Getting Started with Linux Device Drivers, Volume 1: Linux Kernel Fundamentals and PCI Express (Introduction to Linux Device Drivers)
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Would you like to learn how to read Linux kernel device drivers directly from source code?
Using a PCI Express network card as its central example, this book uses Linux kernel 7.1 to introduce practical starting points for reading kernel source code; configuring and building the kernel; working with loadable kernel modules; and understanding the relationship among modern C, Rust, x86_64, ARM64, UEFI, ACPI, and Device Tree.
Rather than relying on explanations written for legacy PCI, BIOS, and Linux 2.6 systems, this book shows you how to investigate and understand a modern Linux kernel yourself. PCI Express enumeration, DMA, interrupts, Ethernet transmit and receive processing, and real-time considerations are covered in later volumes.
This book is for readers who want to:
- use their C programming experience to learn the Linux kernel;
- begin device-driver or embedded-Linux development;
- know where to start when reading kernel source code; or
- understand the overall structure of a PCI Express network driver.
This is Volume 1 of the *Introduction to Linux Device Drivers* series. Start here and take your first step toward understanding Linux kernel device drivers.
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