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Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt

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		Device Enumeration
		~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
		As a rule, platform specific (and often board-specific) setup code wil
		As a rule, platform specific (and often board-specific) setup code will
		register platform devices:

		int platform_device_register(struct platform_device *pdev);
		@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ It's built from two components:
		* platform_device.id ... the device instance number, or else "-1"
		to indicate there's only one.

		These are catenated, so name/id "serial"/0 indicates bus_id "serial.0", and
		These are concatenated, so name/id "serial"/0 indicates bus_id "serial.0", and
		"serial/3" indicates bus_id "serial.3"; both would use the platform_driver
		named "serial". While "my_rtc"/-1 would be bus_id "my_rtc" (no instance id)
		and use the platform_driver called "my_rtc".

Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt

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		----------------------------------------

		Legacy I/O port and ISA memory resources are also provided in sysfs if the
		underlying platform supports them. They're located in the PCI class heirarchy,
		underlying platform supports them. They're located in the PCI class hierarchy,
		e.g.

		/sys/class/pci_bus/0000:17/

Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt

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		@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ This document describes the Linux kernel Makefiles.
		--- 6.1 Set variables to tweak the build to the architecture
		--- 6.2 Add prerequisites to archprepare:
		--- 6.3 List directories to visit when descending
		--- 6.4 Architecture specific boot images
		--- 6.4 Architecture-specific boot images
		--- 6.5 Building non-kbuild targets
		--- 6.6 Commands useful for building a boot image
		--- 6.7 Custom kbuild commands
		@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ more details, with real examples.
		Example:
		obj-y += foo.o

		This tell kbuild that there is one object in that directory, named
		This tells kbuild that there is one object in that directory, named
		foo.o. foo.o will be built from foo.c or foo.S.

		If foo.o shall be built as a module, the variable obj-m is used.
		@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ more details, with real examples.
		Special rules are used when the kbuild infrastructure does
		not provide the required support. A typical example is
		header files generated during the build process.
		Another example are the architecture specific Makefiles which
		Another example are the architecture-specific Makefiles which
		need special rules to prepare boot images etc.

		Special rules are written as normal Make rules.
		@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ more details, with real examples.
		#arch/i386/kernel/Makefile
		vsyscall-flags += $(call ld-option, -Wl$(comma)--hash-style=sysv)

		In the above example vsyscall-flags will be assigned the option
		In the above example, vsyscall-flags will be assigned the option
		-Wl$(comma)--hash-style=sysv if it is supported by $(CC).
		The second argument is optional, and if supplied will be used
		if first argument is not supported.
		@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ more details, with real examples.
		#arch/i386/Makefile
		cflags-y += $(call cc-option,-march=pentium-mmx,-march=i586)

		In the above example cflags-y will be assigned the option
		In the above example, cflags-y will be assigned the option
		-march=pentium-mmx if supported by $(CC), otherwise -march=i586.
		The second argument to cc-option is optional, and if omitted,
		cflags-y will be assigned no value if first option is not supported.
		@@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
		located at the root of the obj tree.
		The very first objects linked are listed in head-y, assigned by
		arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile.
		7) Finally, the architecture specific part does any required post processing
		7) Finally, the architecture-specific part does any required post processing
		and builds the final bootimage.
		- This includes building boot records
		- Preparing initrd images and the like
		@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):

		$(head-y) lists objects to be linked first in vmlinux.
		$(libs-y) lists directories where a lib.a archive can be located.
		The rest lists directories where a built-in.o object file can be
		The rest list directories where a built-in.o object file can be
		located.

		$(init-y) objects will be located after $(head-y).
		@@ -888,7 +888,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
		$(core-y), $(libs-y), $(drivers-y) and $(net-y).

		The top level Makefile defines values for all generic directories,
		and arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile only adds architecture specific directories.
		and arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile only adds architecture-specific directories.

		Example:
		#arch/sparc64/Makefile
		@@ -897,7 +897,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
		drivers-$(CONFIG_OPROFILE) += arch/sparc64/oprofile/


		--- 6.4 Architecture specific boot images
		--- 6.4 Architecture-specific boot images

		An arch Makefile specifies goals that take the vmlinux file, compress
		it, wrap it in bootstrapping code, and copy the resulting files
		@@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
		"$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=<dir>" is the recommended way to invoke
		make in a subdirectory.

		There are no rules for naming architecture specific targets,
		There are no rules for naming architecture-specific targets,
		but executing "make help" will list all relevant targets.
		To support this, $(archhelp) must be defined.

		@@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
		$(call if_changed,ld/objcopy/gzip)

		When the rule is evaluated, it is checked to see if any files
		needs an update, or the command line has changed since the last
		need an update, or the command line has changed since the last
		invocation. The latter will force a rebuild if any options
		to the executable have changed.
		Any target that utilises if_changed must be listed in $(targets),
		@@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
		assignment.

