External references

Qualcomm^® Linux kernel development draws on documentation from multiple sources. The following tables provide links to related Qualcomm guides and upstream kernel resources.

Qualcomm Linux guides

Table: Related Qualcomm documentation

Title	Covers
Qualcomm Linux Debug Guide	Debug tooling across the platform
Parse RAM dumps using QCAP	Offline analysis of kernel and remoteproc crash dumps
Debugging linux kernel	Memory, lockup, and panic debugging on the target
BSP image build with firmware	Full firmware build and EDL recovery
Qualcomm Linux Boot Guide	Boot chain from PBL through systemd
Qualcomm Linux Yocto Guide	Yocto layers, recipes, and image builds

Upstream kernel documentation

Table: Upstream kernel.org and LWN references

Topic	URL
Linux kernel EFI stub	https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/efi-stub.html
Linux kernel driver API	https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/
Memory management	https://docs.kernel.org/core-api/index.html#memory-management
Energy Aware Scheduling	https://docs.kernel.org/scheduler/sched-energy.html
Capacity Aware Scheduling	https://docs.kernel.org/scheduler/sched-capacity.html
SchedUtil governor	https://docs.kernel.org/scheduler/schedutil.html
Utilization clamping (UCLAMP)	https://docs.kernel.org/scheduler/sched-util-clamp.html
CPUfreq and DVFS	https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.html
Remoteproc framework	https://docs.kernel.org/staging/remoteproc.html
Serial console	https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/serial-console.html
Debugging with printk	https://docs.kernel.org/core-api/printk-basics.html
/proc file system	https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/proc.html
Dynamic debug	https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.html
GDB kernel debugging	https://docs.kernel.org/process/debugging/gdb-kernel-debugging.html
Page owner (memory debug)	https://docs.kernel.org/mm/page_owner.html
SLUB allocator debug	https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/mm/slab.html
GPIO DT bindings	https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio.txt
Pin configuration DT bindings	https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/pincfg-node.yaml
PELT (LWN)	https://lwn.net/Articles/531853/
Yocto kernel configuration	https://docs.yoctoproject.org/4.3.1/kernel-dev/common.html#configuring-the-kernel

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Upstream kernel documentation