Course Outline: 

• Linux Kernel Internals

- Introduction to Kernel
- Userspace and kernel space
- Kernel Internals :
- Splitting the kernel
- File System
- Process Management
- Memory Management
- Interrupts
- Time and timers
- Device Driver classes
- Kernel Porting
- Kernel Configuration
- Kernel Compilation
- Kernel Parameters
- Kernel Synchronisation
- Boot Process -  From Power ON to login prompt
- System Initialization Scripts

• Linux Advanced Programming
  

- Arguments , the environment, and popular system functions
- File operations
- Introduction to Shell programming
- Linux System Initialisation - From Boot loader to login
- Creating Makefiles
- Creating Static Library, Shared Library
- Multi Process Programming,
- Multi Thread Programming
- IPC Mechanisms & Programming: Semaphores, Signals, Pipe, FIFO, Message Queues, Shared Memory
- Introduction to Sockets
- Network Programming: TCP/UDP Server Client programming
- Debugging: ltrace, strace, gdb, ddd, core dump analysis
- Version Control: Using cvs, svn, git.

• Embedded Linux System Development
  

- Introduction to Embedded Linux
- Basic requirements for Embedded Linux Product Development
- Building Development Environment
- Target & Host Setup (ARM 9 based platform)
- Setting Up Networking Services - TFTP, DHCP, HTTP, FTP etc
- Bootloader commands and usage
- Loading RootFS using - TFTP, NFS, USB, SD/microSD
- Building an Embedded File System – Busybox, Ramdisk
- Building Your Own Embedded Linux Distribution
- Embedded Linux Boot Sequence
- Bring up X11 (X-Windows) on Embedded Platform (GUI)
- Loading various RootFS (Distributions) in platform

• Linux Device Drivers and Kernel Development
  

- An introduction to device drivers
- Kernel Module Programming Basics
- Kernel Debugging Techniques
- Accessing Hardware Mechanisms 
- The proc file system programming
- Communicating with Hardware 
- Hardware and Interrupt Handling
- Tasklets and Bottom halves
- Kernel Threads
- Sleep and wakeup (wait queues)
- Buffer allocation
- Memory Mapping and DMA
- Memory Management
- Kernel Synchronization  
- Concurrency and Race Conditions
- Time, Delays and Deferred Work
- The Linux Device Model
- Character Device Drivers
- Enhanced Character Device Drivers
- Programming with ioctl( )
- Netlink socket interface
- Network Drivers
- Block Device Drivers
- Adding a Driver to the Kernel Tree
- A sample device driver project