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| 3 | Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or Understanding the Linux Kernel
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| 6 | Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <[email protected]>
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| 8 | The need for a document like this one became apparent in the
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| 9 | linux-kernel mailing list as the same questions, asking for pointers
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| 10 | to information, appeared again and again.
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| 12 | Fortunately, as more and more people get to GNU/Linux, more and more
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| 13 | get interested in the Kernel. But reading the sources is not always
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| 14 | enough. It is easy to understand the code, but miss the concepts, the
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| 15 | philosophy and design decisions behind this code.
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| 16 |
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| 17 | Unfortunately, not many documents are available for beginners to
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| 18 | start. And, even if they exist, there was no "well-known" place which
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| 19 | kept track of them. These lines try to cover this lack. All documents
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| 20 | available on line known by the author are listed, while some reference
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| 21 | books are also mentioned.
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| 23 | PLEASE, if you know any paper not listed here or write a new document,
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| 24 | send me an e-mail, and I'll include a reference to it here. Any
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| 25 | corrections, ideas or comments are also welcomed.
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| 26 |
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| 27 | The papers that follow are listed in no particular order. All are
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| 28 | cataloged with the following fields: the document's "Title", the
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| 29 | "Author"/s, the "URL" where they can be found, some "Keywords" helpful
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| 30 | when searching for specific topics, and a brief "Description" of the
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| 31 | Document.
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| 33 | Enjoy!
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| 35 | .. note::
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| 37 | The documents on each section of this document are ordered by its
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| 38 | published date, from the newest to the oldest.
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| 40 | Docs at the Linux Kernel tree
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| 41 | -----------------------------
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| 43 | The Sphinx books should be built with ``make {htmldocs | pdfdocs | epubdocs}``.
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| 45 | * Name: **linux/Documentation**
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| 46 |
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| 47 | :Author: Many.
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| 48 | :Location: Documentation/
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| 49 | :Keywords: text files, Sphinx.
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| 50 | :Description: Documentation that comes with the kernel sources,
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| 51 | inside the Documentation directory. Some pages from this document
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| 52 | (including this document itself) have been moved there, and might
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| 53 | be more up to date than the web version.
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| 54 |
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| 55 | On-line docs
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| 56 | ------------
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| 57 |
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| 58 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary**
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| 59 |
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| 60 | :Author: various
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| 61 | :URL: https://kernelnewbies.org/KernelGlossary
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| 62 | :Date: rolling version
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| 63 | :Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel.
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| 64 | :Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as
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| 65 | a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear
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| 66 | during discussion of the Linux kernel".
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| 67 |
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| 68 | * Title: **Tracing the Way of Data in a TCP Connection through the Linux Kernel**
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| 69 |
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| 70 | :Author: Richard Sailer
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| 71 | :URL: https://archive.org/details/linux_kernel_data_flow_short_paper
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| 72 | :Date: 2016
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| 73 | :Keywords: Linux Kernel Networking, TCP, tracing, ftrace
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| 74 | :Description: A seminar paper explaining ftrace and how to use it for
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| 75 | understanding linux kernel internals,
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| 76 | illustrated at tracing the way of a TCP packet through the kernel.
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| 77 | :Abstract: *This short paper outlines the usage of ftrace a tracing framework
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| 78 | as a tool to understand a running Linux system.
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| 79 | Having obtained a trace-log a kernel hacker can read and understand
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| 80 | source code more determined and with context.
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| 81 | In a detailed example this approach is demonstrated in tracing
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| 82 | and the way of data in a TCP Connection through the kernel.
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| 83 | Finally this trace-log is used as base for more a exact conceptual
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| 84 | exploration and description of the Linux TCP/IP implementation.*
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| 85 |
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| 86 | * Title: **On submitting kernel Patches**
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| 87 |
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| 88 | :Author: Andi Kleen
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| 89 | :URL: http://halobates.de/on-submitting-kernel-patches.pdf
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| 90 | :Date: 2008
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| 91 | :Keywords: patches, review process, types of submissions, basic rules, case studies
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| 92 | :Description: This paper gives several experience values on what types of patches
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| 93 | there are and how likely they get merged.
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| 94 | :Abstract:
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| 95 | [...]. This paper examines some common problems for
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| 96 | submitting larger changes and some strategies to avoid problems.
