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
• Memory management
  • Memblock
• Data Structures in the Linux Kernel
  • Doubly linked list
• Theory
  • Paging
  • Elf64
  • Per-CPU variables
  • Lockdep
  • CPUID
  • MSR
• Misc
  • Kernel building and instalation
  • Write and Submit your first Linux kernel Patch
  • Data types in the kernel
• Useful links
• Contributors