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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/acpi-hotkey.txt | 38 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/DMA.txt | 46 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt | 21 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 28 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-docs.txt | 257 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pci.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sh/new-machine.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sony-laptop.txt | 106 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options | 2 |
14 files changed, 334 insertions, 242 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/acpi-hotkey.txt b/Documentation/acpi-hotkey.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 38040fa37649..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/acpi-hotkey.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,38 +0,0 @@ -driver/acpi/hotkey.c implement: -1. /proc/acpi/hotkey/event_config -(event based hotkey or event config interface): -a. add a event based hotkey(event) : -echo "0:bus::action:method:num:num" > event_config - -b. delete a event based hotkey(event): -echo "1:::::num:num" > event_config - -c. modify a event based hotkey(event): -echo "2:bus::action:method:num:num" > event_config - -2. /proc/acpi/hotkey/poll_config -(polling based hotkey or event config interface): -a.add a polling based hotkey(event) : -echo "0:bus:method:action:method:num" > poll_config -this adding command will create a proc file -/proc/acpi/hotkey/method, which is used to get -result of polling. - -b.delete a polling based hotkey(event): -echo "1:::::num" > event_config - -c.modify a polling based hotkey(event): -echo "2:bus:method:action:method:num" > poll_config - -3./proc/acpi/hotkey/action -(interface to call aml method associated with a -specific hotkey(event)) -echo "event_num:event_type:event_argument" > - /proc/acpi/hotkey/action. -The result of the execution of this aml method is -attached to /proc/acpi/hotkey/poll_method, which is dynamically -created. Please use command "cat /proc/acpi/hotkey/polling_method" -to retrieve it. - -Note: Use cmdline "acpi_generic_hotkey" to over-ride -platform-specific with generic driver. diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/DMA.txt b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/DMA.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..37f4edcc5d87 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/DMA.txt @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ + S3C2410 DMA + =========== + +Introduction +------------ + + The kernel provides an interface to manage DMA transfers + using the DMA channels in the cpu, so that the central + duty of managing channel mappings, and programming the + channel generators is in one place. + + +DMA Channel Ordering +-------------------- + + Many of the range do not have connections for the DMA + channels to all sources, which means that some devices + have a restricted number of channels that can be used. + + To allow flexibilty for each cpu type and board, the + dma code can be given an dma ordering structure which + allows the order of channel search to be specified, as + well as allowing the prohibition of certain claims. + + struct s3c24xx_dma_order has a list of channels, and + each channel within has a slot for a list of dma + channel numbers. The slots are searched in order, for + the presence of a dma channel number with DMA_CH_VALID + orred in. + + If the order has the flag DMA_CH_NEVER set, then after + checking the channel list, the system will return no + found channel, thus denying the request. + + A board support file can call s3c24xx_dma_order_set() + to register an complete ordering set. The routine will + copy the data, so the original can be discared with + __initdata. + + +Authour +------- + +Ben Dooks, +Copyright (c) 2007 Ben Dooks, Simtec Electronics +Licensed under the GPL v2 diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt index 28d014714ab8..c31b76fa66c4 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt @@ -8,13 +8,10 @@ Introduction The Samsung S3C24XX range of ARM9 System-on-Chip CPUs are supported by the 's3c2410' architecture of ARM Linux. Currently the S3C2410, - S3C2440 and S3C2442 devices are supported. + S3C2412, S3C2413, S3C2440 and S3C2442 devices are supported. Support for the S3C2400 series is in progress. - Support for the S3C2412 and S3C2413 CPUs is being merged. - - Configuration ------------- @@ -26,6 +23,22 @@ Configuration please check the machine specific documentation. +Layout +------ + + The core support files are located in the platform code contained in + arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx with headers in include/asm-arm/plat-s3c24xx. + This directory should be kept to items shared between the platform + code (arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx) and the arch/arm/mach-s3c24* code. + + Each cpu has a directory with the support files for it, and the + machines that carry the device. For example S3C2410 is contained + in arch/arm/mach-s3c2410 and S3C2440 in arch/arm/mach-s3c2440 + + Register, kernel and platform data definitions are held in the + include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410 directory. + + Machines -------- diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt index 9f0bc3bfd776..f7c9262b2dc8 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ runtime memory footprint: Device Enumeration ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -As a rule, platform specific (and often board-specific) setup code wil +As a rule, platform specific (and often board-specific) setup