A peek into Linux Device Driver Kit

OSI Days – 2014

November 7 & 8, NIMHANS, Bengaluru

Topics

Brief Introduction

Motivation & Challenges

Overview of the kit

Areas to explore

Conclusion

Brief Introduction

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Motivation & Challenges

Motivation

Diverse Hardware

(Customisations, Multiple-vendor, Optimisation)

Lack of resources

(Formal courses, documentation, support)

Setup and installation

(SDKs, tool-chain, configuration)

Too geeky!

(Fear of getting bullied)

Practical challenges

Hard to learn

(Professionals, Enthusiasts, Students)

No special devices

(Most of them are fits-for-all)

Enriched learning

(Character, Block, multi-peripherals)

Higher entry barrier

(Giving up!)

Some questions!

Which driver should I work on to begin with?

Can I see some sample drivers?

I do not have specific hardware, where I can find one?

Can I write char, block drivers. What about interrupts?

I would like to implement USB, SCSI, Serial and Audio drivers. How to?

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Overview of LDD Kit

Overview of LDD kit

• Dedicated board

• Rich peripheral support

• On-board DFU interface for upgrading

• Can act as a normal MC device as well

Hardware

• Currently supports Ubuntu distributions

• Completely based on Open source

• Firmware stack based on LUFA

• AVR-GCC compiler

SDK

• Well documented setup & quick start guide

• Sample device driver code

• Test harness for validation and debugging

Get “hands-dirty”

How it looks?

Hardware specifications

Atmel AT90USB162

2×16 Character LCD

RS232

8 LEDs

4 User Inputs

4 Seven Segment

Displays

Hardware specifications

USB Powered

Audio Output Interface

SD (MMC) Card Support

(Using SPI Interface)

8 GPIO Header

DFU Programmable (on-

board)

Block diagram

USB Host Controller

Host Controller

Driver

USB Core

Device Driver-2

System Call

Interface

User Application

Kernel

LDD kit

Users

Device Driver-1 Device Driver-3

What you can create?

RS232 interface (i/p and o/p)

Interrupt handling (switches)

I/O control

Timers (LED control)

Synchronization mechanisms

SD/MMC Card driver

SCSI Implementation

USB Protocol

SCSI over USB

Simple drivers for LED, SSD, LCD

USB to Serial converter

Mass storage driver

USB Audio

Input drivers

Chara

cte

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Blo

ck

USB

Summary

Learning Linux device driver development is challenging

Our LDD kit tries to solve challenges by:

Having a dedicated hardware with very rich in peripherals

Larger problem of software is resolved by well documented &

supported SDK

Having sample source code & self-learning stuff

By having whole ecosystem built with open source

With this we believe:

To make the learning easier

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