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Linux Device Drivers - Course Overview

The Device Drivers play an important role when a custom hardware is brought up with Linux as an Embedded OS. In this course you will be ramping up yourself in the Linux device drivers from the scratch. 

 

 

The Embedded Systems domain is growing with more diversified set of hardware. When a new board is brought up for a particular functionality, device drivers play an important role by enabling communication via a particular interface.

 

Our Linux Device Driver course starts with an introduction to the drivers ecosystem. It further deep dives into topics like creating character drivers, block drivers, USB drivers and PCI drivers. This workshop also covers various Kernel debugging techniques with KDB / KGDB based on real-practical use cases.

 

Hands-on approach, Expert mentors, Workshop based delivery followed by structured intervention for project work makes this as a unique course for UpSkilling.

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Prerequisites and Key Takeaways

Linux device drivers courses start with introduction to the drivers ecosystem and take further deeper topics consisting of character driver, block driver, USB driver and PCI driver. This workshop also covers various Kernel debugging techniques based on real-practical use cases. Hands-on approach, Expert mentors, Workshop based online delivery followed by structured project interventions makes Emertxe the best institute for linux device drivers courses and workshops.

 

Key Takeaways:

  • To write character drivers, using serial and USB interfaces
  • Learn how to access I/O and memory mapped devices
  • Create interrupt handlers efficiently using deferred execution methods
  • Develop block device drivers and mount file system drivers using them
  • Become proficient in USB device drivers.
  • Learn PCI interfacing
  • Kernel Debugging using KDB / KGDB

Topics Covered:

  • Day1: Introduction & Character device drivers
  • Day2: HW access mechanisms, Interrupts, Time keeping, delays and deferred work
  • Day3: Concurrency, USB drivers
  • Day4: Block drivers, PCI drivers, Kernel debugging techniques
  • Special Focus: Live hands-on with Character and USB “Device” Drivers
  • One month lab assistance

Prerequisites:

  • Good C & Programming Skills
  • Basic Hands – On Linux Usage
  • Good to have – Understanding of basic File related system calls

Platform Details:

  • OS – Ubuntu Linux
  • Hardware – Beaglebone Board 
  • Kernel version – 3.x/4.x

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Linux Device Drivers - Course Syllabus

The Linux Device course delivered online in a workshop model. Each session consists of a concept explainer followed by a power packed hands-on session. Overall day and session wise plan is given below. 

 

Using our project intervention sessions, you will get continued support to build on upskilling projects. With these additional projects you will be able to get ahead in your career. 

Day-1

Introduction
  • Linux Driver Ecosystem
  • The Kernel Source Organization
  • Driver Development Environment
  • Knowing the commands
Writing Your Driver
  • /proc files
  • /boot contents
Character Drivers
  • Major & Minor Numbers
  • Registering & Unregistering
  • Device Files & Device Classes
File Operations
  • File Operations & its related Kernel Data Structures
  • Special Focus on open, release, read, write
  • Memory Access in Kernel Space
  • Multiple minors
  • Module arguments

Day-2

Hardware Access Mechanisms
  • System Memory
  • Device Memory
  • I/O Ports
Getting Familiar With Hw
  • Getting familiar with Beaglebone Board
  • Memory allocation
  • ioctl system call
  • Writing a character driver for a serial based device
Interrupts
  • IRQs & their Registration
  • IRQ Handling & Control
  • Soft IRQs
  • Top & Bottom Halves
  • Illustration of Interrupt handler of Keyboard device (i8042 controller)
Time Keeping, Delays, And Deferred Work
  • Time since bootup
  • Knowing the Current Time
  • Delaying Execution
  • Kernel Timers
  • Tasklets
  • Workqueues
  • Illustration of these concepts using demo drivers

Day-3

Concurrency
  • Concurrency and Its Management
  • Semaphores and Mutexes
  • Spinlocks
  • Alternatives to Locking
  • Other Synchronization mechanisms
  • Illustration of these concepts using demo drivers
USB Drivers
  • USB Device Layout
  • USB Driver Layout
  • USB Core & Sysfs
USB Driver Registration
  • USB Device Hot-plug-ability
  • URB & its Operations
  • Special Focus on Control & Bulk Transfers
  • Loading the firmware for Emertxe LDD kit.
Implementation Of USB Driver
  • Implementation of USB driver for CDC-ACM
  • URB & its Operations

