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even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
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git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
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+       Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or
+                                      
+                      Understanding the Linux Kernel.
+                                      
+               Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es>
+                                      
+/*
+ * The latest version of this document may be found at:
+ *   http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html
+ */
+
+   The need for a document like this one became apparent in the
+   linux-kernel mailing list as the same questions, asking for pointers
+   to information, appeared again and again.
+   
+   Fortunately, as more and more people get to GNU/Linux, more and more
+   get interested in the Kernel. But reading the sources is not always
+   enough. It is easy to understand the code, but miss the concepts, the
+   philosophy and design decisions behind this code.
+   
+   Unfortunately, not many documents are available for beginners to
+   start. And, even if they exist, there was no "well-known" place which
+   kept track of them. These lines try to cover this lack. All documents
+   available on line known by the author are listed, while some reference
+   books are also mentioned.
+   
+   PLEASE, if you know any paper not listed here or write a new document,
+   send me an e-mail, and I'll include a reference to it here. Any
+   corrections, ideas or comments are also welcomed.
+   
+   The papers that follow are listed in no particular order. All are
+   cataloged with the following fields: the document's "Title", the
+   "Author"/s, the "URL" where they can be found, some "Keywords" helpful
+   when searching for specific topics, and a brief "Description" of the
+   Document.
+   
+   Enjoy!
+   
+     ON-LINE DOCS:
+       
+     * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition"
+       Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman
+       URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
+       Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver
+       programming API and kernel hacking in general.  Available under the
+       Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
+
+     * Title: "The Linux Kernel"
+       Author: David A. Rusling.
+       URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/tlk/tlk.html
+       Keywords: everything!, book.
+       Description: On line, 200 pages book describing most aspects of
+       the Linux Kernel. Probably, the first reference for beginners.
+       Lots of illustrations explaining data structures use and
+       relationships in the purest Richard W. Stevens' style. Contents:
+       "1.-Hardware Basics, 2.-Software Basics, 3.-Memory Management,
+       4.-Processes, 5.-Interprocess Communication Mechanisms, 6.-PCI,
+       7.-Interrupts and Interrupt Handling, 8.-Device Drivers, 9.-The
+       File system, 10.-Networks, 11.-Kernel Mechanisms, 12.-Modules,
+       13.-The Linux Kernel Sources, A.-Linux Data Structures, B.-The
+       Alpha AXP Processor, C.-Useful Web and FTP Sites, D.-The GNU
+       General Public License, Glossary". In short: a must have.
+       
+     * Title: "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: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
+       URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html
+       Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices,
+       VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library,
+       ext2fs tools, e2fsck.
+       Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers.
+       Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features,
+       design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks,
+       e2fsck's passes description... A must read!
+       Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the
+       First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9.
+       
+     * Title: "Analysis of the Ext2fs structure"
+       Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
+       URL: http://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: Gestión 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