code will register platform devices: int platform_device_register(struct platform_device *pdev); @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ It's built from two components: * platform_device.id ... the device instance number, or else "-1" to indicate there's only one. -These are catenated, so name/id "serial"/0 indicates bus_id "serial.0", and +These are concatenated, so name/id "serial"/0 indicates bus_id "serial.0", and "serial/3" indicates bus_id "serial.3"; both would use the platform_driver named "serial". While "my_rtc"/-1 would be bus_id "my_rtc" (no instance id) and use the platform_driver called "my_rtc". diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index c585aa8d62b4..6a451f47d40f 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -253,29 +253,6 @@ Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> --------------------------- -<<<<<<< test:Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt -What: ACPI hotkey driver (CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY) -When: 2.6.21 -Why: hotkey.c was an attempt to consolidate multiple drivers that use - ACPI to implement hotkeys. However, hotkeys are not documented - in the ACPI specification, so the drivers used undocumented - vendor-specific hooks and turned out to be more different than - the same. - - Further, the keys and the features supplied by each platform - are different, so there will always be a need for - platform-specific drivers. - - So the new plan is to delete hotkey.c and instead, work on the - platform specific drivers to try to make them look the same - to the user when they supply the same features. - - hotkey.c has always depended on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL - -Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> - ---------------------------- - What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace When: 2.6.21 Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for @@ -306,13 +283,6 @@ Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> --------------------------- -What: JFFS (version 1) -When: 2.6.21 -Why: Unmaintained for years, superceded by JFFS2 for years. -Who: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> - ---------------------------- - What: sk98lin network driver When: July 2007 Why: In kernel tree version of driver is unmaintained. Sk98lin driver diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt index 7ba2baa165ff..5daa2aaec2c5 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Accessing legacy resources through sysfs ---------------------------------------- Legacy I/O port and ISA memory resources are also provided in sysfs if the -underlying platform supports them. They're located in the PCI class heirarchy, +underlying platform supports them. They're located in the PCI class hierarchy, e.g. /sys/class/pci_bus/0000:17/ diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt index 4b3d6710c504..bb5306e9a5c3 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ This document describes the Linux kernel Makefiles. --- 6.1 Set variables to tweak the build to the architecture --- 6.2 Add prerequisites to archprepare: --- 6.3 List directories to visit when descending - --- 6.4 Architecture specific boot images + --- 6.4 Architecture-specific boot images --- 6.5 Building non-kbuild targets --- 6.6 Commands useful for building a boot image --- 6.7 Custom kbuild commands @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ more details, with real examples. Example: obj-y += foo.o - This tell kbuild that there is one object in that directory, named + This tells kbuild that there is one object in that directory, named foo.o. foo.o will be built from foo.c or foo.S. If foo.o shall be built as a module, the variable obj-m is used. @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ more details, with real examples. Special rules are used when the kbuild infrastructure does not provide the required support. A typical example is header files generated during the build process. - Another example are the architecture specific Makefiles which + Another example are the architecture-specific Makefiles which need special rules to prepare boot images etc. Special rules are written as normal Make rules. @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ more details, with real examples. #arch/i386/kernel/Makefile vsyscall-flags += $(call ld-option, -Wl$(comma)--hash-style=sysv) - In the above example vsyscall-flags will be assigned the option + In the above example, vsyscall-flags will be assigned the option -Wl$(comma)--hash-style=sysv if it is supported by $(CC). The second argument is optional, and if supplied will be used if first argument is not supported. @@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ more details, with real examples. #arch/i386/Makefile cflags-y += $(call cc-option,-march=pentium-mmx,-march=i586) - In the above example cflags-y will be assigned the option + In the above example, cflags-y will be assigned the option -march=pentium-mmx if supported by $(CC), otherwise -march=i586. The second argument to cc-option is optional, and if omitted, cflags-y will be assigned no value if first option is not supported. @@ -750,10 +750,10 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): located at the root of the obj tree. The very first objects linked are listed in head-y, assigned by arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile. -7) Finally, the architecture specific part does any required post processing +7) Finally, the architecture-specific part does any required post processing and builds the final bootimage. - This includes building boot records - - Preparing initrd images and thelike + - Preparing initrd images and the