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1 2 This is a brief list of all the files in ./linux/Documentation and what 3 they contain. If you add a documentation file, please list it here in 4 alphabetical order as well, or risk being hunted down like a rabid dog. 5 Please keep the descriptions small enough to fit on one line. 6 Thanks -- Paul G. 7 8 Following translations are available on the WWW: 9 10 - Japanese, maintained by the JF Project (jf@listserv.linux.or.jp), at 11 http://linuxjf.sourceforge.jp/ 12 13 00-INDEX 14 - this file. 15 ABI/ 16 - info on kernel <-> userspace ABI and relative interface stability. 17 18 BUG-HUNTING 19 - brute force method of doing binary search of patches to find bug. 20 Changes 21 - list of changes that break older software packages. 22 CodingStyle 23 - how the maintainers expect the C code in the kernel to look. 24 DMA-API.txt 25 - DMA API, pci_ API & extensions for non-consistent memory machines. 26 DMA-API-HOWTO.txt 27 - Dynamic DMA mapping Guide 28 DMA-ISA-LPC.txt 29 - How to do DMA with ISA (and LPC) devices. 30 DMA-attributes.txt 31 - listing of the various possible attributes a DMA region can have 32 DocBook/ 33 - directory with DocBook templates etc. for kernel documentation. 34 EDID/ 35 - directory with info on customizing EDID for broken gfx/displays. 36 HOWTO 37 - the process and procedures of how to do Linux kernel development. 38 IPMI.txt 39 - info on Linux Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) Driver. 40 IRQ-affinity.txt 41 - how to select which CPU(s) handle which interrupt events on SMP. 42 IRQ-domain.txt 43 - info on inerrupt numbering and setting up IRQ domains. 44 IRQ.txt 45 - description of what an IRQ is. 46 Intel-IOMMU.txt 47 - basic info on the Intel IOMMU virtualization support. 48 Makefile 49 - some files in Documentation dir are actually sample code to build 50 ManagementStyle 51 - how to (attempt to) manage kernel hackers. 52 RCU/ 53 - directory with info on RCU (read-copy update). 54 SAK.txt 55 - info on Secure Attention Keys. 56 SM501.txt 57 - Silicon Motion SM501 multimedia companion chip 58 SecurityBugs 59 - procedure for reporting security bugs found in the kernel. 60 SubmitChecklist 61 - Linux kernel patch submission checklist. 62 SubmittingDrivers 63 - procedure to get a new driver source included into the kernel tree. 64 SubmittingPatches 65 - procedure to get a source patch included into the kernel tree. 66 VGA-softcursor.txt 67 - how to change your VGA cursor from a blinking underscore. 68 accounting/ 69 - documentation on accounting and taskstats. 70 acpi/ 71 - info on ACPI-specific hooks in the kernel. 72 aoe/ 73 - description of AoE (ATA over Ethernet) along with config examples. 74 applying-patches.txt 75 - description of various trees and how to apply their patches. 76 arm/ 77 - directory with info about Linux on the ARM architecture. 78 arm64/ 79 - directory with info about Linux on the 64 bit ARM architecture. 80 atomic_ops.txt 81 - semantics and behavior of atomic and bitmask operations. 82 auxdisplay/ 83 - misc. LCD driver documentation (cfag12864b, ks0108). 84 backlight/ 85 - directory with info on controlling backlights in flat panel displays 86 bad_memory.txt 87 - how to use kernel parameters to exclude bad RAM regions. 88 basic_profiling.txt 89 - basic instructions for those who wants to profile Linux kernel. 90 binfmt_misc.txt 91 - info on the kernel support for extra binary formats. 92 blackfin/ 93 - directory with documentation for the Blackfin arch. 94 block/ 95 - info on the Block I/O (BIO) layer. 96 blockdev/ 97 - info on block devices & drivers 98 braille-console.txt 99 - info on how to use serial devices for Braille support. 100 bt8xxgpio.txt 101 - info on how to modify a bt8xx video card for GPIO usage. 102 btmrvl.txt 103 - info on Marvell Bluetooth driver usage. 104 bus-devices/ 105 - directory with info on TI GPMC (General Purpose Memory Controller) 106 bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt 107 - how to access I/O mapped memory from within device drivers. 108 cachetlb.txt 109 - describes the cache/TLB flushing interfaces Linux uses. 110 cdrom/ 111 - directory with information on the CD-ROM drivers that Linux has. 112 cgroups/ 113 - cgroups features, including cpusets and memory controller. 114 circular-buffers.txt 115 - how to make use of the existing circular buffer infrastructure 116 clk.txt 117 - info on the common clock framework 118 coccinelle.txt 119 - info on how to get and use the Coccinelle code checking tool. 120 connector/ 121 - docs on the netlink based userspace<->kernel space communication mod. 122 console/ 123 - documentation on Linux console drivers. 