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Linux Device Driver Programming

Summary
The course aims at teaching the basics of device driver programming for
the Linux kernel. The course covers LED driver, input driver and char
device driver development. The course is taught on an ARM board with
simple devices like the GPIOs, LEDs, seven segment displays, keypads,
temperature sensors and EEPROM devices. The goal is to focus on
learning the kernel interface, while still programming real hardware.
Since device driver development requires knowledge in varied disciplines,
a quick review of the fundamentals of file IO, filesystems, microprocessors
and kernel modules is included.

Pre-requisite
C Programming
Programming in GNU/Linux
Microprocessors

Duration
Duration: 42 hours
Span: 6 weeks

Syllabus
File I/O
File Descriptors
Opening and Closing Files
Reading and Writing to Files Sequentially
Reposition Read/Write File Offset
File Tables and File Descriptor Tables

Filesystems
Filesystems Internals - inodes, dentry
Pseduo filesystems - proc, sysfs
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Linux Device
Drivers by
Alessandro
Rubini et al.
Linux Kernel
Source
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Introduction to Devices
Device Interfacing

Download.
Linux Kernel
Source Cross
Reference.

Controlling LEDs from Userspace

Controlling Seven segment displays

Accessing Drivers
Unix/Linux Device Abstraction
Device Files
Types of Drivers
Mouse Device Access
Sound Mixer Device

Kernel Compilation and Kernel Modules

Kernel Compilation
Kernel configuration
Building the kernel
Booting from the new kernel
Kernel Modules
Introduction
Advantages
Listing, Loading, Unloading

Writing Kernel Modules

Module Programming vs Application Programming
Hello World Module
Module Programming Basics
Compiling
Loading and Unloading
Module Parameters

Input Drivers
Kernel Timers
System Ticks
Scheduling timers
Keypad Input driver

Char Drivers
Major and Minor Numbers
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Data Structures
File Operations Structure
File Structure
Registering Char Driver
Seven segment display

Debugging Techniques
Debugging by Printing
Kernel Log Mechanism
Turning on/off Debug Messages
Rate Limiting
Debugging by Querying
debugfs
Debugging by Watching
strace
Debugging System Faults
Decoding Oops
Recovering from a System Hang

Interrupts and Blocking I/O

Interrupts
Installing Interrupt Handlers
Blocking I/O
Process states
Wait Queues

Concurrency and Locking

Sources of Concurrency
Semaphores
Spinlocks
Common Locking Problems
Atomic Variables

Device Model
I2C and SPI bus
Bus Model
Device and Driver Binding
Module Autoloading
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