Three Driver Bootcamps: USB, Network Card & PCIe

Linux Kernel & Device Drivers, High-Performance Networking & Cloud-Native · 30 illustrated lessons (text/HTML)

Outcomes

• Write USB HID, mass-storage and gadget drivers
• Port and debug a real Ethernet NIC driver
• Build a PCIe data-acquisition driver and contribute upstream

Where we teach this

• DRV-210 · USB Device Drivers & the Gadget Framework live cohort
• DRV-220 · PCIe Drivers & DMA Engines live cohort

The lessons

Every lesson in this curriculum, in the order we teach it.

• 1Opening introduction
• 2Linux kernel and driver fundamentals
• 3Hardware interfaces and kernel communication
• 4The USB protocol stack in depth
• 5The Linux USB driver framework explained
• 6Practice 1: developing a USB HID device driver
• 7Practice 2: analysing a USB mass-storage driver
• 8USB gadget driver development in practice
• 9The Linux network subsystem architecture
• 10NIC hardware basics
• 11The Linux network device driver framework explained
• 12Practice 3: developing a virtual NIC driver
• 13Practice 4: porting and debugging a real Ethernet NIC driver
• 14Wireless NIC driver overview
• 15PCI/PCIe protocol basics
• 16The Linux PCI subsystem explained
• 17Advanced PCIe features in practice
• 18Practice 5: PCIe device driver for a simple FPGA data-acquisition card
• 19Practice 6: developing a PCIe NIC driver
• 20The art of driver debugging
• 21Analysing and troubleshooting kernel oopses
• 22Hardware co-debugging in practice
• 23Driver performance optimisation in practice
• 24Linux driver power management: runtime PM and system sleep/wake
• 25Device-tree driver development
• 26Practice 7: a multi-function USB data-card driver
• 27Practice 8: driver for a high-speed PCIe image-capture card
• 28Driver security and stability
• 29Linux kernel coding style
• 30Course summary and outlook