Summary Booting From bootloader to kernel First steps in the kernel setup code Video mode initialization and transition to protected mode Transition to 64-bit mode Kernel decompression Initialization First steps in the kernel Early interrupts handler Last preparations before the kernel entry point Memory management Memblock Data Structures in the Linux Kernel Doubly linked list Theory Paging Elf64 Per-CPU variables Lockdep CPUID MSR Misc Kernel building and instalation Write and Submit your first Linux kernel Patch Data types in the kernel Useful links Contributors