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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: "Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition"
Author: Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet.
URL: http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html
Keywords: device drivers, modules, debugging, memory, hardware,
interrupt handling, char drivers, block drivers, kmod, mmap, DMA,
buses.
Description: O'Reilly's popular book, now also on-line under the
GNU Free Documentation License.
Notes: You can also buy it in paper-form from O'Reilly. See below
under BOOKS (Not on-line).
* Title: "Conceptual Architecture of the Linux Kernel"
Author: Ivan T. Bowman.
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* 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
Keywords: concrete architecture, extracted design, reverse
engineering, system structure, dependencies.
Description: Concrete arquitecture of the Linux kernel,
Description: Concrete architecture 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...).
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* 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
URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391
Keywords: RAID, MD driver.
Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
abstract: "A description of the implementation of the RAID-1,
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* Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers"
Author: Alessandro Rubini.
URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue23/1219.html
URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219
Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules,
allocating resources.
Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
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* Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Discovery"
Author: Alessandro Rubini.
URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue24/1220.html
URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220
Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module,
autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations,
open(), close().
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* Title: "The Devil's in the Details"
Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini.
URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue25/1221.html
URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221
Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non
blocking mode, interrupt handler.
Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
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* Title: "Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA"
Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue26/1222.html
URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222
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
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* Title: "Device Drivers Concluded"
Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz.
URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue28/1287.html
URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287
Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management,
demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap,
virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
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* Title: "Network Buffers And Memory Management"
Author: Alan Cox.
URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue30/1312.html
URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312
Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer
variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive,
configuration, multicast.
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* Title: "Programming PCI-Devices under Linux"
Author: Claus Schroeter.
URL:
ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/pcip.ps
.gz
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,
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* 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
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
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* Title: "Analysis of the Ext2fs structure"
Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
URL: http://step.polymtl.ca/~ldd/ext2fs/ext2fs_toc.html
URL: http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/files/FileSystems/ext2fs/
Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs.
Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
bitmaps, invariants...
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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: various
URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/
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different". Freely redistributable under the conditions of the GNU
General Public License.
* Title: "Global spinlock list and usage"
Author: Rick Lindsley.
URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock
Keywords: spinlock.
Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and
usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive
list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions
access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it
is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held...
* Title: "Porting Linux 2.0 Drivers To Linux 2.2: Changes and New
Features "
Author: Alan Cox.
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* 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
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.
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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.
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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: "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.
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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/
* 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:
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produced during the week. Published every Thursday.
* Name: "Kernel Traffic"
URL: http://www.kerneltraffic.org/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.
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* Name: "Gary's Encyclopedia - The Linux Kernel"
Author: Gary (I suppose...).
URL: http://members.aa.net/~swear/pedia/kernel.html
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