Linux Device Driver

Embedded Linux

• Introduction to embedded Linux
• C libraries. Building a cross-compiling toolchain
• Bootloaders. Focus on U-boot.
• Configuring, (cross)compiling and booting a Linux kernel
• Creating a simple, BusyBox based root filesystem from scratch
• Block filesystems
• Flash filesystems - Manipulating flash partitions
• Cross-compiling libraries and applications
• Embedded system building tools
• Lightweight tools for embedded systems. Graphical toolkits
• Developing and debugging applications for the embedded system
• Implementing realtime requirements
• Hotplugging
• System optimizations

Embedded Linux kernel and driver development

• Introduction to the Linux kernel
• Kernel source code
• Configuring, compiling and booting the kernel
• Linux kernel modules
• Memory management and accessing hardware
• Character device drivers
• Processes, scheduling, waiting for resources and interrupt management
• Locking
• Kernel debugging techniques
• mmap
• Using DMA
• Kernel architecture for device drivers. Illustration by many examples in the kernel code.
• Kernel booting details
• Porting the Linux kernel to a new hardware platform
• Power management
• Working with the community
• Managing sources with git