Client Driver Documentation¶
This is the documentation for client drivers themselves. Refer to Writing Client Drivers for documentation on how to write client drivers.
The Linux Kernel
6.8.0-rc4
Contents
- A guide to the Kernel Development Process
- Submitting patches: the essential guide to getting your code into the kernel
- Code of conduct
- Kernel Maintainer Handbook
- All development-process docs
- Core API Documentation
- Driver implementer's API guide
- Driver Model
- Driver Basics
- Device drivers infrastructure
- ioctl based interfaces
- Early Userspace
- CPU and Device Power Management
- The Common Clk Framework
- Bus-Independent Device Accesses
- Buffer Sharing and Synchronization (dma-buf)
- Device links
- Component Helper for Aggregate Drivers
- Message-based devices
- InfiniBand and Remote DMA (RDMA) Interfaces
- Managing Ownership of the Framebuffer Aperture
- Frame Buffer Library
- Voltage and current regulator API
- Reset controller API
- Industrial I/O
- Input Subsystem
- Linux USB API
- Firewire (IEEE 1394) driver Interface Guide
- The Linux PCI driver implementer's API guide
- Compute Express Link
- Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
- I2C and SMBus Subsystem
- IPMB Driver for a Satellite MC
- The Linux IPMI Driver
- I3C subsystem
- Generic System Interconnect Subsystem
- Device Frequency Scaling
- High Speed Synchronous Serial Interface (HSI)
- Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) Devices
- SCSI Interfaces Guide
- libATA Developer's Guide
- target and iSCSI Interfaces Guide
- The Common Mailbox Framework
- MTD NAND Driver Programming Interface
- Parallel Port Devices
- 16x50 UART Driver
- Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM)
- Intel(R) Management Engine Interface (Intel(R) MEI)
- Memory Technology Device (MTD)
- MMC/SD/SDIO card support
- Non-Volatile Memory Device (NVDIMM)
- W1: Dallas' 1-wire bus
- The Linux RapidIO Subsystem
- Writing s390 channel device drivers
- VME Device Drivers
- Linux 802.11 Driver Developer's Guide
- The Userspace I/O HOWTO
- Linux Firmware API
- PINCTRL (PIN CONTROL) subsystem
- General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO)
- RAID
- Media subsystem kernel internal API
- Miscellaneous Devices
- Near Field Communication
- DMAEngine documentation
- Linux kernel SLIMbus support
- SoundWire Documentation
- Thermal
- FPGA Subsystem
- ACPI Support
- Auxiliary Bus
- Kernel driver lp855x
- Kernel Connector
- Console Drivers
- EISA bus support
- ISA Drivers
- The io_mapping functions
- Ordering I/O writes to memory-mapped addresses
- Generic Counter Interface
- Memory Controller drivers
- MEN Chameleon Bus
- NTB Drivers
- NVMEM Subsystem
- PARPORT interface documentation
- PPS - Pulse Per Second
- PTP hardware clock infrastructure for Linux
- Generic PHY Framework
- Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) interface
- PLDM Firmware Flash Update Library
- Overview of the
pldmfwlibrary - rfkill - RF kill switch support
- Support for Serial devices
- SM501 Driver
- Surface System Aggregator Module (SSAM)
- Linux Switchtec Support
- Sync File API Guide
- TTY
- VFIO Mediated devices
- VFIO - "Virtual Function I/O"
- Acceptance criteria for vfio-pci device specific driver variants
- Virtio
- Xilinx FPGA
- Xillybus driver for generic FPGA interface
- Writing Device Drivers for Zorro Devices
- The Linux Hardware Timestamping Engine (HTE)
- WMI Driver API
- The Linux kernel dpll subsystem
- WBRF - Wifi Band RFI Mitigations
- Crypto Drivers
- TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) driver API
- Kernel subsystem documentation
- Locking in the kernel
- Linux kernel licensing rules
- How to write kernel documentation
- Development tools for the kernel
- Kernel Testing Guide
- Kernel Hacking Guides
- Linux Tracing Technologies
- fault-injection
- Kernel Livepatching
- Rust