Acest workshop e adresat în principal studenților de anul III de la Facultatea de Automatică și Calculatoare, care au absolvit cursul de Sisteme de Operare. Pentru studenții care nu se încadrează în această categorie sunt recomandate următoarele cunoștințe:

• Cunoștințe solide de programare în C
• System programming
• Operating system concepts

Puteți vizualiza sesiunile de anul trecut aici.

E-mail: dbaluta@ixiacom.com

E-mail: alexj@rosedu.org

• Day 1: Getting started with the Linux kernel
  • general architecture, source code organization
  • source code browsing: lxr, opengrok, ctags
  • introduction to booting, initialization

* Day 2: Linux kernel modules

• get the sources, compile the kernel, run
• write a simple “Hello World” module
• learn to use printk

* Day 3: Introduction to kernel space + Kernel API

• simple tasks to demonstrate kernel API (kernel data structures)
• opening the kernel gates (introducing system calls)
• kernel execution contexts (process, interrupts)

* Day 4: Debugging (generate and fix bugs)

• oops and panic
• CONFIG_DEBUG, addr2line, objdump, printk :), gdb

* Day 5: (Character) Device Drivers

• how linux handles device drivers
• simple char device module

• Day 6: Kernel: some bits of memory
  • __get_free_pages, kmalloc, vmalloc
  • memory zones, mapping memory into user space

* Day 7: Haedware interrupts

• interrupt handlers, IRQ
• softirq, tasklet
• timers

* Day 8: - Networking

• TCP/IP stack architecture overview
• what exactly is a socket?
• capture and analyze traffic - tcpdump, Wireshark

* Day 9: Overview on NGW100 boards

• booting, compiling, networking, etc.

* Day 10: Recap

• contributing to Linux kernel
• basic git tutorial
• versioning, patching, linux kernel community, mailing lists
• special guest(s)
• conquer the Solar System

• ROSEdu Kernel Dev
• Firefly mailing list (ROSEdu Kernel Dev community)