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| 97 |
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| 98 | * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition**
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| 99 |
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| 100 | :Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman
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| 101 | :URL: https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
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| 102 | :Date: 2005
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| 103 | :Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver
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| 104 | programming API and kernel hacking in general. Available under the
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| 105 | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
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| 106 | :note: You can also :ref:`purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere <ldd3_published>`.
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| 107 |
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| 108 | * Title: **Writing an ALSA Driver**
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| 109 |
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| 110 | :Author: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
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| 111 | :URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html
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| 112 | :Date: 2005
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| 113 | :Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware.
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| 114 | :Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers,
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| 115 | both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel
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| 116 | sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version.
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| 117 |
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| 118 | * Title: **Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide**
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| 119 |
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| 120 | :Author: David Hinds.
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| 121 | :URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html
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| 122 | :Date: 2003
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| 123 | :Keywords: PCMCIA.
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| 124 | :Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device
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| 125 | drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also
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| 126 | describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
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| 127 | Card Services.
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| 128 |
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| 129 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
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| 130 |
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| 131 | :Author: Ori Pomerantz.
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| 132 | :URL: https://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html
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| 133 | :Date: 2001
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| 134 | :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,
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| 135 | interrupt handlers .
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| 136 | :Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules
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| 137 | programming. Lots of examples.
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| 138 |
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| 139 | * Title: **Global spinlock list and usage**
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| 140 |
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| 141 | :Author: Rick Lindsley.
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| 142 | :URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock
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| 143 | :Date: 2001
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| 144 | :Keywords: spinlock.
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| 145 | :Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and
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| 146 | usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive
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| 147 | list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions
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| 148 | access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it
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| 149 | is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held...
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| 150 |
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| 151 | * Title: **A Linux vm README**
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| 152 |
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| 153 | :Author: Kanoj Sarcar.
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| 154 | :URL: http://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.html
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| 155 | :Date: 2001
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| 156 | :Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page
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| 157 | cache, swap cache, kswapd.
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| 158 | :Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions
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| 159 | relating the Linux virtual memory implementation.
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| 160 |
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| 161 | * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device**
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| 162 |
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| 163 | :Author: Alan Cox.
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| 164 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/406
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| 165 | :Date: 2000
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| 166 | :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
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| 167 | camera driver.
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| 168 | :Description: The title says it all.
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| 169 |
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| 170 | * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices**
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| 171 |
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| 172 | :Author: Alan Cox.
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| 173 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/429
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| 174 | :Date: 2000
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| 175 | :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
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| 176 | camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility.
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| 177 | :Description: The title says it all.
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| 178 |
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| 179 | * Title: **Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack.**
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| 180 |
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| 181 | :Author: Glenn Herrin.
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| 182 | :URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin
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| 183 | :Date: 2000
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| 184 | :Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection,
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| 185 | socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets,
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| 186 | modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags.
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| 187 | :Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking,
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| 188 | explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space
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| 189 | configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of
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| 190 | the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps
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| 191 | packets follow from the time they are received at the network
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| 192 | device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel
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| 193 | code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet
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| 194 | dropper example.
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| 195 |
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| 196 | * Title: **How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh**
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| 197 |
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| 198 | :Author: Paul Mackerras.
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| 199 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/261
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| 200 | :Date: 1999
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| 201 | :Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility.
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| 202 | :Description: The title says it all.
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| 203 |
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| 204 | * Title: **An Introduction to SCSI Drivers**
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| 205 |
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| 206 | :Author: Alan Cox.
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| 207 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/284
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| 208 | :Date: 1999
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| 209 | :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver.
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| 210 | :Description: The title says it all.
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| 211 |
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| 212 | * Title: **Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales**
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| 213 |
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| 214 | :Author: Alan Cox.
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| 215 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/307
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| 216 | :Date: 1999
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| 217 | :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced.
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| 218 | :Description: The title says it all.
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| 219 |
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| 220 | * Title: **Writing Linux Mouse Drivers**
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| 221 |
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| 222 | :Author: Alan Cox.
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| 223 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/330
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| 224 | :Date: 1999
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| 225 | :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm.
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| 226 | :Description: The title says it all.
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| 227 |
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| 228 | * Title: **More on Mouse Drivers**
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| 229 |
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| 230 | :Author: Alan Cox.
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| 231 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/356
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| 232 | :Date: 1999
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| 233 | :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O.
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| 234 | :Description: The title still says it all.
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| 235 |
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| 236 | * Title: **Writing Video4linux Radio Driver**
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| 237 |
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| 238 | :Author: Alan Cox.
