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Introduction and Review of Kernel Programming

• * What is a Kernel?
• Linux Kernel Variants
• Interacting with the Kernel
• Kernel Implementation
• The Linux Source Tree
• Writing Kernel Modules
• Compiling Kernel Modules
• More about Kernel Modules
• Review of Kernel Structures

Device Drivers

• Device Drivers
• Device Driver Design
• Interacting with Character Device Drivers
• Interacting with Block Device Drivers
• Interacting with Network Interface Cards
• Device Nodes
• Character Device Drivers: Registration
• The Device Node Problem
• File Operations
• Defining File Operations
• Registering File Operations
• File I/O Conventions

Unified Device Model

• Device Model Objects
• The sysfs filesystem
• Device Model Structures
• Tying it all Together
• Netlink Sockets and User Events
• Userspace event agents
• Device Registration
• Miscellaneous Devices

Interrupt Handling

• Interrupt Context
• Handling Interrupts
• Interrupt Structures
• ISR Registration
• System Context
• Softirqs
• Deferred Activity: Tasklets
• Deferred Activity: Work Queues
• Custom Work Queues
• Example: Serial Mouse

Advanced File Operations

• IOCTLs
• IOCTL Conventions
• Implementing IOCTLs
• Lockless IOCTLs
• Sleeping
• Wait Queues
• Wait Queues
• Variations on wait_event()
• Sleeping in System Calls
• Multiplexed I/O
• Polling

Interacting With Devices

• Device Interaction
• Managing Exclusive Access
• I/O Ports
• I/O Memory Buffers
• Accessing I/O Memory Buffers
• Userspace Drivers

Direct Memory Access

• Managing DMA
• Initializing DMA
• Coherent Allocations
• Streaming DMA Mappings

PCI Drivers

• Peripheral Component Interconnect
• PCI Configuration Space
• PCI Driver Registration
• Registering PCI Drivers
• Driver Probe Function
• Initializing PCI devices
• Releasing a PCI Device
• Managing PCI Resources
• Accessing Configuration Space
• Listing PCI Devices

USB Drivers

• The Universal Serial Bus
• USB Descriptors
• USB Transfer Types
• Linux USB Implementation
• USB Drivers
• USB Registration
• Initializing USB Interfaces
• USB Class Drivers
• USB Request Blocks
• Using USB request blocks
• Synchronous USB Requests
• More information

Introduction to Network Device Drivers

• Networking
• Network Devices
• Network Device Callback Functions
• Network Driver Initialization
• Network Driver Transmission Queue Control
• Network Statistics
• Socket Buffers (Packets)
• Socket Buffer API
• Transmission
• Reception
• Example Implementations

Introduction to Block Device Drivers

• Block Devices
• I/O Scheduling
• Linux 2.6 Elevator Functions
• Block Device Driver Implementation
• Block Device Registration
• Block Device File Operations
• The gendisk structure
• Request Queues
• Initialization Example
• Handling Requests