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Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or
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Understanding the Linux Kernel.
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Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es>
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/*
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* The latest version of this document may be found at:
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* http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html
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*/
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The need for a document like this one became apparent in the
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linux-kernel mailing list as the same questions, asking for pointers
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to information, appeared again and again.
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Fortunately, as more and more people get to GNU/Linux, more and more
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get interested in the Kernel. But reading the sources is not always
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enough. It is easy to understand the code, but miss the concepts, the
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philosophy and design decisions behind this code.
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Unfortunately, not many documents are available for beginners to
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start. And, even if they exist, there was no "well-known" place which
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kept track of them. These lines try to cover this lack. All documents
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available on line known by the author are listed, while some reference
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books are also mentioned.
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PLEASE, if you know any paper not listed here or write a new document,
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send me an e-mail, and I'll include a reference to it here. Any
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corrections, ideas or comments are also welcomed.
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The papers that follow are listed in no particular order. All are
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cataloged with the following fields: the document's "Title", the
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"Author"/s, the "URL" where they can be found, some "Keywords" helpful
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when searching for specific topics, and a brief "Description" of the
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Document.
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Enjoy!
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ON-LINE DOCS:
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* Title: "Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition"
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Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman
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URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
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Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver
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programming API and kernel hacking in general. Available under the
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
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* Title: "The Linux Kernel"
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Author: David A. Rusling.
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URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/tlk/tlk.html
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Keywords: everything!, book.
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Description: On line, 200 pages book describing most aspects of
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the Linux Kernel. Probably, the first reference for beginners.
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Lots of illustrations explaining data structures use and
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relationships in the purest Richard W. Stevens' style. Contents:
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"1.-Hardware Basics, 2.-Software Basics, 3.-Memory Management,
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4.-Processes, 5.-Interprocess Communication Mechanisms, 6.-PCI,
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7.-Interrupts and Interrupt Handling, 8.-Device Drivers, 9.-The
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File system, 10.-Networks, 11.-Kernel Mechanisms, 12.-Modules,
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13.-The Linux Kernel Sources, A.-Linux Data Structures, B.-The
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Alpha AXP Processor, C.-Useful Web and FTP Sites, D.-The GNU
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General Public License, Glossary". In short: a must have.
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* Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition"
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Author: Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet.
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URL: http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html
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Keywords: device drivers, modules, debugging, memory, hardware,
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interrupt handling, char drivers, block drivers, kmod, mmap, DMA,
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buses.
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Description: O'Reilly's popular book, now also on-line under the
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GNU Free Documentation License.
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Notes: You can also buy it in paper-form from O'Reilly. See below
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under BOOKS (Not on-line).
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* Title: "Conceptual Architecture of the Linux Kernel"
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Author: Ivan T. Bowman.
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URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a1.html
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Keywords: conceptual software arquitecture, extracted design,
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reverse engineering, system structure.
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Description: Conceptual software arquitecture of the Linux kernel,
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automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good
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figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding.
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* Title: "Concrete Architecture of the Linux Kernel"
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Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Saheem Siddiqi, and Meyer C. Tanuan.
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URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a2.html
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Keywords: concrete architecture, extracted design, reverse
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engineering, system structure, dependencies.
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Description: Concrete architecture of the Linux kernel,
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automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good
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figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding. This papers
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focus on lower details than its predecessor (files, variables...).
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* Title: "Linux as a Case Study: Its Extracted Software
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Architecture"
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Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Richard C. Holt and Neil V. Brewster.
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URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/linuxcase.html
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Keywords: software architecture, architecture recovery,
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redocumentation.
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Description: Paper appeared at ICSE'99, Los Angeles, May 16-22,
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1999. A mixture of the previous two documents from the same
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author.
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* Title: "Overview of the Virtual File System"
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Author: Richard Gooch.
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URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/vfs.txt
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Keywords: VFS, File System, mounting filesystems, opening files,
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dentries, dcache.
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Description: Brief introduction to the Linux Virtual File System.
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What is it, how it works, operations taken when opening a file or
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mounting a file system and description of important data
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structures explaining the purpose of each of their entries.
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* Title: "The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code"
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Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
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URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391
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Keywords: RAID, MD driver.
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Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
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abstract: "A description of the implementation of the RAID-1,
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RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the
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Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable,
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secondary-storage capability using software".
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* Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers"
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Author: Alessandro Rubini.
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URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219
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Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules,
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allocating resources.
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Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
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abstract: "This is the first of a series of four articles
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co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present
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a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel
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loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the
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topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's
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installment".
