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Linux Device Drivers Development

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Course Description
Course Title Linux Device Drivers Development
The Linux Device Drivers Development course provides engineers with a
fast, cost-effective way to acquire the knowledge necessary to build, load, Duration 4 days
and debug Linux device drivers in a cross-development environment.
Format Instructor-led lectures and hands-on lab
After this course, students will be able to: sessions
• Understand the Linux boot process and role of the bootloader and
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BSP
• Prepare to develop Linux I/O drivers, serial drivers, and network
drivers
• Debug Linux device drivers Related Courses
• RTOS to Linux Migration Basics
Products Supported • Workbench for Linux
• General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition 1.4 • General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition (Workbench/Linux)
• Linux Board Bring-Up and Board Support Package Development
Who Should Attend
• New and experienced device driver writers Course Format
• Application Programmers interested in seeing what goes on at the • Our four-day instructor-led courses consist of lectures and lab
hardware level sessions
• Senior engineers who want to decide on a final production image of • Students gain hands-on experience and receive personal guidance
their product from expert Wind River instructors
• Experienced developers interested in the interfaces between drivers • Students examine details of the Workbench environment, focusing
and Linux on the most commonly used areas
• Specific questions are addressed
Prerequisite Skills • Lab sessions allow hands-on application of course concepts
• Functional knowledge of Linux
• One year programming, including experience with structures, Global Reach of Wind River Education Services
pointers, pointers to structures, typedefs, macros, and bitwise • 4,000 students per year
operators • 400 classes delivered per year
• Experience using binary and mutual exclusion, semaphores, • 34 instructors worldwide
message queues, pipes, and managing multiple tasks • Access to 250 subject matter experts
• Experience debugging target code • 24 training centers worldwide
• Ability to use and modify makefiles to build executable images • 20+ years of device software experience
Prerequisite Courses On-site courses are conducted at your location and include the use of
• Introduction to Linux preconfigured laptops and target boards, plus shipping and travel costs.
• Introduction to Real-Time Programming Visit education.windriver.com for registration and schedule information.
Topics
• Review of Linux boot process and the role of the boot loader
• Building and accessing modules
• Linux Device driver debugging techniques
• Using Timer services and memory management techniques for
developing device drivers
• Overview of interrupt handling when implementing a Linux device
driver
• Steps necessary to develop character and network device drivers
• Techniques for Debugging Device Drivers
• Overview of hot-plug support, power management and use of sysfs

Agenda
Day 1 Day 3
Review Linux Architecture Kernel Space Timer Services
· Linux Architecture · Timer Interrupts - HZ and jiffies
· Linux Device Driver Development Model · Delaying Execution
· Using Task Queues
Booting Linux
· Kernel Space Timers
· Linux Boot/ Initialization Process
Interrupt Handling
Introduction to Device Drivers
· Linux and Interrupts
· Device Types
· IRQ Action Table
· Tracking a Driver Call in Linux
· Register, Enabling and Disabling Interrupts
· Dynamic vs Static Drivers
· Minimizing Interrupt Latency
Kernel and Modules
Network Device Drivers
· Kernel Configuration Tools
· Linux Network Driver Overview
· Building and Configuring the Kernel
· Network Device Structure
· Loading the Kernel
· Network Driver Functions
· Adding a Driver
· Network Stack Functions
· Building and Installing Modules
· Socket Buffers
· Loading and Unloading Modules
· Transmit and Receive Logic Flow
· Passing Parameters to Modules
· Interrupt Handling
· Kernel Versioning
· MII Transceivers (PHY)
Memory Management
Day 4
· Linux Memory Model
Block Device Drivers
· Kernel Address Space
· Role of Block Drivers
· Caching
· Block Driver API
· Allocating Memory in User and Kernel Space
· Mapping a Device LSP and Driver Debugging Techniques
· printk
Day 2
· Debugging using /proc and ioctls
Character Drivers
· Debugging w/ LEDs
· What is a character device driver?
· Watching System Calls via strace
· Device Special Files
· Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT)
· Driver Registration
· Kernel Panic
· File Operations
· Debugging System Faults
· IOCTL Operation
· Using KGDB
User Space To Kernel Space Interfaces · Using Hardware JTAG/BDM Tools
· Data Flow
Extension to the Linux Driver Model
· Using /procfs file system
· Hotplug
· Using relayFS
· Power Management Review
Blocking I/O · The 2.6 Linux Driver Model
· Blocking vs Non Blocking I/O · SysFS overview
· Wait Queues and Sleep
· Race Conditions and Locks
· Using Barriers
· Semaphore Usage
· Poll and Select

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