Linux Device Driver school training courses in Boston, MA (public, in-house or online)

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
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

This course covers the design and implementation of device drivers for the Linux operating system. Interfaces to the Linux kernel for writing a device driver, and debugging techniques are presented. Students will work on projects to write a device drivers.

Fundamentally, a device driver implements the interface between a piece of peripheral hardware and the application. In a traditional unprotected, “flat�memory model system, a driver may be little more than a set of functions conforming to a well-defined API and statically linked into an executable image.

But in the context of a protected mode operating system such as Linux, device drivers take on added significance owing to the distinction between User space and Kernel space. This 3-day...

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