124 cpu-freq/ 125 - info on CPU frequency and voltage scaling. 126 cpu-hotplug.txt 127 - document describing CPU hotplug support in the Linux kernel. 128 cpu-load.txt 129 - document describing how CPU load statistics are collected. 130 cpuidle/ 131 - info on CPU_IDLE, CPU idle state management subsystem. 132 cputopology.txt 133 - documentation on how CPU topology info is exported via sysfs. 134 crc32.txt 135 - brief tutorial on CRC computation 136 cris/ 137 - directory with info about Linux on CRIS architecture. 138 crypto/ 139 - directory with info on the Crypto API. 140 dcdbas.txt 141 - information on the Dell Systems Management Base Driver. 142 debugging-modules.txt 143 - some notes on debugging modules after Linux 2.6.3. 144 debugging-via-ohci1394.txt 145 - how to use firewire like a hardware debugger memory reader. 146 dell_rbu.txt 147 - document demonstrating the use of the Dell Remote BIOS Update driver. 148 development-process/ 149 - how to work with the mainline kernel development process. 150 device-mapper/ 151 - directory with info on Device Mapper. 152 devices.txt 153 - plain ASCII listing of all the nodes in /dev/ with major minor #'s. 154 devicetree/ 155 - directory with info on device tree files used by OF/PowerPC/ARM 156 digsig.txt 157 -info on the Digital Signature Verification API 158 dma-buf-sharing.txt 159 - the DMA Buffer Sharing API Guide 160 dmaengine.txt 161 -the DMA Engine API Guide 162 dontdiff 163 - file containing a list of files that should never be diff'ed. 164 driver-model/ 165 - directory with info about Linux driver model. 166 dvb/ 167 - info on Linux Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) subsystem. 168 dynamic-debug-howto.txt 169 - how to use the dynamic debug (dyndbg) feature. 170 early-userspace/ 171 - info about initramfs, klibc, and userspace early during boot. 172 edac.txt 173 - information on EDAC - Error Detection And Correction 174 eisa.txt 175 - info on EISA bus support. 176 email-clients.txt 177 - info on how to use e-mail to send un-mangled (git) patches. 178 extcon/ 179 - directory with porting guide for Android kernel switch driver. 180 fault-injection/ 181 - dir with docs about the fault injection capabilities infrastructure. 182 fb/ 183 - directory with info on the frame buffer graphics abstraction layer. 184 filesystems/ 185 - info on the vfs and the various filesystems that Linux supports. 186 firmware_class/ 187 - request_firmware() hotplug interface info. 188 flexible-arrays.txt 189 - how to make use of flexible sized arrays in linux 190 frv/ 191 - Fujitsu FR-V Linux documentation. 192 futex-requeue-pi.txt 193 - info on requeueing of tasks from a non-PI futex to a PI futex 194 gcov.txt 195 - use of GCC's coverage testing tool "gcov" with the Linux kernel 196 gpio.txt 197 - overview of GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) access conventions. 198 hid/ 199 - directory with information on human interface devices 200 highuid.txt 201 - notes on the change from 16 bit to 32 bit user/group IDs. 202 hwspinlock.txt 203 - hardware spinlock provides hardware assistance for synchronization 204 timers/ 205 - info on the timer related topics 206 hw_random.txt 207 - info on Linux support for random number generator in i8xx chipsets. 208 hwmon/ 209 - directory with docs on various hardware monitoring drivers. 210 i2c/ 211 - directory with info about the I2C bus/protocol (2 wire, kHz speed). 212 i2o/ 213 - directory with info about the Linux I2O subsystem. 214 x86/i386/ 215 - directory with info about Linux on Intel 32 bit architecture. 216 ia64/ 217 - directory with info about Linux on Intel 64 bit architecture. 218 infiniband/ 219 - directory with documents concerning Linux InfiniBand support. 220 init.txt 221 - what to do when the kernel can't find the 1st process to run. 222 initrd.txt 223 - how to use the RAM disk as an initial/temporary root filesystem. 224 input/ 225 - info on Linux input device support. 226 intel_txt.txt 227 - info on intel Trusted Execution Technology (intel TXT). 228 io-mapping.txt 229 - description of io_mapping functions in linux/io-mapping.h 230 io_ordering.txt 231 - info on ordering I/O writes to memory-mapped addresses. 232 ioctl/ 233 - directory with documents describing various IOCTL calls. 234 iostats.txt 235 - info on I/O statistics Linux kernel provides. 236 irqflags-tracing.txt 237 - how to use the irq-flags tracing feature. 238 isapnp.txt 239 - info on Linux ISA Plug & Play support. 240 isdn/ 241 - directory with info on the Linux ISDN support, and supported cards. 242 java.txt 243 - info on the in-kernel binary support for Java(tm). 