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* Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Discovery"
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Author: Alessandro Rubini.
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URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220
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Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module,
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autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations,
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open(), close().
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Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
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abstract: "This article, the second of four, introduces part of
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the actual code to create custom module implementing a character
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device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and
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cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls".
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* Title: "The Devil's in the Details"
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Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini.
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URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221
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Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non
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blocking mode, interrupt handler.
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Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
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abstract: "This article, the third of four on writing character
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device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using
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ioctl-calls".
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* Title: "Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA"
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Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
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URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222
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Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues.
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Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
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abstract: "This is the fourth in a series of articles about
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writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This
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month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling.
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Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and
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constraints make this an ``interesting'' part of device driver
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writing, and several different facilities have been provided for
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different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of
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DMA".
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* Title: "Device Drivers Concluded"
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Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz.
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URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287
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Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management,
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demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap,
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virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
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Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles
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series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of
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five articles about character device drivers. In this final
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section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with
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an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts".
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* Title: "Network Buffers And Memory Management"
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Author: Alan Cox.
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URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312
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Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer
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variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive,
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configuration, multicast.
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Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner. Here is the abstract:
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"Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally
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simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the
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hardware) involves managing network packets in memory".
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* Title: "Writing Linux Device Drivers"
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Author: Michael K. Johnson.
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URL: http://users.evitech.fi/~tk/rtos/writing_linux_device_d.html
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Keywords: files, VFS, file operations, kernel interface, character
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vs block devices, I/O access, hardware interrupts, DMA, access to
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user memory, memory allocation, timers.
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Description: Introductory 50-minutes (sic) tutorial on writing
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device drivers. 12 pages written by the same author of the "Kernel
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Hackers' Guide" which give a very good overview of the topic.
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* Title: "The Venus kernel interface"
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Author: Peter J. Braam.
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URL:
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http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html
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Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager.
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Description: "This document describes the communication between
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Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation
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of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe
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the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we
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envisage".
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* Title: "Programming PCI-Devices under Linux"
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Author: Claus Schroeter.
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URL:
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ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/pcip.ps.gz
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Keywords: PCI, device, busmastering.
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Description: 6 pages tutorial on PCI programming under Linux.
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Gives the basic concepts on the architecture of the PCI subsystem,
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as long as basic functions and macros to read/write the devices
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and perform busmastering.
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* Title: "Writing Character Device Driver for Linux"
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Author: R. Baruch and C. Schroeter.
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URL:
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ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/drivers.ps.gz
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Keywords: character device drivers, I/O, signals, DMA, accessing
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ports in user space, kernel environment.
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Description: 68 pages paper on writing character drivers. A little
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bit old (1.993, 1.994) although still useful.
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* Title: "Design and Implementation of the Second Extended
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Filesystem"
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Author: R<>my Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
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URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html
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Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices,
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VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library,
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ext2fs tools, e2fsck.
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Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers.
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Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features,
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design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks,
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e2fsck's passes description... A must read!
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Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the
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First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9.
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* Title: "Analysis of the Ext2fs structure"
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Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
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URL: http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/files/FileSystems/ext2fs/
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Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs.
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Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
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bitmaps, invariants...
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* Title: "Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem"
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Author: Stephen C. Tweedie.
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URL:
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ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/journal-design.ps.gz
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Keywords: ext3, journaling.
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Description: Excellent 8-pages paper explaining the journaling
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capabilities added to ext2 by the author, showing different
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problems faced and the alternatives chosen.
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* Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.0 to 2.2"
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Author: Richard Gooch.
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URL:
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http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.2.html
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Keywords: 2.2, changes.
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Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed
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from 2.0.x to 2.2.x.
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* Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.2 to 2.4"
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Author: Richard Gooch.
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URL:
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http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.4.html
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Keywords: 2.4, changes.
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Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed
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from 2.2.x to 2.4.x.
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* Title: "Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide"
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Author: Ori Pomerantz.
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URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html
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Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,
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interrupt handlers .
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Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules
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programming. Lots of examples.
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* Title: "I/O Event Handling Under Linux"
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Author: Richard Gooch.
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URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/io-events.html
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Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness
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event queues.
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Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about
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how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of
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open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your
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application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active
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(have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you
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want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of
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inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage".
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* Title: "The Kernel Hacking HOWTO"
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Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty.
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Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking/
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(must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs})
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Keywords: HOWTO, kernel contexts, deadlock, locking, modules,
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symbols, return conventions.
