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Linux Device Drivers Workshop Training For Professionals

The document announces an upcoming workshop on Linux device drivers to be held on weekends over 5 weekends starting April 12th, 2008. It will cover topics like character drivers, USB drivers, block drivers, file systems, and PCI drivers. The workshop will be led by Anil Pugalia who has 9+ years of experience in device drivers and worked with various companies. It will provide both conceptual knowledge and hands-on experience in developing Linux device drivers. The fee for the 8 session workshop is Rs. 9000 and it will be held in Bangalore, India.

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Linux Device Drivers Workshop Training For Professionals

The document announces an upcoming workshop on Linux device drivers to be held on weekends over 5 weekends starting April 12th, 2008. It will cover topics like character drivers, USB drivers, block drivers, file systems, and PCI drivers. The workshop will be led by Anil Pugalia who has 9+ years of experience in device drivers and worked with various companies. It will provide both conceptual knowledge and hands-on experience in developing Linux device drivers. The fee for the 8 session workshop is Rs. 9000 and it will be held in Bangalore, India.

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Linux Device Drivers Workshop

'Linux Device Drivers Workshop'


by
Anil Pugalia
Weekend batches for Working Professionals

Upcoming Workshop commencement date: Saturday, April 12th, 2008 (14:30 hrs).
Next Workshop commencement dates (for this quarter): 10th May, 14th June.
Duration: 8 sessions of 3 hours each over 5 weekends
Course Fee: Rs.9000 /- Per Person (Inclusive of All Taxes)
Venue: Emertxe Information Technologies Pvt Ltd, #1 5th Main 9th Cross, Jayamahal
Extension, Bangalore - 560046. (Behind Jayamahal Bus Stop)

Profile of Anil Pugalia:


> Conducted the following Corporate Trainings
● Linux User Space Drivers in Wipro
● Linux Internals in Mistral
● Embedded C & Data Structures in Emertxe InfoTech
● Linux Device Drivers in Emertxe InfoTech
> 9+ yrs of experience in device drivers for Linux, QNX, VxWorks
> Extensively worked on Linux Kernel Internals & Kernel Optimization
> Experience with x86, ARM, PowerPC, Super-H based platforms
> Driven the Embedded Systems Software in Nvidia
> Technical Manager in Intel in Embedded Systems Domain
> Gold Medalist from Indian Institute of Science (ME) & National Institute of Technology
Warangal (BTech)

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Workshop Session Topics:

Session 1: Introduction & The First Driver

Session 2 & 3: Character Drivers

Session 4 & 5: USB Drivers

Session 6 & 7: Block Drivers & File System Module

Session 8: PCI Drivers & Wrap Up

Workshop Pre-requisites:

● Good C & Programming Skills

● Basic Hands-On Linux Usage

● Understanding of Files, Filesystems, Kernel & User Space

● Hands-On with gcc & its friends

● Understanding of make & Makefiles

Workshop Highlights:

● Platform: x86-based

● Kernel: Version 2.6.x

● Drivers: For Real Hardware

● Special Focus: Live hands-on with Character and USB “Device”

Drivers

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Detailed Course Contents:

● Linux Driver Ecosystem


● The Kernel 2.6 Source Organization
● Driver Development Environment
● Character Drivers
○ Major & Minor Numbers
○ Registering & Unregistering
○ Device Files & Device Classes
○ File Operations & its related Kernel Data Structures
○ Special Focus on open, release, read, write, ioctl
● Memory Access in Kernel Space
● Hardware Access Mechanisms
○ System Memory
○ Device Memory
○ I/O Ports
● Kernel & Driver Debugging Options & Techniques
● Ways to Deal with Concurrency
● Time Keeping, Delays, and the Timers in Kernel
● 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
● Interrupts
○ IRQs & their Registration
○ IRQ Handling & Control
○ Soft IRQs
○ Top & Bottom Halves
● Block Drivers
○ Driver Registration
○ Disk Drive Registration
○ Block Device Operations & its related Kernel DS
○ Request Queues & their Processing
● File System Modules
○ Virtual File System (VFS) Interfaces
○ VFS Internals
○ File System Registration & Operations
○ Super Block Operations
○ Inode Operations
○ Address Space Operations
○ File Operations
● PCI Driver
○ PCI Interface
○ PCI Configuration Space
○ PCI Driver Registration
○ PCI Device Access & Operations

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Detailed Hands-On Content:

● The Driver specific Commands & Tools


● Setting up the Driver Development Environment
○ Understanding Kernel's Build System
○ Writing your Makefile
● Writing your “first” Driver
● Writing various Character Drivers
○ Null Driver
○ Memory Based Driver
○ UART (Hardware) Based Driver
● Understanding the USB Ecosystem
○ Walk through of Procfs & Sysfs in relation of USB
○ Understanding the USB Device entries
○ Interfacing with the USB Core
● Writing a USB Driver
○ USB Driver & Device Registration
○ Hot-plug-ability: probe and disconnect
○ Bulk Transfers & Various System Calls
○ USB to Serial Device (Hardware) Driver
● Writing a File System Module (FSM)
○ Memory Based File's Data & Meta Data in our FSM
○ Mounting over a Pseudo Device
○ Interfacing with the VFS
■ Filling the Super Block
■ Creating the Directory Entry & Inode
■ Performing the operations: ls, cd, stat, sync, ...
○ Pseudo File System Driver

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Payment Options:

1) Online

Account Name : Emertxe Information Technologies (P) Ltd

Account No : 020405001736

Name of Bank : ICICI Bank Ltd

Branch : RT Nagar

2) On Spot

Cash / Any Major Credit / Debit Cards

Contact Person: Sadiqha Gulnaz


Email: [email protected]
Phone: 080–41289576 / 65629666)

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