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* Title: "Writing Linux Device Drivers"
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Author: Michael K. Johnson.
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- URL: http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/devices.html
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+ URL: http://users.evitech.fi/~tk/rtos/writing_linux_device_d.html
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Keywords: files, VFS, file operations, kernel interface, character
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vs block devices, I/O access, hardware interrupts, DMA, access to
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user memory, memory allocation, timers.
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* Title: "Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide"
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Author: Ori Pomerantz.
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- URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/mpg.html
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+ URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html
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Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,
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interrupt handlers .
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Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules
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* Title: "Device File System (devfs) Overview"
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Author: Richard Gooch.
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- URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.txt
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+ URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html
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Keywords: filesystem, /dev, devfs, dynamic devices, major/minor
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allocation, device management.
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Description: Document describing Richard Gooch's controversial
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* Title: "The Kernel Hacking HOWTO"
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Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty.
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- URL:
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- http://www.lisoleg.net/doc/Kernel-Hacking-HOWTO/kernel-hacking-HOW
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- TO.html
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+ Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking/
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+ (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs})
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Keywords: HOWTO, kernel contexts, deadlock, locking, modules,
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symbols, return conventions.
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Description: From the Introduction: "Please understand that I
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originally written for the 2.3 kernels, but nearly all of it
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applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly different".
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- * Title: "ALSA 0.5.0 Developer documentation"
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- Author: Stephan 'Jumpy' Bartels .
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- URL: http://www.math.TU-Berlin.de/~sbartels/alsa/
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+ * Title: "Writing an ALSA Driver"
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+ Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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+ URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html
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Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware.
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Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers,
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- both at kernel and user-level sides. Work in progress. ALSA is
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- supposed to be Linux's next generation sound architecture.
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+ both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel
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+ sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version.
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* Title: "Programming Guide for Linux USB Device Drivers"
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Author: Detlef Fliegl.
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filesystems, IPC and Networking Code.
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* Title: "Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary"
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- Author: John Levon.
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- URL: http://www.movement.uklinux.net/glossary.html
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+ Author: various
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+ URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/
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Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel.
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Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as
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a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear
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* Title: "Linux Kernel Locking HOWTO"
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Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty.
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- URL:
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- http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/unreliable-guides/kernel-locking-
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- HOWTO.html
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+ Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking/
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+ (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs})
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Keywords: locks, locking, spinlock, semaphore, atomic, race
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condition, bottom halves, tasklets, softirqs.
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Description: The title says it all: document describing the
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* Title: "Get those boards talking under Linux."
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Author: Alex Ivchenko.
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- URL: http://www.ednmag.com/ednmag/reg/2000/06222000/13df2.htm
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+ URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46968.html
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Keywords: data-acquisition boards, drivers, modules, interrupts,
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memory allocation.
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Description: Article written for people wishing to make their data
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overview on writing drivers, from the naming of functions to
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interrupt handling.
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Notes: Two-parts article. Part II is at
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- http://www.ednmag.com/ednmag/reg/2000/07062000/14df.htm
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+ URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46998.html
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* Title: "Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide"
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Author: David Hinds.
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definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system
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administrators."
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Author: pragmatic/THC.
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- URL: http://packetstorm.securify.com/groups/thc/LKM_HACKING.html
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+ URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html
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Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table.
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Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in
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order to intercept and modify syscalls, make
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write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to
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avoid all those abuses.
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Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x
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- kernels. Also available in txt format at
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- http://www.blacknemesis.org/hacking/txt/cllkm.txt
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+ kernels.
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BOOKS: (Not on-line)
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ISBN: 0-59600-008-1
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Notes: Further information in
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive2/
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+ * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 3nd Edition"
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+ Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman
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+ Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates.
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+ Date: 2005.
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+ Pages: 636.
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+ ISBN: 0-596-00590-3
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+ Notes: Further information in
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+ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/
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+ PDF format, URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
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+
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* Title: "Linux Kernel Internals"
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Author: Michael Beck.
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Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
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documents, FAQs...
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* Name: "linux-kernel mailing list archives and search engines"
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+ URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html
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URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html
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- URL: http://www.kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/
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- URL: http://www.geocrawler.com
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+ URL: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel
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+ URL: http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel
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+ URL: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/
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+ URL: http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/
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Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search.
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Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If
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you have a better/another one, please let me know.
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_________________________________________________________________
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- Document last updated on Thu Jun 28 15:09:39 CEST 2001
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+ Document last updated on Sat 2005-NOV-19
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Randy Dunlap