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Description: From the Introduction: "Please understand that I
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never wanted to write this document, being grossly underqualified,
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but I always wanted to read it, and this was the only way. I
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simply explain some best practices, and give reading entry-points
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into the kernel sources. I avoid implementation details: that's
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what the code is for, and I ignore whole tracts of useful
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routines. This document assumes familiarity with C, and an
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understanding of what the kernel is, and how it is used. It was
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originally written for the 2.3 kernels, but nearly all of it
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applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly different".
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* Title: "Writing an ALSA Driver"
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Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html
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Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware.
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Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers,
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both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel
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sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version.
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* Title: "Programming Guide for Linux USB Device Drivers"
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Author: Detlef Fliegl.
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URL: http://usb.in.tum.de/usbdoc/
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Keywords: USB, universal serial bus.
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Description: A must-read. From the Preface: "This document should
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give detailed information about the current state of the USB
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subsystem and its API for USB device drivers. The first section
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will deal with the basics of USB devices. You will learn about
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different types of devices and their properties. Going into detail
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you will see how USB devices communicate on the bus. The second
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section gives an overview of the Linux USB subsystem [2] and the
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device driver framework. Then the API and its data structures will
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be explained step by step. The last section of this document
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contains a reference of all API calls and their return codes".
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Notes: Beware: the main page states: "This document may not be
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published, printed or used in excerpts without explicit permission
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of the author". Fortunately, it may still be read...
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* Title: "Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary"
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Author: various
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URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/
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Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel.
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Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as
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a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear
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during discussion of the Linux kernel".
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* Title: "Linux Kernel Locking HOWTO"
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Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty.
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Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking/
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(must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs})
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Keywords: locks, locking, spinlock, semaphore, atomic, race
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condition, bottom halves, tasklets, softirqs.
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Description: The title says it all: document describing the
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locking system in the Linux Kernel either in uniprocessor or SMP
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systems.
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Notes: "It was originally written for the later (>2.3.47) 2.3
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kernels, but most of it applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly
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different". Freely redistributable under the conditions of the GNU
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General Public License.
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* Title: "Global spinlock list and usage"
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Author: Rick Lindsley.
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URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock
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Keywords: spinlock.
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Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and
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usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive
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list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions
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access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it
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is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held...
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* Title: "Porting Linux 2.0 Drivers To Linux 2.2: Changes and New
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Features "
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Author: Alan Cox.
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URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-05/gear_01.html
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Keywords: ports, porting.
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Description: Article from Linux Magazine on porting from 2.0 to
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2.2 kernels.
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* Title: "Porting Device Drivers To Linux 2.2: part II"
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Author: Alan Cox.
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URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-06/gear_01.html
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Keywords: ports, porting.
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Description: Second part on porting from 2.0 to 2.2 kernels.
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* Title: "How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power
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Macintosh"
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Author: Paul Mackerras.
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URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-07/gear_01.html
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Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility.
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Description: The title says it all.
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* Title: "An Introduction to SCSI Drivers"
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Author: Alan Cox.
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URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-08/gear_01.html
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Keywords: SCSI, device, driver.
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Description: The title says it all.
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* Title: "Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales"
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Author: Alan Cox.
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URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-09/gear_01.html
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Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced.
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Description: The title says it all.
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* Title: "Writing Linux Mouse Drivers"
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Author: Alan Cox.
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URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-10/gear_01.html
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Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm.
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Description: The title says it all.
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* Title: "More on Mouse Drivers"
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Author: Alan Cox.
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URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-11/gear_01.html
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Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O.
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Description: The title still says it all.
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* Title: "Writing Video4linux Radio Driver"
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Author: Alan Cox.
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URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-12/gear_01.html
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Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices.
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Description: The title says it all.
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* 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://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin
|
||
Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection,
|
||
socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets,
|
||
modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags.
|
||
Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking,
|
||
explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space
|
||
configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of
|
||
the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps
|
||
packets follow from the time they are received at the network
|
||
device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel
|
||
code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet
|
||
dropper example.
|
||
|
||
* Title: "Get those boards talking under Linux."
|
||
Author: Alex Ivchenko.
|
||
URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46968.html
|
||
Keywords: data-acquisition boards, drivers, modules, interrupts,
|
||
memory allocation.
|
||
Description: Article written for people wishing to make their data
|
||
acquisition boards work on their GNU/Linux machines. Gives a basic
|
||
overview on writing drivers, from the naming of functions to
|
||
interrupt handling.
|
||
Notes: Two-parts article. Part II is at
|
||
URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46998.html
|
||
|
||
* Title: "Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide"
|
||
Author: David Hinds.
|
||
URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html
|
||
Keywords: PCMCIA.
