Linux Kernel Driver Development

Learn basics of Linux Kernel architecture, the role of device driver. Develop linux device driver development skills

4.05 (90 reviews)

Udemy

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English

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Operating Systems

What you will learn

Introduction to Linux Kernel Driver development, Basics understanding of Linux kernel, Code Compilation Techniques, Automating build steps using Makefile, Writing basic Linux drivers and submitting your first kernel patch.

Why take this course?

Starting your journey in the Linux device driver development is a pain for beginners. This course is designed to clear the air and provide the right insights for beginners to get started in device driver development.

Before jumping right away into development it is better to know the basics and need of device drivers. So, the course begins with an introduction to Linux kernel architecture, the role of device drivers.

Course Structure Includes:

Introduction to Linux Kernel architecture.
Role of device drivers and their use case.
Intermediate steps involved in the compilation process.
Cross Compilation for the target architecture.
Kernel APIs understanding for getting started.
Implement a Hello World module.
Module Building, inserting, and checking status procedure.
__init and __exit keywords and their use case.
Character driver implementation.
Implementing read, write operations for the character driver.
Creating and submitting our first Linux kernel patch.

This course, if well practiced well enough along with supported theory and lecture, is good enough for any beginner to get started in device drivers development.

As time proceeds, I will be updating the course contents with the additional drivers and techniques for debugging the drivers.

Hope you will enjoy and have fun learning.

Cheers.

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Reviews

Vineeth

March 8, 2022

The explanation is good but the course is not beginner friendly, like if someone is new to LDD then this is course is not recommended. If you are here to brush up your LDD skills then this a good starting place for you. The complete explanation of system calls like open, close, read etc is not mentioned.

Sylvain

February 26, 2021

Les sous-titres sont mal retranscrits. Exemple: quand il parle de kernel, la transcription met Colonel. Les cas sont nombreux.

Niharika

October 26, 2020

The course is extremely good for beginners who are here to understand Linux from the basics. It is very clear and well structured thus helping students to understand and follow the topics with clarity.

@Hegde

October 8, 2020

Nice course for an absolute beginner . Some points to improve in the video production area , you can edit and reduce the time of live debug cases

ECEgeek

September 8, 2020

Have watched countless hours of tutorials on Linux kernel drivers introduction, but none of them came close to this guy's explanations. Interesting course and enjoyed learning a lot. Very much recommend it and waiting for the next series.

Reece

September 5, 2020

It was a good course, helped me with getting started in driver development on Linux, compiling the driver, as well as the compilation process of compiling a program written in C.

Tabish

July 23, 2020

Pros:- Tutor have good knowledge Topics are explained quite well Cons:- Audio is too low in each lecture Course content is too less, at least IPC should be included in the lectures At the end of the course, students should know how to achieve complex tasks in device driver, only exposure to open close etc functions are not enough, tutor should show something happening there( maybe file operations would be enough). Overall, I believe it could be a great course if some amendments are done

Embedded

July 11, 2020

Good course content. It really helped to get started for a beginner like me. Explanations were to the point. The instructor is an expert in his domain. Very much recommend this course.

Sathwik

April 9, 2020

Good course to start with. It really helped a beginner like me to get started. Pros: good course content, detailed explanation and good exercises for us to extend the learning. Cons: video quality and production could have been better, also add more contents like advanced drivers.