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.
8 Following translations are available on the WWW:
10 - Japanese, maintained by the JF Project (jf@listserv.linux.or.jp), at
11 http://linuxjf.sourceforge.jp/
16 - info on kernel <-> userspace ABI and relative interface stability.
18 - nothing here, just a pointer to process/coding-style.rst.
20 - DMA API, pci_ API & extensions for non-consistent memory machines.
22 - Dynamic DMA mapping Guide
24 - How to do DMA with ISA (and LPC) devices.
26 - listing of the various possible attributes a DMA region can have
28 - directory with info on customizing EDID for broken gfx/displays.
30 - info on Linux Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) Driver.
32 - how to select which CPU(s) handle which interrupt events on SMP.
34 - info on interrupt numbering and setting up IRQ domains.
36 - description of what an IRQ is.
38 - basic info on the Intel IOMMU virtualization support.
40 - It's not of interest for those who aren't touching the build system.
42 - info related to PCI drivers.
44 - directory with info on RCU (read-copy update).
46 - info on Secure Attention Keys.
48 - Silicon Motion SM501 multimedia companion chip
50 - nothing here, just a pointer to process/coding-style.rst.
52 - documentation on accounting and taskstats.
54 - info on ACPI-specific hooks in the kernel.
56 - info related to Linux users and system admins.
58 - description of AoE (ATA over Ethernet) along with config examples.
60 - directory with info about Linux on the ARM architecture.
62 - directory with info about Linux on the 64 bit ARM architecture.
64 - misc. LCD driver documentation (cfag12864b, ks0108).
66 - directory with info on controlling backlights in flat panel displays
68 - info on the Block I/O (BIO) layer.
70 - info on block devices & drivers
72 - info on how to modify a bt8xx video card for GPIO usage.
74 - info on Marvell Bluetooth driver usage.
76 - directory with info on TI GPMC (General Purpose Memory Controller)
77 bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
78 - how to access I/O mapped memory from within device drivers.
80 - directory with information on the CD-ROM drivers that Linux has.
82 - cgroups v1 features, including cpusets and memory controller.
84 - Continuous Memory Area (CMA) debugfs interface.
86 - It's not of interest for those who aren't touching the build system.
88 - docs on the netlink based userspace<->kernel space communication mod.
90 - documentation on Linux console drivers.
92 - documentation on kernel core components.
94 - info on CPU frequency and voltage scaling.
96 - document describing CPU hotplug support in the Linux kernel.
98 - document describing how CPU load statistics are collected.
100 - info on CPU_IDLE, CPU idle state management subsystem.
102 - documentation on how CPU topology info is exported via sysfs.
104 - brief tutorial on CRC computation
106 - directory with info on the Crypto API.
108 - information on the Dell Systems Management Base Driver.
109 debugging-modules.txt
110 - some notes on debugging modules after Linux 2.6.3.
111 debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
112 - how to use firewire like a hardware debugger memory reader.
114 - document demonstrating the use of the Dell Remote BIOS Update driver.
116 - directory with info on development tools for the kernel.
118 - directory with info on Device Mapper.
120 - the DMA engine and controller API guides.
122 - directory with info on device tree files used by OF/PowerPC/ARM
124 -info on the Digital Signature Verification API
126 - the DMA Buffer Sharing API Guide
128 - nothing here. Just a configuration file for docutils.
130 - file containing a list of files that should never be diff'ed.
132 - the Linux driver implementer's API guide.
134 - directory with info about Linux driver model.
136 - info about initramfs, klibc, and userspace early during boot.
138 - How to use the EFI boot stub to bypass GRUB or elilo on EFI systems.
140 - info on EISA bus support.
142 - directory with porting guide for Android kernel switch driver.
144 - info on EISA bus support.
146 - dir with docs about the fault injection capabilities infrastructure.
148 - directory with info on the frame buffer graphics abstraction layer.
150 - status of feature implementation on different architectures.
152 - info on the vfs and the various filesystems that Linux supports.
154 - request_firmware() hotplug interface info.
156 - how to make use of flexible sized arrays in linux
158 - information about the FMC bus abstraction
162 - info on requeueing of tasks from a non-PI futex to a PI futex
164 - GCC plugin infrastructure.
166 - gpio related documentation
168 - directory with information on GPU driver developer's guide.
170 - directory with information on human interface devices
172 - notes on the change from 16 bit to 32 bit user/group IDs.
174 - hardware spinlock provides hardware assistance for synchronization
176 - info on the timer related topics
178 - info on Linux support for random number generator in i8xx chipsets.
180 - directory with docs on various hardware monitoring drivers.
182 - directory with info about the I2C bus/protocol (2 wire, kHz speed).
184 - directory with info about Linux on Intel 32 bit architecture.
186 - directory with info about Linux on Intel 64 bit architecture.
188 - Information regarding the Enhanced IDE drive.
190 - info on industrial IIO configfs support.
192 - main index for the documentation at ReST format.
194 - directory with documents concerning Linux InfiniBand support.
196 - info on Linux input device support.
198 - info on intel Trusted Execution Technology (intel TXT).
200 - description of io_mapping functions in linux/io-mapping.h
202 - info on ordering I/O writes to memory-mapped addresses.
204 - directory with documents describing various IOCTL calls.
206 - info on I/O statistics Linux kernel provides.
208 - how to use the irq-flags tracing feature.
210 - info on Linux ISA Plug & Play support.
212 - directory with info on the Linux ISDN support, and supported cards.
214 - directory with info about the kernel build process.
216 - directory with mini HowTo on getting the crash dump code to work.
218 - how to write and format reStructuredText kernel documentation
219 kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
220 - List of all per-CPU kthreads and how they introduce jitter.