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| 239 | :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/381
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| 240 | :Date: 1999
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| 241 | :Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices.
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| 242 | :Description: The title says it all.
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| 243 |
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| 244 | * Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux**
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| 245 |
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| 246 | :Author: Richard Gooch.
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| 247 | :URL: https://web.mit.edu/~yandros/doc/io-events.html
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| 248 | :Date: 1999
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| 249 | :Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness
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| 250 | event queues.
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| 251 | :Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about
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| 252 | how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of
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| 253 | open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your
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| 254 | application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active
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| 255 | (have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you
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| 256 | want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of
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| 257 | inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage".
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| 258 |
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| 259 | * Title: **(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system administrators.**
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| 260 |
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| 261 | :Author: pragmatic/THC.
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| 262 | :URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html
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| 263 | :Date: 1999
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| 264 | :Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table.
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| 265 | :Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in
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| 266 | order to intercept and modify syscalls, make
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| 267 | files/directories/processes invisible, become root, hijack ttys,
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| 268 | write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to
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| 269 | avoid all those abuses.
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| 270 | :Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x
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| 271 | kernels.
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| 272 |
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| 273 | * Name: **Linux Virtual File System**
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| 274 |
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| 275 | :Author: Peter J. Braam.
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| 276 | :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/
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| 277 | :Date: 1998
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| 278 | :Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache.
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| 279 | :Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the
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| 280 | Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the
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| 281 | dcache.
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| 282 |
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| 283 | * Title: **The Venus kernel interface**
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| 285 | :Author: Peter J. Braam.
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| 286 | :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html
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| 287 | :Date: 1998
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| 288 | :Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager.
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| 289 | :Description: "This document describes the communication between
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| 290 | Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation
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| 291 | of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe
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| 292 | the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we
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| 293 | envisage".
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| 294 |
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| 295 | * Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem**
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| 296 |
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| 297 | :Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
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| 298 | :URL: https://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html
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| 299 | :Date: 1998
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| 300 | :Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices,
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| 301 | VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library,
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| 302 | ext2fs tools, e2fsck.
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| 303 | :Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers.
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| 304 | Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features,
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| 305 | design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks,
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| 306 | e2fsck's passes description... A must read!
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| 307 | :Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the
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| 308 | First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9.
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| 309 |
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| 310 | * Title: **The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code**
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| 311 |
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| 312 | :Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
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| 313 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391
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| 314 | :Date: 1997
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| 315 | :Keywords: RAID, MD driver.
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| 316 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
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| 317 | :Abstract: *A description of the implementation of the RAID-1,
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| 318 | RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the
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| 319 | Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable,
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| 320 | secondary-storage capability using software*.
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| 321 |
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| 322 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide**
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| 323 |
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| 324 | :Author: Michael K. Johnson.
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| 325 | :URL: https://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html
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| 326 | :Date: 1997
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| 327 | :Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs
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| 328 | block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory,
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| 329 | memory allocation, timers.
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| 330 | :Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the
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| 331 | concepts that are not intuitively obvious, and to document the internal
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| 332 | structures of Linux.
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| 333 |
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| 334 | * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers**
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| 335 |
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| 336 | :Author: Alessandro Rubini.
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| 337 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219
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| 338 | :Date: 1996
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| 339 | :Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules,
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| 340 | allocating resources.
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| 341 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
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| 342 | :Abstract: *This is the first of a series of four articles
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| 343 | co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present
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| 344 | a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel
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| 345 | loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the
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| 346 | topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's
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| 347 | installment*.
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| 348 |
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| 349 | * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Discovery**
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| 350 |
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| 351 | :Author: Alessandro Rubini.
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| 352 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220
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| 353 | :Date: 1996
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| 354 | :Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module,
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| 355 | autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations,
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| 356 | open(), close().
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| 357 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
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| 358 | :Abstract: *This article, the second of four, introduces part of
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| 359 | the actual code to create custom module implementing a character
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| 360 | device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and
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| 361 | cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls*.
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| 362 |
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| 363 | * Title: **The Devil's in the Details**
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| 364 |
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| 365 | :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini.
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| 366 | :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221
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| 367 | :Date: 1996
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| 368 | :Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non
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| 369 | blocking mode, interrupt handler.
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| 370 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
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| 371 | :Abstract: *This article, the third of four on writing character
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| 372 | device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using
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| 373 | ioctl-calls*.
