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# 1st Day

# Revision

* Computer Organization
* Operating Systems
* Unix, POSIX, GNU and Linux
* Free Software and GPL

# Introduction to Linux

* History
* Development Model
* Basic Tools
* Source Tree
* Code Browsing
* Coding Standards
* git
* Configuring
* Building
* Booting

# Hello World

* Linux modules
* Module skeleton
* Headers
* Building
* printk
* kmalloc/kfree

# 2nd Day

# Abstract Data Types

* Macros
* krefs
* Endianness
* Lists
* Bitmaps
* Trees/hashes
* Other data types

# Character Device

* VFS
* Device Numbers
* Registering File Operations
* Implementing File Operations

# Debugging

* printk
* Proc Filesystem
* Debug Filesystem
* Other Mechanisms

# Processes Introduction

* Contexts
* Interrupts
* Bottom Halves and SoftIRQs
* SMP
* Interruption
* Preemption

# 3rd Day

# Concurrency

* Race conditions
* Semaphores and Mutexes
* Spinlocks
* Atomic type
* Per CPU variables
* RCU
* Others
* Completion
* Waitqueues

# Time Management

* Ticks, jiffies and the scheduler
* Real Time
* Busy Waiting
* Scheduling

# 4th Day

# Time Management

* Timers
* Workqueues
* High Resolution Timers

# Memory Management

* Memory Basics
* Memory Bootstrap
* kmalloc/kfree
* Lookaside cache (slabs)
* vmalloc

# 5th Day

# Memory Management

* kmap
* Memory Subsystem
* User Space access

# Interrupts

* Hardware interrupts
* Requesting and releasing
* Interrupt Handler
* tasklets

# Memory Mapping

* Memory Coherency
* get\\_free\\_pages
* struct page
* scather/gather
* VMA and mmap
* DMA

# 6th Day

# Device Model

* kobject
* Devices, drivers, buses and classes
* sysfs

# I/O

* I/O Ports and I/O Memory
* Memory Barriers
* Allocation
* Access

# 7th Day

# Buses

* PCI
* USB
* Other buses

# Block devices

* Block drivers and operations
* struct gendisk
* Requests and Queues
* struct bio

# Network subsystem

* struct skb

# 8th Day

# Network devices

* Allocation and Registration
* Structures and methods
* Starting/Stoping
* Transmission
* Reception
* Interrupts and NAPI
* Links, Addresses and Headers

# Network Protocols

* Registration
* Operations