Day-4

Block Drivers
  • Introduction
  • Driver Registration
  • Disk Drive Registration
  • Block Device Operations & its related Kernel DS
Request Queues & Their Processing
  • Creating partitions
  • Implementation of memory based block driver
  • Testing the block driver using dd command
  • Associating a file system driver with block driver (mounting)
PCI Driver
  • PCI Interface
  • PCI Configuration Space
  • PCI Driver Registration
  • PCI Device Access & Operations
Debugging
  • Debugging Support in the Kernel
  • Debugging by Printing
  • Debugging by Querying
  • Debugging by Watching
  • Debugging using KDB

Emertxe Courses - Schedule

Embedded Systems Courses with Placements for Students & Professionals

Course name Start date Duration Registration Status
Emertxe Certified Embedded Professional - Advanced(Onsite /Classroom-based) 25/10/2024 6 Months* Register Now
Emertxe Certified Embedded Professional(Online) 29/10/2024 6 Months* Register Now
Emertxe Certified Embedded Professional (Online) 05/11/2024 6 Months/Evening* Register Now
Embedded Systems Internship 10/11/2024 1 Month Register Now

Embedded Systems Courses with Placements for Students & Professionals

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Emertxe Certified Embedded Professional - Advanced(Onsite /Classroom-based)

Start date

25/10/2024

Duration

6 Months*

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Emertxe Certified Embedded Professional(Online)

Start date

29/10/2024

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6 Months*

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Course name

Emertxe Certified Embedded Professional (Online)

Start date

05/11/2024

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6 Months/Evening*

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Course name

Embedded Systems Internship

Start date

10/11/2024

Duration

1 Month

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Projects Based UpSkilling - Linux Device Drivers

For working professionals applied learning plays a paramount of importance. In our workshops our mentors ensure participants are provided with a list of projects. These projects will ensure you will be able to build on what you have learnt during the workshop and have something working. 

 

Such a comprehensive approach makes us the best institute for Linux device drivers courses and workshops for working professionals.

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Linux Device Drivers - Short Term Course - FAQs

We are pretty sure you will have a lot of questions before joining our courses. Here are the frequently asked questions for your reference. In case you still have anything specific write to us at training@emertxe.com

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The Linux device drivers (intermediate) course is to provide developers a kick-start with device drivers. It covers essential parts of driver development, but it doesn’t talk about advanced aspects like network drivers, platform drivers, file-systems drivers etc. In the advanced course it covers such topics to provide you with a complete device driver development exposure. By taking up advanced course you will get comprehensive knowledge about device drivers. Such approach makes us the best institute in India to learn advanced Linux device drivers course.

driver development happens inside the Kernel, doing effective debugging plays a crucial part. Sine we are introducing advanced topics of device drivers in the course, it will remain incomplete if developers are not aware how to troubleshoot / fix issues. Hence a variety of hands-on topics introduced under the debugging techniques (Querying, Printing, Watching, Tracing etc…) which in combination provides power tools & techniques that will help you in real time problem solving.

We understand target audience will have different level of understanding about Linux drivers. It is our best interest to deliver the workshop where the whole class can benefit. If you already have some idea, it will be an added advantage to grasp workshop contents better. During hands-on session we will specifically provide some advanced aspects of drivers (ex: USB) for you to practice and build deeper skills. I already have some idea about device drivers. How does this workshop help me?

 

We understand target audience will have different level of understanding about Linux drivers. It is our best interest to deliver the workshop where the whole class can benefit. If you already have some idea, it will be an added advantage to grasp workshop contents better. During hands-on session we will specifically provide some advanced aspects of drivers (ex: USB) for you to practice and build deeper skills.

There are many projects that you can work on based on the course learning. A sample list of projects are provided below.

 

  • USB Mass Storage (MMC) driver
  • USB to Serial converter
  • Complex matrix keypad driver using interrupts and synchronization
  • Ethernet based network drivers
  • File system drivers
  • Platform drivers

Such comprehensive list of project based learning makes us the best Institute in India to learn advanced linux device drivers course.

Trainers (mentors in Emertxe) for this workshop are professionals having worked with organizations like Samsung, HP, Novell, Huawei etc., that makes Emertxe as one of the best Linux training institutes in Bangalore. They bring in 18+ years of experience on average. Our mentors understand industry requirements very well in order to maximize the value. Added to that, our mentors are passionate about training, which enables you to write a device driver on your own by the end of the workshop.

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