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This is a brief list of all the files in ./linux/Documentation and what
they contain. If you add a documentation file, please list it here in 
alphabetical order as well. Note that subdirectories have their own
index files too.
                                                         Thanks -- Paul.

00-INDEX
        - this file.
BUG-HUNTING
        - brute force method of doing binary search of patches to find bug.
Changes
        - list of changes that break older software packages.
CodingStyle
        - how the boss likes the C code in the kernel to look.
Configure.help
        - text file that is used for help when you run "make config"
IO-mapping.txt
        - how to access I/O mapped memory from within device drivers.
SMP.txt
        - notes, and "To Fix" list for multi-processor Linux. (see smp.tex)
cdrom/
        - directory with information on the CD-ROM drivers that Linux has.
devices.tex
        - TeX source listing of all the nodes in /dev/ with major minor #'s
devices.txt
        - plain ASCII listing of all the nodes in /dev/ with major minor #'s
digiboard.txt
        - info on the Digiboard PC/X{i,e,eve} multiport boards.
filesystems/
        - directory with info on the various filesystems that Linux supports.
ide.txt
        - important info for users of ATA devices (IDE/EIDE disks and CD-ROMS)
initrd.txt
        - how to use the RAM disk as an initial/temporary root filesystem.
ioctl-number.txt
        - how to implement and register device/driver ioctl calls.
isdn/
        - directory with info on the linux ISDN support, and supported cards.
java.txt
        - info on the in-kernel binary support for Java(tm)
locks.txt
        - info on file locking implementations, flock() vs. fcntl(), etc.
logo.gif
        - GIF image of penguin as a linux logo (see logo.txt)
logo.txt
        - the who where and how of the penguin linux logo.
magic-number.txt
        - list of magic numbers used to mark/protect kernel data structures.
mandatory.txt
        - info on the linux implementation of Sys V mandatory file locking.
memory-tuning.txt
        - info on setting the /proc/sys/vm parameters to match your system.
modules.txt
        - short guide on how to make kernel parts into loadable modules
networking/
        - directory with info on various linux networking aspects.
nfsroot.txt
        - short guide on setting up a diskless box with NFS root filesystem
oops-tracing.txt
        - how to decode those nasty internal kernel error dump messages.
paride.txt
        - info on parallel port IDE devices (tapes, floppies, CD-ROMS, etc)
ramdisk.txt
        - short guide on how to set up and use the RAM disk.
riscom8.txt
        - notes on using the RISCom/8 multi-port serial driver.
rtc.txt
        - notes on how to use the Real Time Clock (aka CMOS clock) driver.
scsi.txt
        - short blurb on using SCSI support as a module.
smp.tex
        - TeX document describing implementation of Multiprocessor Linux
specialix.txt
        - info on hardware/driver for specialix IO8+ multiport serial card.
svga.txt
        - short guide on selecting video modes at boot via VGA BIOS.
unicode.txt
        - info on the Unicode character/font mapping used in Linux.
watchdog.txt
        - how to auto-reboot Linux if it has "fallen and can't get up". ;-)
xterm-linux.xpm
        - XPM format image/icon of penguin on an xterm (see logo.txt)