Developing Linux Drivers (LFD430)

• Introduction
• Preliminaries
• 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**
• Device Trees**
• 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

** These sections may be considered in part or in whole as optional. They contain either background reference material, specialized topics, or advanced subjects. The instructor may choose to cover or not cover them depending on classroom experience and time constraints.