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Many internal kernel APIs are documented using the kerneldoc mechanism; “make htmldocs†or “make pdfdocs†can be used to generate those documents in HTML or PDF format (though the version of TeX shipped by some distributions runs into internal limits and fails to process the documents properly).”…””}”(hhÛh²hh³Nh´Nubeh}”(h]”h ]”h"]”h$]”h&]”uh1hÙh³hÃh´KhhÆh²hubhÚ)”}”(hŒâVarious web sites discuss kernel development at all levels of detail. Your author would like to humbly suggest https://lwn.net/ as a source; information on many specific kernel topics can be found via the LWN kernel index at:”h]”(hŒpVarious web sites discuss kernel development at all levels of detail. 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