The Linux kernel user’s and administrator’s guide¶
The following is a collection of user-oriented documents that have been added to the kernel over time. There is, as yet, little overall order or organization here — this material was not written to be a single, coherent document! With luck things will improve quickly over time.
This initial section contains overall information, including the README file describing the kernel as a whole, documentation on kernel parameters, etc.
Here is a set of documents aimed at users who are trying to track down problems and bugs in particular.
This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to application developers. Documents covering various aspects of the kernel ABI will be found here.
The rest of this manual consists of various unordered guides on how to configure specific aspects of kernel behavior to your liking.
- Using the initial RAM disk (initrd)
- Linux Serial Console
- Linux Braille Console
- Parport
- RAID arrays
- Kernel module signing facility
- Linux Magic System Request Key Hacks
- Unicode support
- Software cursor for VGA
- Kernel Support for miscellaneous (your favourite) Binary Formats v1.1
- Mono(tm) Binary Kernel Support for Linux
- Java(tm) Binary Kernel Support for Linux v1.03
- Reliability, Availability and Serviceability
- Power Management
- Thunderbolt
- Linux Security Module Usage