diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 2beff77267e..2b2d8a0150e 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
 [submodule "src/liblibc"]
 	path = src/liblibc
 	url = https://github.com/rust-lang/libc.git
+[submodule "src/doc/nomicon"]
+	path = src/doc/nomicon
+	url = https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/nomicon
 [submodule "src/tools/cargo"]
 	path = src/tools/cargo
 	url = https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo
diff --git a/src/doc/nomicon b/src/doc/nomicon
new file mode 160000
index 00000000000..d08fe97d12b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/doc/nomicon
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit d08fe97d12b41c1ed8cc7701e545864132783941