244 ja_JP/ 245 - directory with Japanese translations of various documents 246 kbuild/ 247 - directory with info about the kernel build process. 248 kdump/ 249 - directory with mini HowTo on getting the crash dump code to work. 250 kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt 251 - mini HowTo on generation and location of kernel documentation files. 252 kernel-docs.txt 253 - listing of various WWW + books that document kernel internals. 254 kernel-parameters.txt 255 - summary listing of command line / boot prompt args for the kernel. 256 kmemcheck.txt 257 - info on dynamic checker that detects uses of uninitialized memory. 258 kmemleak.txt 259 - info on how to make use of the kernel memory leak detection system 260 ko_KR/ 261 - directory with Korean translations of various documents 262 kobject.txt 263 - info of the kobject infrastructure of the Linux kernel. 264 kprobes.txt 265 - documents the kernel probes debugging feature. 266 kref.txt 267 - docs on adding reference counters (krefs) to kernel objects. 268 laptops/ 269 - directory with laptop related info and laptop driver documentation. 270 ldm.txt 271 - a brief description of LDM (Windows Dynamic Disks). 272 leds/ 273 - directory with info about LED handling under Linux. 274 local_ops.txt 275 - semantics and behavior of local atomic operations. 276 lockdep-design.txt 277 - documentation on the runtime locking correctness validator. 278 lockstat.txt 279 - info on collecting statistics on locks (and contention). 280 lockup-watchdogs.txt 281 - info on soft and hard lockup detectors (aka nmi_watchdog). 282 logo.gif 283 - full colour GIF image of Linux logo (penguin - Tux). 284 logo.txt 285 - info on creator of above logo & site to get additional images from. 286 m68k/ 287 - directory with info about Linux on Motorola 68k architecture. 288 magic-number.txt 289 - list of magic numbers used to mark/protect kernel data structures. 290 md.txt 291 - info on boot arguments for the multiple devices driver. 292 media-framework.txt 293 - info on media framework, its data structures, functions and usage. 294 memory-barriers.txt 295 - info on Linux kernel memory barriers. 296 memory-devices/ 297 - directory with info on parts like the Texas Instruments EMIF driver 298 memory-hotplug.txt 299 - Hotpluggable memory support, how to use and current status. 300 memory.txt 301 - info on typical Linux memory problems. 302 metag/ 303 - directory with info about Linux on Meta architecture. 304 mips/ 305 - directory with info about Linux on MIPS architecture. 306 misc-devices/ 307 - directory with info about devices using the misc dev subsystem 308 mmc/ 309 - directory with info about the MMC subsystem 310 mn10300/ 311 - directory with info about the mn10300 architecture port 312 mtd/ 313 - directory with info about memory technology devices (flash) 314 mono.txt 315 - how to execute Mono-based .NET binaries with the help of BINFMT_MISC. 316 mutex-design.txt 317 - info on the generic mutex subsystem. 318 namespaces/ 319 - directory with various information about namespaces 320 netlabel/ 321 - directory with information on the NetLabel subsystem. 322 networking/ 323 - directory with info on various aspects of networking with Linux. 324 nfc/ 325 - directory relating info about Near Field Communications support. 326 nommu-mmap.txt 327 - documentation about no-mmu memory mapping support. 328 numastat.txt 329 - info on how to read Numa policy hit/miss statistics in sysfs. 330 oops-tracing.txt 331 - how to decode those nasty internal kernel error dump messages. 332 padata.txt 333 - An introduction to the "padata" parallel execution API 334 parisc/ 335 - directory with info on using Linux on PA-RISC architecture. 336 parport.txt 337 - how to use the parallel-port driver. 338 parport-lowlevel.txt 339 - description and usage of the low level parallel port functions. 340 pcmcia/ 341 - info on the Linux PCMCIA driver. 342 percpu-rw-semaphore.txt 343 - RCU based read-write semaphore optimized for locking for reading 344 pi-futex.txt 345 - documentation on lightweight priority inheritance futexes. 346 pinctrl.txt 347 - info on pinctrl subsystem and the PINMUX/PINCONF and drivers 348 pnp.txt 349 - Linux Plug and Play documentation. 350 power/ 351 - directory with info on Linux PCI power management. 352 powerpc/ 353 - directory with info on using Linux with the PowerPC. 354 prctl/ 355 - directory with info on the priveledge control subsystem 356 preempt-locking.txt 357 - info on locking under a preemptive kernel. 358 printk-formats.txt 359 - how to get printk format specifiers right 360 pps/ 361 - directory with information on the pulse-per-second support 362 ptp/ 363 - directory with info on support for IEEE 1588 PTP clocks in Linux. 