1 2 Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or 3 4 Understanding the Linux Kernel. 5 6 Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es> 7 8/* 9 * The latest version of this document may be found at: 10 * http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html 11 */ 12 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. 16 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. 21 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. 27 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. 31 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 36 Document. 37 38 Enjoy! 39 40 ON-LINE DOCS: 41 42 * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition" 43 Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman 44 URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ 45 Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver 46 programming API and kernel hacking in general. Available under the 47 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. 48 49 * Title: "The Linux Kernel" 50 Author: David A. Rusling. 51 URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/tlk/tlk.html 52 Keywords: everything!, book. 53 Description: On line, 200 pages book describing most aspects of 54 the Linux Kernel. Probably, the first reference for beginners. 55 Lots of illustrations explaining data structures use and 56 relationships in the purest Richard W. Stevens' style. Contents: 57 "1.-Hardware Basics, 2.-Software Basics, 3.-Memory Management, 58 4.-Processes, 5.-Interprocess Communication Mechanisms, 6.-PCI, 59 7.-Interrupts and Interrupt Handling, 8.-Device Drivers, 9.-The 60 File system, 10.-Networks, 11.-Kernel Mechanisms, 12.-Modules, 61 13.-The Linux Kernel Sources, A.-Linux Data Structures, B.-The 62 Alpha AXP Processor, C.-Useful Web and FTP Sites, D.-The GNU 63 General Public License, Glossary". In short: a must have. 64 65 * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition" 66 Author: Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet. 67 URL: http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html 68 Keywords: device drivers, modules, debugging, memory, hardware, 69 interrupt handling, char drivers, block drivers, kmod, mmap, DMA, 70 buses. 71 Description: O'Reilly's popular book, now also on-line under the 72 GNU Free Documentation License. 73 Notes: You can also buy it in paper-form from O'Reilly. See below 74 under BOOKS (Not on-line). 75 76 * Title: "Conceptual Architecture of the Linux Kernel" 77 Author: Ivan T. Bowman. 78 URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/ 79 Keywords: conceptual software architecture, extracted design, 80 reverse engineering, system structure. 81 Description: Conceptual software architecture of the Linux kernel, 82 automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good 83 figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding. 84 85 * Title: "Concrete Architecture of the Linux Kernel" 86 Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Saheem Siddiqi, and Meyer C. Tanuan. 87 URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/ 88 Keywords: concrete architecture, extracted design, reverse 89 engineering, system structure, dependencies. 90 Description: Concrete architecture of the Linux kernel, 91 automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good 92 figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding. This papers 93 focus on lower details than its predecessor (files, variables...). 94 95 * Title: "Linux as a Case Study: Its Extracted Software 96 Architecture" 97 Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Richard C. Holt and Neil V. Brewster. 98 URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/ 99 Keywords: software architecture, architecture recovery, 100 redocumentation. 101 Description: Paper appeared at ICSE'99, Los Angeles, May 16-22, 102 1999. A mixture of the previous two documents from the same 103 author. 104 105 * Title: "Overview of the Virtual File System" 106 Author: Richard Gooch. 107 URL: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt 108 Keywords: VFS, File System, mounting filesystems, opening files, 109 dentries, dcache. 110 Description: Brief introduction to the Linux Virtual File System. 111 What is it, how it works, operations taken when opening a file or 112 mounting a file system and description of important data 113 structures explaining the purpose of each of their entries. 114 115 * Title: "The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code" 116 Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza. 117 URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391 118 Keywords: RAID, MD driver. 119 Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its 120 abstract: "A description of the implementation of the RAID-1, 121 RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the 122 Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable, 123 secondary-storage capability using software". 124 125 * Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers" 126 Author: Alessandro Rubini. 127 URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219 128 Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules, 129 allocating resources. 130 Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its 131 abstract: "This is the first of a series of four articles 132 co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present 133 a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel 134 loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the 135 topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's 136 installment". 137 138 * Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Discovery" 139 Author: Alessandro Rubini. 140 URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220 141 Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module, 142 autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations, 143 open(), close(). 144 Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its 145 abstract: "This article, the second of four, introduces part of 146 the actual code to create custom module implementing a character 147 device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and 148 cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls". 149 150 * Title: "The Devil's in the Details" 151 Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini. 152 URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221 153 Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non 154 blocking mode, interrupt handler. 