Kernel Articles

Articles in English are laid out with this bluish background. Green background is for Italian articles.

Subject Matter

All of these articles are about the Linux kernel, or closely related features of the GNU system. Unless otherwise noted they are all by Alessandro Rubini.

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Articoli sul kernel

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Argomenti trattati

Tutti questi articoli trattano del kernel Linux o di funzionalità dei sistemi GNU strettamente correlate al nucleo. Tranne dove diversamente indicato, sono tutti scritti da Alessandro Rubini.

Riproduzione

La copia letterale e la redistribuzione su qualsiasi supporto di ognuno di questi articoli nella sua integrità è permessa, purchè questa nota sia conservata.

Pubblicati da Linux&C, Edizioni Vinco

Misura delle prestazioni (Ottobre 2007)
(Scarica: utime.tar.gz)
La memoria virtuale (Luglio 2007)
(Scarica: vmem.tar.gz)

Pubblicati da Linux Magazine, Edizioni Master

Implementazione del frame buffer (Giugno 2005)
(Scarica: fb2.tar.gz)
Visualizzazione delle informazioni (Maggio 2005)
(Scarica: fb.tar.gz)
I filesystem in Linux-2.6 (Aprile 2005)
(Scarica: filesystem.tar.gz)
Il meccanismo dnotify (Marzo 2005)
(Scarica: dnotify.tar.gz)
Misure di tempo (Febbraio 2005)
(Scarica: time.tar.gz)
Allocazione di memoria (Gennaio 2005)
(Scarica: slab.tar.gz)
La gestione delle interruzioni (Dicembre 2004)
(Scarica: irq.tar.gz)
I dischi SCSI (Novembre 2004)
(Scarica: scsi-storage.tar.gz)
Il bus I2C (Ottobre 2004)
(Scarica: i2c.tar.gz)
Introduzione a Sysfs (Settembre 2004)
(Scarica: sysfs.tar.gz)
Il sottosistema di input in Linux-2.6, di Daniele Bellucci (Luglio-Agosto 2004)
(Scarica: input26.tar.gz)
Gli pseudo-terminali (Giugno 2004)
(Scarica: pty.tar.gz)
La fase finale della procedura di avvio (Maggio 2004)
(Scarica: boot26b.tar.gz)
I messaggi del kernel (Aprile 2004)
(Scarica: printk.tar.gz)
L'avvio del sistema (Marzo 2004)
(Scarica: boot26.tar.gz)
I moduli del kernel (Febbraio 2004)
(Scarica: modules26.tar.gz)
Compilare Linux-2.6 (Gennaio 2004)
(Scarica: compile26.tar.gz)

Published by Linux Magazine, Edizioni Master (Italy)

The articles articles have been written in Italian. They will be translated as time permits. Feel free to drop a not if you are specifically interested in one of them.

Where the article includes source code, you can grab it from the Italian articles above; comments in the code are usually in English.

June 2005: Frame Buffer Implementation (not yet available)
May 2005: Diplaying information (not yet available)
April 2005: Filesystems in Linux-2.6 (not yet available)
March 2005: Dnotify (not yet available)
February 2005: Time Measures (not yet available)
January 2005: Memory Allocation (not yet available)
December 2004: Interrupt Management (not yet available)
November 2004: SCSI Disks (not yet available)
October 2004: The I2C Bus (not yet available)
September 2004: Introduction to Sysfs (not yet available)
July-August 2004: The Input Subsystem in Linux-2.6, by Daniele Bellucci (not yet available)
June 2004: Pseudo-Terminals (not yet available)
May 2004: Completion of the Boot Sequence (not yet available)
April 2004: Kernel Messages (not yet available)
March 2004: The Boot Sequence (not yet available)
February 2004: Kernel Modules (not yet available)
January 2004: Building Linux-2.6 (not yet available)

Sent to Linux Magazine (USA) in 2001 but never published:

Serial Drivers
(Download copy: serial.tar.gz)
Console Management
(Download copy: sercons.tar.gz)

Published by Linux Magazine, USA

Gearheads Only: The Design of kHTTPd (December 2000)
(Download copy: khttpd.tar.gz)
Gearheads Only: Making System Calls from Kernel Space (November 2000)
(Download copy: ksys.tar.gz)
Gearheads Only: Writing an Input Module (August 2000)
(Download copy: input.tar.gz)
Gearheads Only: Usb Device Drivers (July 2000)
(Download copy: usb.tar.gz)
Gearheads Only: Using Devfs (May 2000)
(Download copy: devfs.tar.gz)
Gearheads Only: Virtual Network Interfaces (April 2000)
(Download copy: vinter.tar.gz)
Kernel Configuration: Dealing with the Unespected (November 1999)
(Download copy: kconf.tar.gz)

Published by Linux Journal, USA

Guest Editorial: Software Libre and Commercial Viability (February 1999)
(Download copy: viability.tar.gz)
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Take Command: Init (November 1998)
(Download copy: init.tar.gz)
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Kernel Korner: Driving One's Own Audio Device (September 1998)
(Download copy: paraudio.tar.gz)
Read from LJ web site
Kernel Korner: Miscellaneous Character Drivers (July 1998)
Download copy:(misc.tar.gz)
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Kernel Korner: Networking with the printer port (March 1998)
(Download copy: plip.tar.gz)
Read from LJ web site
Kernel Korner: Playing with Binary Formats (January 1998)
(Download copy:binfmt.tar.gz)
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Take Command: ssh (November 1997)
(Download copy: ssh.tar.gz)
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Kernel Korner: The Sysctl Interface (September 1997)
(Download copy: sysctl.tar.gz)
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Kernel Korner: Booting the kernel (June 1997)
(Download copy: boot.tar.gz)
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Kernel Korner: The Virtual Filesystem (May 1997)
(Download copy: vfs.tar.gz)
Read from LJ web site

Interview: Linus Torvalds

I interviewed Linus by email in February 1998 for an Italian magazine. The original text (with an introduction in Italian) and an Italian translation are reported here. Both have been published by Pluto Journal (5/98 and 7/98)

Pubblicati dal Pluto Journal (Italiano)

I formati binari (Marzo 1998)
(Scarica: binfmt-it.tar.gz)
Il Boot di Linux (Giugno 1997)
(Scarica: boot-it.tar.gz)
Il Virtual File System (Aprile 1997)
(Scarica:vfs-it.tar.gz)
Uso dell'Interfaccia Parallela (Marzo 1997)
(Scarica: parallela.tar.gz)

Old and Irrelevant Articles Published by Linux Journal, USA

Writing a Mouse-Sensitive Application (September 1995)
The Best Without X (November 1995)
Kernel Korner: Dynamic Kernels: Discovery (April 1996)
Kernel Korner: The Devil's in the Details (co-authored with Georg v. Zezchwitz) (May 1996)
Kernel Korner: Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA (co-authored with Georg v. Zezchwitz) (June 1996)