The Linux Kernel
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A guide to the Kernel Development Process
Submitting patches: the essential guide to getting your code into the kernel
Code of conduct
Kernel Maintainer Handbook
All development-process docs
Core API Documentation
Driver implementer’s API guide
General information for driver authors
Useful support libraries
Early Userspace
Kernel Connector
Bus-Independent Device Accesses
Device Frequency Scaling
Buffer Sharing and Synchronization (dma-buf)
Component Helper for Aggregate Drivers
The io_mapping functions
Ordering I/O writes to memory-mapped addresses
The Userspace I/O HOWTO
VFIO Mediated devices
VFIO - “Virtual Function I/O”
Acceptance criteria for vfio-pci device specific driver variants
Bus-level documentation
Subsystem-specific APIs
Kernel subsystem documentation
Locking in the kernel
Linux kernel licensing rules
How to write kernel documentation
Development tools for the kernel
Kernel Testing Guide
Kernel Hacking Guides
Linux Tracing Technologies
fault-injection
Kernel Livepatching
Rust
The Linux kernel user’s and administrator’s guide
The kernel build system
Reporting issues
User-space tools
The Linux kernel user-space API guide
The Linux kernel firmware guide
Open Firmware and Devicetree
CPU Architectures
Unsorted Documentation
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Early userspace support
initramfs buffer format