This is a brief list of all the files in ./linux/Documentation and what they contain. If you add a documentation file, please list it here in alphabetical order as well. Note that subdirectories have their own index files too. Thanks -- Paul. 00-INDEX - this file. BUG-HUNTING - brute force method of doing binary search of patches to find bug. Changes - list of changes that break older software packages. CodingStyle - how the boss likes the C code in the kernel to look. Configure.help - text file that is used for help when you run "make config" IO-mapping.txt - how to access I/O mapped memory from within device drivers. SMP.txt - notes, and "To Fix" list for multi-processor Linux. (see smp.tex) cdrom/ - directory with information on the CD-ROM drivers that Linux has. devices.tex - TeX source listing of all the nodes in /dev/ with major minor #'s devices.txt - plain ASCII listing of all the nodes in /dev/ with major minor #'s digiboard.txt - info on the Digiboard PC/X{i,e,eve} multiport boards. filesystems/ - directory with info on the various filesystems that Linux supports. ide.txt - important info for users of ATA devices (IDE/EIDE disks and CD-ROMS) initrd.txt - how to use the RAM disk as an initial/temporary root filesystem. ioctl-number.txt - how to implement and register device/driver ioctl calls. isdn/ - directory with info on the linux ISDN support, and supported cards. java.txt - info on the in-kernel binary support for Java(tm) locks.txt - info on file locking implementations, flock() vs. fcntl(), etc. logo.gif - GIF image of penguin as a linux logo (see logo.txt) logo.txt - the who where and how of the penguin linux logo. magic-number.txt - list of magic numbers used to mark/protect kernel data structures. mandatory.txt - info on the linux implementation of Sys V mandatory file locking. memory-tuning.txt - info on setting the /proc/sys/vm parameters to match your system. modules.txt - short guide on how to make kernel parts into loadable modules networking/ - directory with info on various linux networking aspects. nfsroot.txt - short guide on setting up a diskless box with NFS root filesystem oops-tracing.txt - how to decode those nasty internal kernel error dump messages. paride.txt - info on parallel port IDE devices (tapes, floppies, CD-ROMS, etc) ramdisk.txt - short guide on how to set up and use the RAM disk. riscom8.txt - notes on using the RISCom/8 multi-port serial driver. rtc.txt - notes on how to use the Real Time Clock (aka CMOS clock) driver. scsi.txt - short blurb on using SCSI support as a module. smp.tex - TeX document describing implementation of Multiprocessor Linux specialix.txt - info on hardware/driver for specialix IO8+ multiport serial card. svga.txt - short guide on selecting video modes at boot via VGA BIOS. unicode.txt - info on the Unicode character/font mapping used in Linux. watchdog.txt - how to auto-reboot Linux if it has "fallen and can't get up". ;-) xterm-linux.xpm - XPM format image/icon of penguin on an xterm (see logo.txt)