Topics

• 1. Denx Training Topics
• 2. About This Document
• 3. General Introduction
  • 3.1. [[Training.DENX Company Profile][DENX Company Profile]]
  • 3.2. DENX People
  • 3.3. DENX Projects
• 4. EmbeddedLinuxInternals
  • 4.1. LinuxIntroduction
    • 4.1.1. History of Unix: Unix is born
    • 4.1.2. History of Unix: Unix spreads
    • 4.1.3. History of Unix: hard times
    • 4.1.4. History of Unix: Free Software
    • 4.1.5. Origin of Free Software
    • 4.1.6. History of Linux
    • 4.1.7. History of Unix: GNU/Linux
  • 4.2. Background Information
    • 4.2.1. Licensing Models
    • 4.2.2. Standards and Portability in the Unix world
    • 4.2.3. Working with Free Software
    • 4.2.4. Finding help
  • 4.3. The Unix Philosophy
  • 4.4. Real-time Linux
    • 4.4.1. Can Linux handle real-time requirements?
    • 4.4.2. Real time with Adeos/Xenomai (Introduction)
    • 4.4.3. Adeos
    • 4.4.4. The Xenomai real time framework
    • 4.4.5. Case study: Migrating from RTOS (VRTXsa) to Xenomai-Linux
  • 4.5. Host Linux Setup
    • 4.5.1. Installing the ELDK
    • 4.5.2. Working with the ELDK
    • 4.5.3. Tftp Server Configuration
    • 4.5.4. Setup of the NFS Server
    • 4.5.5. Setup of the DHCP Server
    • 4.5.6. Terminal Emulation Setup
    • 4.5.7. Test the host setup
  • 4.6. U-Boot and Linux
    • 4.6.1. The powerful U-Boot command line interface
    • 4.6.2. An Introduction to git
    • 4.6.3. Building U-Boot
    • 4.6.4. Configuring and building the Linux kernel
    • 4.6.5. Booting Linux
    • 4.6.6. U-Boot Tips and Tricks: preboot, update, etc.
  • 4.7. Designing Unix Applications
    • 4.7.1. Unix Design Patterns
    • 4.7.2. Simple Unix Interface Design Patterns
    • 4.7.3. Advanced Unix Interface Design Patterns
    • 4.7.4. Unix Inter Process Communication - Simple Techniques
    • 4.7.5. Unix Inter Process Communication - Advanced Techniques
    • 4.7.6. IPC techniques to avoid
    • 4.7.7. Use case: board test software
    • 4.7.8. Domain specific languages (Minilanguages)
  • 4.8. Application debugging
  • 4.9. Optimization Techniques
  • 4.10. Using FLASH filesystems
  • 4.11. Using the BDM/JTAG Debugger, BDI2000, Part 1
    • 4.11.1. BDI2000 Installation and Configuration
    • 4.11.2. Downloading U-Boot to flash
    • 4.11.3. UBootExtendBdiConfig
  • 4.12. LowLevelDebuggingTechniques
    • 4.12.1. Debugging U-Boot
    • 4.12.2. DebuggingLinux
    • 4.12.3. DebuggingModules
    • 4.12.4. UserModeLinux
  • 4.13. UsingXenomai
    • 4.13.1. Building and installing Xenomai
      • 4.13.1.1. Building and installing using the ELDK tree
      • 4.13.1.2. Building and installing from scratch
      • 4.13.1.3. Running the cyclictest:
    • 4.13.2. XenomaiProgrammingExample1
  • 4.14. EliMiscellanious
    • 4.14.1. Installing and using Embedded WEB Servers
    • 4.14.2. Tools, Scripts, Tipps and Tricks
    • 4.14.3. More information
  • 4.15. Happy Hacking
• 5. LinuxDeviceDrivers
  • 5.1. Introduction to Linux Device Drivers
    • 5.1.1. History of Linux
    • 5.1.2. The Linux versioning scheme
    • 5.1.3. What is a Device Driver?
    • 5.1.4. Kernel vs. Application Development
    • 5.1.5. Alternatives to (kernel) drivers
    • 5.1.6. Licensing Models
    • 5.1.7. Linux kernel / Linux device drivers resources
    • 5.1.8. An Introduction to git
    • 5.1.9. Linux source code organisation
  • 5.2. First steps towards a Linux module
    • 5.2.1. Configuring and building the Linux kernel
    • 5.2.2. A first hello_world module
    • 5.2.3. Linux kernel makefiles
    • 5.2.4. Kernel message logging and printk
    • 5.2.5. LddModuleParameters
  • 5.3. Character Drivers
    • 5.3.1. Introduction to character drivers
    • 5.3.2. Device numbers
    • 5.3.3. Registering a character driver
    • 5.3.4. The open and release methods
    • 5.3.5. The read and write system calls
    • 5.3.6. Non-Blocking IO
    • 5.3.7. =poll= and =select=
    • 5.3.8. Memory mapping
  • 5.4. Debugging Techniques
    • 5.4.1. Debugging with printk
    • 5.4.2. Debugging Oopses
    • 5.4.3. Debugging with Hardware Debuggers
    • 5.4.4. Profiling techniques
  • 5.5. The Linux driver model
    • 5.5.1. Driver model and sysfs
    • 5.5.2. How does it all fit together?
    • 5.5.3. Driver model and flattened device tree
  • 5.6. Interfacing real hardware
    • 5.6.1. Accessing devices
    • 5.6.2. Interrupt Handling
    • 5.6.3. Deferring work
  • 5.7. Miscellaneous topics
    • 5.7.1. LddAccessControl
    • 5.7.2. The proc file system
    • 5.7.3. The ioctl system call
    • 5.7.4. Concurrency and Race Conditions
      • 5.7.4.1. Atomic operations
      • 5.7.4.2. Mutexes
      • 5.7.4.3. Spinlocks
      • 5.7.4.4. Other locking techniques
    • 5.7.5. Allocating Memory
    • 5.7.6. How to delay execution
    • 5.7.7. Kernel library functions
    • 5.7.8. Userspace kernel communication
    • 5.7.9. Porting of Linux
  • 5.8. LddProgrammingTasks
    • 5.8.1. Proc, workqueue, Irq
    • 5.8.2. LddFifo
    • 5.8.3. LddClassLed