|
||
Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device
|
||
drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also
|
||
describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
|
||
Card Services.
|
||
|
||
* Title: "The Linux Kernel NFSD Implementation"
|
||
Author: Neil Brown.
|
||
URL:
|
||
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/oss/linux-commentary/nfsd.html
|
||
Keywords: knfsd, nfsd, NFS, RPC, lockd, mountd, statd.
|
||
Description: The title says it all.
|
||
Notes: Covers knfsd's version 1.4.7 (patch against 2.2.7 kernel).
|
||
|
||
* Title: "A Linux vm README"
|
||
Author: Kanoj Sarcar.
|
||
URL: http://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://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html
|
||
Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table.
|
||
Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in
|
||
order to intercept and modify syscalls, make
|
||
files/directories/processes invisible, become root, hijack ttys,
|
||
write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to
|
||
avoid all those abuses.
|
||
Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x
|
||
kernels.
|
||
|
||
BOOKS: (Not on-line)
|
||
|
||
* Title: "Linux Device Drivers"
|
||
Author: Alessandro Rubini.
|
||
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates.
|
||
Date: 1998.
|
||
Pages: 439.
|
||
ISBN: 1-56592-292-1
|
||
|
||
* Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition"
|
||
Author: Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet.
|
||
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates.
|
||
Date: 2001.
|
||
Pages: 586.
|
||
ISBN: 0-59600-008-1
|
||
Notes: Further information in
|
||
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive2/
|
||
|
||
* Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 3nd Edition"
|
||
Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman
|
||
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates.
|
||
Date: 2005.
|
||
Pages: 636.
|
||
ISBN: 0-596-00590-3
|
||
Notes: Further information in
|
||
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/
|
||
PDF format, URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
|
||
|
||
* Title: "Linux Kernel Internals"
|
||
Author: Michael Beck.
|
||
Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
|
||
Date: 1997.
|
||
ISBN: 0-201-33143-8 (second edition)
|
||
|
||
* Title: "The Design of the UNIX Operating System"
|
||
Author: Maurice J. Bach.
|
||
Publisher: Prentice Hall.
|
||
Date: 1986.
|
||
Pages: 471.
|
||
ISBN: 0-13-201757-1
|
||
|
||
* Title: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX
|
||
Operating System"
|
||
Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J.
|
||
Karels, John S. Quarterman.
|
||
Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
|
||
Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990).
|
||
ISBN: 0-201-06196-1
|
||
|
||
* Title: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX
|
||
Operating System"
|
||
Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels,
|
||
John S. Quarterman.
|
||
Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
|
||
Date: 1996.
|
||
ISBN: 0-201-54979-4
|
||
|
||
* Title: "Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et fonctionnement du
|
||
noyau"
|
||
Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel.
|
||
Publisher: Eyrolles.
|
||
Date: 1997.
|
||
Pages: 520.
|
||
ISBN: 2-212-08932-5
|
||
Notes: French.
|
||
|
||
* Title: "Unix internals -- the new frontiers"
|
||
Author: Uresh Vahalia.
|
||
Publisher: Prentice Hall.
|
||
Date: 1996.
|
||
Pages: 600.
|
||
ISBN: 0-13-101908-2
|
||
|
||
* Title: "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: "Programming for the real world - POSIX.4"
|
||
Author: Bill O. Gallmeister.
|
||
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc..
|
||
Date: 1995.
|
||
Pages: ???.
|
||
ISBN: I-56592-074-0
|
||
Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be
|
||
POSIX. Good reference.
|
||
|
||
* Title: "UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric
|
||
Multiprocesssing and Caching for Kernel Programmers"
|
||
Author: Curt Schimmel.
|
||
Publisher: Addison Wesley.
|
||
Date: June, 1994.
|
||
Pages: 432.
|
||
ISBN: 0-201-63338-8
|
||
|
||
* 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 of the UNIX Operating System"
|
||
Author: Maurice J. Bach.
|
||
Publisher: Prentice Hall.
|
||
Date: 1986.
|
||
Pages: 471.
|
||
ISBN: 0-13-201757-1
|
||
|
||
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://kt.zork.net/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://www.lisoleg.net/cgi-bin/lisoleg.pl?view=kernel.htm
|
||
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://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html
|
||
URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html
|
||
URL: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel
|
||
URL: http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel
|
||
URL: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/
|
||
URL: http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/
|
||
Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search.
|
||
Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If
|
||
you have a better/another one, please let me know.
|
||
_________________________________________________________________
|
||
|
||
Document last updated on Sat 2005-NOV-19
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