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- This is a brief list of all the files in ./linux/Documentation and what
- they contain. If you add a documentation file, please list it here in
- alphabetical order as well. Note that subdirectories have their own
- index files too.
- Thanks -- Paul.
-
- 00-INDEX
- - this file.
- BUG-HUNTING
- - brute force method of doing binary search of patches to find bug.
- Changes
- - list of changes that break older software packages.
- CodingStyle
- - how the boss likes the C code in the kernel to look.
- Configure.help
- - text file that is used for help when you run "make config"
- SMP.txt
- - notes, and "To Fix" list for multi-processor Linux. (see smp.tex)
- cdrom/
- - directory with information on the CD-ROM drivers that Linux has.
- devices.tex
- - TeX source listing of all the nodes in /dev/ with major minor #'s
- devices.txt
- - plain ASCII listing of all the nodes in /dev/ with major minor #'s
- digiboard.txt
- - info on the Digiboard PC/X{i,e,eve} multiport boards.
- filesystems/
- - directory with info on the various filesystems that Linux supports.
- ide.txt
- - important info for users of ATA devices (IDE/EIDE disks and CD-ROMS)
- initrd.txt
- - how to use the RAM disk as an initial/temporary root filesystem.
- ioctl-number.txt
- - how to implement and register device/driver ioctl calls.
- isdn/
- - directory with info on the linux ISDN support, and supported cards.
- java.txt
- - info on the in-kernel binary support for Java(tm)
- locks.txt
- - info on file locking implementations, flock() vs. fcntl(), etc.
- magic-number.txt
- - list of magic numbers used to mark/protect kernel data structures.
- mandatory.txt
- - info on the linux implementation of Sys V mandatory file locking.
- modules.txt
- - short guide on how to make kernel parts into loadable modules
- networking/
- - directory with info on various linux networking aspects.
- nfsroot.txt
- - short guide on setting up a diskless box with NFS root filesystem
- oops-tracing.txt
- - how to decode those nasty internal kernel error dump messages.
- ramdisk.txt
- - short guide on how to set up and use the RAM disk.
- riscom8.txt
- - notes on using the RISCom/8 multi-port serial driver.
- rtc.txt
- - notes on how to use the Real Time Clock (aka CMOS clock) driver.
- scsi.txt
- - short blurb on using SCSI support as a module.
- smp.tex
- - TeX document describing implementation of Multiprocessor Linux
- svga.txt
- - short guide on selecting video modes at boot via VGA BIOS.
- unicode.txt
- - info on the Unicode character/font mapping used in Linux.
- watchdog.txt
- - how to auto-reboot Linux if it has "fallen and can't get up". ;-)
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