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| 374 |
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| 375 | * Title: **Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA**
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| 376 |
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| 377 | :Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
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| 378 | :URL: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222
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| 379 | :Date: 1996
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| 380 | :Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues.
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| 381 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
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| 382 | :Abstract: *This is the fourth in a series of articles about
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| 383 | writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This
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| 384 | month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling.
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| 385 | Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and
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| 386 | constraints make this an ''interesting'' part of device driver
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| 387 | writing, and several different facilities have been provided for
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| 388 | different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of
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| 389 | DMA*.
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| 390 |
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| 391 | * Title: **Device Drivers Concluded**
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| 392 |
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| 393 | :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz.
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| 394 | :URL: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287
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| 395 | :Date: 1996
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| 396 | :Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management,
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| 397 | demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap,
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| 398 | virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
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| 399 | :Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles
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| 400 | series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of
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| 401 | five articles about character device drivers. In this final
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| 402 | section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with
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| 403 | an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts".
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| 404 |
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| 405 | * Title: **Network Buffers And Memory Management**
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| 406 |
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| 407 | :Author: Alan Cox.
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| 408 | :URL: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312
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| 409 | :Date: 1996
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| 410 | :Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer
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| 411 | variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive,
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| 412 | configuration, multicast.
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| 413 | :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner.
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| 414 | :Abstract: *Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally
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| 415 | simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the
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| 416 | hardware) involves managing network packets in memory*.
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| 417 |
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| 418 | * Title: **Analysis of the Ext2fs structure**
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| 419 |
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| 420 | :Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
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| 421 | :URL: https://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS2002/fs-ext2/
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| 422 | :Date: 1994
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| 423 | :Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs.
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| 424 | :Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
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| 425 | bitmaps, invariants...
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| 426 |
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| 427 | Published books
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| 428 | ---------------
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| 429 |
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| 430 | * Title: **Linux Treiber entwickeln**
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| 431 |
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| 432 | :Author: Jürgen Quade, Eva-Katharina Kunst
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| 433 | :Publisher: dpunkt.verlag
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| 434 | :Date: Oct 2015 (4th edition)
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| 435 | :Pages: 688
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| 436 | :ISBN: 978-3-86490-288-8
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| 437 | :Note: German. The third edition from 2011 is
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| 438 | much cheaper and still quite up-to-date.
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| 439 |
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| 440 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Networking: Implementation and Theory**
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| 441 |
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| 442 | :Author: Rami Rosen
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| 443 | :Publisher: Apress
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| 444 | :Date: December 22, 2013
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| 445 | :Pages: 648
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| 446 | :ISBN: 978-1430261964
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| 447 |
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| 448 | * Title: **Embedded Linux Primer: A practical Real-World Approach, 2nd Edition**
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| 449 |
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| 450 | :Author: Christopher Hallinan
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| 451 | :Publisher: Pearson
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| 452 | :Date: November, 2010
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| 453 | :Pages: 656
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| 454 | :ISBN: 978-0137017836
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| 455 |
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| 456 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Edition**
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| 457 |
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| 458 | :Author: Robert Love
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| 459 | :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
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| 460 | :Date: July, 2010
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| 461 | :Pages: 440
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| 462 | :ISBN: 978-0672329463
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| 463 |
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| 464 | * Title: **Essential Linux Device Drivers**
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| 465 |
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| 466 | :Author: Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran
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| 467 | :Published: Prentice Hall
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| 468 | :Date: April, 2008
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| 469 | :Pages: 744
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| 470 | :ISBN: 978-0132396554
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| 471 |
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| 472 | .. _ldd3_published:
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| 473 |
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| 474 | * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition**
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| 475 |
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| 476 | :Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman
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| 477 | :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
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| 478 | :Date: 2005
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| 479 | :Pages: 636
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| 480 | :ISBN: 0-596-00590-3
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| 481 | :Notes: Further information in
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| 482 | http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/
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| 483 | PDF format, URL: https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
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| 484 |
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| 485 | * Title: **Linux Kernel Internals**
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| 486 |
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| 487 | :Author: Michael Beck
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| 488 | :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
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| 489 | :Date: 1997
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| 490 | :ISBN: 0-201-33143-8 (second edition)
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| 491 |
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| 492 | * Title: **Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et fonctionnement du noyau**
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| 493 |
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| 494 | :Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel
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| 495 | :Publisher: Eyrolles
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| 496 | :Date: 1997
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| 497 | :Pages: 520
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| 498 | :ISBN: 2-212-08932-5
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| 499 | :Notes: French
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| 500 |
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| 501 | * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX Operating System**
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| 502 |
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| 503 | :Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels,
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| 504 | John S. Quarterman
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| 505 | :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
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| 506 | :Date: 1996
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| 507 | :ISBN: 0-201-54979-4
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| 508 |
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| 509 | * Title: **Unix internals -- the new frontiers**
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| 510 |
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| 511 | :Author: Uresh Vahalia
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| 512 | :Publisher: Prentice Hall
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| 513 | :Date: 1996
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| 514 | :Pages: 600
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| 515 | :ISBN: 0-13-101908-2
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| 516 |
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| 517 | * Title: **Programming for the real world - POSIX.4**
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| 518 |
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| 519 | :Author: Bill O. Gallmeister
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| 520 | :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
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| 521 | :Date: 1995
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| 522 | :Pages: 552
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| 523 | :ISBN: I-56592-074-0
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| 524 | :Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be
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| 525 | POSIX. Good reference.
