| Unix Device Driver Development |
| Duration: 3 days |
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| This hands-on course is intended for system programmers who will be writing Unix® device drivers |
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- Programming experience with C is essential with C++ knowledge preferred
- Some knowledge of device driver development on other platforms is helpful but not required
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| Description |
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This course gives developers the knowledge to design, write, and debug Unix® device drivers. |
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| Objectives |
- Explain the responsibilities and structure of a Unix device
- Understand the development and operating environment for a Unix device driver
- Write drivers for character devices (e.g., serial port)
- Write drivers for block devices (e.g., disk)
- Write driver for stream devices
- Understand how network drivers are written for Unix
- Debug and deploy Unix device drivers
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| Course Outline |
Device Driver Overview
- Unix OS Architecture
- Unix I/O System
- Types of Device Drivers
- Device Driver Models
Hardware Basics
- Terminology
- Device Registers
- Interrupts
- DMA
- Buses
Structure of a Driver
- Device Driver Entry Points
- Loading and Unloading a Driver
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Character Drivers
- Hardware Resources
- Allocating I/O Addresses
- Interrupts
- interrupt routine
- Timeouts
Block Drivers
- Block Driver Overview
- Entry Points - strategy
- DMA
- Buffer Cache
Streams Drivers
- Streams Overview
- Streams Drivers Structures
- Entry Points
- Multiplexing Streams Drivers
Debugging Kernel Code | |
Process
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