155 Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its 156 abstract: "This article, the third of four on writing character 157 device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using 158 ioctl-calls". 159 160 * Title: "Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA" 161 Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz. 162 URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222 163 Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues. 164 Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its 165 abstract: "This is the fourth in a series of articles about 166 writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This 167 month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling. 168 Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and 169 constraints make this an ``interesting'' part of device driver 170 writing, and several different facilities have been provided for 171 different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of 172 DMA". 173 174 * Title: "Device Drivers Concluded" 175 Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz. 176 URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287 177 Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management, 178 demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap, 179 virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI. 180 Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles 181 series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of 182 five articles about character device drivers. In this final 183 section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with 184 an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts". 185 186 * Title: "Network Buffers And Memory Management" 187 Author: Alan Cox. 188 URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312 189 Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer 190 variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive, 191 configuration, multicast. 192 Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner. Here is the abstract: 193 "Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally 194 simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the 195 hardware) involves managing network packets in memory". 196 197 * Title: "Writing Linux Device Drivers" 198 Author: Michael K. Johnson. 199 URL: http://users.evitech.fi/~tk/rtos/writing_linux_device_d.html 200 Keywords: files, VFS, file operations, kernel interface, character 201 vs block devices, I/O access, hardware interrupts, DMA, access to 202 user memory, memory allocation, timers. 203 Description: Introductory 50-minutes (sic) tutorial on writing 204 device drivers. 12 pages written by the same author of the "Kernel 205 Hackers' Guide" which give a very good overview of the topic. 206 207 * Title: "The Venus kernel interface" 208 Author: Peter J. Braam. 209 URL: 210 http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html 211 Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager. 212 Description: "This document describes the communication between 213 Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation 214 of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe 215 the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we 216 envisage". 217 218 * Title: "Programming PCI-Devices under Linux" 219 Author: Claus Schroeter. 220 URL: 221 ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/pcip.ps.gz 222 Keywords: PCI, device, busmastering. 223 Description: 6 pages tutorial on PCI programming under Linux. 224 Gives the basic concepts on the architecture of the PCI subsystem, 225 as long as basic functions and macros to read/write the devices 226 and perform busmastering. 227 228 * Title: "Writing Character Device Driver for Linux" 229 Author: R. Baruch and C. Schroeter. 230 URL: 231 ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/drivers.ps.gz 232 Keywords: character device drivers, I/O, signals, DMA, accessing 233 ports in user space, kernel environment. 234 Description: 68 pages paper on writing character drivers. A little 235 bit old (1.993, 1.994) although still useful. 236 237 * Title: "Design and Implementation of the Second Extended 238 Filesystem" 239 Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie. 240 URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html 241 Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices, 242 VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library, 243 ext2fs tools, e2fsck. 244 Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers. 245 Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features, 246 design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks, 247 e2fsck's passes description... A must read! 248 Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the 249 First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9. 250 251 * Title: "Analysis of the Ext2fs structure" 252 Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau. 253 URL: http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/files/FileSystems/ext2fs/ 254 Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs. 255 Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes, 256 bitmaps, invariants... 257 258 * Title: "Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem" 259 Author: Stephen C. Tweedie. 260 URL: 261 ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/journal-design.ps.gz 262 Keywords: ext3, journaling. 263 Description: Excellent 8-pages paper explaining the journaling 264 capabilities added to ext2 by the author, showing different 265 problems faced and the alternatives chosen. 266 267 * Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.0 to 2.2" 268 Author: Richard Gooch. 269 URL: 270 http://www.linuxhq.com/guides/LKMPG/node28.html 271 Keywords: 2.2, changes. 272 Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed 273 from 2.0.x to 2.2.x. 274 275 * Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.2 to 2.4" 276 Author: Richard Gooch. 277 Keywords: 2.4, changes. 278 Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed 279 from 2.2.x to 2.4.x. 280 281 * Title: "Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide" 282 Author: Ori Pomerantz. 283 URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html 284 Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls, 285 interrupt handlers . 286 Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules 287 programming. Lots of examples. 