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Learn to develop customized Linux device drivers

Learn the core concepts of device drivers such as memory management, kernel caching, advanced IRQ management, and so on.

Practical experience on the embedded side of Linux

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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).

What you will learn

• Use kernel facilities to develop powerful drivers

• Develop drivers for widely used I2C and SPI devices and use the regmap API

• Write and support devicetree from within your drivers

• Program advanced drivers for network and frame buffer devices

• Delve into the Linux irqdomain API and write interrupt controller drivers

• Enhance your skills with regulator and PWM frameworks

• Develop measurement system drivers with IIO framework

• Get the best from memory management and the DMA subsystem

• Access and manage GPIO subsystems and develop GPIO controller drivers

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texier pierre-jean Oct 29, 2017

From Linux Kernel to network interface, this book covers a lot of interesting topics:- device-tree,- i2c drivers,- RTC drivers,- PWM drivers,- ...There is also a very good chapter which explain how to develop with the Linux IIO framework.Recommended for Embedded Linux Engineer !

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sandeep bhuyan Jul 04, 2018

i love this book,we can get lot of information about Linux Driver Development

Nguefack Nov 01, 2017

This book helped me a lot to find a solution to a business problem that we had ...The content is very well explained and simple to understand even for beginners ....The practical examples are really clear ..Very good Book...Rosty ....

Electronics fan May 26, 2019

Started this book not knowing anything about Linux device drivers, left this book knowing a bunch about Linux drivers.

Daiane Dec 08, 2017

The first part of this book has a great introduction to the meanings and terms needed to become a linux developer. I think it does help a lot for the readers starting with Linux. The second part of the book has several important chapters describing the drivers and frameworks used nowadays in the source code.It's very easy to read and I like very much how text flows. I liked this book very much!

Linux Device Drivers Development: Develop customized drivers for embedded Linux

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