Part I. Developer's Reference Manual
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Part I. Developer's Reference Manual
Table of Contents
1. The Linux Kernel
1. Configuration
1.1. Generic configuration
1.1.1. Local version
1.1.2. Default hostname
1.1.3. swap
1.1.4. Stack utilization messages
1.1.5. Kernel .config
1.1.6. Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk
1.1.7. PAE
1.1.8. ACPI
1.1.9. SysRq
1.1.10. kexec
1.1.11. kdump
1.1.12. SMP
1.1.13. Big SMP
1.1.14. Maximum number of CPUs
1.2. Control Groups
1.2.1. Freezer cgroup subsystem
1.2.2. Device controller for cgroups
1.2.3. Cpuset support
1.2.4. Simple CPU accounting cgroup subsystem
1.2.5. Resource counters
1.2.6. Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring
1.2.7. Group CPU scheduler
1.2.8. Block IO controller
1.3. Virtualization
1.3.1. KVM host
1.3.2. VM guest
1.3.2.1. Paravirtualization
1.3.2.2. KVM guest support
1.3.2.3. Lguest guest support
1.3.2.4. Xen guest support
1.3.3. Virt I/O support
1.3.3.1. PCI driver for virtio devices
1.3.3.2. Virtio balloon driver
1.3.3.3. Virtio block driver
1.3.3.4. Virtio network driver
1.3.3.5. Virtio console
1.3.3.6. Virtio Random Number Generator support
1.4. Multiple devices driver support
1.4.1. RAID support
1.4.1.1. Linear (append) mode
1.4.1.2. RAID-0 (striping) mode
1.4.1.3. RAID-1 (mirroring) mode
1.4.1.4. RAID-10 (mirrored striping) mode
1.4.1.5. RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 mode
1.4.1.6. Faulty test module for MD
1.4.2. Block device as cache
1.4.3. Device Mapper support
1.4.3.1. Crypt target support
1.4.3.2. Snapshot target
1.4.3.3. Thin provisioning target
1.4.3.4. Cache target
1.4.3.5. Mirror target
1.4.3.6. RAID 1/4/5/6/10 target
1.4.3.7. Zero target
1.4.3.8. Multipath target
1.4.3.9. I/O delaying target
1.4.3.10. Flakey target
1.5. Network
1.5.1. VLAN Support
1.5.2. Bridge Support
1.5.3. Universal TUN/TAP device driver support
1.5.4. Bonding Support
1.5.5. RealTek RTL-8139 C+ (KVM default NIC)
1.6. Filesystems
1.6.1. EXT4
1.6.2. ReiserFS
1.6.3. JFS
1.6.4. XFS
1.6.5. Btrfs
1.6.6. NTFS
1.6.7. Inotify
2. Check the configuration
3. Compilation
4. Installation
2. Initramfs
1. Using the initial RAM disk (initrd)
2. Compressed cpio images
3. Creating an initramfs
3.1. get binary dependency
3.2. directories
3.3. klibc
3.4. files
3.5. keymaps
3.6. libs
3.7. links
3.8. modules
3.9. udev rules
3.10. id and gid
3.11. profile
3.12. init
3.13. create the compressed image
3.14. test the new initramfs
3. ISO Managment
1. ISO Content
1.1. isolinux
1.2. depot
2. ISO Creation
2.1. Full ISO creation
2.2. Slim ISO creation:
4. Wakes installer
1. Installer call
2. Install process description
5. Package manager
1. Files and directories
2. Create a package
6. Xorg build