364 pwm.txt 365 - info on the pulse width modulation driver subsystem 366 ramoops.txt 367 - documentation of the ramoops oops/panic logging module. 368 rapidio/ 369 - directory with info on RapidIO packet-based fabric interconnect 370 rbtree.txt 371 - info on what red-black trees are and what they are for. 372 remoteproc.txt 373 - info on how to handle remote processor (e.g. AMP) offloads/usage. 374 rfkill.txt 375 - info on the radio frequency kill switch subsystem/support. 376 robust-futex-ABI.txt 377 - documentation of the robust futex ABI. 378 robust-futexes.txt 379 - a description of what robust futexes are. 380 rpmsg.txt 381 - info on the Remote Processor Messaging (rpmsg) Framework 382 rt-mutex-design.txt 383 - description of the RealTime mutex implementation design. 384 rt-mutex.txt 385 - desc. of RT-mutex subsystem with PI (Priority Inheritance) support. 386 rtc.txt 387 - notes on how to use the Real Time Clock (aka CMOS clock) driver. 388 s390/ 389 - directory with info on using Linux on the IBM S390. 390 scheduler/ 391 - directory with info on the scheduler. 392 scsi/ 393 - directory with info on Linux scsi support. 394 security/ 395 - directory that contains security-related info 396 serial/ 397 - directory with info on the low level serial API. 398 serial-console.txt 399 - how to set up Linux with a serial line console as the default. 400 sgi-ioc4.txt 401 - description of the SGI IOC4 PCI (multi function) device. 402 sgi-visws.txt 403 - short blurb on the SGI Visual Workstations. 404 sh/ 405 - directory with info on porting Linux to a new architecture. 406 smsc_ece1099.txt 407 -info on the smsc Keyboard Scan Expansion/GPIO Expansion device. 408 sound/ 409 - directory with info on sound card support. 410 sparse.txt 411 - info on how to obtain and use the sparse tool for typechecking. 412 spi/ 413 - overview of Linux kernel Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) support. 414 spinlocks.txt 415 - info on using spinlocks to provide exclusive access in kernel. 416 stable_api_nonsense.txt 417 - info on why the kernel does not have a stable in-kernel api or abi. 418 stable_kernel_rules.txt 419 - rules and procedures for the -stable kernel releases. 420 static-keys.txt 421 - info on how static keys allow debug code in hotpaths via patching 422 svga.txt 423 - short guide on selecting video modes at boot via VGA BIOS. 424 sysfs-rules.txt 425 - How not to use sysfs. 426 sysctl/ 427 - directory with info on the /proc/sys/* files. 428 sysrq.txt 429 - info on the magic SysRq key. 430 target/ 431 - directory with info on generating TCM v4 fabric .ko modules 432 thermal/ 433 - directory with information on managing thermal issues (CPU/temp) 434 trace/ 435 - directory with info on tracing technologies within linux 436 unaligned-memory-access.txt 437 - info on how to avoid arch breaking unaligned memory access in code. 438 unicode.txt 439 - info on the Unicode character/font mapping used in Linux. 440 unshare.txt 441 - description of the Linux unshare system call. 442 usb/ 443 - directory with info regarding the Universal Serial Bus. 444 vDSO/ 445 - directory with info regarding virtual dynamic shared objects 446 vfio.txt 447 - info on Virtual Function I/O used in guest/hypervisor instances. 448 vgaarbiter.txt 449 - info on enable/disable the legacy decoding on different VGA devices 450 video-output.txt 451 - sysfs class driver interface to enable/disable a video output device. 452 video4linux/ 453 - directory with info regarding video/TV/radio cards and linux. 454 virtual/ 455 - directory with information on the various linux virtualizations. 456 vm/ 457 - directory with info on the Linux vm code. 458 vme_api.txt 459 - file relating info on the VME bus API in linux 460 volatile-considered-harmful.txt 461 - Why the "volatile" type class should not be used 462 w1/ 463 - directory with documents regarding the 1-wire (w1) subsystem. 464 watchdog/ 465 - how to auto-reboot Linux if it has "fallen and can't get up". ;-) 466 wimax/ 467 - directory with info about Intel Wireless Wimax Connections 468 workqueue.txt 469 - information on the Concurrency Managed Workqueue implementation 470 x86/x86_64/ 471 - directory with info on Linux support for AMD x86-64 (Hammer) machines. 472 xtensa/ 473 - directory with documents relating to arch/xtensa port/implementation 474 xz.txt 475 - how to make use of the XZ data compression within linux kernel 476 zh_CN/ 477 - directory with Chinese translations of various documents 478 zorro.txt 479 - info on writing drivers for Zorro bus devices found on Amigas.