Linux Device Drivers. A Unix-compatible operating system for the personal computer (Nutshell Handbook)

Alessandro Rubini

ISBN 10: 1565922921 / ISBN 13: 9781565922921

Editore: O'Reilly Media, 1998

Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present. Codice articolo M01565922921-G

Riassunto:

Provides a definitive resource for those who want to support computer peripherals under the Linux operating system, explaining how to write a driver for a broad spectrum of devices, including character devices, network interfaces, and block devices. Original. (Intermediate).

Contenuti: Preface; Audience of This Book; Organization of the Material; Background Information; Sources for Further Information; Relevant Books; Conventions Used in This Book; We’d Like to Hear from You; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Linux Kernel; 1.1 The Role of the Driver Writer; 1.2 Splitting the Kernel; 1.3 Classes of Devices and Modules; 1.4 Security Issues; 1.5 Version Numbering; 1.6 License Terms; 1.7 Overview of the Book; Chapter 2: Building and Running Modules; 2.1 Modules Versus Applications; 2.2 Compiling and Loading; 2.3 The Kernel Symbol Table; 2.4 Initialization and Shutdown; 2.5 Using Resources; 2.6 Automatic and Manual Configuration; 2.7 Doing It in User Space; 2.8 Quick Reference; Chapter 3: Char Drivers; 3.1 The Design of scull; 3.2 Major and Minor Numbers; 3.3 File Operations; 3.4 The file Structure; 3.5 Open and Release; 3.6 Scull’s Memory Usage; 3.7 Read and Write; 3.8 Playing with the New Devices; 3.9 Quick Reference; Chapter 4: Debugging Techniques; 4.1 Debugging by Printing; 4.2 Debugging by Querying; 4.3 Debugging by Watching; 4.4 Debugging System Faults; 4.5 Using a Debugger; Chapter 5: Enhanced Char Driver Operations; 5.1 ioctl; 5.2 Blocking I/O; 5.3 Select; 5.4 Asynchronous Notification; 5.5 Seeking a Device; 5.6 Access Control on a Device File; 5.7 Quick Reference; Chapter 6: Flow of Time; 6.1 Time Intervals in the Kernel; 6.2 Knowing the Current Time; 6.3 Delaying Execution; 6.4 Task Queues; 6.5 Kernel Timers; 6.6 Quick Reference; Chapter 7: Getting Hold of Memory; 7.1 The Real Story of kmalloc; 7.2 get_free_page and Friends; 7.3 vmalloc and Friends; 7.4 Playing Dirty; 7.5 Quick Reference; Chapter 8: Hardware Management; 8.1 Using I/O Ports; 8.2 Using the Parallel Port; 8.3 Accessing Memory on Device Boards; 8.4 Accessing the Text-Mode Video Buffer; 8.5 Quick Reference; Chapter 9: Interrupt Handling; 9.1 Preparing the Parallel Port; 9.2 Installing an Interrupt Handler; 9.3 Implementing a Handler; 9.4 Bottom Halves; 9.5 Interrupt Sharing; 9.6 Interrupt-Driven I/O; 9.7 Race Conditions; 9.8 Version Dependencies of IRQ Handling; 9.9 Quick Reference; Chapter 10: Judicious Use of Data Types; 10.1 Use of Standard C Types; 10.2 Assigning an Explicit Size to Data Items; 10.3 Interface-Specific Types; 10.4 Other Portability Issues; 10.5 Quick Reference; Chapter 11: Kerneld and Advanced Modularization; 11.1 Loading Modules on Demand; 11.2 Version Control in Modules; 11.3 Persistent Storage Across Unload/Load; 11.4 Quick Reference; Chapter 12: Loading Block Drivers; 12.1 Registering the Driver; 12.2 The Header File blk.h; 12.3 Handling Requests; 12.4 How Mounting Works; 12.5 The ioctl Method; 12.6 Removable Devices; 12.7 Partitionable Devices; 12.8 Interrupt-Driven Block Drivers; 12.9 Quick Reference; Chapter 13: Mmap and DMA; 13.1 Memory Management in Linux; 13.2 The mmap Device Operation; 13.3 Direct Memory Access; 13.4 Quick Reference; Chapter 14: Network Drivers; 14.1 How snull Is Designed; 14.2 Connecting to the Kernel; 14.3 The device Structure in Detail; 14.4 Opening and Closing; 14.5 Packet Transmission; 14.6 Packet Reception; 14.7 Interrupt-Driven Operation; 14.8 The Socket Buffers; 14.9 Address Resolution; 14.10 Load-Time Configuration; 14.11 Run-Time Configuration; 14.12 Custom ioctl Commands; 14.13 Statistical Information; 14.14 Multicasting; 14.15 Quick Reference; Chapter 15: Overview of Peripheral Buses; 15.1 The PCI Interface; 15.2 A Look Back: ISA; 15.3 Other PC Buses; 15.4 Sbus; 15.5 Quick Reference; Chapter 16: Physical Layout of the Kernel Source; 16.1 Booting the Kernel; 16.2 Before Booting; 16.3 The Init Process; 16.4 The kernel Directory; 16.5 The mm Directory; 16.6 The fs Directory; 16.7 Networking; 16.8 IPC and lib Functions; 16.9 Drivers; 16.10 Architecture Dependencies; Chapter 17: Recent Developments; 17.1 Modularization; 17.2 File Operations; 17.3 Accessing User Space; 17.4 Task Queues; 17.5 Interrupt Management; 17.6 Bit Operations; 17.7 Conversion Functions; 17.8 vremap; 17.9 Virtual Memory; 17.10 Handling Kernel-Space Faults; 17.11 Other Changes; Colophon;

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Titolo: Linux Device Drivers. A Unix-compatible ...
Casa editrice: O'Reilly Media
Data di pubblicazione: 1998
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: good