Embedded Linux Drivers, 5 op

Core content

• Principles of real-time operating system
• Linux operating system
• Building Linux on standard platforms using basic tools
• Debugging Linux
• Developing Linux device drivers
• Virtual memory
• Interrupt handling
• Prototyping and simulation tools

Complementary knowledge

• RTOS implementations
• Kernel space development
• Yocto build system for custom platforms
• Typical kernel-space bugs
• Boot and run time driver loading
• Virtual and physical memory mapping
• Delayed processing
• Measurements

Specialist knowledge

• Selecting RTOS for a specific purpose
• RT-Linux
• Building Linux for SoC-FPGA
• Studying Kernel Panic by stacktrace
• Linux Device Tree
• Minimizing memory access latency
• Hardware assisted interrupt processing
• Real-time performance benchmarking