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# Introduction

* Linux
* Device Drivers
* Operating Systems

# Basics

* Buildig Linux
* Linux modules
* printk

# Device Drivers Subsystem

* POSIX devices
* POSIX API Review
* VFS
* Linux Device Model

# Character Device

* Device Numbers
* Registering File Operations
* Implementing File Operations
* Memory Allocation and Concurrency

# Debugging

* Proc Filesystem
* Debug Filesystem
* Linux Debugging Support

# Abstract Data Types

* Lists
* Bitmaps
* Other data types

# Portability Issues

* Endianness
* Type Sizes
* Processors and Memory Layout

# Memory Management

* kmalloc/kfree
* Memory Access
* Lookaside cache (slabs)
* vmalloc

# Process and Concurrency Management

* Contexts
* Interrupts
* Bottom Halves and SoftIRQs
* Timers, tasklets and workqueues

# Concurrency

* Semaphores and Mutexes
* Spinlocks
* Completion
* Waitqueues

# Time Management

* Ticks and Jiffies
* Real Time
* Busy Waiting
* Scheduling
* Timers
* Workqueues

# Advanced Character Device

* ioctl
* Blocking and Non-Blocking I/O
* Polling

# I/O

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

# Interrupts

* Requesting and releasing
* Interrupt Handler
* tasklets
* Enabling and disabling interrupts

# Device Model

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

# Buses

* PCI
* USB
* Other buses

# Memory Mapping

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

# Block devices

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

# Network devices

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