RHD221 Red Hat Linux Device Drivers

Course Outline

• How device drivers work with the Linux Kernel
• How to configure and install the kernel
• Compiling and loading a module and exporting symbols
• Working with character and block device drivers
• Memory Management
• IOCTLs
• Data Transfer Between User and Kernel Space
• Memory Management
• Tracing and Debugging
• Time Management, Wait and Task Queues
• Dealing with I/O ports and Interrupts
• Accessing PCI hardware
• Network drivers
• SMP issues
• Virtual File System and the ext2/ext3 filesystems