288 289 * Title: "I/O Event Handling Under Linux" 290 Author: Richard Gooch. 291 Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness 292 event queues. 293 Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about 294 how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of 295 open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your 296 application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active 297 (have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you 298 want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of 299 inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage". 300 301 * Title: "The Kernel Hacking HOWTO" 302 Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty. 303 Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl 304 (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs}) 305 Keywords: HOWTO, kernel contexts, deadlock, locking, modules, 306 symbols, return conventions. 307 Description: From the Introduction: "Please understand that I 308 never wanted to write this document, being grossly underqualified, 309 but I always wanted to read it, and this was the only way. I 310 simply explain some best practices, and give reading entry-points 311 into the kernel sources. I avoid implementation details: that's 312 what the code is for, and I ignore whole tracts of useful 313 routines. This document assumes familiarity with C, and an 314 understanding of what the kernel is, and how it is used. It was 315 originally written for the 2.3 kernels, but nearly all of it 316 applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly different". 317 318 * Title: "Writing an ALSA Driver" 319 Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> 320 URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html 321 Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware. 322 Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers, 323 both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel 324 sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version. 325 326 * Title: "Programming Guide for Linux USB Device Drivers" 327 Author: Detlef Fliegl. 328 URL: http://usb.in.tum.de/usbdoc/ 329 Keywords: USB, universal serial bus. 330 Description: A must-read. From the Preface: "This document should 331 give detailed information about the current state of the USB 332 subsystem and its API for USB device drivers. The first section 333 will deal with the basics of USB devices. You will learn about 334 different types of devices and their properties. Going into detail 335 you will see how USB devices communicate on the bus. The second 336 section gives an overview of the Linux USB subsystem [2] and the 337 device driver framework. Then the API and its data structures will 338 be explained step by step. The last section of this document 339 contains a reference of all API calls and their return codes". 340 Notes: Beware: the main page states: "This document may not be 341 published, printed or used in excerpts without explicit permission 342 of the author". Fortunately, it may still be read... 343 344 * Title: "Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary" 345 Author: various 346 URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/ 347 Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel. 348 Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as 349 a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear 350 during discussion of the Linux kernel". 351 352 * Title: "Linux Kernel Locking HOWTO" 353 Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty. 354 Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl 355 (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs}) 356 Keywords: locks, locking, spinlock, semaphore, atomic, race 357 condition, bottom halves, tasklets, softirqs. 358 Description: The title says it all: document describing the 359 locking system in the Linux Kernel either in uniprocessor or SMP 360 systems. 361 Notes: "It was originally written for the later (>2.3.47) 2.3 362 kernels, but most of it applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly 363 different". Freely redistributable under the conditions of the GNU 364 General Public License. 365 366 * Title: "Global spinlock list and usage" 367 Author: Rick Lindsley. 368 URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock 369 Keywords: spinlock. 370 Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and 371 usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive 372 list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions 373 access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it 374 is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held... 375 376 * Title: "Porting Linux 2.0 Drivers To Linux 2.2: Changes and New 377 Features " 378 Author: Alan Cox. 379 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-05/gear_01.html 380 Keywords: ports, porting. 381 Description: Article from Linux Magazine on porting from 2.0 to 382 2.2 kernels. 383 384 * Title: "Porting Device Drivers To Linux 2.2: part II" 385 Author: Alan Cox. 386 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/238 387 Keywords: ports, porting. 388 Description: Second part on porting from 2.0 to 2.2 kernels. 389 390 * Title: "How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power 391 Macintosh" 392 Author: Paul Mackerras. 393 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/261 394 Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility. 395 Description: The title says it all. 396 397 * Title: "An Introduction to SCSI Drivers" 398 Author: Alan Cox. 399 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/284 400 Keywords: SCSI, device, driver. 401 Description: The title says it all. 402 403 * Title: "Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales" 404 Author: Alan Cox. 405 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/307 406 Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced. 407 Description: The title says it all. 408 409 * Title: "Writing Linux Mouse Drivers" 410 Author: Alan Cox. 411 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/330 412 Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm. 413 Description: The title says it all. 414 415 * Title: "More on Mouse Drivers" 416 Author: Alan Cox. 417 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/356 418 Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O. 419 Description: The title still says it all. 420 421 * Title: "Writing Video4linux Radio Driver" 422 Author: Alan Cox. 423 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/381 424 Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices. 425 Description: The title says it all. 426 427 * Title: "Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device" 428 Author: Alan Cox. 429 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/406 430 Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices, 431 camera driver. 