like --- 6.1 Set variables to tweak the build to the architecture @@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): $(head-y) lists objects to be linked first in vmlinux. $(libs-y) lists directories where a lib.a archive can be located. - The rest lists directories where a built-in.o object file can be + The rest list directories where a built-in.o object file can be located. $(init-y) objects will be located after $(head-y). @@ -888,7 +888,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): $(core-y), $(libs-y), $(drivers-y) and $(net-y). The top level Makefile defines values for all generic directories, - and arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile only adds architecture specific directories. + and arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile only adds architecture-specific directories. Example: #arch/sparc64/Makefile @@ -897,7 +897,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): drivers-$(CONFIG_OPROFILE) += arch/sparc64/oprofile/ ---- 6.4 Architecture specific boot images +--- 6.4 Architecture-specific boot images An arch Makefile specifies goals that take the vmlinux file, compress it, wrap it in bootstrapping code, and copy the resulting files @@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): "$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=<dir>" is the recommended way to invoke make in a subdirectory. - There are no rules for naming architecture specific targets, + There are no rules for naming architecture-specific targets, but executing "make help" will list all relevant targets. To support this, $(archhelp) must be defined. @@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): $(call if_changed,ld/objcopy/gzip) When the rule is evaluated, it is checked to see if any files - needs an update, or the command line has changed since the last + need an update, or the command line has changed since the last invocation. The latter will force a rebuild if any options to the executable have changed. Any target that utilises if_changed must be listed in $(targets), @@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): assignment. The kbuild infrastructure for *lds file are used in several - architecture specific files. + architecture-specific files. === 7 Kbuild Variables @@ -1133,7 +1133,7 @@ The top Makefile exports the following variables: This variable defines a place for the arch Makefiles to install the resident kernel image and System.map file. - Use this for architecture specific install targets. + Use this for architecture-specific install targets. INSTALL_MOD_PATH, MODLIB diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt index b53bccbd9727..c68dafeda7a7 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ - Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or - - Understanding the Linux Kernel. - - Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es> - + Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or + + Understanding the Linux Kernel. + + Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es> + /* * The latest version of this document may be found at: * http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html @@ -61,18 +61,18 @@ 13.-The Linux Kernel Sources, A.-Linux Data Structures, B.-The Alpha AXP Processor, C.-Useful Web and FTP Sites, D.-The GNU General Public License, Glossary". In short: a must have. - - * Title: "The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide" - Author: Michael K.Johnson and others. - URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html - Keywords: everything! - Description: No more Postscript book-like version. Only HTML now. - Many people have contributed. The interface is similar to web - available mailing lists archives. You can find some articles and - then some mails asking questions about them and/or complementing - previous contributions. A little bit anarchic in this aspect, but - with some valuable information in some cases. - + + * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition" + Author: Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet. + URL: http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html + Keywords: device drivers, modules, debugging, memory, hardware, + interrupt handling, char drivers, block drivers, kmod, mmap, DMA, + buses. + Description: O'Reilly's popular book, now also on-line under the + GNU Free Documentation License. + Notes: You can also buy it in paper-form from O'Reilly. See below + under BOOKS (Not on-line). + * Title: "Conceptual Architecture of the Linux Kernel" Author: Ivan T. Bowman. URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a1.html @@ -81,17 +81,17 @@ Description: Conceptual software arquitecture of the Linux kernel, automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding. - + * Title: "Concrete Architecture of the Linux Kernel" Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Saheem Siddiqi, and Meyer C. Tanuan. URL: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/papers/CS746G-a2.html - Keywords: concrete arquitecture, extracted design, reverse + Keywords: concrete architecture, extracted design, reverse engineering, system structure, dependencies. - Description: Concrete arquitecture of the Linux kernel, + Description: Concrete architecture of the Linux kernel, automatically extracted from the source code. Very detailed. Good figures. Gives good overall kernel understanding. This papers focus on lower details than its predecessor (files, variables...). - + * Title: "Linux as a Case Study: Its Extracted Software Architecture" Author: Ivan T. Bowman, Richard C. Holt and Neil V. Brewster. @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ Description: Paper appeared at ICSE'99, Los Angeles, May 16-22, 1999. A mixture of the previous two documents from the same author. - + * Title: "Overview of the Virtual File System" Author: Richard Gooch. URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/vfs.txt @@ -111,20 +111,20 @@ What is it, how it works, operations taken when opening a file or mounting a file system and description of important data structures explaining the purpose of each of their entries. - + * Title: "The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code" Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza. - URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue44/2391.html + URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391 Keywords: RAID, MD driver. Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's abstract: "A description of the implementation of the RAID-1, RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable, secondary-storage capability using software". - + * Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers" Author: Alessandro Rubini. - URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue23/1219.html + URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219 Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules, allocating resources. Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's @@ -134,10 +134,10 @@ loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's installment". - + * Title: "Dynamic Kernels: Discovery" Author: Alessandro Rubini. - URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue24/1220.html + URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220 Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module, autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations, open(), close(). @@ -146,20 +146,20 @@ the actual code to create custom module implementing a character device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls". - + * Title: "The Devil's in the Details" Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini. - URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue25/1221.html + URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221 Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non blocking mode, interrupt handler. Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's abstract: "This article, the third of four on writing character device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using ioctl-calls". - + * Title: "Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA" Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz. - URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue26/1222.html + URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222 Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues. Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is it's abstract: "This is the fourth in a series of articles about @@ -170,10 +170,10 @@ writing, and several different facilities have been provided for different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of DMA". - + * Title: "Device Drivers Concluded" Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz. - URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue28/1287.html + URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287 Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management, demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap, virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI. @@ -182,10 +182,10 @@ five articles about character device drivers. In this final section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts". - + * Title: "Network Buffers And Memory Management" Author: Alan Cox. - URL: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue30/1312.html + URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312 Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive, configuration, multicast. @@ -214,28 +214,26 @@ of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we envisage". - + * Title: "Programming PCI-Devices under Linux" Author: Claus Schroeter. URL: - ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/pcip.ps - .gz + ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/pcip.ps.gz Keywords: PCI, device, busmastering. Description: 6 pages tutorial on PCI programming under Linux. Gives the basic concepts on the architecture of the PCI subsystem, as long as basic functions and macros to read/write the devices and perform busmastering. - + * Title: "Writing Character Device Driver for Linux" Author: R. Baruch and C. Schroeter. URL: - ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/drivers - .ps.gz + ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/drivers.ps.gz Keywords: character device drivers, I/O, signals, DMA, accessing ports in user space, kernel environment. Description: 68 pages paper on writing character drivers. A little bit old (1.993, 1.994) although still useful. - + * Title: "Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem" Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie. @@ -249,14 +247,14 @@ e2fsck's passes description... A must read! Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9. - + * Title: "Analysis of the Ext2fs structure" Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau. - URL: http://step.polymtl.ca/~ldd/ext2fs/ext2fs_toc.html + URL: http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/files/FileSystems/ext2fs/ Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs. Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes, bitmaps, invariants... - + * Title: "Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem" Author: Stephen C. Tweedie. URL: @@ -265,7 +263,7 @@ Description: Excellent 8-pages paper explaining the journaling capabilities added to ext2 by the author, showing different problems faced and the alternatives chosen. - + * Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.0 to 2.2" Author: Richard Gooch. URL: @@ -273,7 +271,7 @@ Keywords: 2.2, changes. Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed from 2.0.x to 2.2.x. - + * Title: "Kernel API changes from 2.2 to 2.4" Author: Richard Gooch. URL: @@ -345,17 +343,7 @@ Notes: Beware: the main page states: "This document may not be published, printed or used in excerpts without explicit permission of the author". Fortunately, it may still be read... - - * Title: "Tour Of the Linux Kernel Source" - Author: Vijo Cherian. - URL: http://www.geocities.com/vijoc/tolks/tolks.html - Keywords: . - Description: A classic of this page! Was lost for a while and is - back again. Thanks Vijo! TOLKS: the name says it all. A tour of - the sources, describing directories, files, variables, data - structures... It covers general stuff, device drivers, - filesystems, IPC and Networking Code. - + * Title: "Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary" Author: various URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/ @@ -377,7 +365,17 @@ kernels, but most of it applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly different". Freely redistributable under the conditions of the GNU General Public License. - + + * Title: "Global spinlock list and usage" + Author: Rick Lindsley. + URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock + Keywords: spinlock. + Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and + usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive + list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions + access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it + is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held... + * Title: "Porting Linux 2.0 Drivers To Linux 2.2: Changes and New Features " Author: Alan Cox. @@ -385,70 +383,70 @@ Keywords: ports, porting. Description: Article from Linux Magazine on porting from 2.0 to 2.2 kernels. - + * Title: "Porting Device Drivers To Linux 2.2: part II" Author: Alan Cox. URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-06/gear_01.html Keywords: ports, porting. Description: Second part on porting from 2.0 to 2.2 kernels. - + * Title: "How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh" Author: Paul Mackerras. URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-07/gear_01.html Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility. Description: The title says it all. - + * Title: "An Introduction to SCSI Drivers" Author: Alan Cox. URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-08/gear_01.html Keywords: SCSI, device, driver. Description: The title says it all. - + * Title: "Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales" Author: Alan Cox. URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-09/gear_01.html Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced. Description: The title says it all. - + * Title: "Writing Linux Mouse Drivers" Author: Alan Cox. URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-10/gear_01.html Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm. Description: The title says it all. - + * Title: "More on Mouse Drivers" Author: Alan Cox. URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-11/gear_01.html Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O. Description: The title still says it all. - + * Title: "Writing Video4linux Radio Driver" Author: Alan Cox. URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-12/gear_01.html Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices. Description: The title says it all. - + * Title: "Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device" Author: Alan Cox. URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-01/gear_01.html Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices, camera driver. Description: The title says it all. - + * Title: "Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices" Author: Alan Cox. URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-02/gear_01.html Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices, camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility. Description: The title says it all. - + * Title: "PCI Management in Linux 2.2" Author: Alan Cox. URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-03/gear_01.html Keywords: PCI, bus, bus-mastering. Description: The title says it all. - + * Title: "Linux 2.4 Kernel Internals" Author: Tigran Aivazian and Christoph Hellwig. URL: http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/lki.html @@ -456,13 +454,11 @@ Description: A little book used for a short training course. Covers building the kernel image, booting (including SMP bootup), process management, VFS and more. - + * Title: "Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack." Author: Glenn Herrin. - URL: - http://kernelnewbies.org/documents/ipnetworking/linuxipnetworking. - html + URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection, socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets, modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags. @@ -495,7 +491,7 @@ drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with Card Services. - + * Title: "The Linux Kernel NFSD Implementation" Author: Neil Brown. URL: @@ -591,47 +587,22 @@ Pages: 520. ISBN: 2-212-08932-5 Notes: French. - - * Title: "The Linux Kernel Book" - Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel. - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons. - Date: 1998. - ISBN: 0-471-98141-9 - Notes: English translation. - - * Title: "Linux 2.0" - Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel. - Publisher: Gestión 2000. - Date: 1997. - Pages: 