INTRO(9)

NAME
intro - introduction to kernel internals

DESCRIPTION
This section contains information related to the the internal operation of the system kernel. It describes function interfaces and variables of use to the systems and device driver programmer.

In addition to the normal man page format, the kernel pages include an additional section:

CODE REFERENCES
    Contains the pathname(s) of the source file(s) which contain the definition and/or source code of the variables or functions being documented.

HISTORY
The NetBSD kernel internals section first appeared in NetBSD 1.2.