(PR excerpt) — Kevin Dankwardt and K Computing announce the offering of a public enrollment Linux device driver development class. K Computing has been teaching Linux device driver development for over three years and is now offering their well received class for open enrollment. The class will be taught by Dr. Kevin Dankwardt, well known writer and speaker on Linux development issues including embedded… and real-time Linux. The class is to be held in the Washington D.C. area during the week of March 31 – April 4, 2003.

This course is vendor and distribution neutral. It is appropriate for developers of device drivers for any Linux platform. Also, because of Dr. Dankwardt's embedded expertise, developers of device drivers for embedded Linux will find the course especially helpful.

This five day course provides substantial practice with the key steps in developing Linux device drivers. The course shows attendees how device drivers work with the Linux kernel, how to compile and load drivers, how to debug drivers, how to access PCI/ISA hardware, as well as other essential topics. Attendees will develop a complete, simple, driver that demonstrates the process of creating a Linux device driver. The course covers the key issues in Linux device drivers. Such questions as: how do I develop a character device, how do I debug a driver, how do I use task queues are examined. Attendees will spend approximately 50 percent of the class time actually gaining hands-on experience with these topics.

A more detailed description of the course can be found here (PDF download). Registration information is available here.

 
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