 | installment*. | |
348 | ||
349 | * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Discovery** | |
350 | ||
351 | :Author: Alessandro Rubini. | |
352 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220 | |
353 | :Date: 1996 | |
354 | :Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module, | |
355 | autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations, | |
356 | open(), close(). | |
357 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its | |
358 | :Abstract: *This article, the second of four, introduces part of | |
359 | the actual code to create custom module implementing a character | |
360 | device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and | |
361 | cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls*. | |
362 | ||
363 | * Title: **The Devil's in the Details** | |
364 | ||
365 | :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini. | |
366 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221 | |
367 | :Date: 1996 | |
368 | :Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non | |
369 | blocking mode, interrupt handler. | |
370 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its | |
371 | :Abstract: *This article, the third of four on writing character | |
372 | device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using | |
373 | ioctl-calls*. | |
374 | ||
375 | * Title: **Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA** | |
376 | ||
377 | :Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz. | |
378 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222 | |
379 | :Date: 1996 | |
380 | :Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues. | |
381 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its | |
382 | :Abstract: *This is the fourth in a series of articles about | |
383 | writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This | |
384 | month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling. | |
385 | Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and | |
386 | constraints make this an ''interesting'' part of device driver | |
387 | writing, and several different facilities have been provided for | |
388 | different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of | |
389 | DMA*. | |
390 | ||
391 | * Title: **Device Drivers Concluded** | |
392 | ||
393 | :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz. | |
394 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287 | |
395 | :Date: 1996 | |
396 | :Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management, | |
397 | demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap, | |
398 | virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI. | |
399 | :Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles | |
400 | series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of | |
401 | five articles about character device drivers. In this final | |
402 | section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with | |
403 | an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts". | |
404 | ||
405 | * Title: **Network Buffers And Memory Management** | |
406 | ||
407 | :Author: Alan Cox. | |
408 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312 | |
409 | :Date: 1996 | |
410 | :Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer | |
411 | variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive, | |
412 | configuration, multicast. | |
413 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner. | |
414 | :Abstract: *Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally | |
415 | simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the | |
416 | hardware) involves managing network packets in memory*. | |
417 | ||
418 | * Title: **Analysis of the Ext2fs structure** | |
419 | ||
420 | :Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau. | |
421 | :URL: http://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS2002/fs-ext2/ | |
422 | :Date: 1994 | |
423 | :Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs. | |
424 | :Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes, | |
425 | bitmaps, invariants... | |
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427 | Published books |
428 | --------------- | |
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430 | * Title: **Linux Treiber entwickeln** |
431 | ||
432 | :Author: Jürgen Quade, Eva-Katharina Kunst | |
433 | :Publisher: dpunkt.verlag | |
434 | :Date: Oct 2015 (4th edition) | |
435 | :Pages: 688 | |
436 | :ISBN: 978-3-86490-288-8 | |
437 | :Note: German. The third edition from 2011 is | |
438 | much cheaper and still quite up-to-date. | |
439 | ||
440 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Networking: Implementation and Theory** | |
441 | ||
442 | :Author: Rami Rosen | |
443 | :Publisher: Apress | |
444 | :Date: December 22, 2013 | |
445 | :Pages: 648 | |
446 | :ISBN: 978-1430261964 | |
447 | ||
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448 | * Title: **Embedded Linux Primer: A practical Real-World Approach, 2nd Edition** |
449 | ||
450 | :Author: Christopher Hallinan | |
451 | :Publisher: Pearson | |
452 | :Date: November, 2010 | |
453 | :Pages: 656 | |
454 | :ISBN: 978-0137017836 | |
455 | ||
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456 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Edition** |
457 | ||
458 | :Author: Robert Love | |
459 | :Publisher: Addison-Wesley | |
460 | :Date: July, 2010 | |
461 | :Pages: 440 | |
462 | :ISBN: 978-0672329463 | |
463 | ||
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464 | * Title: **Essential Linux Device Drivers** |
465 | ||
466 | :Author: Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran | |
467 | :Published: Prentice Hall | |
468 | :Date: April, 2008 | |
469 | :Pages: 744 | |
470 | :ISBN: 978-0132396554 | |
471 | ||
d8b7165f | 472 | .. _ldd3_published: |
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473 | |
474 | * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition** | |
475 | ||
