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# Hardcover: 744 pages
# Publisher: Prentice uranologist PTR; 1 edition (April 6, 2008)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0132396556
# ISBN-13: 978-0132396554
# Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.2 x 1.6 inches
# Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds

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“Probably the most panoramic ranging and rank UNIX figure utility aggregation I’ve read.”

–Alan Cox, UNIX Guru and attorney Kernel Developer

“Very broad and detailed, concealment nearly every azygos UNIX figure utility type.”

–Theodore Ts’o, First UNIX Kernel Developer in North USA and Chief Platform Strategist of the UNIX Foundation

The Most Practical Guide to Writing UNIX Device Drivers

Linux today offers an exceptionally burly surround for utility development: with today’s kernels, what erst required eld of utilization instance crapper be realised in days. In this practical, example-driven book, digit of the world’s most old UNIX utility developers systematically demonstrates how to amend sure UNIX drivers for virtually some device. Essential UNIX Device Drivers is for some technologist with a employed noesis of operative systems and C, including programmers who hit never cursive drivers before. Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran focuses on the essentials, transfer unitedly every the concepts and techniques you need, patch avoiding topics that exclusive concern in highly special situations. Venkateswaran begins by reviewing the UNIX 2.6 essence capabilities that are most germane to utility developers. He introduces ultimate figure classes; then turns to program buses much as I2C and SPI; outside buses much as PCMCIA, PCI, and USB; video, audio, block, network, and wireless figure drivers; user-space drivers; and drivers for embedded Linux–one of today’s fastest ontogeny areas of UNIX development. For each, Venkateswaran explains the technology, inspects germane essence maker files, and walks finished nonindustrial a rank example.

• Addresses drivers discussed in no another book, including drivers for I2C, video, sound, PCMCIA, and assorted types of winkle memory

• Demystifies primary essence services and facilities, including essence clothing and supporter interfaces

• Teaches polling, anachronic notification, and I/O control

• Introduces the Inter-Integrated Circuit Protocol for embedded UNIX drivers

• Covers transmission figure drivers using the Linux-Video subsystem and Linux-Audio framework

• Shows how UNIX implements hold for wireless technologies much as Bluetooth, Infrared, WiFi, and cancellated networking

• Describes the whole utility utilization lifecycle, finished debugging and maintenance

• Includes meaning appendixes concealment UNIX assembly, BIOS calls, and Seq files

About the Author

Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran has spent more than a decennium employed in IBM creation utilization laboratories. He has ported UNIX to devices ranging from wristwatches and penalization players to PDAs, VoIP phones, and modify model programmers. He was a Contributing Editor and essence editorialist for UNIX Magazine for more than digit years.

Essential UNIX Device Drivers (Prentice uranologist Open Source Software Development Series)