432 Description: The title says it all. 433 434 * Title: "Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices" 435 Author: Alan Cox. 436 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/429 437 Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices, 438 camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility. 439 Description: The title says it all. 440 441 * Title: "PCI Management in Linux 2.2" 442 Author: Alan Cox. 443 URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/452 444 Keywords: PCI, bus, bus-mastering. 445 Description: The title says it all. 446 447 * Title: "Linux 2.4 Kernel Internals" 448 Author: Tigran Aivazian and Christoph Hellwig. 449 URL: http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/lki.html 450 Keywords: Linux, kernel, booting, SMB boot, VFS, page cache. 451 Description: A little book used for a short training course. 452 Covers building the kernel image, booting (including SMP bootup), 453 process management, VFS and more. 454 455 * Title: "Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and 456 Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack." 457 Author: Glenn Herrin. 458 URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin 459 Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection, 460 socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets, 461 modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags. 462 Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking, 463 explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space 464 configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of 465 the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps 466 packets follow from the time they are received at the network 467 device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel 468 code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet 469 dropper example. 470 471 * Title: "Get those boards talking under Linux." 472 Author: Alex Ivchenko. 473 URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46968.html 474 Keywords: data-acquisition boards, drivers, modules, interrupts, 475 memory allocation. 476 Description: Article written for people wishing to make their data 477 acquisition boards work on their GNU/Linux machines. Gives a basic 478 overview on writing drivers, from the naming of functions to 479 interrupt handling. 480 Notes: Two-parts article. Part II is at 481 URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46998.html 482 483 * Title: "Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide" 484 Author: David Hinds. 485 URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html 486 Keywords: PCMCIA. 487 Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device 488 drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also 489 describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with 490 Card Services. 491 492 * Title: "The Linux Kernel NFSD Implementation" 493 Author: Neil Brown. 494 URL: 495 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/oss/linux-commentary/nfsd.html 496 Keywords: knfsd, nfsd, NFS, RPC, lockd, mountd, statd. 497 Description: The title says it all. 498 Notes: Covers knfsd's version 1.4.7 (patch against 2.2.7 kernel). 499 500 * Title: "A Linux vm README" 501 Author: Kanoj Sarcar. 502 URL: http://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.html 503 Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page 504 cache, swap cache, kswapd. 505 Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions 506 relating the Linux virtual memory implementation. 507 508 * Title: "(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The 509 definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system 510 administrators." 511 Author: pragmatic/THC. 512 URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html 513 Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table. 514 Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in 515 order to intercept and modify syscalls, make 516 files/directories/processes invisible, become root, hijack ttys, 517 write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to 518 avoid all those abuses. 519 Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x 520 kernels. 521 522 BOOKS: (Not on-line) 523 524 * Title: "Linux Device Drivers" 525 Author: Alessandro Rubini. 526 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates. 527 Date: 1998. 528 Pages: 439. 529 ISBN: 1-56592-292-1 530 531 * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition" 532 Author: Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet. 533 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates. 534 Date: 2001. 535 Pages: 586. 536 ISBN: 0-59600-008-1 537 Notes: Further information in 538 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive2/ 539 540 * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition" 541 Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman 542 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates. 543 Date: 2005. 544 Pages: 636. 545 ISBN: 0-596-00590-3 546 Notes: Further information in 547 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/ 548 PDF format, URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ 549 550 * Title: "Linux Kernel Internals" 551 Author: Michael Beck. 552 Publisher: Addison-Wesley. 553 Date: 1997. 554 ISBN: 0-201-33143-8 (second edition) 555 556 * Title: "The Design of the UNIX Operating System" 557 Author: Maurice J. Bach. 558 Publisher: Prentice Hall. 559 Date: 1986. 560 Pages: 471. 561 ISBN: 0-13-201757-1 562 563 * Title: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX 564 Operating System" 565 Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. 566 Karels, John S. Quarterman. 567 Publisher: Addison-Wesley. 568 Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990). 569 ISBN: 0-201-06196-1 570 571 * Title: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX 572 Operating System" 573 Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels, 574 John S. Quarterman. 575 Publisher: Addison-Wesley. 576 Date: 1996. 