		The kbuild infrastructure for *lds file are used in several
		architecture specific files.
		architecture-specific files.


		=== 7 Kbuild Variables
		@@ -1133,7 +1133,7 @@ The top Makefile exports the following variables:

		This variable defines a place for the arch Makefiles to install
		the resident kernel image and System.map file.
		Use this for architecture specific install targets.
		Use this for architecture-specific install targets.

		INSTALL_MOD_PATH, MODLIB

Documentation/kernel-docs.txt

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		Alpha AXP Processor, C.-Useful Web and FTP Sites, D.-The GNU
		General Public License, Glossary". In short: a must have.

		* Title: "The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide"
		Author: Michael K.Johnson and others.
		URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html
		Keywords: everything!
		Description: No more Postscript book-like version. Only HTML now.
		Many people have contributed. The interface is similar to web
		available mailing lists archives. You can find some articles and
		then some mails asking questions about them and/or complementing
		previous contributions. A little bit anarchic in this aspect, but
		with some valuable information in some cases.
		* Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition"
		Author: Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet.
		URL: http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html
		Keywords: device drivers, modules, debugging, memory, hardware,
		interrupt handling, char drivers, block drivers, kmod, mmap, DMA,
		buses.
		Description: O'Reilly's popular book, now also on-line under the
		GNU Free Documentation License.
		Notes: You can also buy it in paper-form from O'Reilly. See below
		under BOOKS (Not on-line).

		* Title: "Conceptual Architecture of the Linux Kernel"
		Author: Ivan T. Bowman.
		@@ -85,9 +85,9 @@
		* Title: "Concrete Architecture of the Linux Kernel"
		Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Saheem Siddiqi, and Meyer C. Tanuan.
		URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a2.html
		Keywords: concrete arquitecture, extracted design, reverse
		Keywords: concrete architecture, extracted design, reverse
		engineering, system structure, dependencies.
		Description: Concrete arquitecture of the Linux kernel,
		Description: Concrete architecture of the Linux kernel,
		automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good
		figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding. This papers
		focus on lower details than its predecessor (files, variables...).
		@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@

		* Title: "The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code"
		Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
		URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue44/2391.html
		URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391
		Keywords: RAID, MD driver.
		Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
		abstract: "A description of the implementation of the RAID-1,
		@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@

		* Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers"
		Author: Alessandro Rubini.
		URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue23/1219.html
		URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219
		Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules,
		allocating resources.
		Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
		@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@

		* Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Discovery"
		Author: Alessandro Rubini.
		URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue24/1220.html
		URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220
		Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module,
		autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations,
		open(), close().
		@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@

		* Title: "The Devil's in the Details"
		Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini.
		URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue25/1221.html
		URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221
		Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non
		blocking mode, interrupt handler.
		Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
		@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@

		* Title: "Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA"
		Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
		URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue26/1222.html
		URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222
		Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues.
		Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's
		abstract: "This is the fourth in a series of articles about
		@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@

		* Title: "Device Drivers Concluded"
		Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz.
		URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue28/1287.html
		URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287
		Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management,
		demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap,
		virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
		@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@

		* Title: "Network Buffers And Memory Management"
		Author: Alan Cox.
		URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue30/1312.html
		URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312
		Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer
		variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive,
		configuration, multicast.
		@@ -218,8 +218,7 @@
		* Title: "Programming PCI-Devices under Linux"
		Author: Claus Schroeter.
		URL:
		ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/pcip.ps
		.gz
		ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/pcip.ps.gz
		Keywords: PCI, device, busmastering.
		Description: 6 pages tutorial on PCI programming under Linux.
		Gives the basic concepts on the architecture of the PCI subsystem,
		@@ -229,8 +228,7 @@
		* Title: "Writing Character Device Driver for Linux"
		Author: R. Baruch and C. Schroeter.
		URL:
		ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/drivers
		.ps.gz
		ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/drivers.ps.gz
		Keywords: character device drivers, I/O, signals, DMA, accessing
		ports in user space, kernel environment.
		Description: 68 pages paper on writing character drivers. A little
		@@ -252,7 +250,7 @@

		* Title: "Analysis of the Ext2fs structure"
		Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
		URL: http://step.polymtl.ca/~ldd/ext2fs/ext2fs_toc.html
		URL: http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/files/FileSystems/ext2fs/
		Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs.
		Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
		bitmaps, invariants...
		@@ -346,16 +344,6 @@
		published, printed or used in excerpts without explicit permission
		of the author". Fortunately, it may still be read...

		* Title: "Tour Of the Linux Kernel Source"
		Author: Vijo Cherian.
		URL: http://www.geocities.com/vijoc/tolks/tolks.html
		Keywords: .
		Description: A classic of this page! Was lost for a while and is
		back again. Thanks Vijo! TOLKS: the name says it all. A tour of
		the sources, describing directories, files, variables, data
		structures... It covers general stuff, device drivers,
		filesystems, IPC and Networking Code.

