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 Chapter 1, "Introduction," starts our tryst with Linux. It hurries you through downloading the kernel sources, making trivial code changes, and building a bootable kernel image.
Chapter 2, "A Peek Inside the Kernel," takes a brisk look into the innards of the Linux kernel and teaches you some must-know kernel concepts. It first takes you through the boot process and then describes kernel services particularly relevant to driver development, such as kernel timers, concurrency management, and memory allocation.
Chapter 3, "Kernel Facilities," examines several kernel services
that are useful components in the toolbox of driver developers.
Chapter 4, "Laying the Groundwork," builds the foundation for mastering the art of writing Linux device drivers. It introduces devices and drivers by giving you a bird's-eye view of the architecture of a typical PC-compatible system and an embedded device.
Chapter 5, "Character Drivers," looks at the architecture of character device drivers.
Chapter 6, "Serial Drivers," explains the kernel layer that handles serial devices.
Chapter 7, "Input Drivers," discusses the kernel's input subsystem that is responsible for servicing devices such as keyboards, mice, and touch-screen controllers.
Chapter 8, "The Inter-Integrated Circuit Protocol," dissects drivers for devices such as EEPROMs that are connected to a system's I2C bus or SMBus.
Chapter 9, "PCMCIA and Compact Flash," delves into the PCMCIA subsystem. It teaches you to write drivers for devices having a PCMCIA or Compact Flash form factor.
Chapter 10, "Peripheral Component Interconnect," looks at kernel support for PCI and its derivatives.
Chapter 11, "Universal Serial Bus," explores USB architecture and explains how you can use the services of the Linux-USB subsystem to write drivers for USB devices.
Chapter 12, "Video Drivers," examines the Linux-Video subsystem. It finds out the advantages offered by the frame buffer abstraction and teaches you to write frame buffer drivers.
Chapter 13, "Audio Drivers," describes the Linux-Audio framework and explains how to implement audio drivers.
Chapter 14, "Block Drivers," focuses on drivers for storage devices such as hard disks. In this chapter, you also learn about the different I/O schedulers supported by the Linux-Block subsystem.
Chapter 15, "Network Interface Cards," is devoted to network device drivers. You learn about kernel networking data structures and how to interface network drivers with protocol layers.
Chapter 16, "Linux Without Wires," looks at driving different wireless technologies such as Bluetooth, Infrared, WiFi, and cellular communication.
Chapter 17, "Memory Technology Devices," discusses flash memory enablement on embedded devices. The chapter ends by examining drivers for the Firmware Hub found on PC systems.
Chapter 18, "Embedding Linux," steps into the world of embedded Linux. It takes you through the main firmware components of an embedded solution such as bootloader, kernel, and device drivers.
Chapter 19, "Drivers in User Space," looks at driving different types of devices from user space. Some device drivers, especially ones that are heavy on policy and light on performance requirements, are better off residing in user land. Download Linux ebook: Essential Linux Device Drivers(Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series)
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