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| 526 |
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| 527 | * Title: **UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers**
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| 528 |
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| 529 | :Author: Curt Schimmel
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| 530 | :Publisher: Addison Wesley
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| 531 | :Date: June, 1994
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| 532 | :Pages: 432
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| 533 | :ISBN: 0-201-63338-8
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| 534 |
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| 535 | * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System**
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| 536 |
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| 537 | :Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J
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| 538 | Karels, John S. Quarterman
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| 539 | :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
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| 540 | :Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990)
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| 541 | :ISBN: 0-201-06196-1
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| 542 |
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| 543 | * Title: **The Design of the UNIX Operating System**
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| 544 |
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| 545 | :Author: Maurice J. Bach
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| 546 | :Publisher: Prentice Hall
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| 547 | :Date: 1986
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| 548 | :Pages: 471
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| 549 | :ISBN: 0-13-201757-1
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| 550 |
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| 551 | Miscellaneous
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| 552 | -------------
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| 553 |
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| 554 | * Name: **Cross-Referencing Linux**
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| 555 |
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| 556 | :URL: https://elixir.bootlin.com/
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| 557 | :Keywords: Browsing source code.
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| 558 | :Description: Another web-based Linux kernel source code browser.
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| 559 | Lots of cross references to variables and functions. You can see
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| 560 | where they are defined and where they are used.
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| 561 |
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| 562 | * Name: **Linux Weekly News**
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| 563 |
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| 564 | :URL: https://lwn.net
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| 565 | :Keywords: latest kernel news.
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| 566 | :Description: The title says it all. There's a fixed kernel section
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| 567 | summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions
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| 568 | produced during the week. Published every Thursday.
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| 569 |
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| 570 | * Name: **The home page of Linux-MM**
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| 571 |
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| 572 | :Author: The Linux-MM team.
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| 573 | :URL: https://linux-mm.org/
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| 574 | :Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs,
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| 575 | mailing list.
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| 576 | :Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development.
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| 577 | Memory related patches, HOWTOs, links, mm developers... Don't miss
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| 578 | it if you are interested in memory management development!
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| 579 |
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| 580 | * Name: **Kernel Newbies IRC Channel and Website**
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| 581 |
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| 582 | :URL: https://www.kernelnewbies.org
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| 583 | :Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts.
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| 584 | :Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.oftc.net.
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| 585 | #kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedicated to the 'newbie'
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| 586 | kernel hacker. The audience mostly consists of people who are
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| 587 | learning about the kernel, working on kernel projects or
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| 588 | professional kernel hackers that want to help less seasoned kernel
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| 589 | people.
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| 590 | #kernelnewbies is on the OFTC IRC Network.
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| 591 | Try irc.oftc.net as your server and then /join #kernelnewbies.
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| 592 | The kernelnewbies website also hosts articles, documents, FAQs...
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| 593 |
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| 594 | * Name: **linux-kernel mailing list archives and search engines**
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| 595 |
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| 596 | :URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html
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| 597 | :URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html
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| 598 | :URL: http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel
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| 599 | :Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search.
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| 600 | :Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If
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| 601 | you have a better/another one, please let me know.
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| 602 |
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| 603 | -------
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| 604 |
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| 605 | Document last updated on Tue 2016-Sep-20
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| 606 |
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| 607 | This document is based on:
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| 608 | https://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html
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