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Lucid Information

• Release Status

• Configuration Delta Karmic to Lucid

Karmic Information

• Release Status

• Ubuntu Delta

Developer

• KernelTeam/KernelTeamBugPolicies - How to triage kernel bugs.

• KernelTeam/KernelDevelopmentShift - New development model.

• KernelTeam/KernelGitGuide - Using the git repos.

• Community Git Documentation - Community Git Documentation.

• KernelTeam/GitCheatSheet - Git recipes

• KernelTeam/KernelUpdates - Updates to stable kernels.

• KernelTeam/KernelMaintenance - How to maintain the kernel.

• KernelTeam/KernelMaintenanceStarter - Cheatsheet for KernelTeam/KernelMaintenance.

• KernelTeam/KernelMaintenanceFAQ - Answers to frequently asked questions and encountered issues

• KernelTeam/KernelForIdiots - Scott's notes on making custom kernels cause he can't grep the above two things fast enough

• KernelTeam/KernelBugFixing - Process flow for fixing kernel bugs.

• KernelTeam/KernelBuildScripts - Information on how to use some helper scripts for remote building.

• KernelTeam/KernelPatches - How to submit a patch and why we will or won't take patches.

• KernelTeam/KernelPackageVersioning - How to version changes to kernel packages.

• KernelTeam/KernelPackagePolicies - Describes the kernel packages maintainer functions

• KernelPackageABIRelationships - Which packages need ABI bumping during stable updates.

• KernelTeam/KernelConfig - Why the Ubuntu config is the way it is.

• KernelTeam/TopicBranches - What is a Topic Branch?

• KernelTeam/StableKernelMaintenance - how the SRU process applied to the kernel.

• ARM kernel cross compilation

• KernelTeam/EncryptedHome - info on how to encrypt your sensitive data, such as your .ssh keys

• KernalTeam/EC2Kernel - Information on the Ec2 Topic Branch

• KernelTeam/BestPractices - Best Practices tips and tricks

• KernelTeam/BuildKernelWithChroot - Setting up an chroot environment for build kernel

• KernelTeam/DKMSPackaging - How to build a DKMS Package

• KernelTeam/HardwareEnableWithDSDT - Read the DSDT and enable extra function on your laptop

• KernelTeam/AddingNonFreeFirmware - Adding firmware to linux-firmware-nonfree

• KernelTeam/AddingFreeFirmware - Adding free firmware to Ubuntu

• Kernel/Quirks/LowMemoryCorruption - How to fix "low memory corruption bugs"

Triage Bugs

• KernelTeam/UsingArsenal - Bug Triaging using arsenal scripts.

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Tagging - Kernel Team Tagging (level 2 bug triage)

Debugging

• KernelTeam/DebuggingVoodoo - Q&A for strange symptoms and how to debug

• DebuggingIRQProblems - HEFIBootLoaderselp debugging common IRQ problems.

• DebuggingKernelSuspendHibernateResume - Help debugging suspend/resume and hibernate/resume problems.

• KernelPPA - Instructions on how to use the kernel team's PPA as well using a specific kernel developer's PPA.

• BIOSandUbuntu - Debugging BIOS issues on Ubuntu (DSDT, Reboot, Suspend/Resume).

• KernelTeam/MainlineBuilds - How to use mainline kernels for debugging.

• Ubuntu to mainline mapping - a table of Ubuntu releases and which mainline version they are based on including the current release pocket assignments.

• KernelTeam/KernelDebuggingTricks - Some kernel debugging tricks and tips.

• Hotkeys/Troubleshooting -- How to debug non-working hotkeys.

• Debugging USB -- How to debug USB problems

• Crash Dump -- How to use linux-crashdump to capture a kernel oops/panic

• Debugging Update Errors - Debugging common errors seen when updating/upgrading

• KernelTeam/Netconsole - Configuring console over network using netconsole

• KernelTeam/Firmware - All about firmware and how to debug firmware loading issues

• KernelTeam/DebuggingSchedulingWhileAtomic - How to gather a trace to help debug "scheduling while atomic" bugs

Calls for Testing

• KernelTeam/Grub2Testing -- testing of the updated grub2 bootloader for x86

• KernelTeam/InstallonUSBkey -- Install ubuntu on USB key, used for testing.

• KernelTeam/KernelCompatibilityTesting -- Ubuntu kernel compatibility testing.

User info

• Building your own kernels

  • KernelCustomBuild - Building your own kernels - Q&A

• GitKernelBuild - Build mainline kernel from git. Also help with submitting bugs to upstream bugzilla.kernel.org

• LinuxWireless - Testing and reporting bugs to the upstream linux wireless developers

Reference

• KernelVMAddressing - Per-arch breakdown of VM addressing

• EFIBootLoaders - EFI/UEFI bootloaders (non-BIOS)

Informational

The kernel team gets asked about various kernel related topics, i.e. "Whats the advantage for vendors to get their drivers upstream?". These links say it far better than we ever could

Drivers

• LWN Article on the Linux Driver Project

• Linux Foundation Linux Device Driver Model

Misc

• BlueprintHowto - How to register a blueprint and spec for UDS

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