		* Title: "Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary"
		Author: various
		URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/
		@@ -378,6 +366,16 @@
		different". Freely redistributable under the conditions of the GNU
		General Public License.

		* Title: "Global spinlock list and usage"
		Author: Rick Lindsley.
		URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock
		Keywords: spinlock.
		Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and
		usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive
		list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions
		access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it
		is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held...

		* Title: "Porting Linux 2.0 Drivers To Linux 2.2: Changes and New
		Features "
		Author: Alan Cox.
		@@ -460,9 +458,7 @@
		* Title: "Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and
		Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack."
		Author: Glenn Herrin.
		URL:
		http://kernelnewbies.org/documents/ipnetworking/linuxipnetworking.
		html
		URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin
		Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection,
		socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets,
		modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags.
		@@ -592,21 +588,6 @@
		ISBN: 2-212-08932-5
		Notes: French.

		* Title: "The Linux Kernel Book"
		Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel.
		Publisher: John Wiley & Sons.
		Date: 1998.
		ISBN: 0-471-98141-9
		Notes: English translation.

		* Title: "Linux 2.0"
		Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel.
		Publisher: Gestión 2000.
		Date: 1997.
		Pages: 501.
		ISBN: 8-480-88208-5
		Notes: Spanish translation.

		* Title: "Unix internals -- the new frontiers"
		Author: Uresh Vahalia.
		Publisher: Prentice Hall.
		@@ -614,23 +595,13 @@
		Pages: 600.
		ISBN: 0-13-101908-2

		* Title: "Linux Core Kernel Commentary. Guide to Insider's Knowledge
		on the Core Kernel of the Linux Code"
		Author: Scott Maxwell.
		Publisher: Coriolis.
		Date: 1999.
		Pages: 592.
		ISBN: 1-57610-469-9
		Notes: CD-ROM included. Line by line commentary of the kernel
		code.

		* Title: "Linux IP Stacks Commentary"
		Author: Stephen Satchell and HBJ Clifford.
		Publisher: Coriolis.
		Date: 2000.
		Pages: ???.
		ISBN: 1-57610-470-2
		Notes: Line by line source code commentary book.
		* Title: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX
		Operating System"
		Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels,
		John S. Quarterman.
		Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
		Date: 1996.
		ISBN: 0-201-54979-4

		* Title: "Programming for the real world - POSIX.4"
		Author: Bill O. Gallmeister.
		@@ -641,14 +612,28 @@
		Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be
		POSIX. Good reference.

		* Title: "Understanding the Linux Kernel"
		Author: Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati.
		Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc..
		Date: 2000.
		Pages: 702.
		ISBN: 0-596-00002-2
		Notes: Further information in
		http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/
		* Title: "UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric
		Multiprocesssing and Caching for Kernel Programmers"
		Author: Curt Schimmel.
		Publisher: Addison Wesley.
		Date: June, 1994.
		Pages: 432.
		ISBN: 0-201-63338-8

		* Title: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX
		Operating System"
		Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J.
		Karels, John S. Quarterman.
		Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
		Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990).
		ISBN: 0-201-06196-1

		* Title: "The Design of the UNIX Operating System"
		Author: Maurice J. Bach.
		Publisher: Prentice Hall.
		Date: 1986.
		Pages: 471.
		ISBN: 0-13-201757-1

		MISCELLANEOUS:

		@@ -697,7 +682,7 @@
		produced during the week. Published every Thursday.

		* Name: "Kernel Traffic"
		URL: http://www.kerneltraffic.org/kernel-traffic/
		URL: http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/
		Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list, weekly kernel news.
		Description: Weekly newsletter covering the most relevant
		discussions of the linux-kernel mailing list.
		@@ -730,7 +715,7 @@

		* Name: "Gary's Encyclopedia - The Linux Kernel"
		Author: Gary (I suppose...).
		URL: http://members.aa.net/~swear/pedia/kernel.html
		URL: http://www.lisoleg.net/cgi-bin/lisoleg.pl?view=kernel.htm
		Keywords: links, not found here?.
		Description: Gary's Encyclopedia exists to allow the rapid finding
		of documentation and other information of interest to GNU/Linux

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

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		Format: <1-256>

		maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel
		should make use of
		should make use of.
		Using "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0" will disable SMP
		entirely (the MPS table probe still happens, though).
		A command-line option of "maxcpus=<NUM>", where <NUM>
		is an integer greater than 0, limits the maximum number
		of CPUs activated in SMP mode to <NUM>.
		Using "maxcpus=1" on an SMP kernel is the trivial
		case of an SMP kernel with only one CPU.

		max_addr=[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater than or
		equal to this physical address is ignored.