Driver Development

This section provides documentation and references for driver development, including planning, PCI device identification, and quick references for PCI and MMIO.

Watcher Docs:

• Planning a Mechanism to Fetch and Translate PCI Device Data
• struct pci_device_id
• device_watcher_init()
• Plan-Overview
• Plan-overview 2
• Planing Structures - JSON to C Struct Translation Example
• Linux Kernel-Style JSON Struct Example

Driver References:

• Briefing on LTP (Linux Test Project) and Device Driver Test Cases
• Briefing: Memory-Mapped I/O vs. I/O Ports
• PCIe Symobls
• Deadline IO scheduler tunables
• PCI Functions Reference
• Why kzalloc() Over kmalloc() in the Linux Kernel