<title>Linux Kernel Documentation</title>

<h1>todo</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href=master.html>Master index of linux kernel documentation</a> (Very much a work in progress)</a>
<li><a href=local>Some locally produced docs</a></li>
</ul>

<h1>Sources of documentation</h1>

<p>These are various upstream sources of documentation, most of which should
be linked from the master index (above) once that's it's actually worth using.</p>

<ul>
<li><a href=Documentation>Text files in the kernel's Documentation directory.</a></li>
<li><a href=htmldocs>Output of kernel's "make htmldocs".</a></li>
<li><a href=xmlman>html version of man-pages package</a></li>
<li><a href=http://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/>Linux Weekly News kernel articles</a></li>
<li>Linux Device Drivers book (<a href=http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/>third edition</a>) (<a href=http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/>second edition</a>)</li>
<li><a href=ols>Ottawa Linux Symposium papers</li>
<li><a href=http://www.linuxjournal.com/xstatic/magazine/archives>Linux Journal archives</a></li>
<li><a href=http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/linux/library.jsp>IBM Developerworks Linux Library</a> (also <a href=http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-kernel/>here</a>)
</li>
<li><a href=http://www.tux.org/lkml/>Linux Kernel Mailing List FAQ</a></li>
<li><a href=http://kernelplanet.org>Kernel Planet (blog aggregator)</a></li>
</ul>

<h1>Standards</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href=http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/>Single Unix Specification v3</a> (Also known as Open Group Base Specifications issue 6, and closely overlapping with Posix.  See especially <a href=http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/idx/xsh.html>system interfaces</a>)</li>
<li><a href=http://www.linux-foundation.org/spec/refspecs/>Linux Foundation's specs page</a> (ELF, Dwarf, ABI...)</li>
</ul>

<h1>Translations</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href=http://tlktp.sourceforge.net/>Linux Kernel Translation Project</a></li>
<li><a href=http://kernelnewbies.org/RegionalNewbies>Kernel Newbies regional pages</a></li>
<li><a href=http://www.linux.or.jp/JF/index.html>Japanese</a></li>
<li><a href=http://zh-kernel.org/docs>Chinese</a></li>
</ul>

<p>This page is maintained by Rob Landley &lt;rob@landley.net&gt;, based
on <a href=http://landley.net/hg/kdocs>this mercurial repostiory</a> and
discussed on the linux-doc mailing list on vger.kernel.org.  The
cannonical location of the page is <a href=http://kernel.org/doc>here</a>.</p>