476 | :Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman | |
477 | :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates | |
478 | :Date: 2005 | |
479 | :Pages: 636 | |
480 | :ISBN: 0-596-00590-3 | |
481 | :Notes: Further information in | |
482 | http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/ | |
483 | PDF format, URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ | |
484 | ||
485 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Internals** | |
486 | ||
487 | :Author: Michael Beck | |
488 | :Publisher: Addison-Wesley | |
489 | :Date: 1997 | |
490 | :ISBN: 0-201-33143-8 (second edition) | |
491 | ||
cefd1f72 | 492 | * Title: **Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et fonctionnement du noyau** |
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494 | :Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel |
495 | :Publisher: Eyrolles | |
496 | :Date: 1997 | |
497 | :Pages: 520 | |
498 | :ISBN: 2-212-08932-5 | |
499 | :Notes: French | |
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500 | |
501 | * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX Operating System** | |
502 | ||
503 | :Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels, | |
504 | John S. Quarterman | |
505 | :Publisher: Addison-Wesley | |
506 | :Date: 1996 | |
507 | :ISBN: 0-201-54979-4 | |
508 | ||
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509 | * Title: **Unix internals -- the new frontiers** |
510 | ||
511 | :Author: Uresh Vahalia | |
512 | :Publisher: Prentice Hall | |
513 | :Date: 1996 | |
514 | :Pages: 600 | |
515 | :ISBN: 0-13-101908-2 | |
516 | ||
517 | * Title: **Programming for the real world - POSIX.4** | |
518 | ||
519 | :Author: Bill O. Gallmeister | |
520 | :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc | |
521 | :Date: 1995 | |
cc68fd95 | 522 | :Pages: 552 |
a8332a07 RS |
523 | :ISBN: I-56592-074-0 |
524 | :Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be | |
525 | POSIX. Good reference. | |
526 | ||
527 | * Title: **UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers** | |
528 | ||
529 | :Author: Curt Schimmel | |
530 | :Publisher: Addison Wesley | |
531 | :Date: June, 1994 | |
532 | :Pages: 432 | |
533 | :ISBN: 0-201-63338-8 | |
534 | ||
cefd1f72 | 535 | * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System** |
a8332a07 | 536 | |
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537 | :Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J |
538 | Karels, John S. Quarterman | |
a8332a07 | 539 | :Publisher: Addison-Wesley |
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540 | :Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990) |
541 | :ISBN: 0-201-06196-1 | |
a8332a07 | 542 | |
cefd1f72 | 543 | * Title: **The Design of the UNIX Operating System** |
a8332a07 | 544 | |
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545 | :Author: Maurice J. Bach |
546 | :Publisher: Prentice Hall | |
547 | :Date: 1986 | |
548 | :Pages: 471 | |
549 | :ISBN: 0-13-201757-1 | |
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552 | ------------- |
553 | ||
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554 | * Name: **Cross-Referencing Linux** |
555 | ||
19c1d46d | 556 | :URL: https://elixir.bootlin.com/ |
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557 | :Keywords: Browsing source code. |
558 | :Description: Another web-based Linux kernel source code browser. | |
559 | Lots of cross references to variables and functions. You can see | |
560 | where they are defined and where they are used. | |
561 | ||
562 | * Name: **Linux Weekly News** | |
563 | ||
564 | :URL: http://lwn.net | |
565 | :Keywords: latest kernel news. | |
566 | :Description: The title says it all. There's a fixed kernel section | |
567 | summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions | |
568 | produced during the week. Published every Thursday. | |
569 | ||
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570 | * Name: **The home page of Linux-MM** |
571 | ||
572 | :Author: The Linux-MM team. | |
573 | :URL: http://linux-mm.org/ | |
574 | :Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs, | |
575 | mailing list. | |
576 | :Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development. | |
577 | Memory related patches, HOWTOs, links, mm developers... Don't miss | |
578 | it if you are interested in memory management development! | |
579 | ||
580 | * Name: **Kernel Newbies IRC Channel and Website** | |
581 | ||
582 | :URL: http://www.kernelnewbies.org | |
583 | :Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts. | |
584 | :Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.oftc.net. | |
585 | #kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedicated to the 'newbie' | |
586 | kernel hacker. The audience mostly consists of people who are | |
587 | learning about the kernel, working on kernel projects or | |
588 | professional kernel hackers that want to help less seasoned kernel | |
589 | people. | |
590 | #kernelnewbies is on the OFTC IRC Network. | |
591 | Try irc.oftc.net as your server and then /join #kernelnewbies. | |
592 | The kernelnewbies website also hosts articles, documents, FAQs... | |
593 | ||
594 | * Name: **linux-kernel mailing list archives and search engines** | |
595 | ||
596 | :URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html | |
597 | :URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html | |
598 | :URL: http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel | |
599 | :Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search. | |
600 | :Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If | |
601 | you have a better/another one, please let me know. | |
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602 | |
603 | ------- | |
604 | ||
cc68fd95 | 605 | Document last updated on Tue 2016-Sep-20 |
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606 | |
607 | This document is based on: | |
608 | http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html |