1 2This is a brief list of all the files in ./linux/Documentation and what 3they contain. If you add a documentation file, please list it here in 4alphabetical order as well, or risk being hunted down like a rabid dog. 5Please try and keep the descriptions small enough to fit on one line. 6 Thanks -- Paul G. 7 8Following translations are available on the WWW: 9 10 - Japanese, maintained by the JF Project (JF@linux.or.jp), at 11 http://www.linux.or.jp/JF/ 12 1300-INDEX 14 - this file. 15ABI/ 16 - info on kernel <-> userspace ABI and relative interface stability. 17 18BUG-HUNTING 19 - brute force method of doing binary search of patches to find bug. 20Changes 21 - list of changes that break older software packages. 22CodingStyle 23 - how the boss likes the C code in the kernel to look. 24development-process/ 25 - An extended tutorial on how to work with the kernel development 26 process. 27DMA-API.txt 28 - DMA API, pci_ API & extensions for non-consistent memory machines. 29DMA-ISA-LPC.txt 30 - How to do DMA with ISA (and LPC) devices. 31DocBook/ 32 - directory with DocBook templates etc. for kernel documentation. 33HOWTO 34 - the process and procedures of how to do Linux kernel development. 35IO-mapping.txt 36 - how to access I/O mapped memory from within device drivers. 37IPMI.txt 38 - info on Linux Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) Driver. 39IRQ-affinity.txt 40 - how to select which CPU(s) handle which interrupt events on SMP. 41IRQ.txt 42 - description of what an IRQ is. 43ManagementStyle 44 - how to (attempt to) manage kernel hackers. 45RCU/ 46 - directory with info on RCU (read-copy update). 47SAK.txt 48 - info on Secure Attention Keys. 49SM501.txt 50 - Silicon Motion SM501 multimedia companion chip 51SecurityBugs 52 - procedure for reporting security bugs found in the kernel. 53SubmitChecklist 54 - Linux kernel patch submission checklist. 55SubmittingDrivers 56 - procedure to get a new driver source included into the kernel tree. 57SubmittingPatches 58 - procedure to get a source patch included into the kernel tree. 59VGA-softcursor.txt 60 - how to change your VGA cursor from a blinking underscore. 61accounting/ 62 - documentation on accounting and taskstats. 63acpi/ 64 - info on ACPI-specific hooks in the kernel. 65aoe/ 66 - description of AoE (ATA over Ethernet) along with config examples. 67applying-patches.txt 68 - description of various trees and how to apply their patches. 69arm/ 70 - directory with info about Linux on the ARM architecture. 71atomic_ops.txt 72 - semantics and behavior of atomic and bitmask operations. 73auxdisplay/ 74 - misc. LCD driver documentation (cfag12864b, ks0108). 75basic_profiling.txt 76 - basic instructions for those who wants to profile Linux kernel. 77binfmt_misc.txt 78 - info on the kernel support for extra binary formats. 79blackfin/ 80 - directory with documentation for the Blackfin arch. 81block/ 82 - info on the Block I/O (BIO) layer. 83blockdev/ 84 - info on block devices & drivers 85btmrvl.txt 86 - info on Marvell Bluetooth driver usage. 87cachetlb.txt 88 - describes the cache/TLB flushing interfaces Linux uses. 89cdrom/ 90 - directory with information on the CD-ROM drivers that Linux has. 91cgroups/ 92 - cgroups features, including cpusets and memory controller. 93connector/ 94 - docs on the netlink based userspace<->kernel space communication mod. 95console/ 96 - documentation on Linux console drivers. 97cpu-freq/ 98 - info on CPU frequency and voltage scaling. 99cpu-hotplug.txt 100 - document describing CPU hotplug support in the Linux kernel. 101cpu-load.txt 102 - document describing how CPU load statistics are collected. 103cpuidle/ 104 - info on CPU_IDLE, CPU idle state management subsystem. 105cputopology.txt 106 - documentation on how CPU topology info is exported via sysfs. 107cris/ 108 - directory with info about Linux on CRIS architecture. 109crypto/ 110 - directory with info on the Crypto API. 111dcdbas.txt 112 - information on the Dell Systems Management Base Driver. 113debugging-modules.txt 114 - some notes on debugging modules after Linux 2.6.3. 115dell_rbu.txt 116 - document demonstrating the use of the Dell Remote BIOS Update driver. 117device-mapper/ 118 - directory with info on Device Mapper. 119devices.txt 120 - plain ASCII listing of all the nodes in /dev/ with major minor #'s. 121dontdiff 122 - file containing a list of files that should never be diff'ed. 123driver-model/ 124 - directory with info about Linux driver model. 