501. - ISBN: 8-480-88208-5 - Notes: Spanish translation. - + * Title: "Unix internals -- the new frontiers" Author: Uresh Vahalia. Publisher: Prentice Hall. Date: 1996. Pages: 600. ISBN: 0-13-101908-2 - - * Title: "Linux Core Kernel Commentary. Guide to Insider's Knowledge - on the Core Kernel of the Linux Code" - Author: Scott Maxwell. - Publisher: Coriolis. - Date: 1999. - Pages: 592. - ISBN: 1-57610-469-9 - Notes: CD-ROM included. Line by line commentary of the kernel - code. - - * Title: "Linux IP Stacks Commentary" - Author: Stephen Satchell and HBJ Clifford. - Publisher: Coriolis. - Date: 2000. - Pages: ???. - ISBN: 1-57610-470-2 - Notes: Line by line source code commentary book. - + + * Title: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX + Operating System" + Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels, + John S. Quarterman. + Publisher: Addison-Wesley. + Date: 1996. + ISBN: 0-201-54979-4 + * Title: "Programming for the real world - POSIX.4" Author: Bill O. Gallmeister. Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.. @@ -640,18 +611,32 @@ ISBN: I-56592-074-0 Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be POSIX. Good reference. - - * Title: "Understanding the Linux Kernel" - Author: Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati. - Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.. - Date: 2000. - Pages: 702. - ISBN: 0-596-00002-2 - Notes: Further information in - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/ - + + * Title: "UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric + Multiprocesssing and Caching for Kernel Programmers" + Author: Curt Schimmel. + Publisher: Addison Wesley. + Date: June, 1994. + Pages: 432. + ISBN: 0-201-63338-8 + + * Title: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX + Operating System" + Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. + Karels, John S. Quarterman. + Publisher: Addison-Wesley. + Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990). + ISBN: 0-201-06196-1 + + * Title: "The Design of the UNIX Operating System" + Author: Maurice J. Bach. + Publisher: Prentice Hall. + Date: 1986. + Pages: 471. + ISBN: 0-13-201757-1 + MISCELLANEOUS: - + * Name: linux/Documentation Author: Many. URL: Just look inside your kernel sources. @@ -660,7 +645,7 @@ inside the Documentation directory. Some pages from this document (including this document itself) have been moved there, and might be more up to date than the web version. - + * Name: "Linux Source Driver" URL: http://lsd.linux.cz Keywords: Browsing source code. @@ -671,7 +656,7 @@ you can search Linux kernel (fulltext, macros, types, functions and variables) and LSD can generate patches for you on the fly (files, directories or kernel)". - + * Name: "Linux Kernel Source Reference" Author: Thomas Graichen. URL: http://innominate.org/~graichen/projects/lksr/ @@ -681,27 +666,27 @@ sources of any version starting from 1.0 up to the (daily updated) current version available. Also you can check the differences between two versions of a file". - + * Name: "Cross-Referencing Linux" URL: http://lxr.linux.no/source/ Keywords: Browsing source code. Description: Another web-based Linux kernel source code browser. Lots of cross references to variables and functions. You can see where they are defined and where they are used. - + * Name: "Linux Weekly News" URL: http://lwn.net Keywords: latest kernel news. Description: The title says it all. There's a fixed kernel section summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions produced during the week. Published every Thursday. - + * Name: "Kernel Traffic" - URL: http://www.kerneltraffic.org/kernel-traffic/ + URL: http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/ Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list, weekly kernel news. Description: Weekly newsletter covering the most relevant discussions of the linux-kernel mailing list. - + * Name: "CuTTiNG.eDGe.LiNuX" URL: http://edge.kernelnotes.org Keywords: changelist. @@ -709,7 +694,7 @@ release. What's new, what's better, what's changed. Myrdraal reads the patches and describes them. Pointers to the patches are there, too. - + * Name: "New linux-kernel Mailing List FAQ" URL: http://www.tux.org/lkml/ Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list FAQ. @@ -719,7 +704,7 @@ it. Read it to see how to join the mailing list. Dozens of interesting questions regarding the list, Linux, developers (who is ...?), terms (what is...?) are answered here too. Just read it. - + * Name: "Linux Virtual File System" Author: Peter J. Braam. URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/ @@ -727,10 +712,10 @@ Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the dcache. - + * Name: "Gary's Encyclopedia - The Linux Kernel" Author: Gary (I suppose...). - URL: http://members.aa.net/~swear/pedia/kernel.html + URL: http://www.lisoleg.net/cgi-bin/lisoleg.pl?view=kernel.htm Keywords: links, not found here?. Description: Gary's Encyclopedia exists to allow the rapid finding of documentation and other information of interest to GNU/Linux @@ -738,7 +723,7 @@ categories. This link is for kernel-specific links, documents, sites... Look there if you could not find here what you were looking for. - + * Name: "The home page of Linux-MM" Author: The Linux-MM team. URL: http://linux-mm.org/ @@ -747,7 +732,7 @@ Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development. Memory related patches, HOWTOs, links, mm developers... Don't miss it if you are interested in memory management development! - + * Name: "Kernel Newbies IRC Channel" URL: http://www.kernelnewbies.org Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts. diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index abd575cfc759..c479d30eeaa3 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ parameter is applicable: ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled. ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled. JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled. + LIBATA Libata driver is enabled LP Printer support is enabled. LOOP Loopback device support is enabled. M68k M68k architecture is enabled. @@ -863,7 +864,14 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Format: <1-256> maxcpus= [SMP] Maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel - should make use of + should make use of. + Using "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0" will disable SMP + entirely (the MPS table probe still happens, though). + A command-line option of "maxcpus=<NUM>", where <NUM> + is an integer greater than 0, limits the maximum number + of CPUs activated in SMP mode to <NUM>. + Using "maxcpus=1" on an SMP kernel is the trivial + case of an SMP kernel with only one CPU. max_addr=[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ia64] All physical memory greater than or equal to this physical address is ignored. @@ -1038,6 +1046,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor is present. + noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume + when set. + Format: <int> + noaliencache [MM, NUMA] Disables the allcoation of alien caches in the slab allocator. Saves per-node memory, but will impact performance on real NUMA hardware. @@ -1275,6 +1287,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file This sorting is done to get a device order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. + cbiosize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is + reserved for the CardBus bridge's IO window. + The default value is 256 bytes. + cbmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is + reserved for the CardBus bridge's memory + window. The default value is 64 megabytes. pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 diff --git a/Documentation/pci.txt b/Documentation/pci.txt index fd5028eca13e..cdf2f3c0ab14 100644 --- a/Documentation/pci.txt +++ b/Documentation/pci.txt @@ -205,8 +205,8 @@ Tips on when/where to use the above attributes: exclusively called by the probe() routine, can be marked __devinit. Ditto for remove() and __devexit. - o If mydriver_probe() is marked with __devinit(), then all address - references to mydriver_probe must use __devexit_p(mydriver_probe) + o If mydriver_remove() is marked with __devexit(), then all address + references to mydriver_remove must use __devexit_p(mydriver_remove) (in the struct pci_driver declaration for example). __devexit_p() will generate the function name _or_ NULL if the function will be discarded. For an example, see drivers/net/tg3.c. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt index 3b514672b80e..b41397d6430a 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt @@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ looks like in practice. | |- device_type = "cpu" | |- reg = <0> | |- clock-frequency = <5f5e1000> - | |- linux,boot-cpu + | |- 64-bit | |- linux,phandle = <2> | o memory@0 @@ -509,7 +509,6 @@ looks like in practice. o chosen |- name = "chosen" |- bootargs = "root=/dev/sda2" - |- linux,platform = <00000600> |- linux,phandle = <4> This tree is almost a minimal tree. It pretty much contains the @@ -519,7 +518,7 @@ physical memory layout. It also includes misc information passed through /chosen, like in this example, the platform type (mandatory) and the kernel command line arguments (optional). -The /cpus/PowerPC,970@0/linux,boot-cpu property is an example of a +The /cpus/PowerPC,970@0/64-bit property is an example of a property without a value. All other properties have a value. The significance of the #address-cells and #size-cells properties will be explained in chapter IV which defines precisely the required nodes and @@ -733,8 +732,7 @@ address which can extend beyond that limit. that typically get driven by the same platform code in the kernel, you would use a different "model" property but put a value in "compatible". The kernel doesn't directly use that - value (see /chosen/linux,platform for how the kernel chooses a - platform type) but it is generally useful. + value but it is generally useful. The root node is also generally where you add additional properties specific to your board like the serial number if any, that sort of @@ -778,7 +776,6 @@ address which can extend beyond that limit. bytes - d-cache-size : one cell, size of L1 data cache in bytes - i-cache-size : one cell, size of L1 instruction cache in bytes - - linux, boot-cpu : Should be defined if this cpu is the boot cpu. Recommended properties: @@ -843,11 +840,6 @@ address which can extend beyond that limit. the prom_init() trampoline when booting with an OF client interface, but that you have to provide yourself when using the flattened format. - Required properties: - - - linux,platform : This is your platform number as assigned by the - architecture maintainers - Recommended properties: - bootargs : This zero-terminated string is passed as the kernel diff --git a/Documentation/sh/new-machine.txt b/Documentation/sh/new-machine.txt index 73988e0d112b..5482bf5d005b 100644 --- a/Documentation/sh/new-machine.txt +++ b/Documentation/sh/new-machine.txt @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ of the board-specific code (with the exception of stboards) ended up in arch/sh/kernel/ directly, with board-specific headers ending up in include/asm-sh/. For the new kernel, things are broken out by board type, companion chip type, and CPU type. Looking at a tree view of this directory -heirarchy looks like the following: +hierarchy looks like the following: Board-specific code: @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ overloading), and you can feel free to name the directory after the family member itself. There are a few things that each board is required to have, both in the -arch/sh/boards and the include/asm-sh/ heirarchy. In order to better +arch/sh/boards and the include/asm-sh/ hierarchy. In order to better explain this, we use some examples for adding an imaginary board. For setup code, we're required at the very least to provide definitions for get_system_type() and platform_setup(). For our imaginary board, this diff --git a/Documentation/sony-laptop.txt b/Documentation/sony-laptop.