Levana Technologies

Course Duration: 2 Full Days

Course Outline:

• 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 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
• Adding a Driver to the Kernel Tree
• A sample device driver project