577 ISBN: 0-201-54979-4 578 579 * Title: "Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et fonctionnement du 580 noyau" 581 Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel. 582 Publisher: Eyrolles. 583 Date: 1997. 584 Pages: 520. 585 ISBN: 2-212-08932-5 586 Notes: French. 587 588 * Title: "Unix internals -- the new frontiers" 589 Author: Uresh Vahalia. 590 Publisher: Prentice Hall. 591 Date: 1996. 592 Pages: 600. 593 ISBN: 0-13-101908-2 594 595 * Title: "Programming for the real world - POSIX.4" 596 Author: Bill O. Gallmeister. 597 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.. 598 Date: 1995. 599 Pages: ???. 600 ISBN: I-56592-074-0 601 Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be 602 POSIX. Good reference. 603 604 * Title: "UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric 605 Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers" 606 Author: Curt Schimmel. 607 Publisher: Addison Wesley. 608 Date: June, 1994. 609 Pages: 432. 610 ISBN: 0-201-63338-8 611 612 MISCELLANEOUS: 613 614 * Name: linux/Documentation 615 Author: Many. 616 URL: Just look inside your kernel sources. 617 Keywords: anything, DocBook. 618 Description: Documentation that comes with the kernel sources, 619 inside the Documentation directory. Some pages from this document 620 (including this document itself) have been moved there, and might 621 be more up to date than the web version. 622 623 * Name: "Linux Kernel Source Reference" 624 Author: Thomas Graichen. 625 URL: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=96446640102205&w=4 626 Keywords: CVS, web, cvsweb, browsing source code. 627 Description: Web interface to a CVS server with the kernel 628 sources. "Here you can have a look at any file of the Linux kernel 629 sources of any version starting from 1.0 up to the (daily updated) 630 current version available. Also you can check the differences 631 between two versions of a file". 632 633 * Name: "Cross-Referencing Linux" 634 URL: http://lxr.linux.no/source/ 635 Keywords: Browsing source code. 636 Description: Another web-based Linux kernel source code browser. 637 Lots of cross references to variables and functions. You can see 638 where they are defined and where they are used. 639 640 * Name: "Linux Weekly News" 641 URL: http://lwn.net 642 Keywords: latest kernel news. 643 Description: The title says it all. There's a fixed kernel section 644 summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions 645 produced during the week. Published every Thursday. 646 647 * Name: "Kernel Traffic" 648 URL: http://kt.earth.li/kernel-traffic/index.html 649 Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list, weekly kernel news. 650 Description: Weekly newsletter covering the most relevant 651 discussions of the linux-kernel mailing list. 652 653 * Name: "CuTTiNG.eDGe.LiNuX" 654 URL: http://edge.kernelnotes.org 655 Keywords: changelist. 656 Description: Site which provides the changelist for every kernel 657 release. What's new, what's better, what's changed. Myrdraal reads 658 the patches and describes them. Pointers to the patches are there, 659 too. 660 661 * Name: "New linux-kernel Mailing List FAQ" 662 URL: http://www.tux.org/lkml/ 663 Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list FAQ. 664 Description: linux-kernel is a mailing list for developers to 665 communicate. This FAQ builds on the previous linux-kernel mailing 666 list FAQ maintained by Frohwalt Egerer, who no longer maintains 667 it. Read it to see how to join the mailing list. Dozens of 668 interesting questions regarding the list, Linux, developers (who 669 is ...?), terms (what is...?) are answered here too. Just read it. 670 671 * Name: "Linux Virtual File System" 672 Author: Peter J. Braam. 673 URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/ 674 Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache. 675 Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the 676 Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the 677 dcache. 678 679 * Name: "Gary's Encyclopedia - The Linux Kernel" 680 Author: Gary (I suppose...). 681 URL: http://slencyclopedia.berlios.de/index.html 682 Keywords: linux, community, everything! 683 Description: Gary's Encyclopedia exists to allow the rapid finding 684 of documentation and other information of interest to GNU/Linux 685 users. It has about 4000 links to external pages in 150 major 686 categories. This link is for kernel-specific links, documents, 687 sites... This list is now hosted by developer.Berlios.de, 688 but seems not to have been updated since sometime in 1999. 689 690 * Name: "The home page of Linux-MM" 691 Author: The Linux-MM team. 692 URL: http://linux-mm.org/ 693 Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs, 694 mailing list. 695 Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development. 696 Memory related patches, HOWTOs, links, mm developers... Don't miss 697 it if you are interested in memory management development! 698 699 * Name: "Kernel Newbies IRC Channel" 700 URL: http://www.kernelnewbies.org 701 Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts. 702 Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.openprojects.net. From the web 703 page: "#kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedicated to the 'newbie' 704 kernel hacker. The audience mostly consists of people who are 705 learning about the kernel, working on kernel projects or 706 professional kernel hackers that want to help less seasoned kernel 707 people. [...] #kernelnewbies is on the Open Projects IRC Network, 708 try irc.openprojects.net or irc.<country>.openprojects.net as your 709 server and then /join #kernelnewbies". It also hosts articles, 710 documents, FAQs... 711 712 * Name: "linux-kernel mailing list archives and search engines" 713 URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html 714 URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html 715 URL: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel 716 URL: http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel 717 URL: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/ 718 URL: http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/ 719 Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search. 720 Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If 721 you have a better/another one, please let me know. 722 _________________________________________________________________ 723 724 Document last updated on Sat 2005-NOV-19 725