125dvb/ 126 - info on Linux Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) subsystem. 127early-userspace/ 128 - info about initramfs, klibc, and userspace early during boot. 129edac.txt 130 - information on EDAC - Error Detection And Correction 131eisa.txt 132 - info on EISA bus support. 133exception.txt 134 - how Linux v2.2 handles exceptions without verify_area etc. 135fault-injection/ 136 - dir with docs about the fault injection capabilities infrastructure. 137fb/ 138 - directory with info on the frame buffer graphics abstraction layer. 139feature-removal-schedule.txt 140 - list of files and features that are going to be removed. 141filesystems/ 142 - info on the vfs and the various filesystems that Linux supports. 143firmware_class/ 144 - request_firmware() hotplug interface info. 145frv/ 146 - Fujitsu FR-V Linux documentation. 147gpio.txt 148 - overview of GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) access conventions. 149highuid.txt 150 - notes on the change from 16 bit to 32 bit user/group IDs. 151timers/ 152 - info on the timer related topics 153hw_random.txt 154 - info on Linux support for random number generator in i8xx chipsets. 155hwmon/ 156 - directory with docs on various hardware monitoring drivers. 157i2c/ 158 - directory with info about the I2C bus/protocol (2 wire, kHz speed). 159i2o/ 160 - directory with info about the Linux I2O subsystem. 161x86/i386/ 162 - directory with info about Linux on Intel 32 bit architecture. 163ia64/ 164 - directory with info about Linux on Intel 64 bit architecture. 165infiniband/ 166 - directory with documents concerning Linux InfiniBand support. 167initrd.txt 168 - how to use the RAM disk as an initial/temporary root filesystem. 169input/ 170 - info on Linux input device support. 171io_ordering.txt 172 - info on ordering I/O writes to memory-mapped addresses. 173ioctl/ 174 - directory with documents describing various IOCTL calls. 175iostats.txt 176 - info on I/O statistics Linux kernel provides. 177irqflags-tracing.txt 178 - how to use the irq-flags tracing feature. 179isapnp.txt 180 - info on Linux ISA Plug & Play support. 181isdn/ 182 - directory with info on the Linux ISDN support, and supported cards. 183java.txt 184 - info on the in-kernel binary support for Java(tm). 185kbuild/ 186 - directory with info about the kernel build process. 187kdump/ 188 - directory with mini HowTo on getting the crash dump code to work. 189kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt 190 - mini HowTo on generation and location of kernel documentation files. 191kernel-docs.txt 192 - listing of various WWW + books that document kernel internals. 193kernel-parameters.txt 194 - summary listing of command line / boot prompt args for the kernel. 195keys-request-key.txt 196 - description of the kernel key request service. 197keys.txt 198 - description of the kernel key retention service. 199kobject.txt 200 - info of the kobject infrastructure of the Linux kernel. 201kprobes.txt 202 - documents the kernel probes debugging feature. 203kref.txt 204 - docs on adding reference counters (krefs) to kernel objects. 205laptops/ 206 - directory with laptop related info and laptop driver documentation. 207ldm.txt 208 - a brief description of LDM (Windows Dynamic Disks). 209leds-class.txt 210 - documents LED handling under Linux. 211local_ops.txt 212 - semantics and behavior of local atomic operations. 213lockdep-design.txt 214 - documentation on the runtime locking correctness validator. 215logo.gif 216 - full colour GIF image of Linux logo (penguin - Tux). 217logo.txt 218 - info on creator of above logo & site to get additional images from. 219m68k/ 220 - directory with info about Linux on Motorola 68k architecture. 221magic-number.txt 222 - list of magic numbers used to mark/protect kernel data structures. 223mca.txt 224 - info on supporting Micro Channel Architecture (e.g. PS/2) systems. 225md.txt 226 - info on boot arguments for the multiple devices driver. 227memory-barriers.txt 228 - info on Linux kernel memory barriers. 229memory-hotplug.txt 230 - Hotpluggable memory support, how to use and current status. 231memory.txt 232 - info on typical Linux memory problems. 233mips/ 234 - directory with info about Linux on MIPS architecture. 235mono.txt 236 - how to execute Mono-based .NET binaries with the help of BINFMT_MISC. 237mutex-design.txt 238 - info on the generic mutex subsystem. 239namespaces/ 240 - directory with various information about namespaces 241netlabel/ 242 - directory with information on the NetLabel subsystem. 243networking/ 244 - directory with info on various aspects of networking with Linux. 245nmi_watchdog.txt 246 - info on NMI watchdog for SMP systems. 247nommu-mmap.txt 248 - documentation about no-mmu memory mapping support. 249numastat.txt 250 - info on how to read Numa policy hit/miss statistics in sysfs. 251oops-tracing.txt 252 - how to decode those nasty internal kernel error dump messages. 253parisc/ 254 - directory with info on using Linux on PA-RISC architecture. 255parport.txt 256 - how to use the parallel-port driver. 257parport-lowlevel.txt 258 - description and usage of the low level parallel port functions. 259pcmcia/ 260 - info on the Linux PCMCIA driver. 261pi-futex.txt 262 - documentation on lightweight PI-futexes. 263pnp.txt 264 - Linux Plug and Play documentation. 265power/ 266 - directory with info on Linux PCI power management. 267powerpc/ 268 - directory with info on using Linux with the PowerPC. 269preempt-locking.txt 270 - info on locking under a preemptive kernel. 271printk-formats.txt 272 - how to get printk format specifiers right 273prio_tree.txt 274 - info on radix-priority-search-tree use for indexing vmas. 275rbtree.txt 276 - info on what red-black trees are and what they are for. 277robust-futex-ABI.txt 278 - documentation of the robust futex ABI. 279robust-futexes.txt 280 - a description of what robust futexes are. 281rt-mutex-design.txt 282 - description of the RealTime mutex implementation design. 283rt-mutex.txt 284 - desc. of RT-mutex subsystem with PI (Priority Inheritance) support. 285rtc.txt 286 - notes on how to use the Real Time Clock (aka CMOS clock) driver. 287s390/ 288 - directory with info on using Linux on the IBM S390. 289scheduler/ 290 - directory with info on the scheduler. 291scsi/ 292 - directory with info on Linux scsi support. 293serial/ 294 - directory with info on the low level serial API. 295serial-console.txt 296 - how to set up Linux with a serial line console as the default. 297sgi-ioc4.txt 298 - description of the SGI IOC4 PCI (multi function) device. 299sgi-visws.txt 300 - short blurb on the SGI Visual Workstations. 301sh/ 302 - directory with info on porting Linux to a new architecture. 303sound/ 304 - directory with info on sound card support. 305sparc/ 306 - directory with info on using Linux on Sparc architecture. 307sparse.txt 308 - info on how to obtain and use the sparse tool for typechecking. 309spi/ 310 - overview of Linux kernel Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) support. 311spinlocks.txt 312 - info on using spinlocks to provide exclusive access in kernel. 313stable_api_nonsense.txt 314 - info on why the kernel does not have a stable in-kernel api or abi. 315stable_kernel_rules.txt 316 - rules and procedures for the -stable kernel releases. 317svga.txt 318 - short guide on selecting video modes at boot via VGA BIOS. 319sysfs-rules.txt 320 - How not to use sysfs. 321sysctl/ 322 - directory with info on the /proc/sys/* files. 323sysrq.txt 324 - info on the magic SysRq key. 325telephony/ 326 - directory with info on telephony (e.g. voice over IP) support. 327time_interpolators.txt 328 - info on time interpolators. 329uml/ 330 - directory with information about User Mode Linux. 331unicode.txt 332 - info on the Unicode character/font mapping used in Linux. 333unshare.txt 334 - description of the Linux unshare system call. 335usb/ 336 - directory with info regarding the Universal Serial Bus. 337video-output.txt 338 - sysfs class driver interface to enable/disable a video output device. 339video4linux/ 340 - directory with info regarding video/TV/radio cards and linux. 341vm/ 342 - directory with info on the Linux vm code. 343volatile-considered-harmful.txt 344 - Why the "volatile" type class should not be used 345voyager.txt 346 - guide to running Linux on the Voyager architecture. 347w1/ 348 - directory with documents regarding the 1-wire (w1) subsystem. 349watchdog/ 350 - how to auto-reboot Linux if it has "fallen and can't get up". ;-) 351x86/x86_64/ 352 - directory with info on Linux support for AMD x86-64 (Hammer) machines. 353zorro.txt 354 - info on writing drivers for Zorro bus devices found on Amigas. 355
