Notes

2010

Andy Wang and Ted Baker are sharing responsibility for teaching in 2008. Andy's materials are in PowerPoint (.ppt) and Microsoft Word formats. Ted's are in HTML.

• Course Overview (Wang, ppt)
• Chapter 1 (Wang, ppt)
• Chapter 2 (Wang, ppt)
• Chapter 3 (Wang, ppt)
• Chapter 4 (Wang, ppt)
• Chapter 5 (Wang, ppt)
• Chapter 6 (Wang, ppt)
• Chapter 7 (Wang, ppt)
• Chapter 8 (Wang, ppt)
• Chapter 9 (Wang, ppt)
• Chapter 10 - Interrupt Handling (Wang, ppt)
• Chapter 11 - Datatypes in the Kernel (Wang, ppt)
• Chapter 12 - PCI drivers (Baker, html)
• Updates to LDD3 examples (Baker, html)
• Git source code management system (Baker, html)
• Notes on safety of kernel timers (Baker, html)
• Chapter 15 - Memory Mapping and DMA (Baker, html)
• I²C - Notes on the bus (Baker, html)
• Notes on video input and the HRT/PixelSmart Device driver (Baker, html)
• Video4Linux links (Baker, html)
• Note on event-driven programming (Baker, html)
• Chapter 17 - Network Drivers (Baker, html)
• Chapter 14 - Linux Device Model (Baker, html)
• Linux kernel design patterns (Baker, html)
• Linux Lock Usage Patterns & Anti-Patterns (Baker, html)
• Linux spinlock implementation (Baker, html)
• Other Linux Patterns & Anti-Patterns (Baker, html)
• What's wrong with this? (Baker, html)
• Chapter 13 - USB drivers (Baker, html, incomplete)
• Chapter 13 - USB drivers (Wang, ppt)
• Chapter 16 - Block Devices (Wang, ppt)
• Multiple Device Drivers (RAID) (Wang, ppt)

2008

Andy Wang and Ted Baker shared responsibility for teaching in 2008. Andy's materials are in PowerPoint (.ppt) and Microsoft Word formats. Ted's are in HTML.

• Course Overview (ppt)
• Chapter 1 (ppt)
• Chapter 2 (ppt)
• Chapter 3 (ppt)
• Chapter 4 (ppt)
• Chapter 5 (ppt)
• Chapter 6 (ppt)
• Chapter 7 (ppt)
• Chapter 8 (ppt)
• Chapter 9 (ppt)
• Chapter 10 (ppt)
• Chapter 11 (ppt)
• Chapter 12 - PCI and other buses - (ppt)
  (html supplement, with links to examples in bttv driver)
• Chapter 13 (ppt)
• Notes on safety of kernel timers (html)
• Chapter 14 - The Linux Device Model (html)
• Chapter 15 - Memory Mapping and DMA (html)
• Chapter 16 - Block Devices (html)
• Chapter 17 - Network Drivers (html)
• Notes on the HRT/PixelSmart Device Driver (html)
• Video4Linux links
• NAPI documentation
• NAPI documentation (more)
• "newer, newer NAPI" documentation
• lwn.net article by Jonthan Corbet on on API changes in the 2.6 kernel series.
  You really need to read this, since most of these changes are not reflected in the textbook.
• Linux 2.6.25 Kernel Scheduling (html)
• Linux spinlock implementation
• Rusty's Unreliable Guide to Locking

2007

Kartik Gopalan and Ted Baker shared responsibility for teaching in 2007.

2006

See Assignments and Calendar pages for descriptions of assignments and due dates.

Notice

Some of the links above will not work, because they are copyrighted by individuals and organizations outside of Florida State University, and were only permitted to be used by students in this course for the limited purpose of study within the course, under password protection. When the password protection for this site was removed, those files were removed, or otherwise protected from access. If anyone finds other materials that should be removed, please let me know.