Managing Devices with Linux Device Drivers

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• Date: Friday June 19, 2020
• Duration: 1 hour (with live Q&A)
• Time: 11:00 – 12:00
• Presenter: Simon Goda, Doulos SMTS
  
• Cost: FREE!

Webinar Overview:

In this webinar we investigate the why and how of managing peripheral devices in an Arm-based embedded Linux system. Although this is a huge and complex subject area, we can still introduce some of the key concepts and start to appreciate the steps involved in writing a device driver.

Content Summary:

• How devices are represented in the device-tree description
• The basic framework used for a Linux kernel device driver
• Fundamentals of device driver programming, including interrupt handling and memory
• How devices can be managed from user-space and a comparison with kernel-based management
• Some of the tools and techniques available for debugging device drivers.

The webinar will feature examples using Xilinx® SoCs.

Doulos Senior Member Technical Staff and Linux expert Simon Goda will present this training webinar, which will consist of a one-hour session, and will be interactive with Q&A participation from attendees.

Attendance is free of charge.