Linux Device Drivers, Second Edition

Welcome to the historical resting place of Linux Device Drivers, Second Edition, written by Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet, and published by O'Reilly and Associates. This edition of Linux Device Drivers, which covers kernel versions 2.0 through 2.4, was published in June, 2001.

This book is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.1. See the license text for the details.

Table of Contents

Preface	HTML	PDF
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Device Drivers	HTML	PDF
Chapter 2: Building and Running Modules	HTML	PDF
Chapter 3: Char Drivers	HTML	PDF
Chapter 4: Debugging Techniques	HTML	PDF
Chapter 5: Enhanced Char Driver Operations	HTML	PDF
Chapter 6: Flow of Time	HTML	PDF
Chapter 7: Getting Hold of Memory	HTML	PDF
Chapter 8: Hardware Management	HTML	PDF
Chapter 9: Interrupt Handling	HTML	PDF
Chapter 10: Judicious Use of Data Types	HTML	PDF
Chapter 11: kmod and Advanced Modularization	HTML	PDF
Chapter 12: Loading Block Drivers	HTML	PDF
Chapter 13: mmap and DMA	HTML	PDF
Chapter 14: Network Drivers	HTML	PDF
Chapter 15: Overview of Peripheral Buses	HTML	PDF
Chapter 16: Physical Layout of the Kernel Source	HTML	PDF
Bibliography	HTML	PDF
Index	HTML

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• A tarball of the LDD2 PDF files.
• The DocBook source for the book.