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Documentation extracted from the Linux kernel and mirrored on the web where Google can find it:

These manuals contain overall information about how to develop the kernel. The kernel community is quite large, with thousands of developers contributing over the course of a year.

This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to application developers and system integrators doing analysis of the Linux kernel for safety critical applications.

The following manuals are written for users of the kernel — those who are trying to get it to work optimally on a given system and application developers seeking information on the kernel’s user …

Dec 3, 2025 · These kernel releases are not hosted at kernel.org and kernel developers can provide no support for them. It is easy to tell if you are running a distribution kernel.

There are a great many reasons why kernel code should be merged into the official (“mainline”) kernel, including automatic availability to users, community support in many forms, and the ability to …

Dec 3, 2025 · These kernel releases are not hosted at kernel.org and kernel developers can provide no support for them. It is easy to tell if you are running a distribution kernel.

RISC-V Kernel Boot Requirements and Constraints Boot image header in RISC-V Linux Virtual Memory Layout on RISC-V Linux RISC-V Hardware Probing Interface arch/riscv maintenance guidelines for …

The maintainers of the various kernel subsystems — and also many kernel subsystem developers — expose their current state of development in source repositories.