Course     : Linux Device Driver  Programming  - Download PDF

Duration     : 3 days 
Time          : 6 Hr/Day (Minimum)
Eligibility     : BE/BTech/ME/MTech (CSE / E&TC / Electronics) students
Corporate   : Training with enhabced  labs and customization for working professionals. 
Key Objectives     : 
Results       : At the end of training session student will get good expertise on device driver and kernel level programming
Pre-requisite: Basic knowldge Of Linux

DAY-1 1. Linux OS Architecture •    Linux Features •    Linux Kernel Source Directory Structure   •    Linux Kernel Components •    User Mode Vs Kernel Mode •    System Initialization –Linux Booting Process LAB1: Exploring on kernel directory structure and files responssible for booting 2. Kernel compilation • Understand kernel configuration and build process • Importance of Makefiles • Procedure to reconfigure and recompile the kernel LAB2:  Rebuild kernel for new kernel 3. Detail study of Linux OS components          - Process Management          -  Thread Management          -  Interrupt Management and Signal handling LAB3: How To create and terminate processes? LAB4:  How to control Multithreading? LAB5: How to handle signals? DAY-2 4. Kernel Module programming • Introduction to Modules • Writing Your first kernel module • Module Related Commands • Statically linked vs Dynamically linked • Exporting symbols from modules • The kernel symbol table • Concurrency in the kernel • Module Parameters • Version dependency LAB6: How to write kernel module and install it into the kernel? LAB7: How to initialize and use kernel variables? LAB8: How to achieve synchronization among kernel modules? LAB9: How to control kernel parameters and pheripherals,ports through kernel module programming?

5. Introduction To Device driver •    Devices and Device Driver (DD) •    Types Of DD •    Introduction to Virtual File System (VFS) LAB10: Explore on /dev directory 6. Character Device Drivers • Registering a character device driver • File operations and ioctls to control char type of devices • Reading and writing into char devices LAB11: How to write char DD? LAB12; How to register DD and map file operations to VFS? LAB14: Demostarte accessing device driver from application program. DAY-3 7. Block Device Drivers • Understand how block devices works • Block DD registrations, File operations and ioctls • Handling and controlling requests • File sytsem (FS)  introduction and types • Mounting and formating FS for virtual block device LAB15: Write RAM type of disk driver 9. Network Device Drivers • Understand how network devices work • The net_device structure in detail • Packet transmission and reception LAB16: Simulating a network device 10. Debugging tools and techniques • Introduction to Application level debugging • Introduction to kernel level debugging technique LAB17: Demostrate gdb for application program debugging LAB18: Demostrate kdb/kgdb for kernel space program and kernel level debugging Further Reference and guidelines will be provided for Linux device driver and kernel space programming.

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