Linux Device Driver Development

Do you need to write your own Linux device driver? This course will teach you how.  You will learn which APIs to call, which sub-systems to use, how to debug your driver and interface with the kernel and which modules to leverage.

Linux Device Driver Development Course Outline
  • Device Drivers
  • Modules and Device Drivers
  • Memory Management and Allocation
  • Character Devices
  • Kernel Features
  • Transferring Between User and Kernel Space
  • Interrupts and Exceptions
  • Timing Measurements
  • Kernel Timers
  • ioctls
  • Unified Device Model and sysfs
  • Firmware
  • Sleeping and Wait Queues
  • Interrupt Handling: Deferrable Functions and User Drivers
  • Hardware I/O
  • PCI
  • Platform Drivers
  • Direct Memory Access (DMA)
  • Network Drivers I: Basics
  • Network Drivers II: Data Structures
  • Network Drivers III: Transmission and Reception
  • Network Drivers IV: Selected Topics
  • USB Drivers
  • Power Management
  • Block Drivers