A Comprehensive Linux Device Drivers Course

Driver Development | Testing | Debugging

Advanced Linux Device Drivers - Course Overview

Emertxe’s Advanced Device Drivers Course is one of the most comprehensive courses designed in this domain. It ramps up ramp-ups up working professionals to design, develop, test, debug and launch them. This course is designed for experienced professionals.

The Advanced Device Driver course is designed to equip working professionals with in-depth knowledge and practical skills in developing and managing device drivers for complex hardware systems. This course delves into the intricacies of driver development, focusing on advanced techniques and methodologies essential for working with modern hardware architectures.

Participants gain a comprehensive understanding of various driver models, including character, block, USB and PCI drivers. It also covers advanced driver topics like network drivers, platform drivers and file-system drivers. Throughout the course, participants are provided with hands-on exercises and projects that simulate real-world scenarios.

By the end of the Advanced Device Driver course, participants emerge with a deep understanding of driver development principles and the ability to design, implement, and maintain robust drivers. It will put you ahead in a fast track career path and professional advancement.

Prerequisites and Key Takeaways

Our advanced Linux device drivers courses start with an introduction to the drivers ecosystem and take further deeper topics consisting of character driver, block driver, USB driver and PCI driver. It also covers advanced driver topics like network drivers, platform drivers and file-system drivers. Details of Advanced linux device drivers course syllabus with practicals as follows.

Key Takeaways:

To get you started with writing device drivers in Linux
Provide real time hardware exposure
Equip you with real-time tools, debugging techniques and industry usage
Begin with writing character drivers, followed by USB
Learn how to handle interrupts, synchronization and timer
Develop Network device drivers
Build File system driver
Implement Platform drivers
Learn how to debug the kernel using KDB / KGDB
Specific debugging using USBmon, Network trace etc.

Topics Covered:

Day1: Introduction & Character device drivers
Day2: HW access, Interrupts, Time keeping, delays and deferred work
Day3: Concurrency, USB drivers
Day4: Block drivers, PCI drivers
Day5: Network drivers
Day6: Linux device driver model, Platform devices and drivers
Day7: Kernel debugging techniques, File system drivers
One month lab assistance

Hands-On Sessions:

The Driver specific Commands & Tools
Setting up the Driver Development Environment
Writing your “first” Driver
Writing various Character Drivers
UART (Hardware) Based Drivers
Understanding the USB Ecosystem
Writing a USB Driver
Interrupt implementation using deferred execution
Concurrency management using mutex, semaphores
Memory based Block Driver
Implementation of a char based PCI driver
Using KDB debugger
Creating proc entries for a driver
Using KGDB for debugging
Implementing Network device driver (Ethernet)
Implementation of Platform driver for RTC
Implementation of a File System driver

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 Black
Kernel version – 3.x/4.x

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Advanced Linux Device Drivers - Course Syllabus

Our advanced Linux device drivers courses start with an introduction to the drivers ecosystem and take further deeper topics consisting of character driver, block driver, USB driver and PCI driver. It also covers advanced driver topics like network drivers, platform drivers and file-system drivers. The first 4 days of the curriculum will remain the same as mentioned in the Linux Device Drivers – Intermediate Course. It will additionally cover advanced topics in the remaining 3 days, which is mentioned below.

Details of Advanced linux device drivers course syllabus with practicals as follows.

Day-5

Network Drivers

Introduction to Network Stack
Architecture
Introduction to DMA

Socket Buffer

Socket buffer (skb) and its usage
Functions related to socket buffers

Packet Transmission

Controlling transmission concurrency
Transmission timeouts
Packet Reception (Interrupt Mode & NAPI Mode)

Communication With The Phy

Handling Link Changes
Statistical Information
Power management
Implementation of Network driver (Ethernet)

Day-6

Linux Device Driver Model

Overview of Device Driver Model
Device Structure
Device Driver Structure
Classes
Driver binding

Implementation

Practical Implementation using Linux device driver model

Platform Devices And Drivers

Overview
Platform devices
Platform device initialization
I/O resources
Platform drivers
Operations on device

Implementation Of Platform Driver

Implementation of platform driver (RTC driver on Beaglebone black)

Day-7

Debugging

Debugging Support in the Kernel
Debugging by Printing
Debugging by Querying
Debugging by Watching

Kernel Debugging

Kernel Debugging using KDB and KGDB

File System Drivers

VFS (Virtual File System) Interfaces
VFS Internals
Registration of FS Driver
Fill the Super Block
Super Block Operations
Address Space Operations

Inode Operations

File Operations
Implementation of File System Driver
Formatting the File System
Mounting and using the file system

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Advanced Device Drivers - Short Term Courses - 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

What is the difference between this and Linux device drivers?

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.

Why debugging techniques are highlighted in this 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.

I already have idea about device drivers. How will this 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. I already have some idea about device drivers. How does this workshop help me?

What projects can I work on after course completion?

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.

Who are the trainers for Linux device drivers workshop?

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.