Training2

Topics

• 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
  • 5.3. 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