* Title: "Writing Linux Device Drivers"
Author: Michael K. Johnson.
- URL: http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/devices.html
+ URL: http://users.evitech.fi/~tk/rtos/writing_linux_device_d.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.
* Title: "Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide"
Author: Ori Pomerantz.
- URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/mpg.html
+ URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html
Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,
interrupt handlers .
Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules
* Title: "Device File System (devfs) Overview"
Author: Richard Gooch.
- URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.txt
+ URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html
Keywords: filesystem, /dev, devfs, dynamic devices, major/minor
allocation, device management.
Description: Document describing Richard Gooch's controversial
* 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
+ Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking/
+ (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs})
Keywords: HOWTO, kernel contexts, deadlock, locking, modules,
symbols, return conventions.
Description: From the Introduction: "Please understand that I
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/
+ * Title: "Writing an ALSA Driver"
+ Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
+ URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html
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.
+ both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel
+ sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version.
* Title: "Programming Guide for Linux USB Device Drivers"
Author: Detlef Fliegl.
filesystems, IPC and Networking Code.
* Title: "Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary"
- Author: John Levon.
- URL: http://www.movement.uklinux.net/glossary.html
+ Author: various
+ URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/
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
* Title: "Linux Kernel Locking HOWTO"
Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty.
- URL:
- http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/unreliable-guides/kernel-locking-
- HOWTO.html
+ Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking/
+ (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs})
Keywords: locks, locking, spinlock, semaphore, atomic, race
condition, bottom halves, tasklets, softirqs.
Description: The title says it all: document describing the
* Title: "Get those boards talking under Linux."
Author: Alex Ivchenko.
- URL: http://www.ednmag.com/ednmag/reg/2000/06222000/13df2.htm
+ URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46968.html
Keywords: data-acquisition boards, drivers, modules, interrupts,
memory allocation.
Description: Article written for people wishing to make their data
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
+ URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46998.html
* Title: "Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide"
Author: David Hinds.
definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system
administrators."
Author: pragmatic/THC.
- URL: http://packetstorm.securify.com/groups/thc/LKM_HACKING.html
+ URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html
Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table.
Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in
order to intercept and modify syscalls, make
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
+ kernels.
BOOKS: (Not on-line)
ISBN: 0-59600-008-1
Notes: Further information in
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive2/
-
+
+ * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 3nd Edition"
+ Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman
+ Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates.
+ Date: 2005.
+ Pages: 636.
+ ISBN: 0-596-00590-3
+ Notes: Further information in
+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/
+ PDF format, URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
+
* Title: "Linux Kernel Internals"
Author: Michael Beck.
Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
documents, FAQs...
* Name: "linux-kernel mailing list archives and search engines"
+ URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html
URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html
- URL: http://www.kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/
- URL: http://www.geocrawler.com
+ URL: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel
+ URL: http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel
+ URL: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/
+ URL: http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/
Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search.
Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If
you have a better/another one, please let me know.
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- Document last updated on Thu Jun 28 15:09:39 CEST 2001
+ Document last updated on Sat 2005-NOV-19
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