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..dfd26df056f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/sony-laptop.txt @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +Sony Notebook Control Driver (SNC) Readme +----------------------------------------- + Copyright (C) 2004- 2005 Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> + Copyright (C) 2007 Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> + +This mini-driver drives the SNC device present in the ACPI BIOS of +the Sony Vaio laptops. + +It gives access to some extra laptop functionalities. In its current +form, this driver let the user set or query the screen brightness +through the backlight subsystem and remove/apply power to some devices. + +Backlight control: +------------------ +If your laptop model supports it, you will find sysfs files in the +/sys/class/backlight/sony/ +directory. You will be able to query and set the current screen +brightness: + brightness get/set screen brightness (an iteger + between 0 and 7) + actual_brightness reading from this file will query the HW + to get real brightness value + max_brightness the maximum brightness value + + +Platform specific: +------------------ +Loading the sony-laptop module will create a +/sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/ +directory populated with some files. + +You then read/write integer values from/to those files by using +standard UNIX tools. + +The files are: + brightness_default screen brightness which will be set + when the laptop will be rebooted + cdpower power on/off the internal CD drive + audiopower power on/off the internal sound card + lanpower power on/off the internal ethernet card + (only in debug mode) + +Note that some files may be missing if they are not supported +by your particular laptop model. + +Example usage: + # echo "1" > /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/brightness_default +sets the lowest screen brightness for the next and later reboots, + # echo "8" > /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/brightness_default +sets the highest screen brightness for the next and later reboots, + # cat /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/brightness_default +retrieves the value. + + # echo "0" > /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/audiopower +powers off the sound card, + # echo "1" > /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/audiopower +powers on the sound card. + +Development: +------------ + +If you want to help with the development of this driver (and +you are not afraid of any side effects doing strange things with +your ACPI BIOS could have on your laptop), load the driver and +pass the option 'debug=1'. + +REPEAT: DON'T DO THIS IF YOU DON'T LIKE RISKY BUSINESS. + +In your kernel logs you will find the list of all ACPI methods +the SNC device has on your laptop. You can see the GCDP/GCDP methods +used to pwer on/off the CD drive, but there are others. + +I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THOSE METHODS DO. + +The sony-laptop driver creates, for some of those methods (the most +current ones found on several Vaio models), an entry under +/sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop, just like the 'cdpower' one. +You can create other entries corresponding to your own laptop methods by +further editing the source (see the 'sony_acpi_values' table, and add a new +entry to this table with your get/set method names using the +HANDLE_NAMES macro). + +Your mission, should you accept it, is to try finding out what +those entries are for, by reading/writing random values from/to those +files and find out what is the impact on your laptop. + +Should you find anything interesting, please report it back to me, +I will not disavow all knowledge of your actions :) + +Bugs/Limitations: +----------------- + +* This driver is not based on official documentation from Sony + (because there is none), so there is no guarantee this driver + will work at all, or do the right thing. Although this hasn't + happened to me, this driver could do very bad things to your + laptop, including permanent damage. + +* The sony-laptop and sonypi drivers do not interact at all. In the + future, sonypi could use sony-laptop to do (part of) its business. + +* spicctrl, which is the userspace tool used to communicate with the + sonypi driver (through /dev/sonypi) does not try to use the + sony-laptop driver. In the future, spicctrl could try sonypi first, + and if it isn't present, try sony-laptop instead. + diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options b/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options index bb7c2cac7917..5ef75787f83a 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ bttv.o i2c_udelay= Allow reduce I2C speed. Default is 5 usecs (meaning 66,67 Kbps). The default is the maximum supported speed by kernel bitbang - algoritm. You may use lower numbers, if I2C + algorithm. You may use lower numbers, if I2C messages are lost (16 is known to work on all supported cards). |