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6 The Linux Kernel documentation
7 ==============================
9 This is the top level of the kernel's documentation tree. Kernel
10 documentation, like the kernel itself, is very much a work in progress;
11 that is especially true as we work to integrate our many scattered
12 documents into a coherent whole. Please note that improvements to the
13 documentation are welcome; join the linux-doc list at vger.kernel.org if
16 User-oriented documentation
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19 The following manuals are written for *users* of the kernel — those who are
20 trying to get it to work optimally on a given system.
27 Application-developer documentation
28 -----------------------------------
30 The user-space API manual gathers together documents describing aspects of
31 the kernel interface as seen by application developers.
39 Introduction to kernel development
40 ----------------------------------
42 These manuals contain overall information about how to develop the kernel.
43 The kernel community is quite large, with thousands of developers
44 contributing over the course of a year. As with any large community,
45 knowing how things are done will make the process of getting your changes
56 Kernel API documentation
57 ------------------------
59 These books get into the details of how specific kernel subsystems work
60 from the point of view of a kernel developer. Much of the information here
61 is taken directly from the kernel source, with supplemental material added
62 as needed (or at least as we managed to add it — probably *not* all that is
79 Architecture-specific documentation
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82 These books provide programming details about architecture-specific
96 translations/ko_KR/index
104 translations/zh_CN/index
106 Japanese translations
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112 translations/ja_JP/index