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Linux Device Drivers Development. Develop customized drivers for embedded Linux

Linux Device Drivers Development. Develop customized drivers for embedded Linux

John Madieu

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Linux kernel is a complex, portable, modular and widely used piece of software, running on around 80% of servers and embedded systems in more than half of devices throughout the World. Device drivers play a critical role in how well a Linux system performs. As Linux has turned out to be one of the most popular operating systems used, the interest in developing proprietary device drivers is also increasing steadily.
This book will initially help you understand the basics of drivers as well as prepare for the long journey through the Linux Kernel. This book then covers drivers development based on various Linux subsystems such as memory management, PWM, RTC, IIO, IRQ management, and so on. The book also offers a practical approach on direct memory access and network device drivers.

By the end of this book, you will be comfortable with the concept of device driver development and will be in a position to write any device driver from scratch using the latest kernel version (v4.13 at the time of writing this book).
  • 1. Introduction to Kernel Development
  • 2. Device Driver Basis
  • 3. Kernel Facilities and Helper Functions
  • 4. Character Device Drivers
  • 5. Platform Device Drivers
  • 6. The Concept of Device Tree
  • 7. I2C Client Drivers
  • 8. SPI Device Drivers
  • 9. Regmap API - A Register Map Abstraction
  • 10. IIO Framework 
  • 11. Kernel Memory Management 
  • 12. DMA – Direct Memory Access
  • 13. Linux Device Model
  • 14. Pin Control and GPIO Subsystem
  • 15. GPIO Controller Drivers – gpio_chip
  • 16. Advanced IRQ Management
  • 17. Input Devices Drivers
  • 18. RTC Drivers
  • 19. PWM Drivers
  • 20. Regulator Framework
  • 21. Framebuffer Drivers
  • 22. Network Interface Card Drivers
  • Title: Linux Device Drivers Development. Develop customized drivers for embedded Linux
  • Author: John Madieu
  • Original title: Linux Device Drivers Development. Develop customized drivers for embedded Linux
  • ISBN: 9781782174752, 9781782174752
  • Date of issue: 2017-10-20
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_15rb
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing