DEVICE DRIVERS FOR PC

Introduction to linux operating system

operating system services

why linux

Different types operating systems

Monolithic

Micro etc

Basic linux user commands Linux root file system structure.
Introduction to GNU Tool chain

GCC compiler

Make file

GDB

Introduction to Device Drivers – Module Programming

The role of the device driver

Classification of Devices and Modules

Building and running Modules

Hello world Module

Process context, interrupt context, Kernel timers

The Linux device model (devices, udev,sysfs,procfs)

Character Driver basics

Writing Device Driver Programming in Linux.

Open, Read, Write and Close System Calls

Major and Minor Numbers

Charater Device Data structures

Charater Device Registration

Writing Simple Charater Device Driver

Debugging by Printing, Concurrency and Race Conditions (Semaphores, Mutexes, Completions, Spinlocks)

Advance char device operations (ioctl), Kernel Timer

I/O Ports and I/O Memory – Writing Parallel port driver Interfacing With LED, Seven Segment Display.

Interrupt Handling With Parallel Port

UART Driver

Kernel Configuration and Compilation for 0x86Requirements for Building and using the kernel,

Retrieving the Kernel Source

Configuring and Building, Installing and Booting from a Kernel

Upgrading a kernel, Customizing a Kernel

Boot loader – Grub Loader, U-Boot

Implementing Device driver application program related to the Driver

Interaction between the User and Kernel Level With System calls

Explain Device driver application flowchart

Exaplain kernel Device driver and user device driver program