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Linux Device Drivers Development

You're reading from   Linux Device Drivers Development Develop customized drivers for embedded Linux

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785280009
Length 586 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction to Kernel Development FREE CHAPTER 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. The 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

Driver methods

Drivers methods consist of probe() and remove() functions. Prior to going further with these method descriptions, let us set up our fb_ops structure:

static struct fb_ops myfb_ops = { 
   .owner        = THIS_MODULE, 
   .fb_check_var = myfb_check_var, 
   .fb_set_par   = myfb_set_par, 
   .fb_setcolreg = myfb_setcolreg, 
   .fb_fillrect  = cfb_fillrect, /* Those three hooks are */  
   .fb_copyarea  = cfb_copyarea, /* non accelerated and */ 
   .fb_imageblit = cfb_imageblit, /* are provided by kernel */ 
   .fb_blank     = myfb_blank, 
}; 
  • Probe: The driver probe function is in charge of initializing the hardware, creating the struct fb_info structure using the framebuffer_alloc() function, and using register_framebuffer() on it. The following sample assumes the device is memory mapped. Therefore, your nonmemory map can exist, such as screen sitting...
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