linux-insides/SUMMARY.md

Summary

• Booting
  • From bootloader to kernel
  • First steps in the kernel setup code
  • Video mode initialization and transition to protected mode
  • Transition to 64-bit mode
  • Kernel decompression
• Initialization
  • First steps in the kernel
  • Early interrupts handler
  • Last preparations before the kernel entry point
  • Kernel entry point
  • Continue architecture-specific boot-time initializations
  • Architecture-specific initializations, again...
  • [End of the architecture-specific initializations, almost...]()
• Memory management
  • Memblock
  • Fixmaps and ioremap
• [Interrupts]()
• [vsyscalls and vdso]()
• [SMP]()
• Concepts
  • Per-CPU variables
  • Cpumasks
• Data Structures in the Linux Kernel
  • Doubly linked list
• Theory
  • Paging
  • Elf64
  • [CPUID]()
  • [MSR]()
• [Initial ram disk]()
  • [initrd]()
• Misc
  • [Kernel building and instalation]()
  • [Write and Submit your first Linux kernel Patch]()
  • [Data types in the kernel]()
• Useful links
• Contributors