Network PCI Drivers Course In Bangalore

CH1: PCI DEVICE DRIVER AND ITS ROLE

Understanding the x86 processor bus: PCI
PCI Core & Programming the PCI
Finding & Interacting with a PCI Device
PCI Bus, Device and Function numbers
Registering & Finding a PCI device
Mapping & Accessing the PCI device regions
Accessing the Configuration Space
Accessing the I/O and Memory Regions
Enabling the PCI Device

Hands-On Assignments

Lab1:Registering the driver with the PCI subsystem.
Lab2: Write a module that scans your PCI devices, and gathers information about them.For each found device, read some information from its configuration register.Fields you may wish to obtain could include: PCI_VENDOR_ID, PCI_DEVICE_ID, PCI_REVISION_ID,PCI_INTERRUPT_LINE, PCI_LATENCY_TIMER,PCI_COMMAND.
Lab3: Write a Character based PCI driver to find Information about IRQ Line,Memory region,I/O region,configuration region,prefetchable and non-prefetchable region in BAR.

CH2: MEMORY MAPPING AND DMA

What memory is DMA'able
DMA addressing limitations
Types of DMA mappings
DMA Direction

Hands-On Assignments

Lab1: Write a module that allocates and maps a suitable DMA buffer, and obtains the bus address handle. Do this in three ways: (a)Using dma_alloc_coherent(), (b)Using dma_map_single(), (c)Using a DMA Pool.

CH3: BASIC NETWORK DEVICE DRIVER

Registering the Network Driver
Buffer Management with skbuffs
Packet Transmission & Reception
Reception using interrupt and poll
Start the network interface’s transmit Queue
Other network operations including statistics

Hands-On Assignments

Lab1: Building a Transmitting Network Driver, Module to include a transmission function.
Lab2: Adding Reception, Extend your transmitting device driver to include a reception function.

CH4: ADVANVED NETWORK DEVICE DRIVER

Registering with the Linux low level bus interface subsystem
Allocating interface descriptor block (net_device)
Device specific structure and initializing media specific fields
Getting device specific structure object pointer
Enabling Network interface card
Getting the Device resources (MMIO and PMIO)
Getting device MAC address
Initialization of device methods in the net_device
Registering net_device object with the kernel
Registering the interrupt handler (ISR)
Allocating Rxring and Txring
Initializing the hardware (network interface card)

Hands-On Assignments

Lab3: Writing the PCI based Network Driver for NIC(Network Interface Card). Programming the Network Device Registers, Implementing the Transmission & Reception with the actual device(NIC) and Setting up the network across computers.