222 - info of the kobject infrastructure of the Linux kernel.
224 - documents the kernel probes debugging feature.
226 - docs on adding reference counters (krefs) to kernel objects.
228 - directory with laptop related info and laptop driver documentation.
230 - a brief description of LDM (Windows Dynamic Disks).
232 - directory with info about LED handling under Linux.
234 - info on kernel live patching.
236 - directory with info about kernel locking primitives
238 - info on soft and hard lockup detectors (aka nmi_watchdog).
240 - full colour GIF image of Linux logo (penguin - Tux).
242 - info on creator of above logo & site to get additional images from.
244 - Linux Security Modules: General Security Hooks for Linux
246 - kernel LZO decompressor input formats
248 - directory with info about Linux on Motorola 68k architecture.
250 - How to write drivers for the common mailbox framework (IPC).
252 - directory with info about Linux Software RAID
254 - info on media drivers: uAPI, kAPI and driver documentation.
256 - info on Linux kernel memory barriers.
258 - directory with info on parts like the Texas Instruments EMIF driver
260 - Hotpluggable memory support, how to use and current status.
261 men-chameleon-bus.txt
262 - info on MEN chameleon bus.
264 - Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture device driver.
266 - directory with info about Linux on MIPS architecture.
268 - directory with info about devices using the misc dev subsystem
270 - directory with info about the MMC subsystem
272 - directory with info about memory technology devices (flash)
274 - directory with various information about namespaces
276 - directory with information on the NetLabel subsystem.
278 - directory with info on various aspects of networking with Linux.
280 - directory relating info about Near Field Communications support.
282 - Linux on the Nios II architecture.
284 - documentation about no-mmu memory mapping support.
286 - info on how to read Numa policy hit/miss statistics in sysfs.
288 - info on Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB) drivers.
290 - info on non-volatile devices.
292 - info on non volatile memory framework.
294 - default directory where html/LaTeX/pdf files will be written.
296 - An introduction to the "padata" parallel execution API
298 - directory with info on using Linux on PA-RISC architecture.
300 - description and usage of the low level parallel port functions.
302 - info on the Linux PCMCIA driver.
303 percpu-rw-semaphore.txt
304 - RCU based read-write semaphore optimized for locking for reading
306 - info about the APM X-Gene SoC Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU).
308 - ino on Samsung USB 2.0 PHY adaptation layer.
310 - Description of the generic PHY framework.
312 - documentation on lightweight priority inheritance futexes.
314 - info on pinctrl subsystem and the PINMUX/PINCONF and drivers
316 - List of supported hardware by compal and Dell laptop.
318 - Linux Plug and Play documentation.
320 - directory with info on Linux PCI power management.
322 - directory with info on using Linux with the PowerPC.
324 - directory with info on the priveledge control subsystem
326 - info on locking under a preemptive kernel.
328 - how to work with the mainline kernel development process.
330 - directory with information on the pulse-per-second support
332 - directory with info on Intel MID PTI.
334 - directory with info on support for IEEE 1588 PTP clocks in Linux.
336 - info on the pulse width modulation driver subsystem
338 - directory with info on RapidIO packet-based fabric interconnect
340 - info on what red-black trees are and what they are for.
342 - info on how to handle remote processor (e.g. AMP) offloads/usage.
344 - info on the radio frequency kill switch subsystem/support.
346 - documentation of the robust futex ABI.
348 - a description of what robust futexes are.
350 - info on the Remote Processor Messaging (rpmsg) Framework
352 - notes on how to use the Real Time Clock (aka CMOS clock) driver.
354 - directory with info on using Linux on the IBM S390.
356 - directory with info on the scheduler.
358 - directory with info on Linux scsi support.
360 - directory that contains security-related info
362 - directory with info on the low level serial API.
364 - description of the SGI IOC4 PCI (multi function) device.
366 - directory with info on porting Linux to a new architecture.
368 -info on the smsc Keyboard Scan Expansion/GPIO Expansion device.
370 - directory with info on sound card support.
372 - overview of Linux kernel Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) support.
374 - no documentation here, just files required by Sphinx toolchain.
376 - no documentation here, just files required by Sphinx toolchain.
378 - info on how static keys allow debug code in hotpaths via patching
380 - short guide on selecting video modes at boot via VGA BIOS.
382 - Sync file API guide.
384 - directory with info on the /proc/sys/* files.
386 - directory with info on generating TCM v4 fabric .ko modules
388 - info on the TEE subsystem and drivers
390 - List rationale behind and the way to use this_cpu operations.
392 - directory with information on managing thermal issues (CPU/temp)
394 - directory with info on tracing technologies within linux
396 - translations of this document from English to another language
397 unaligned-memory-access.txt
398 - info on how to avoid arch breaking unaligned memory access in code.
400 - description of the Linux unshare system call.
402 - directory with info regarding the Universal Serial Bus.
404 - info on Virtual Function I/O used in guest/hypervisor instances.
406 - sysfs class driver interface to enable/disable a video output device.
408 - directory with information on the various linux virtualizations.
410 - directory with info on the Linux vm code.
412 - directory with documents regarding the 1-wire (w1) subsystem.
414 - how to auto-reboot Linux if it has "fallen and can't get up". ;-)
416 - directory with info about Intel Wireless Wimax Connections
417 core-api/workqueue.rst
418 - information on the Concurrency Managed Workqueue implementation
420 - directory with info on Linux support for AMD x86-64 (Hammer) machines.
422 - Overview and basic ui of xillybus driver
424 - directory with documents relating to arch/xtensa port/implementation
426 - how to make use of the XZ data compression within linux kernel
428 - info on writing drivers for Zorro bus devices found on Amigas.