5.1. Introduction to Linux Device Drivers

• Introduction to the Linux kernel, history, versioning, architectures.

• What is a Device Driver? What's its purpose?

• Differences between Userspace- and Kernel programming

• What components of the kernel does a driver interact with?

• Must it be a kernel driver? Alternatives...

• Uhh, license issues

• Resources (Mailing lists, Books, Web, other)

• Revisiting git and stgit (download a kernel)

• Tour the sources