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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: "The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide" + Author: Michael K.Johnson and others. + URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html + Keywords: everything! + Description: No more Postscript book-like version. Only HTML now. + Many people have contributed. The interface is similar to web + available mailing lists archives. You can find some articles and + then some mails asking questions about them and/or complementing + previous contributions. A little bit anarchic in this aspect, but + with some valuable information in some cases. + + * Title: "Conceptual Architecture of the Linux Kernel" + Author: Ivan T. Bowman. + URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a1.html + Keywords: conceptual software arquitecture, extracted design, + reverse engineering, system structure. + Description: Conceptual software arquitecture 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/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a2.html + Keywords: concrete arquitecture, extracted design, reverse + engineering, system structure, dependencies. + Description: Concrete arquitecture 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/~itbowman/papers/linuxcase.html + 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.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/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://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue44/2391.html + Keywords: RAID, MD driver. + Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's + 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://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue23/1219.html + Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules, + allocating resources. + Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's + 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://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue24/1220.html + 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 it's + 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://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue25/1221.html + Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non + blocking mode, interrupt handler. + Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's + 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://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue26/1222.html + Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues. + Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's + 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://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue28/1287.html + 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://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue30/1312.html + 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://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/devices.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: Rmy 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://step.polymtl.ca/~ldd/ext2fs/ext2fs_toc.html + 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.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.2.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. + URL: + http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.4.html + 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://www.tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/mpg.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: "Device File System (devfs) Overview" + Author: Richard Gooch. + URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.txt + Keywords: filesystem, /dev, devfs, dynamic devices, major/minor + allocation, device management. + Description: Document describing Richard Gooch's controversial + devfs, which allows for dynamic devices, only shows present + devices in /dev, gets rid of major/minor numbers allocation + problems, and allows for hundreds of identical devices (which some + USB systems might demand soon). + + * Title: "I/O Event Handling Under Linux" + Author: Richard Gooch. + URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/io-events.html + 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. + URL: + http://www.lisoleg.net/doc/Kernel-Hacking-HOWTO/kernel-hacking-HOW + TO.html + 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: "ALSA 0.5.0 Developer documentation" + Author: Stephan 'Jumpy' Bartels . + URL: http://www.math.TU-Berlin.de/~sbartels/alsa/ + Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware. + Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers, + both at kernel and user-level sides. Work in progress. ALSA is + supposed to be Linux's next generation sound architecture. + + * 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: "Tour Of the Linux Kernel Source" + Author: Vijo Cherian. + URL: http://www.geocities.com/vijoc/tolks/tolks.html + Keywords: . + Description: A classic of this page! Was lost for a while and is + back again. Thanks Vijo! TOLKS: the name says it all. A tour of + the sources, describing directories, files, variables, data + structures... It covers general stuff, device drivers, + filesystems, IPC and Networking Code. + + * Title: "Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary" + Author: John Levon. + URL: http://www.movement.uklinux.net/glossary.html + 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. + URL: + http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/unreliable-guides/kernel-locking- + HOWTO.html + 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: "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/1999-06/gear_01.html + 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/1999-07/gear_01.html + 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/1999-08/gear_01.html + 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/1999-09/gear_01.html + 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/1999-10/gear_01.html + Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm. + Description: The title says it all. + + * Title: "More on Mouse Drivers" + Author: Alan Cox. + URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-11/gear_01.html + 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/1999-12/gear_01.html + 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/2000-01/gear_01.html + 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/2000-02/gear_01.html + 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/2000-03/gear_01.html + 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://kernelnewbies.org/documents/ipnetworking/linuxipnetworking. + html + 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.ednmag.com/ednmag/reg/2000/06222000/13df2.htm + 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 + http://www.ednmag.com/ednmag/reg/2000/07062000/14df.htm + + * 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://reality.sgi.com/kanoj_engr/vm229.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://packetstorm.securify.com/groups/thc/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. Also available in txt format at + http://www.blacknemesis.org/hacking/txt/cllkm.txt + + 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 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: "The Linux Kernel Book" + Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel. + Publisher: John Wiley & Sons. + Date: 1998. + ISBN: 0-471-98141-9 + Notes: English translation. + + * Title: "Linux 2.0" + Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel. + Publisher: Gestin 2000. + Date: 1997. + Pages: 501. + ISBN: 8-480-88208-5 + Notes: Spanish translation. + + * Title: "Unix internals -- the new frontiers" + Author: Uresh Vahalia. + Publisher: Prentice Hall. + Date: 1996. + Pages: 600. + ISBN: 0-13-101908-2 + + * Title: "Linux Core Kernel Commentary. Guide to Insider's Knowledge + on the Core Kernel of the Linux Code" + Author: Scott Maxwell. + Publisher: Coriolis. + Date: 1999. + Pages: 592. + ISBN: 1-57610-469-9 + Notes: CD-ROM included. Line by line commentary of the kernel + code. + + * Title: "Linux IP Stacks Commentary" + Author: Stephen Satchell and HBJ Clifford. + Publisher: Coriolis. + Date: 2000. + Pages: ???. + ISBN: 1-57610-470-2 + Notes: Line by line source code commentary book. + + * 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: "Understanding the Linux Kernel" + Author: Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati. + Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.. + Date: 2000. + Pages: 702. + ISBN: 0-596-00002-2 + Notes: Further information in + http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/ + + 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 Source Driver" + URL: http://lsd.linux.cz + Keywords: Browsing source code. + Description: "Linux Source Driver (LSD) is an application, which + can make browsing source codes of Linux kernel easier than you can + imagine. You can select between multiple versions of kernel (e.g. + 0.01, 1.0.0, 2.0.33, 2.0.34pre13, 2.0.0, 2.1.101 etc.). With LSD + you can search Linux kernel (fulltext, macros, types, functions + and variables) and LSD can generate patches for you on the fly + (files, directories or kernel)". + + * Name: "Linux Kernel Source Reference" + Author: Thomas Graichen. + URL: http://innominate.org/~graichen/projects/lksr/ + 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://www.kerneltraffic.org/kernel-traffic/ + 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://members.aa.net/~swear/pedia/kernel.html + Keywords: links, not found here?. + 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... Look there if you could not find here what you were + looking for. + + * 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://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html + URL: http://www.kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/ + URL: http://www.geocrawler.com + 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. + _________________________________________________________________ + + Document last updated on Thu Jun 28 15:09:39 CEST 2001 |